Open-book management

Prior to the 1980s and the routine use of CT imaging, most authors used the terms Malgaine, straddle and open book type to describe pelvic fractures. This provided limited detail regarding the type of mechanism of injury and was not particularly useful in planning the management of the patient. 

This classification system aims to link management and prognostic evaluation with the imaging findings. It is based on the work of Tile and the Association for Osteosynthesis and relates to the site of fractures within the pelvic ring (Fig. 12.15a-c). There are three classifications, A, B and C. In type A fractures, the pelvic ring is stable, type B is partially stable this includes the open-book and bucket-handle fractures which are caused by external- and internal-rotation forces, respectively. In type C injuries, there is complete disruption of the posterior sacroiliac complex. In adults, type A lesions represent 52%, type B 27% and type C 21% (Theumann et al. 2002). The classification is shown in Table 12.1. 

An approach to sourcing that involves the buyer and supplier mutually adopting open and transparent approaches to relationship management. The aim is to move beyond the opaque transparency associated with traditional open-book costing models, which still provide scope for opportunism, in favour of true transparency over strategies, operational practices and financial data for mutual benefit. 

KajOter, P. and Kuhnala, H. I. (2005), Open-Book Accounting in Networks - Potential Achievements and Reasons for Failure, in Management Accounting Research, 16 (2005) 2, pp. 179-204. 

Pharmacoeconomics is a nascent discipline which has not yet provided clinicians and budget managers with the level of information necessary for confident decision-making. This is particularly true in psychiatry where the dearth of acceptable, reliably measurable clinical end points makes pharmacoeconomic evaluation even more complex and open to debate. Nonetheless, the data reviewed in this book, when placed alongside clinical data, do provide a framework for decision-making which is better informed and more realistic than any exclusively clinical assessment could be. Economic evaluations in all major mental illnesses, while some way from conclusive, are certainly providing valuable guidance to decision-makers both at policy level and in the clinic. 

Tool builders Catalysis opens new opportunities for automated tool support in modeling, consistency checking, traceability, pattern-based reuse, and project management. Read the book. 

I MUST ADMIT THAT the book is not ultimately my own idea. The original concept came from an undergraduate paper turned in for a Water Resource Management class I taught at the University of Iowa in 1996. D ara Houdeks work for that course—a class otherwise primarily focused on big bureaucracies and economies (such as the Army Corps of Engineers and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce)-focused on the water quality implications of her own lawn, and opened my eyes to a class of problems that would occupy me for the next decade. When I last heard, Dara was a master instructor at the Appalachian Mountain Club, far from her family s lawn. I owe her the debt of this idea. 

These four steps will result in the greatest positive effect when they are performed in an atmosphere of openness and trust. Management must demonstrate by both word and deed that the primary objective is not to assign blame, but to understand what happened for the sake of preventing future incidents. This book helps organizations define and refine their incident investigation systems to achieve positive results effectively and efficiently. 

A more formed, deliberately creative perspective on the learning orgeinization is taken by Gordon Wills (1993), Principal of International Management Centres. The opening sentence of his book has been used as one of the introductory quotations to this book. 

The book opens with a paper on the structure and composition of wood to define the material under discussion and then considers molds, permeability, wood preservation, thermal deterioration and fire retard-ance, dimensional stability, adhesion, reconstituted wood boards such as fiberboard and particleboard, plywood, laminated beams, wood finishes, wood-polymer composites, and wood softening and forming. A final paper treats the common theme of wastewater management. Only one of the papers presented at the meeting is not included in this volume, and its subject of conventional wood preservation methods is adequately treated in detail elsewhere (e.g., Nicholas, D. D., Ed Wood Deterioration and Its Prevention by Preservative Treatments, 2 vols., Syracuse University Press, 1973). 

The industry has been notoriously unwilling to open its books to outside inspection. However, when drug companies want to emphasize how much effort they put into research, they will conveniently manage to calculate a dollar figure. 

In the opening chapter of this book, reference is made to the hierarchy of some of the relevant international and European legislation and its influence on the development of risk-based approaches to help manage and control hazardous substances. Reference is made also to the central role of ecotoxicity testing in risk assessment. 

The first edition of this book was written in 1992. At that time it was not obvious that the pace of filler development was accelerating. In the intervening 6 years, much has been done and there are many new filler products on the market and under development. These have opened new and exciting business opportunities which formulators and marketing managers have exploited in a wide range of new products. The new edition of the book covers many of these developments and discusses the potential for future research and development. What was dealt with only as a passing reference in the fust edition now requires a chapter to do it justice. 

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