Quality culture, aspects

The third component of the quality system is culture. Given capable processes and skilled employees, management needs to create a culture that fosters the desired behavior and that supports the natural motivation of employees to take pride in a job well done. Some aspects of the quality culture are ... 

Sociotechnical approach (control of error through changes in management policy and culture) Occupational/process safety Effects of organizational factors on safety Policy aspects Culture Interviews Surveys Organizational redesign Total Quality Management More frequent in recent years... 

Social and cultural studies of organic food, on the other hand, emphasise the many symbolic meanings of food and the activities surrounding its purchase, preparation and consumption. Both approaches show consumers concerned with quality and safety aspects of organic food but these concerns are constructed in different ways. As Midmore et al. (2005) note ... 

My personal interest in altered states began when I was a child. For as far back as I can remember, my dream life was real and vivid. My parents, being quite normal for our culture, taught me that dreams were not real and that I needn t pay attention to them, but my direct experience contradicted this typically Western point of view. How could people dismiss such real aspects of life.f Why did I forget my dreams so readily How could I improve the quality of my dream life One question especially intrigued me 1 could fly in dreams by a certain act of will why couldn t I make that same act of will work in waking life so that I could fly here ... 

Quality assurance by means of strict quality control of all aspects of a cell culture process has always been of prime importance, given the sensitivity of cells to sub-optimal medium and environmental factors and the ease with which cells can become contaminated with viruses and other microorganisms. The potential for biological changes in scale-up of cell culture processes demands even greater standardization and testing of the system. 

The quality of cell cultures and their products is important in scientific research and is also critical where they are used for diagnosis and therapies. Fundamental aspects of quality of cell cultures are purity, correct identity, and freedom from adventitious agents as well as appropriate biological characterization (1,2). Addressing these issues will ensure that experimental data and cell products meet the minimum requirements for scientific accuracy and regulatory approval. 

Botanical and agronomical aspects of cotton are treated in The Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the World by Sir George Watt (104) The Development and Properties of Raw Cotton (90) and Studies in the Quality of Cotton (Pf) by W. Lawrence Balls, one of the deans of the cotton industry in Cotton History, Species, Variety, Morphology, Breeding, Culture, Diseases, Marketing and Uses by H. B. Brown (95) and in The Evolution of Gossypium by Hutchinson, Silow, and Stephens (96). 

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