This paper originated in reflections on the present divisions of specialist labor in cancer hospitals and regional cancer centers in Britain between medical oncologists who practice chemotherapy, and clinical oncologists who practice radiotherapy with chemotherapy (and who used to be called radiotherapists).
It was the ability to tax and to extract a surplus from the produce of agriculture that, in Scott's account, led to the birth of the state, and also to the creation of complex societies with hierarchies, division of labor, specialist jobs (soldier, priest, servant, administrator), and an élite presiding over them.
Wahl, L. M. Evolving the division of labour: generalists, specialists and task allocation.
Incumbent technology providers to the industry include membrane manufacturers such as industrial and chemical giants Siemens and Dow Chemical, as well as smaller players including Japanese group Kubota or US filtration membrane specialist Pall Corporation and the Treatment Technologies division of French water specialist Veolia Environnement.
Efficiency is built into the design of its winning organization in the form of formalized hierarchies of performance accountability, a high division of labor, routinization of specialist tasks, and teamwork at the point of sale.
Norman Crowe seeks to overcome this division into the respective realms of specialists by recognizing the independence of both the natural and the manmade through an understanding of the often hidden roots of the world we contrive for ourselves.
Dr. Dornhaus is breaking new ground in her studies of whether the efficiency of ant society, based on a division of labor among ant specialists, is important to their success.
Rather, each is stratified based both on the division of labour (practitioners, academics, specialists) and on constructs related to orthodoxy, whereby dissident notions result in factions that may influence care delivery.
The possibility of division of labor and evolution of specialist enzymes has also been demonstrated in theoretical studies of surface metabolism [ 13] and compartmentalized systems [ 14], however only for a few enzyme specificities and without modeling of enzyme-substrate interactions.
But then Fox Searchlight, the specialist division of Fox responsible for saving Slumdog Millionaire from the scrapheap last year, stepped in with a chequebook.
