Mike Jones, of the PCS union, told the Today programme: "The reality is, for your listeners, that they recognise that there is a backlog, because when they expect to get their passports within three weeks and we're getting thousands upon thousands upon thousands of examples whereby … it has taken nearly two months or more for people to get the passports, that clearly is a backlog".
Therefore – what the lean tools do at a psychological level is provide an almost immediate feedback mechanism (day by the hour box scores for P&L, hoshin kanri, 5s, performance monitoring charts etc. as examples) whereby multiple intelligences are satisfied – i.e. the tools work well for the 'People system' at an experiential level.
We are aware of past examples whereby laboratory chiefs were hired with no advertising for the positions.
"I am sure there are isolated examples whereby people haven't had the best health-care they would have wished for and I'm sure that's true but not in the generality.
However, recent studies have provided examples whereby polyadenylation activates the degradation of certain eukaryotic RNA species by exosomes.
Finally, there is still only a handful of examples whereby public engagement with respect to healthcare priority setting has been done well [ 30].
The qualitative data provided a number of examples whereby decision-making power was shifted in the women's favour by the fact that these were female-used products.
Indeed, there are examples whereby integrin engagement with extracellular matrix proteins such as collagen and laminin leads to increased IL-6 production [ 63- 65].
Various metabolic polymorphisms have been shown to convey small differences in risks for environmental exposures (Kelada et al. 2003); more extreme examples, whereby rare genotypes or combinations of genotypes convey greatly increased risks, are certainly possible.
Although minority positions may provide a means of positive change, authors such as Schuklenk [ 13] cite examples whereby the dissidence may be destructive, such as the work from Duesberg [ 14] claiming that HIV is not a cause of AIDS.
It did this not only by collecting it, showing it, moving big money into place behind it and evangelising for it, but by setting the prime example whereby, in the US, the function of the museum shifted from accumulation to teaching.
