scholarly journals Implementing Best Practices and Validation of Cryopreservation Techniques for Microorganisms

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Smith ◽  
Matthew Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
World Federation ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
Preservation Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

Authentic, well preserved living organisms are basic elements for research in the life sciences and biotechnology. They are grown and utilized in laboratories around the world and are key to many research programmes, industrial processes and training courses. They are vouchers for publications and must be available for confirmation of results, further study or reinvestigation when new technologies become available. These biological resources must be maintained without change in biological resource collections. In order to achieve best practice in the maintenance and provision of biological materials for industry, research and education the appropriate standards must be followed. Cryopreservation is often the best preservation method available to achieve these aims, allowing long term, stable storage of important microorganisms. To promulgate best practice the Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD published the best practice guidelines for BRCs. The OECD best practice consolidated the efforts of the UK National Culture Collections, the European Common Access to Biological Resources and Information (CABRI) project consortium and the World Federation for Culture Collections. The paper discusses quality management options and reviews cryopreservation of fungi, describing how the reproducibility and quality of the technique is maintained in order to retain the full potential of fungi.

Festivals of Transition, Greenlight Festival Leicester

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Hard Truth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
System 1

The Brundtland Commission in its report Our Common Future (United Nations, 1987) is widely credited with setting down the first policy definition of sustainable development. In 2017 this report will be thirty years old yet it seems we are still a long way from living sustainably: If, as of 2017, there is not a start of a major wave of new and clean investments, the door to 2 degrees [global temperature increase] will be closed. (Birol, 2011) Green policies have been ‘adapted and adopted’ by mainstream parties across Europe, despite Green parties being a relatively small political force (Carter, 2013). The European Commission has become a worldwide driver of green policy (Judge, 1992) and market-based innovations such as the Emissions Trading System 1 , despite being celebrated and criticised in seemingly equal measure. Media coverage of ‘outsider’ party growth in the UK has swung towards the libertarian and anti-Europe UKIP recently, despite comparable and longer term growth in support for the Greens (Goodwin & Ford, 2013). Efforts have been made to disassociate Green voices from older clichés of self-deprivation: The Green party has changed: partly the personalities within it, partly in response to the changing world outside it....At the same time, ideas that were mainly theoretical 25 years ago – solar and wind technology – have been demonstrably workable...The Greens have become the party of possibilities, not catastrophes. (Williams, 2014). One attempt to imagine a sustainable future can be found in The World We Made, written by Johnathon Porritt from the perspective of a school teacher in the year 2050. The positives of huge renewable investments, progressive economic policies and a panoply of exciting new technologies are matched with equally plausible negatives of stubborn inequality, famines and riots. In the postscript, Porritt states: ‘If we can’t deliver the necessarily limited vision of a better world mapped out in The World We Made, then the hard truth is that no other vision will be available to us anyway, on any terms.’ (Porritt, 2013: 276)

Tony Wigram — Interviewed by Helen Loth

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Keyword(s):  
British Journal ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
World Federation ◽  
Past President ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Management Board ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

Tony Wigram has been instrumental in many of the key political developments which have made music therapy the respected and well-organised profession that it is today in the UK. He is currently the Professor and Head of PhD studies in Music Therapy at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is also Head III Music Therapist at Harper House Children's Service, and Research Advisor to Horizon NHS Trust. Past President of both the World Federation of Music Therapy and the European Music Therapy Confederation, and a former Chair of BSMT and APMT, he travels extensively, teaching at universities in Belgium, Italy and Spain. He is a Research Associate of the Faculty of Music, Melbourne University. Helen Loth trained in 1985 and worked on the APMT committee in the late 1980s. She is currently Head Music Therapist at Haringey Healthcare NHS Trust. She is also Chairperson of the Management Board of the British Journal of Music Therapy.

scholarly journals ASPiH standards for simulation-based education: process of consultation, design and implementation

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makani Purva ◽  
Jane Nicklin
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Guidance Document ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Literature Evidence ◽  
The Uk

There is widespread enthusiasm and emerging evidence of the efficacy of simulation-based education (SBE) but the full potential of SBE has not been explored. The Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) is a not-for-profit membership association with members from healthcare, education and patient safety background. ASPiH’s National Simulation Development Project in 2012 identified the lack of standardisation in the approach to SBE with failure to adopt best practice in design and delivery of SBE programmes. ASPiH created a standards project team in 2015 to address this need. The article describes the iterative process modelled on implementation science framework, spread over six stages and 2 years that resulted in the creation of the standards. The consultation process supported by Health Education England resulted in a unique document that was driven by front line providers while also having strong foundations in evidence base. The final ASPiH document consisting of 21 standards for SBE has been extensively mapped to regulatory and professional bodies in the UK and abroad ensuring that the document is relevant to a wide healthcare audience. Underpinning the standards is a detailed guidance document that summarises the key literature evidence to support the standard statements. It is envisaged the standards will be widely used by the simulation community for quality assurance and improving the standard of SBE delivered.

scholarly journals Using COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunities for Technology Usage Inspiration and Innovation for African Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-365
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Work Education

In developing nations, and on the African continent in particular, the uptake and impact of technological and other developments is often slower than in other parts of the world. While pockets of development exist on the continent as a source of work, education and access much of Africa remains trapped in a cycle of poverty.In this worldwide health crisis, the medical industry is looking for new technologies to monitor and controls the spread of COVID19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. AI is one of such technology which can easily track the spread of this virus, identifies the high-risk patients, and is useful in controlling this infection in real-time. Educators have created online classrooms in a matter of days. Information resources to educate the public and track the spread of the virus using big data sprang up seemingly overnight. Finally, those of us fortunate enough to have jobs that allow us to work from home are learning the full potential of the communication technologies that the 21stcentury has bestowed upon us. None of these tasks have been easy, but individuals and organizations have demonstrated the motivation and mind shifts needed to research, innovate, and act quickly.AI embodies the field of knowledge that seeks to create machines (computers) thatcan emulate human cognitive functions such as learning, reasoning, understanding, vision, perception, recognition, and problem solving to a reasonable level. Computers that have AI capabilities are currently being used in severalreal-worlddomains to solve problems. AI has already played a significant role in each stage of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Some areas where we saw immediate applications include the processing of large amounts of data to find patterns that could lead to the discovery of potential treatment drugs; as well astreating infected people.The novel aspect of this pandemic involves several unknowns and is likely to have a lingering impact for years to come. However, despite the current climate, I am somewhat comforted that the history of past pandemics and crises suggests an eventual recovery plan for the world. After all, necessity is the mother of all invention. New creations arise out of disruption.

scholarly journals Skerman and beyond: 2019 status of the Global Catalogue of Microorganisms

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Juncai Ma ◽  
Linhuan Wu ◽  
İpek Kurtböke
Keyword(s):  
Type Strain ◽  
Reference Strain ◽  
World Federation ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Sequencing Project ◽  
Data Centre ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Set Up

The World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC)-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM) was set up as a data centre of WFCC and UNESCO World Network of Microbiological Resources Centres (MIRCEN). The WDCM is a vehicle for networking microbial resource centres of various types of microorganisms. It also serves as an information resource for the customers of the microbial resource centres (http://www.wdcm.org/). The WDCM was established in 1966 by the late Professor V.B.D. Skerman in Australia, later moved to Japan in 1986 and since 2010 is based in China under the Directorship of Dr Juncai Ma. Current databases at the WDCM are the Culture Collections Information Worldwide (CCINFO), Global Catalogue of Microorganisms (GCM) and the WDCM Reference Strain Catalogue. In addition, Analyzer of Bio-resource citations (ABC) and Statistics on Patented Microorganisms are available (http://www.wdcm.org/databases.html). In this article the status of the GCM and its associated 10K type strain sequencing project that currently provides services to taxonomists for standard genome sequencing and annotation will be communicated.

scholarly journals A Survey of Major Law Libraries Around the World

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Detailed Report ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Uk

The global development of legal information needs and services has continued to stimulate much professional discussion in recent years. This detailed report, and the comparative assessments and analysis it aims to provide, follow from one of the first global surveys of major law libraries around the world to take account of the present period of challenges and change. The report analyses the results of a comprehensive survey of 124 major law libraries world wide undertaken from April to June 2012 - extending a methodology involving both quantitative and qualitative approaches which has proved successful in my previous research on the activities of law libraries across the UK. It is hoped that this comparative data and analysis (gathered from the activities, ambitions and concerns of law libraries in the real world) will provide a useful snapshot of current research support services, capture emerging trends and new service initiatives and encourage major law libraries to develop their services by providing helpful benchmarking and best practice information.

scholarly journals World Federation for Culture Collections: professionals underpinning microbial systematics

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Philippe Desmeth ◽  
Ipek Kurtboke
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Cultured Cells ◽  
World Federation ◽  
International Union ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Related Services ◽  
The World

The World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) is a multidisciplinary commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and a Federation within the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS). The WFCC is concerned with the collection, authentication, maintenance and distribution of cultures of microorganisms and cultured cells. Its aim is to promote and support the establishment of culture collections and related services, to provide liaison and networking between the collections and their users, to organise workshops and conferences, publications and newsletters and work to ensure the long-term perpetuation of important collections.

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