Genetics and Biochemistry of Pseudomonas

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Randomized lysimeters in an oil-contaminated field contained the following treatments: (1) Galega orientalis seeds inoculated with Rhizobium galegae HAMBI 540, (2) bioaugmentation with Pseudomonas putida PaW85, and (3) R. galegae -inoculated G. orientalis seeds plus bioaugmentation with P. putida PaW85. The bacterial abundance and diversity were analysed in composite samples after one growing season. A total of 208 m-toluate tolerating bacteria were isolated and screened with m-toluate tolerance and utilization tests, and the catechol test. Seventy-nine isolates were characterized with (GTG)"5-PCR genomic fingerprinting and 16S rRNA gene PCR-RFLP ribotyping. Only 10% of the isolated strains were able to degrade m-toluate. Most of the m-toluate utilizing bacteria were catechol positive indicating the existence of a TOL plasmid. Rhizosphere effect of G. orientalis was manifested in oil-contaminated soil. G. orientalis and Pseudomonas bioaugmentation increased the amount of bacteria in oil-contaminated soil. G. orientalis especially together with Pseudomonas bioaugmentation increased the numbers of m-toluate utilizing and catechol positive bacteria in the soil samples indicating an increase in degradation potential. The rhizosphere of G. orientalis increased also the diversity of bacteria. More ribotypes were found in soils treated with G. orientalis and P. putida PaW85 compared to the untreated soil, but the diversity of the m-toluate utilizing bacteria did not significantly increase. ease.

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In the center of Copenhagen, on the sixth floor of the Royal Hotel, a single room preserves in microcosm the definitive masterwork of Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. Room 606 is the last surviving interior of the SAS House - an unparalleled example of modern architecture and design. Best known beyond his Scan-dinavian homeland as a furniture designer, Jacobsen (1902-1971) was one of the outstanding architects of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he created complete settings for daily life, dissolving the boundaries between architecture, interior, and indust-rial design. The SAS House represented the pinnacle of these efforts and, by the completion of the project in 1960, Jacobsen had designed every detail, including new furniture such as the now famous Egg and Swan chairs, fabrics, fixtures, and even the silverware.This book presents a unique insight into Jacobsen's work, using the time capsule Room 606 as a lens through which to examine his entire career. The chapters are organized thematically and each consists of three sections that together look at Room 606 as a microcosm of the SAS House, reconstruct the original building, and trace the connections between Jacobsen's masterpiece and his other works, from buildings to household objects.

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Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen.......2003-12-17

The Dalai Lama was staying at the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel when I was in Copenhagen, a month ago, but happily Room 606 was unoccupied and I was able to see this one surviving fragment of Arne Jacobsen's gesamtkunstwerk. Denmark's leading architect designed this hotel-terminal in 1960 as the flagship of SAS, a major patron of progressive design, when air travel was still a civilized experience for a fortunate few. Fabrics, lighting, and furniture-most famously the Egg, Swan, and Drop chairs-even the stainless steel flatware and door handles were custom designed by Jacobsen for the hotel. Everything but the one room (which rents for about $575 a night) and the spiral stair in the lobby has now been changed. Sheridan, a New York architect, employs a wealth of period photos and sketches to recreate every facet of the original and places it in the context of Jacobsen's earlier work. The result is a gem of lucid scholarship. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July/August 2002.The 29 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions and 13 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. All current aspects of logic programming and computational logic are addressed.

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Tenth International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign : Proceedings: Codes 2002 : May 6-8, 2002 Estes Park, Colorado, USA

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Branding places--lessons from the Oresund Region: in the Scandinavian Oresund Region, the cities of Copenhagen and Malmo have joined forces to brand themselves ... : An article from: Town and Country Planning
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Title: Branding places--lessons from the Oresund Region: in the Scandinavian Oresund Region, the cities of Copenhagen and Malmo have joined forces to brand themselves in the New Europe--a model demonstrating the opportunities and weaknesses of place branding.(regional development)
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A Pamphlets Worth of Important Ideas Spread over 396 Below-Par Pages

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The goal of this book is to guide improvement activities throughout the organization: to use creative ideas from all employees to serve both internal and external customers, to unlock the hidden potential of every single employee, and to bring new excitement and joy into the workplace. Dana Corporation gets over 2,000,000 ideas a year from all of their employees. This book tells you how to do it.

"WHAT SETS US APART? The Toyota Production System is at the heart of everything we do. Based on the concept of continuous improvement, or kaizen, every Toyota team member is empowered with the ability to improve their work environment. This includes everything from quality and safety to the environment and productivity. Improvements and suggestions by team members are the cornerstone of Toyota's success."

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A Pamphlets Worth of Important Ideas Spread over 396 Below-Par Pages.......2007-07-01

This book contains important ideas that if implemented well can change the atmosphere of the workplace and reap significant beneficial changes. However, it is a rather poorly organized, repetitive, poorly written book. So if $45 is chump change that you're going to expense to your company anyway, buy it. If $45 is a lot of money, then don't. Go read what's available at Google's book section and you'll know 80% of what the book contains.

Basically I give it 3 stars. An average of 5 stars for the idea. 1 star for the book.

The basic idea is this:
* The best people to ask about how to improve how work gets done are the people who do the work not the people they report to.
* If you can create an environment that allows people to feel that offering ways they can improve their own method of working without fear of being seen as a critic, heretic or fool you will get a lot of creative input.
* Impose the constraint the the change must be something that the person can do themselves, to improve their own way of working.
* Make it clear that it's okay if the change does not work as expected.
* Make it clear that we learn more from analyzing why something did not work than we do from analyzing why something did work.
* Encourage people to try something else if the first suggestion does not work.
* Encourage people to write down their suggestions.
* Implement a system that reviews and says yes/no to the suggestion within one working day of it being written and submitted.
* Keep all the suggestions and their effects in a location where everyone can see them and learn from both the items that worked and did not work.

Honestly that's pretty much it. But the fact that it's a simple, easy concept to describe doesn't mean it's a simple, easy thing to implement. You're really talking about instigating a fundamental change in the work culture.

Nearly all companies do not work like this. Most companies pay lip service to the intellectual capital of their staff. This is a line cribbed from another location but in essence what is being said is "Every Pair of Hands comes with a Free Brain". Treat your people with empathy and respect and you will nearly always be surprised at how well people respond - it's amazing but they might even start treating you with empathy and respect as a result - how about that?

Footnote: "The Toyota Way" is the one book on this whole area of revolutionizing the workspace that I heartily recommend. It's a entirely different way of working, and "Kaizen" is just one part.

A Quick and Easy Read.......2007-04-24

I believe that "Quick and Easy Kaizen" offers the potential for a revolution in developing a fully participative and involved workforce. Whereas traditional "suggestion schemes" are bureaucratic and costly, often taking weeks to feedback to the individual, and taking the idea out of the responsibility of the originator and giving it to managers, the "Quick and Easy Kaizen" route is a simple workplace based process where the individual (or team) implements most of their own ideas. The book focusses on the sort of simple ideas that arise as part of our work - by learning we do things better and improve - that is Quick and Easy Kaizen. At 350 pages the book seems daunting, but it is actually very easy to read, and repeats its key points over and over (they are important points). The book is packed with anecdotes and examples. The whole focus is on encouraging staff to raise simple ideas and implement them themselves. The author doesn't have the best writing style ever, and the structure of the book is fairly random, with lots of repetition, but it is an important concept and worth reading for that. If you are serious about improving involvement in your workplace then you should read this book.

Very Useful.......2005-09-23

I am actually using this book to help me implement a Kaizen program in a Fortune 500 company. It's useful and quite a good book. The author has been very helpful!

A profound approach to empowering your employees.......2004-12-22

The Quick and Easy Kaizen system recognizes that every worker has hidden creative talent locked inside of them. Toyota successfully harnesses employee innovation, with over 1.5 million employee suggestions implemented each year. This represents about $300 million in annual savings that go straight to the bottom line. In his book, Norman Bodek discusses how the Quick and Easy Kaizen system becomes a powerful tool for bringing forth numerous small but significant improvement ideas from all employees.

A cultural transformation powered by employee commitment to continuous improvement is critical to your lean journey. Our clients have found Mr. Bodek to be an inspiring and effective resource, providing the experience, inspiration, and tools for a cultural transformation to continuous improvement. In addition to being a LEAN Affiliate, Mr. Bodek is the founder of Productivity Inc. / Productivity Press and has published over 400 books including 100 Japanese books in English. In 1988 he initiated the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence.

Mark Edmondson
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Fundamentals for improvements in operating effectiveness.......2001-09-12

For quite a long time, I try to figure out a strategy that can support the three generic ones such as low cost, differentiation and focus scope and go beyond for a corporate. Bunji Tozawa and Norman Bodek's The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen offers a fundamental solution for my question. It did convince me why small, continuous, and alternative-seeking changes can benefit companies as well as individuals in them. Further, by volumes of examples and how-to information, I found their way matching the core idea in complex adaptive system theory: Creating an impact sensitive and interaction friendly environment in an organization can trigger more effectiveness than simply summing up the individual efforts respectively. They prove that by accumulating quick and easy improvements, the power and profit Kaizen activities result in will go beyond our imagination. I love this book and highly recommend it to the management level and frontline people in an organization together work for their viable future.

The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen (Workbook)

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Kaizen

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This book is a companion to The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen and teaches the importance of submitting and implementing improvement ideas at work. When you are empowered to make your own work easier, more interesting and to please your customers through your own ideas the workplace magically changes for you. Quick and Easy Kaizen recognizes that you are the expert in your work area and that your ideas are a valuable input towards your personal growth and success and the success of the company you work for.

This workbook teaches the principles of Quick and Easy Kaizen, has many examples and also is a place for you to record your ideas and to keep progress of your achievements on the job. In the future when your boss asks you, "What have you done for us lately?" All you have to do is show him/her your workbook.

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Kaizen.......2007-04-10

Not too bad a refreseher on kaizen methodology and results. I would recommend it as a refresher for the Lean Six Sigma inclined folks.

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