Lean Management for Small Business

Lean management can be utilized to grow small business by focusing on continuous improvement. Lean management and the tools associated with it will improve the efficiency of any business and that will lead to improved sales and overall growth. This innovative idea has become a significant form of performing every action as efficiently as possible in order to increase production and reduce waste throughout the world in many different types of industries. Lean management is synonymous with continuous improvement. This is the idea that no process can ever be entirely perfected so there is always room for improvement. By focusing on continuous improvement, any business, whether it is a large manufacturing company or a small retail shop, should be able to reduce waste and improve perpetually. This paper will discuss the tools that are associated with a well-designed Lean management program. Some of the more effective tools are “5S”, the Deming Wheel (PDCA), Root Cause Analysis, and Value Stream Mapping. These are just a few of the tools that can be used to promote continuous improvement

Recruitment and baseline characteristics of the Community of Voices choir study to promote the health and well-being of diverse older adults.

Objective:To describe the recruitment and baseline results of the Community of Voices study that aims to examine the effect of a community choir intervention on the health and well-being of older adults from diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Method:Using community-based participatory research methods, we recruited adults age 60 and over from 12 Administration on Aging-supported senior centers in San Francisco into a 2-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial of the community choir intervention. Multiple outreach methods were used. We tracked outreach, screening, and recruitment metrics and collected demographics and baseline outcomes via community-based, interviewer-administered surveys and performance measures of cognition, physical function, and psychosocial variables. Results:The study contacted 819 individuals, screened 636, and enrolled 390 diverse older adults over a 42-month, phased recruitment period. The mean age was 71.2 (SD = 7.3), and the majority were women. Two-thirds of the sample are non-white, and 20% of participants reported having financial hardship. Discussion:Outreach and recruitment methods used in the Community of Voices trial facilitated enrollment of a large proportion of minority and lower-SES older adults in the final sample. Similar recruitment approaches could serve as a model for recruiting diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic older adults into research

Jazz Convocation

List of performers and performances

Jazz Convocation

List of performers and performances

Spectroscopic Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds. Part 4: Effect of Solvent Polarity and Nitromethane on the Fluorescence Emission Behavior of Select Bipolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Article on spectroscopic properties of polycyclic aromatic compounds and the effect of solvent polarity and nitromethane on the fluorescence emission behavior of select bipolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Spectrochemical Investigation of Preferential Solvation. 2. Compatibility of Thermodynamic Models versus Spectrofluorometric Probe Methods for Tautomeric Solutes Dissolved in Binary Mixtures

Article discussing spectrochemical investigations of preferential solvation and the compatibility of thermodynamic models versus spectrofluorometric probe methods for tautomeric solutes dissolved in binary mixtures

Selective Fluorescence Quenching to Discriminate Between Alternant and Non-alternant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Acephenanthrylene Derivatives as Exceptions to the Nitromethane Quenching Rule

Article on selective fluorescence quenching to discriminate between alternant and non-alternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and acephenanthrylene derivatives as exceptions to the nitromethane quenching rule