In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

Carpenter Sam Worley, 37, stood next to the massive hole in the ground that one day will be the site of the nation’s largest federal courthouse and shook his head in exasperation. Straining to read ...

Balancing act The two systems of measurement – imperial and metric – are often used together in UK shops. (Courtesy: iStock/Paolo Paradiso) When I was at primary school in the 1960s, measurements were ...

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We have experimented with a new approach to systems change evaluation. We have four recommendations for those who wish to take the same path.

If scientists had sacred objects, this would be one of them: a single, closely guarded 137-year-old cylinder of metal, housed in a vault outside of Paris. It is a prototype that precisely defines a ...

With the fast pace of business operations, many companies rely on transactional software systems to help them automate business processes. These transactional systems have to process data in real time ...

New data show that hospitals’ and health systems’ relentless focus on safety and quality improvement is paying off for ...