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...economic system are examples). In general, such systems are based on widely shared perceptions. While this popular naming of recognised systems may be convenient and useful where the situation is merely complicated or its purpose is largely uncontroversial it can often hide the fact that the situation is very complex and that different people have very different...

...economic and nutritional benefits to the UK, and of the health risks involved (which are believed to be very small). However, these models did not include any consideration of the potential effects of GM crops, from which the foods would be produced, on the wildlife of farmland. This omission has been one major contributor to the acrimony of the debate, and the rejection...

...economic and technology constraints, tradeoffs and aesthetic concerns. In Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Fowler (2002) states: ‘Architecture’ is a term that lots of people try to define, with little agreement. There are two common elements: One is the highest-level breakdown of a system into its parts; the other, decisions that are hard to change. In...

...economic impacts of these technologies? Discussion The work has led to scientists developing methods to: Detect prostate cancer by ‘smell’, with the potential to perform more accurate diagnoses, thereby saving lives and expenditure in the National Health Service (NHS). Patients, carers and medical professionals, in particular, could benefit from the application of...