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...worked once”, as she describes it. One place that has managed to break this pattern is Northern Ireland, which has overcome the problem of poor labelling of lines such as intravenous lines and urinary catheters. A sick patient may have several different lines attached to them; these were not labelled in any consistent way – if at all – so a nurse might use the wrong...

...work, so every single action at every step in the process is controlled and continuously improved. This intensity of improvement activity is a clear characteristic of Toyota’s operations which has been emulated by many other companies worldwide. Supply Chain coordination [A photograph of the Landrover Discovery production line in modern times. The photo is in colour and...

...work, in the evening time. Jack Fowler Traffic lights on a bridge change the patterns of the traffic flow. Once it changes then you’ve got all the traffic that’s backed up, and they come, a wave of them rush across the bridge, and whatever is in that line, that’s the load that you’re going to get at that time. And it was on both sides and it worked both ways. So...

...work, it would be another bridge next to the exact same bridge that you have, and then remove that false work when you’re all complete. The different techniques that we use to inspect the steel members would be, um, non-destructive testing where we can x-ray the metal or we can use a sonogram where you use a gel over top of the metal with a sound probe. In the near...

...work by using vibrating columns of air that amplify an initial sound. In all wind instruments, the length of the column of air determines the general pitch of the instrument. That is why the panpipes played by Ellen used bamboo tubes cut to different lengths to produce various notes. [Kathy and Kate play the instruments] In order for a column of air to vibrate, something...