Humble leaders are more effective and better liked, according to a study forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal.

I attended a gathering of health care providers recently to participate in a site review and listen to some nice Toyota Production System (TPS) success stories.

I was playing around with the power and sample size graphs in Minitab recently, and I noticed something interesting. Power, for the uninitiated, is usually described as the likelihood that you will find a significant effect or difference when one truly exists.

A first-of-its-kind framework released Dec. 6, 2011, offers recommendations to food and food packaging companies on how to identify and evaluate nanomaterials in products.

Many times measurements are made using measurement increments which are too large for the job. Fortunately this problem is easily detected by ordinary, production-line process behavior charts.

The latest edition of “The ISO Survey of Certifications—2010,” from the International Organization f

The Property and Emergency Communications Divisions of the Houston Police Department (HPD) achieved certification to ISO 9001 in September 2011.

For many scientists working in the field of climate research, one of the most alarming trends has nothing to do with the climate itself: It’s the poll numbers showing that even as scientific projections of global climate change get ever more certain, public percep

In order to separate human-caused global warming from the “noise” of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists.

Most technologies for harnessing the sun’s energy capture the light itself, which is turned into electricity using photovoltaic materials.