Purchasing and Inventory Control Case Study: "The Harlan Corporation"
This clip profiles the Harlan Corporation, which manufactures tractors and equipment for moving heavy loads. Because it's not financially possible to maintain an inventory of tractors, the company tries to keep up with customer demand by maintaining...
Transcript: PEOPLE WANT TRACTORS, THEY WANT THEM IMMEDIATELY. WHEN YOU HAVE FIVE TO SIX MONTHS LEAD TIME ON SUCH THINGS AS ENGINES AND TRANSMISSIONS, OUR BIG SECRET
Memes
Philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about memes, which he calls the cultural equivalent of the gene in biology. According to Professor Dennett, a meme is an idea, but not just any idea. To qualify as a meme, an idea must be memorable and reproducible. ...
Transcript: lending out the videotape, Writing something about it. So there's plenty of transmission pathways And there's plenty of differential reproduction And there
Other metals
The group known as "other metals" contains some of the most widely used elements in the world. Segments in this program include Exploring Other Metals (properties of the other metals); Aluminum: Providing Power (the many uses of aluminum, the most a...
Transcript: TRANSMISSION WIRES. GALLIUM IS A BLUE-GRAY METAL THAT IS USED TO PRODUCE SEMICONDUCTORS, TRANSISTORS, QUARTZ THERMOMETERS, AND LOW-MELTING ALLOYS. A COMPOUND OF
H5N1: killer flu
Avian influenza A (H5N1) has successfully made the leap from poultry to people. Is a human-to-human pandemic inevitable? Using Southeast Asia as a case study, this Wide Angle report looks at the Vietnamese government's efforts to contain the disease...
Transcript: disease, the virus may be undergoing a dangerous mutation. All we need now is for human-to-human transmission to get better, and then we have everything
Parents and Children.: Gay and Lesbian Parenting
Profile of "Our Family Coalition," an organization that serves families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members in the San Francisco Bay area.
Transcript: have gay and lesbian parents. They came from heterosexual parents. So we do know there's no direct transmission one way Or the other. [jacobson:] gay men
Nutrition: Fat Part 5
Transcript: for nerve transmission and for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins. But the excess fat forms the plaque on the walls of the artery. That can lead to
The Torment of Schizophrenia
Although one out of every hundred people in the world will likely wrestle with schizophrenia, the disease remains one of psychiatry’s greatest therapeutic challenges. Enhanced by computer animations of the brain, this poignant program uses several...
Transcript: receptors of the other neurons allowing the signal to be transmitted. The primary symptoms of schizophrenia are due to a disturbance in the transmissions
Cybercrime: world wide war 3.0
The tools required to fight Internet-based offenses must constantly evolve and adapt. Unfortunately, so do the criminals. This program examines several forms of cyber-crime and their impact on law enforcement, national security, the corporate world,...
Transcript: uncertainty principle, if someone tries to look at the key while it's being transmitted, it will induce noise, transmission errors
W. Edwards Deming: Prophet Unheard
W. Edwards Deming introduced the concept of quality control to Japanese manufacturing after World War II. As history testifies, it turned that nation into an international manufacturing giant. In rare archival footage, Deming himself profiles his 14...
Transcript: improvement. In 1981, Ford, in partnership with Mazda, was building its first front-wheel drive car for America. The transmissions were being made partly in
Preventing Needlestick Injuries
In 1978, a technician at University of Wisconsin Hospital contracted hepatitis B from a needlestick injury. The incident sparked groundbreaking research that identified recapping attempts as a major hazard—but it took the specter of HIV/AIDS to pu...
Transcript: later, in the CDC issued updated infection control guidelines for hospitals called, standard precautions, which were designed to prevent transmission