Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
ISM's Purchasing Managers Index 1948–2012. Purchasing managers' indexes (PMI) are economic indicators derived from monthly surveys of private sector companies.. The three principal producers of PMIs are the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), which originated the manufacturing and non-manufacturing metrics produced for the United States, the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials ...
Apex beat. The apex beat (lat. ictus cordis ), also called the apical impulse, [1] is the pulse felt at the point of maximum impulse ( PMI ), which is the point on the precordium farthest outwards (laterally) and downwards (inferiorly) from the sternum at which the cardiac impulse can be felt. The cardiac impulse is the vibration resulting from ...
The ISM Report On Business (ROB), also known as the ISM Report, is the collective name for two monthly reports, the Manufacturing ISM Report On Business and the Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business, published by Institute for Supply Management. The ROB is based on a national survey of purchasing managers tracking changes in the ...
Technological unemployment is the loss of jobs caused by technological change. It is a key type of structural unemployment.Technological change typically includes the introduction of labour-saving "mechanical-muscle" machines or more efficient "mechanical-mind" processes (), and humans' role in these processes are minimized.
Gentrification is a housing, economic, and health issue that affects a community's history and culture and reduces social capital. It often shifts a neighborhood's characteristics, e.g., racial-ethnic composition and household income, by adding new stores and resources in previously run-down neighborhoods.
Tracheal deviation is a symptom of: certain chest, neck, and lung conditions. chest injuries. conditions exacerbated by smoking or other sources of toxic air. neck injury causing swelling or ...
The more general concept of a "Minsky cycle" consists of a repetitive chain of Minsky moments: a period of stability encourages risk taking, which leads to a period of instability when risks are realized as losses, which quickly exhausts participants into risk-averse trading (de-leveraging), restoring stability and setting up the next cycle.
Disruptive. An innovation that creates a new market or enters at the bottom of an existing market by providing a different set of values, which ultimately (and unexpectedly) overtakes incumbents (e.g., the lower-priced, affordable Ford Model T, which displaced horse-drawn carriages)