Long-established processes are straining under the pressure as the modern workplace prepares their redundancy notices.

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Britain has recently been putting public pressure on the World Bank to streamline its processes to ease the availability of funds.

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At the same time, these technologies and underlying processes are run by people under pressure to deliver economic performance, under deadlines, where time costs money and shortcuts can potentially save millions.

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Too often, people find themselves in situations where processes become increasingly complex, time gets limited and pressure mounts.

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While that means more opportunity for CMOs, it also means more pressure, along with a scramble to get the right people, processes and tools in place to re-charge the growth engine.

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Ultimately, we will need politicians who are willing to take huge risks in tackling some of the underlying problems with government -- or a scandal so severe that it creates real political pressure for incumbents to do something -- if we are to strengthen our processes and reduce the risks of the kinds of stories we saw this past week.

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Other patents deal with the isolation of enzymes important for industrial processes, the isolation of cellular compounds that guarantee unique properties (such as resistance to extreme pressure and salinity) and the discovery of mechanisms ensuring resistance to extreme temperatures and toxicity, these extreme properties being of interest for both biomedical and industrial applications.

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