Recent Articles

• Stay ahead of the competition with 4 new social features

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  Just within recent days, four of the biggest social platforms rolled out new features. Seize these new social tools immediately to stay one step ahead of your competition. Learn what’s new on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter while seeing how your brand can harness the power of Snapchat.

• The .30 Carbine: A light but useful cartridge

  John McAdams Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Designed by Winchester for the military in the early 1940s, the .30 Carbine cartridge was designed to be "more than a pistol, but less than a rifle." Used by the United States military in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, the .30 Carbine also became very popular among civilian hunters and shooters. Though it is a great cartridge under the appropriate conditions, the .30 Carbine is probably one of the most underrated light rifle cartridges in the United States.

• Out-of-autoclave here to stay for high-quality composites

  Aldo Crugnola, Nick Schott and Don Rosato Engineering

  The manufacturing of high-quality structural composite components for aerospace applications has historically involved autoclave curing, a time-consuming, high-labor, and capital-intensive manufacturing process. As the aerospace and defense industries look to lower costs, composite parts manufacturers are searching for low-cost alternatives to traditional autoclave molding processes that can produce the same mechanical performance that autoclave curing provides. Both commercial and academic research and development have been focusing on a variety of liquid molding or low-pressure consolidation processes to meet this need for lower cost "out-of-autoclave" composite molding.

• Forget empowerment! What you need are self-directed employees

  Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Remember when the latest buzzword was empowerment? The premise was that employees who were empowered would be more committed to successful outcomes because they had the ability to make decisions, commit resources, own the decision, etc. As someone was empowered, they also became more accountable for results. What's wrong with empowerment? Plenty!

• Why you should carry spiders at your pet store

  Kevin Plazak Pet Care

  Recently, I was asked to stock and sell tarantulas. In my mind, this translated to "pay money for spiders." Big, hairy spiders. Things that get my wife jumping on furniture to get away from them while screaming for me to kill them. I didn’t take the request all that seriously and ignored it. But the requests kept coming in — rose hair tarantulas and pinktoe tarantulas. Every other store wanted them. My customers asked…and I needed to figure it out.

• Flexible work policies could be key to more rested employees

  Cait Harrison Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Are your employees getting enough sleep? Likely not. Chances are they’re sleeping less than the seven to nine hours recommended by the National Sleep Foundation — averaging 6.8 hours per night, according to Gallup. But there may be something you can do about it. A new study published in the journal Sleep Health shows that workers will likely get more sleep when their employers play a more active role in ensuring they're better rested — especially when they offer flexible work policies.

• What healthcare providers need to know about measles

  Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Many who work in healthcare today are too young to remember the measles epidemics of years past. Therefore, their knowledge and care of this previously eradicated disease is extremely limited and quick identification of infected individuals could be limited. As we learned last year from our Ebola exposures, our lack of knowledge of uncommon, yet highly communicative diseases is our Achilles' heel. As healthcare providers, we owe it to ourselves and our patients to remain informed of such diseases.

• Has the oil price hit its floor?

  Stefanie Heerwig Natural Resources

  Abdulla Al-Badri, secretary general of OPEC, announced recently that oil prices might have reached their floor and could even rise to up to $200 per barrel in the near future. This is a surprising comment, given OPEC's resistance to decrease its oil production and complaints by struggling oil exporters like Nigeria and Venezuela. In fact, Al-Badri's comment was in response to the biggest one-day gain in oil prices since 2009. Brent rose almost 8 percent and finished above $50 per barrel while Western Texas intermediate crude jumped by 7 percent to $53 per barrel.

• Managing your online reputation

  Christina Thielst Communications

  Social channels provide tremendous opportunities to use your voice and find others with similar interests. Being on key social channels also makes it easy for customers, networkers and recruiters to find you and see if your education, skills, interests and goals match with their needs. However, careful consideration and management of one's reputation is imperative.

• The state of consolidation in outpatient PT

  Charlotte Bohnett Medical & Allied Healthcare

  During PPS 2014 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the industry's heaviest hitters — now backed by private equity dollars — strolled about the trade show floor, introducing themselves to clinic owners and negotiating acquisition deals right then and there. This anecdote provides a mere glimpse into a trend sweeping the healthcare industry: consolidation. Healthcare services have always been in high demand, but with 8,000 baby boomers reaching retirement age every day, the healthcare market has never been more saturated with consumers — and that makes private practice acquisition a highly lucrative investment move for qualified buyers.

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