Recent Articles
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The breadth and depth of nursing
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareThe nursing profession has grown astronomically since the days of Florence Nightingale. While we may have once served as handmaidens to the whims and needs of god-like physicians, the definition of what it means to practice as a nurse is light-years away from the era of our diminutive status and relative servitude.
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Hospitality and travel brands venture into Latin America
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementU.S. travel and hospitality brands are now actively looking south for some healthy vacation activities. South America is a fertile market, full of potential that is just waiting to be tapped. Along with hotel and lodging brands, airlines and even hotel rating organizations are poised to expand deep into Latin America.
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Study: Quicker surgery is better
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan Medical & Allied HealthcareIn a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers found that longer surgery duration is associated with increased risk of blood clots forming in the leg and leading to a pulmonary embolism. What does this mean?
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Brain plasticity: Fact or fiction?
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied HealthcareMedical experts once believed that changes in the brain were only limited to infancy and childhood, after which its physical structure was permanent. However, we now know that new neural pathways are continuously being created and existing ones are altered as a part of our adaptation mechanism to new experiences, ongoing learning and the process of creating new memories.
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The secret to a more productive intern
Carol Heiberger Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAre you looking forward to the new intern's arrival? There are so many things that you'd like her to do. In your vision, she does more than run for coffee and make the copies. Look at your to-do list: write copy for the Facebook posts, check on the social media chatter, identify new features and functions that would be useful for the millennial customers, edit the videos ...
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Policing the regulations: Cooling industry questions enforcement
Andrew Gaved ManufacturingLaws designed with the fine motives of reducing emissions, reducing energy, etc., are all well and good, but if nothing is done to police them, then they will fall short of their aims. In the U.K., certainly, there is a feeling from within the cooling industry that the regulators must make an example of those who willfully flout the law on matters such as F-Gas.
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Is bigger really better? Leasing the right size of commercial space
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailCommercial tenants often say they are not making any money because their rent is too high. Sometimes this is a true statement, but more often than not, the commercial tenant has simply leased too many square feet.
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The stress of 911 call-takers and emergency dispatchers
Mark Bond Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityIn 1967, President Lyndon Johnson's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice recommended that police departments have a single number for the public to call when they need police services. In 1968, Haleyville, Alabama, became the first city in the United States to start using the 911 system.
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Consumers prefer practical over pizzazz in smart home technology
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesIn the future, we will not be minding the machines; the machines will be minding us. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, manufacturers paraded a host of new smart devices designed to track our behaviors and vital signs and then respond or alert us when action needs to be taken.
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Dealing reasonably with unreasonable people
Anne Rose Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementWe've all had them — those difficult customers who are unreasonably angry and refuse to be placated. What are they angry about? And how do you handle them? I'm sure you can construct your own examples of unreasonable customers, but the question is how to handle them so you're not bursting blood vessels in an escalating confrontation.