Recent Articles
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Disruptive plastic products rapidly emerging in green building field
Don Rosato EngineeringGreen building technology redefines how we make and live in buildings. From a plastics material and processing perspective, we can both reduce a building's energy consumption and simultaneously provide for a building's energy production. These plastic material and process advances "disrupt" an existing market by displacing earlier technology. Let's delve into some emerging green building technologies that involve plastic material and processing aspects.
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Tips for traveling with pets during the holiday season
Judy Connors Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementWe have all seen the adorable pictures. Energetic Fido is sleeping beneath the Christmas tree amid a flurry of beautiful unwrapped gifts he has just destroyed. Or sweet Tabby is wrapped in Christmas tree lights, still blinking, from her adventure up that same Christmas tree.
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Top 5 factors in the evolution of hotel dining
Suzanne Mason Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementAccording to the National Restaurant Association, dining venues capture 47 percent of food purchases, a number that has doubled since 1955. Of that $683.4 billion, lodging dining options account for only $34.8 billion in total dining dollars. But hotel and lodging destinations are adapting quickly to gain a bigger piece of the pie.
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Alaska is a deadly place to fly
Mark Huber Transportation Technology & AutomotiveFlying in Alaska is a whole different cat. I've done it exactly once. It was both awe-inspiring and occasionally terrifying: One-way upslope gravel runways, wicked shears off the mountains, and snow and storms that come out of nowhere in the middle of a whole bunch of nowhere.
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New Hampshire’s PACE option: Building a better accountability model
Brian Stack EducationIn October, Education Week's Alyson Klein asked the question, "Will New Hampshire be Arne Duncan's 'test case' for Accountability 2.0?" Klein noted that Secretary of Education Duncan has hinted for some time that he would like to reduce the number of standardized assessments that students take. In New Hampshire, a model that includes the use of both standardized assessments and competency-based performance assessments has piqued the interest of Duncan and his staff in Washington.
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The long road to health information exchange
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationHealth information exchange (HIE) is turning out to be one of those really long journeys in which you hear the kids in the back seat asking, "Are we there yet?" while the driver keeps saying, "Almost." The Office of the National Coordinator is focusing on the next 10 years with its soon-to-be-released road map to reach interoperability.
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The mystery of memory: Unveiling FXR1P
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareOrdinary human memory is a mess. Most of us can recall the major events in our lives but may have to hear a phone number a dozen times before we can repeat it. It's easy for us to forget things we've learned — like the periodic table. Worse yet, our memories are vulnerable to contamination and distortion as evidenced by when we are fooled by suggestive questions.
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Growth in renovation industry spurs employment
Bambi Majumdar Construction & Building MaterialsThe U.S. construction industry is on an upward swing, which has led to record employment figures. Construction and renovation firms have added 20,000 jobs this year, reaching a five-year high in August, according to the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). This accelerated employment growth was the largest since 2006, with residential building and specialty trade contractors adding a maximum number of employees at 5.7 percent.
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Should health insurance pay for compounded medications?
Jason Poquette PharmaceuticalFormer President Ronald Reagan once quipped that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Today, it seems like we could exchange the words "the government" with "your insurance" with exactly the same sentiment, and we wouldn't be far off.
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All for lack of a good dental office manager
Jill Nesbitt Oral & Dental HealthcareI heard a terrible story the other day about how a dentist began a vicious negative spiral when his well-loved dental office manager retired. When his office manager retired, he hired someone who had slightly less experience to take over. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to grow into the position, and the dentist had to start getting more and more involved in the business side of the practice. Now, instead of just practicing dentistry, he was dealing with insurance and collections and other management issues.