Recent Articles
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Are we on the cusp of a visual renaissance?
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesA growing emphasis on visual communication and quality has elevated the public's awareness of design, from graphics to fashion to products to interiors. A more visual culture will create more demand for good design. That should be good news for designers of all stripes.
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Mythbusting: Job boards and your website are not great recruiting tools
Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhile job boards and your website make it quick and easy for the employer and the applicant alike, they are far less effective than the top three, proven sources of great employees.
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Advances in treatment of epilepsy offer new options
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareApproximately 2.3 million adults and nearly 500,000 children in the U.S. currently live with some form of epilepsy, and the annual costs are estimated to be $15.5 billion. The good news is that recent advances in epilepsy treatment have given physicians and patients more options.
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Is no-growth anodizing the future of corrosion protection?
Alan Kelsky EngineeringThe processes for anodizing aluminum are more than 100 years old, and most in the anodizing industry thought we knew all there was to know about anodizing aluminum. Now we have learned that a company in Florida has developed a new way to anodize aluminum.
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The Flying Circus: Chainsaw Charlie
Garth Wallace Recreation & LeisureCOPA eFlight presents another weekly excerpt from "The Flying Circus," a fun book by Canadian aviation humorist and former COPA publisher Garth Wallace. "The Flying Circus" is a fictional account of the madcap escapades of two instructors who start their own flying school armed with loads of enthusiasm, but little business sense and no money.
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Wordle it — just a little bit
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWord clouds are a visually appealing way to distill key concepts from larger amounts of data. There are several programs that offer this service for free on the Web. All of which makes them an easy, free, simple, fast tool that can add a little panache to your work.
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Increased use of split-liver transplants can trim waiting lists
Alan Kelsky Medical & Allied HealthcareRecent research at the Cleveland Clinic found that a technique called a split-liver transplant has the same survival rate after five years compared to that of whole liver surgery (80 percent for split-liver transplants and 81.5 percent for whole-liver transplants).
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Leadership lessons: Why it pays to put others first
Scott Steinberg RetailA proud, time-honored tradition among leading organizations and brands, quality customer service has become more than just a given common courtesy today. It has also evolved to become a core necessity in the age of abundance, when dozens of competitors are just click or call away.
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How the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan improved ER care
Alan Kelsky Medical & Allied HealthcareNo matter where you stand politically, the reality of death and injury from war is a certainty. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States military used innovative, advanced techniques for medical transportation and wound treatment that ultimately flow into the nation's hospital emergency departments.
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Why warehouse operators need a strategy
Ken Ackerman Distribution & WarehousingYour people — especially your senior management team — will be motivated if they understand where the company is going. While opportunism can be a strategy, Lewis Carroll's warning in "Alice in Wonderland" should be considered as a good argument for strategic planning: "If you don't know where you are going, then any road will take you there."