Recent Articles
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Teaching evaluation systems – Making education more effective
Bambi Majumdar EducationTraining and education are the foundations for teachers' careers in their initial years. Their success and effective contribution to future generations happen only through a process of continuous improvement, which is through upgrades to their knowledge, enhanced teaching aids and objective feedback for their performance.
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Suppliers — Your best untapped resource
Michael J. Berens Association ManagementOne of the biggest challenges any manager has is not knowing what you don't know. It's demanding enough to keep up with all the things you need to address without contemplating what other forces may be at work "out there" that could affect your members or your association.
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The Flying Circus: Summer salts
Garth WallaceCOPA 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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Tracking soft-tissue management success rate
Jill Nesbitt Oral & Dental HealthcareFor years, I've read in dental journals that 30 percent of people have gum disease. Therefore, dentists should have 30 percent of their recall patients either in soft tissue management programs or perio maintenance.
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Rule-making process has begun for Stage 3 of meaningful use
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationDespite Stage 3 of the meaningful use incentive program being delayed until 2017, rule-making for the program is under way. And the Meaningful Use Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee, which advises federal officials on the program, recently released its first set of draft recommendations.
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Porsche sets US sales record, with eye on further growth in 2014
Becky Bicks Transportation Technology & AutomotivePorsche sales are one thing that hasn't suffering in today's cloudy economic environment. The company set a new record with 43,323 vehicles sold in the U.S. in 2013, a jump of 21 percent.
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Energy and revolution in the Ukraine
Lucy Wallwork Natural ResourcesIf we look a little deeper in the Ukraine, the question of energy has played no small role in the eruption of violence on the streets of Kiev, where Ukrainians rely on Russian gas for over 50 percent of their energy needs. Where revolution comes, energy never lies far beneath the surface.
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The role of nurses in an aging population
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationIt's no secret that the population of the United States — and the world at large — is aging rapidly. The Baby Boom ended around 1964, and since those heady days of relative economic prosperity and population growth, the birth rate hasn't kept pace with the rate of aging.
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Is IT a problem or part of the solution?
Yoav Ziv CommunicationsOver the years, multisystem operators' expectations for their customer care, billing, ordering and provisioning systems have been simple: they should "just work." But then satellite service providers and telcos introduced new, real competition.
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Facility management: Proactive vs. reactive
Jeannea Jones Facilities & GroundsAs with most things in life, an offensive position yields better results than a defensive one. The same holds true in facility management. Plant operations and maintenance personnel encounter reactive situations on a daily basis, but the wise FM professional who approaches service from a proactive position will be able to avert many equipment failures and down time.