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• Maintenance tips for restaurant facility management

  Bambi Majumdar Facilities & Grounds

  Facility management is clearly defined as a comprehensive analysis, maintenance and management of everyday background operations so the core business can go on functioning, unhindered. This is important for all businesses, but for more dynamic operations like restaurants this means having access to instant and actionable data that can be used to stay ahead of problems.

• Music and performance: Methods for language learning and retention

  Beth Crumpler Education

  Music instruction greatly improves student working memory by minimizing the variables that impair it. It has been documented and proven that music students do better on IQ tests. This is not due to their superior intelligence, but rather a result of their music training. Many variables affect the working memory of ESL students, and music is a gateway that ESL teachers can use to decrease these imparities for English learning.

• Infant study highlights need for early identification of autism

  Dr. Denise A. Valenti Mental Healthcare

  A diminished ability to socially interact with eye contact is recognized as a diagnostic marker for autism. A study published Nov. 6 in Nature reported that social engagement using eye contact starts at birth for all infants, but can start to decline as early as two months of age in children later identified with autism.

• Using Twitter to reach new customers

  Mayur Kisani Marketing

  ​Most businesses think of Twitter as a promotional tool, a way to announce new products or to divert traffic to a website/blog. But it can also be used to reach new customers, and thus generate sales leads. The most important first step is to know what you want your tweets to accomplish. If you know your objective and your target audience, Twitter can be as effective for a small company as a large one.

• Are you trading efficiency for productivity?

  Michael J. Berens Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  One of the basic principles of a free-market economy is that markets perform better when unhampered by government regulation or oversight. It turns out the same can be said for employees. A number of workplace research studies have shown that employees perform better, have higher levels of satisfaction, take fewer sick days and are more productive when they have a greater sense of control over their work and their work environment.

• Pedelec vs. throttle: Which electric bike is better?

  Don DiCostanzo Transportation Technology & Automotive

  There is growing controversy over which systems will likely prevail in countries like the U.S. — pedelec (pedal-assist) or throttle-controlled systems. There are advocates for both types of systems, and a third choice that will be addressed later.

• Telemedicine legislation: Who is keeping count?

  Herb Rogove Medical & Allied Healthcare

  ​For those interested in seeing a brief composite of federal legislation that may be of significant interest to the telemedicine/telehealth community, the following are the most recent ones of note.

• The Flying Circus: It’s the little old lady from Circus

  Garth Wallace

  COPA 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.

• Events for downtown resurgence

  Bambi Majumdar Civil & Government

  ​Downtown resurgence projects are key programs for every local and municipal government in the country today. A bright and prosperous central business district has become synonymous with a healthy and improving economy, which in turn will reflect well on the local government, so their concern is understandable.

• The growing need for psychiatric EDs

  Dorothy L. Tengler

  In 2010, there were 129.8 million emergency department visits. However, not all of these visits were injury-related. A January 2012 American Hospital Association TrendWatch reported that there were more than 5 million visits to EDs by patients with a primary diagnosis of mental illness (or a substance abuse disorder). Even more alarming, the rate of mental health visits has increased seven times more than overall ED visits. So what happens when a person with a psychiatric emergency goes to the ED?

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