Recent Articles
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2015 proves to be a record year for airports across Europe
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveWith a new year upon us, airports around the globe are using the opportunity to promote their 2015 figures and proclaim the positive news and record statistics. In Europe, airports reporting positive news include London Luton, which has seen double-digit growth every month over the past year and is benefiting from the capacity constraints at Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
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Following the right path as a CIO
Galen M. Metz Science & TechnologyBeing a chief information officer (CIO) is a challenging job. Whether your goal as a CIO is to thrive, or merely to survive, you must juggle many aspects of the job.
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CES 2016 may be remembered as the dawn of self-driving cars
Ross Lancaster Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThroughout 2015, the self-driving automobile was still heralded as something of a futuristic idea. Typically, when an autonomous Google car was spotted in the streets of tech hubs like Silicon Valley or Austin, Texas, it usually grabbed headlines.
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What is your company’s culture?
Ken Ackerman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEvery organization has a corporate culture, defined by Harvard professor James L. Heskett as "the way we do things around here." Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines describes culture as "What do we want to be?" Perhaps culture is how we add value. One definition is inadequate, but clearly culture is more important to the health of an organization than strategy, market share, patents or trademarks.
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Social media and healthcare: Offsetting liability with policy
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationSocial media is a powerful communication and connection tool that is being applied in healthcare environments for a range of purposes and audiences. Despite its many benefits, it does present some risks — the most common concern being the posting of private health information causing a HIPAA violation and legal liability.
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Are your new goals the right goals for you?
Michelle LaBrosse Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementFor many people, January is the time of year to pursue new goals. As the years go on, this yearly goal-setting becomes routine. Even though you have new goals you're passionate about pursuing each year, your faith in your ability to accomplish them or your awareness about why you're setting goals in the first place may diminish.
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A crunching sound marked our first big RV mistake
Steve and Diane Owens Recreation & LeisureKnowing a desperate man was running loose — a man who had escaped from prison and had killed another — kept me awake most of the night. When the sun rose, we were already up and about. Although it put a damper on our stay at Willow Bay in Pennsylvania, we were excited to continue our trip. So around the same curve, we came right back into the police roadblock.
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Porsche 911 GT3 R gets ready for Daytona debut
David Hurth Transportation Technology & AutomotivePorsche introduced the new Porsche 911 GT3 R last year. Now, we are quickly approaching the competition debut of the 911 GT3 R — Jan. 30 at the 24 Hours of Daytona — which will give us an idea of just how well the new car will stack up to the competition.
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Putting the ‘special’ in specially designed math instruction
Savanna Flakes EducationSome of our students with learning disabilities have trouble with abstract reasoning. As such, they may have difficulty verbalizing what they have learned or observed, difficulty making the connection with symbolic representations and/or understanding the math concept that is being explained or shown.
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New trends in the Canadian private fleet during 2015
Adam Hunt Recreation & LeisureThe Canadian private civil aircraft fleet continued to grow in 2015, but at an extremely slow rate — the lowest by far since the turn of the millennium and far worse than at any time during the recession of 2008-10. In 2008, the fleet grew at a peak rate of 3.2 percent, but by 2015 it was down to just 0.25 percent.