Recent Articles
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Practice smarter: Putting it all together
Eric Lamberson Law Enforcement, Defense & SecuritySo you've read the articles, books and blogs, and you've watched all the videos of the Distinguished Masters — you can do this, right? This is where most people breathe a sigh of relief and go back to their repetitive practice routine (if they practice at all). And then they fail miserably because at the end of the day becoming a better shooter is not about knowing, it is about doing.
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A simple food preservative may help some schizophrenia patients
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareSchizophrenia can affect all aspects of a person — thinking, feeling and behaving — and is associated with tremendous personal suffering, disability, family burden, premature death and societal cost. Getting people into treatment quickly is important for recovery.
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How Amazon is changing how we buy and sell beauty
Elizabeth Donat RetailThese days, you can find almost anything on Amazon. Pretty much everyone you know uses the internet e-commerce site to buy everything from jewelry to toilet bowl cleaners to steak knives.
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Negotiating commercial leases: Avoiding letters of credit
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailFor many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.
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Grief counseling plays major role in school shooting recoveries
Michelle R. Matisons EducationOn Feb. 14, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, murdered at least 17 people allegedly using an AR-15 assault weapon. He was also armed with smoke grenades and countless magazines.
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Leaders: Get more out of HR
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementLike nurses and teachers, HR professionals are often overlooked unless they are both excellent at what they do and have an opportunity to exemplify that excellence by helping leaders directly. This limits both the HR person and the benefit they can provide the company.
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Europe prepares for perfect storm over F-Gas
Andrew Gaved ManufacturingI promise not to make every dispatch this year an update on the general alarm surrounding the EU F-Gas regulations, but having declared a crisis back in January, I feel duty-bound to keep you abreast of what I believe the TV newsrooms call a developing situation.
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Nurses and the emotional tightrope
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareFrom the moment that an aspiring nurse enters school, the slings and arrows of a nursing career can begin to be felt. From study stress to the challenges of working in novel clinical experiences, the pressure is all too real.
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A targeted healing agent for bones that won’t mend
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareThe human body contains 206 bones vulnerable to fractures of all kinds, and the average person has two fractures in a lifetime. Broken bones are among the most common orthopedic problems. Fractures account for 16 percent of all musculoskeletal injuries in the United States annually. Broken bones are very common in childhood, although children's fractures are generally less complicated than fractures in adults.
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How will the new HIV drug approval affect patients?
Dr. Abimbola Farinde PharmaceuticalSince the formal recognition of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1981 in the United States, there have been ongoing research efforts to both better understand the cause of HIV and to develop effective antiretroviral drugs to target the virus. The introduction of a new antiretroviral agent into the therapeutic landscape of the HIV drug market has brought both optimism toward meeting this goal and conflict among two competing pharmaceutical companies.