Recent Articles
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6 clues that a job applicant won’t be a good fit
Anne Rose Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementYou're short-staffed and eagerly looking to hire new employees. Your goal is to vet the most qualified candidates and select the applicants that have the most valuable skills for your business and who will fit into your organization's culture and personality. Skills are an objective quality to assess which makes it a fairly easy appraisal.
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Promoting sleep — brain, muscle or both?
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), insufficient sleep is a public health problem, often leading to traffic accidents and occupational errors. A plethora of information exists about sleep disorders, sleep deprivation and what we can do to improve our sleeping habits, such as going to bed at the same time each night and rising at the same time each morning as well as avoiding large meals, caffeine and nicotine close to bedtime.
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Should students be allowed to use smartphones at school?
Bambi Majumdar EducationSmartphones, Internet and social media are an intrinsic part of our lives today. More than adults, teenagers and young adults find it impossible to survive without technology. But what happens when the same tech is used to harm, belittle and abuse others? From the early days of promoting BYOT (bring your own technology) to banning cellphone use, schools have gone through a gamut of changes for technology usage on campus.
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Anxiety, mood, depression and chronic pain
David M. Heckman PharmaceuticalWhich drug? What dose? These are the questions we focus on when we interact with a chronic pain patient. Certainly, we believe, there must be a magic pill or patch that will erase our patient's pain and (within the 15 minutes allowed by payers) send him or her out of our office eternally grateful and forever smiling.
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Report: We can address climate change while helping the economy
Seth Sandronsky Waste Management & EnvironmentalWhat we can do to act now to address climate change events, and why such action makes sense economically, is not guesswork. In "The Economic Case for Climate Action in the United States," published online by the Universal Ecological Fund, we find answers.
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Medical groups worry new EHR rules could harm patients
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT recently signaled that it is pulling back on electronic health record (EHR) certification attestation requirements to remove a great many of the burdens on users and developers in an effort to advance interoperability.
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Retaining ESL students
Douglas Magrath EducationThe concern among those serving international students is shifting from recruiting to retention. Student retention is critical at the college level, because there are many programs from which students can choose.
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7 ways to be an outstanding diversity and inclusion ally
Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAt some point in our lives, we all need an ally to support our ideas, decisions or dreams. Championing diversity and building inclusion means being an ally to people who are different.
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The business of laser scanning: Surveyors and ‘wedding photographers’
Ken Smerz Science & TechnologyOur story begins many years ago when surveyors ruled the world. The highly trained professionals who are an absolute necessity in a world of land ownership, wealth and political control. After all, they're the ones responsible for accurately documenting the earth — right?
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How to find quality of life as an association executive
William D. Pawlucy Association Management"I am on and available to my board 24 hours a day, seven days a week," one association executive told me. "The board has my home number as well to reach me if they can't get me on my cell." I then asked him this question, "What is so important that it just can't wait until the next business day?"