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• How to spend a great weekend in Austin, Texas

  Julie Anne Wells Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Known far and wide for live music and keeping it weird, Austin, Texas, makes a perfect destination for a weekend getaway. You might assume the best time to visit is during one of Austin’s famous annual music festivals. But the city has so much to offer its visitors year-round. From tourist attractions to local hidden gems, here are some items you must add to your Austin itinerary.

• A blood test to measure pain

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Whether acute or chronic, most of us have dealt with pain. In 2016, 20 percent of adults in the United States had chronic pain, and 8 percent had pain that limited at least one major life activity. The state of the art of pain measurement right now is a pain scale that was invented decades ago. However, a new University of Pittsburgh study shows that physicians may soon be able to quantify pain with a simple blood test. Researchers have developed a test that objectively measures pain biomarkers in the blood.

• The retention secret every volunteer coordinator should know

  Deborah Ike Religious Community

  We all know how challenging it can be to get and keep volunteers. There are a variety of strategies for how to communicate the need and invite more people to serve. However, we also want to pay attention to how we keep volunteers on the team. There’s one tool you may not have considered yet when it comes to retaining volunteers (and adding to their ranks). That tool is conducting a volunteer survey.

• How to correct negative misperceptions

  Anne Rose Communications

  Negative misperceptions are easy to acquire and hard to erase. "She's a very rude and unfriendly person. She looked right at me and didn't even say hello or acknowledge me." "Oh, that guy is a crook. I called him about some work I needed, and he wanted $300 just to give me a quote." Maybe the "rude" person who didn’t say hello actually didn’t see you but was staring off in the distance in a daydream. Maybe you’ve mixed up the service fellow with a different but similarly named person. Where and how do these misperceptions originate?

• Is there a guaranteed annual income in your future? — Part 2

  Patrick Gleeson Civil & Government

  Until recently, most guaranteed annual income proposals centered on moral arguments for providing everyone with at least a subsistence income — for example, that it was an obligatory act of Christian charity. Since the 1960s, those favoring a GAI have abandoned these earlier arguments on moral grounds in favor of what is potentially a more compelling reason: we need to have a GAI simply because, in the very near future, there won’t be enough jobs as workers are replaced by machines with artificial intelligence capabilities.

• Brexit’s unclear impact on US manufacturing

  Michelle R. Matisons Manufacturing

  As politicians fight over how and when the U.K. will leave the EU, Brexit's impact is felt around the world. A no-deal Brexit, which has the U.K. exiting the EU on March 29 without a clear trade agreement, is said to have potentially catastrophic consequences for U.K. manufacturing. How does all this impact U.S. manufacturing? First, we need to understand Brexit's impact on U.K. manufacturing — especially automobiles. The automobile sector provides an excellent example of increased challenges under the prospects of a new U.K. economy free of EU guidelines and infrastructure.

• The future of interior design sourcing

  Lloyd Princeton Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Like many other industries and professions, interior design is becoming increasingly digitized. From conception and rendering, to project management, to how designers communicate with their teams and their clients, basic processes and procedures are transferring to digital platforms. One of the areas most affected by this transformation is sourcing and purchasing. What began as a gradual shift towards e-commerce at the beginning of the decade has exploded into a robust online universe of interior design products and services. E-commerce has pulled back the curtain on interior design sourcing.

• What customers want from your loyalty program

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  You probably already know that acquiring new customers costs more than retaining the ones you already have. Acquiring new customers can be a staggering five to 25 times more expensive than retaining a customer you already have. On the flip side, if you increase customer retention rates by only 5 percent, you can raise profits by 25 to 95 percent, according to Bain & Company research. That's the power of customer loyalty, and yet, it's an area most companies can do much better in. Read on to find out the research-backed characteristics shoppers want from your loyalty program.

• Analysis: Standard work arrangements surprisingly dominate labor force…

  Seth Sandronsky Association Management

  Beware of talk that we are living through the rise of nonstandard employment. We turn to a new analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Economic Policy Institute based in Washington, D.C. “In 2017, the total share of the labor force working in nonstandard arrangements was 10.1 percent, down from 10.9 percent in 2005,” according to Eileen Appelbaum, Arne Kalleberg and Hye Jin Rho. Accordingly, the fraction of workers in standard work arrangements was 89.9 percent in 2017, roughly the same as 1995.

• Drug combo may make organ, tissue matching unnecessary

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Tissue-matching means organ recipients have a better chance of a successful transplant, but patients will still need to take anti-rejection medications, possibly for the remainder of their lives. While effective, these drugs can cause the body's immune system to be vulnerable to infection, and they often have unpleasant side effects. However, a new study offers evidence that an antibody-drug conjugate may serve the same purpose as traditional anti-rejection drugs. Led by a Stanford University physician, the research team found that the conjugate eliminates blood-producing stem cells in mice. To this point, only anti-rejection drugs have kept the production of stem cells at bay.

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