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Study: Bacteria the cause of most infections in first year after solid…

Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

In the first year after transplant surgery, bacteria cause more than half of the infections that occur in solid organ transplant recipients. That's the result of a patient analysis conducted as part of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study. The information is important since it allows transplant teams to prescribe appropriate immunosuppressant drugs. Following an organ transplant, three periods of infection have been identified.

F-35’s problems continue with the gun that won’t shoot straight

Rebecca Walker Donaldson Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

It should not come as a surprise that the Lockheed Martin Corporation’s $428 billion F-35 aircraft, which has been fraught with problems for years, has a gun that won’t shoot straight. There are three F-35 models that are equipped with the 25 mm gun. While there seems to be no problems with the gun on the Navy and Marine Corps versions, the Air Force model has "unacceptable" accuracy when hitting ground targets. Recently, Bloomberg defense reporter Anthony Capaccio had an advance look at the Defense Department’s anticipated report on the progress of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

How to use Google’s featured snippets to boost your digital marketing…

Lisa Mulcahy Marketing

When it comes to your brand's ranking in a Google search, you're most likely focusing your efforts on getting the top ranking in search results. In reality, gaining "featured snippet" status can be much more beneficial to your marketing efforts. So, what's a featured snippet? It's the "answer box" that is located at the very top of a Google page and directly answers a question posed in searches. That spot will create colossal exposure for your brand. While Google does determine which sites are chosen to be featured snippets, there are ways you can greatly improve the likelihood of becoming one.

Airlines get serious about jet lag relief

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

While some airlines, such as Virgin Atlantic and JetBlue, are bringing out the music and mediation amenities to help passengers get the sleep they need as they fly across time zones, United Airlines is offering its loyalty fliers a free app that empowers passengers to get ahead of their jet lag. The app recommends sleep times, caffeine intake and times for light exposure for the quickest ways to adjust to new time zones.

Infographic: The people and tech behind data science

Brian Wallace Science & Technology

Between 2011 and 2012, job listings for "data scientist" increased 15,000%. "Data science" might be a buzzword, but it isn’t a new idea — in fact, it has been on a journey to the mainstream for almost three centuries. By 2025, 175 billion terabytes of data will be created every day. To understand and analyze the world's surging data, advanced tools are needed. Learn more with this infographic.

Advocating for the aftermarket at HDAW 2020

Bianca Gibson Manufacturing

The recent Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week, held for the first time at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, gathered aftermarket professionals nationwide for an impactful event. With a captivating keynote delivered by "Shark Tank's" Daymond John, multiple informational sessions and a lively showroom, attendees were given plenty of avenues for education and inspiration. For those eager for industry insight, the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association hosted "Chasing the Aftermarket" on Jan. 26. The meeting was a TED Talk-style presentation, delivered by four aftermarket thought leaders.

How to prevent ‘passive clone syndrome’ in your organization

Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk Management

I recently watched a Bruce Willis movie called "Surrogates" for the second time. People stay home, send their surrogates to work and use remote controls to interact with them. The surrogates are exact clones of their "owners." Although "Surrogates" is in the future, it made me think about workplaces today. Willis is an FBI agent who sends his FBI surrogate to solve a murder, until he realizes that he needs to personally be involved. He leaves the house and takes his true self to work to find the killer. Are your employees sending their clones to work?

Policing comes to a crossroads with facial recognition, reforms

Michelle R. Matisons Science & Technology

You may have seen "Minority Report," the 2002 film based on the Philip K. Dick novel, which anticipates governmental use of technology to prevent murder before it happens. Today, this is known as pre-crime, and it didn't take all the way until 2054 — as the Dick novel suggests — for contemporary technology to grow embedded in unconstitutional policing activities as facial recognition (FR) technology. Now, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and 40 supporting organizations have called for swift action banning FR before it becomes a banal aspect of our daily lives.

Study: Stroke during pregnancy may be increasing

Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

Advances in medical care and diagnostics should reduce the incidence of serious health problems and mortality rates from those events. Death rates from strokes have declined since the 1960s. This may not be the case for stroke occurring during pregnancy or within six weeks of delivery, however. A new study published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology sheds light on the incidence of acute stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) during pregnancy and the post-partum period, and suggests it is on the rise.

In 2020, more states to focus on earlier, diverse computer science education

Bambi Majumdar Education

Computer science education is essential for students who love to code as well as those who do not. In this digital age, a computer science curriculum will enable students of all ages to develop essential logic and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, demographic disparities need to be addressed both in terms of gender and race, which has led to an educational gap in the field between white males and minority and female students.

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