News tagged with retraining
Colleges expand summer sessions
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Summer session -- once a relatively small piece of the academic calendar -- is now a full-blown term for most colleges and universities, with more offerings, more students and more of an expectation that you can't graduate ...
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Pilot program helps boost seniors' activity levels, quality of life
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Older adults often carry a deeply ingrained belief that inactive, sedentary lives are an inevitable part of aging. But this mindset is not just wrong, it can be changed — with positive physical and mental health results.
Study: IT outages cost business thousands
Mar 13, 2006 |
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A new study on network downtime concludes that crashes can cost medium-sized businesses a full 1 percent of their annual revenues.
Expert says layoffs could worsen economic woes
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Widespread layoffs that stem corporate financial losses but leave workers out in the cold would deepen the looming recession that sparked them, a University of Illinois labor expert warns.
Little lifesavers -- kids capable of CPR
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Nine-year-olds can and should learn CPR. A study of 147 schoolchildren, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care, has shown that, although the smallest may lack the requisite strength, the knowledge of how ...
Helping hands
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In capstone project, mechanical engineering students apply innovative and collaborative skills to create a rehab glove that stroke patients can use at home
Most inactive physicians retain licenses, return to practice without competency review
Jan 27, 2009 |
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One in eight physicians have been inactive in the state where they are licensed for at least a year, and most states do not require them to undergo competency tests or retraining when they return to actively practicing medicine.
4 in 10 US families lack money for essential household expenses when unemployed
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Today the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University's Heller School released a new research and policy brief which reports that four in ten U.S. families lack sufficient assets to pay for essential ...
Team to Establish a Renewable Hydrogen Fueling Station
Apr 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Glenn Research Center is leading a team of industry and university partners in demonstrating a prototype of a commercial hydrogen fueling station that uses wind and solar power to produce hydrogen from water. This ...
New working-class task force faces broad challenges, labor expert says
Feb 17, 2009 |
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A task force launched by President Obama to boost America's middle class will have to help retool beleaguered U.S. workplaces facing their most sweeping changes since World War II, a University of Illinois labor expert says.
Falls, depression and antidepressants in later life
Jun 18, 2008 |
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Older people are at high risk for falls and subsequent injuries. Those who have depression have an increased risk of falls and the medications they take for depression increase their risk even more, New Zealand and Australian ...
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