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“FAIR Health is a national independent, not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to bring transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information through comprehensive data products and consumer resources. FAIR Health uses its database of billions of billed medical and dental services to power a free website that enables consumers to estimate and plan their medical …
First Line of Defense Is Lowering Risk, Even When Genetics Isn’t on Your Side: “Here’s the good news: Heart disease and its consequences are largely preventable. The bad news is that nearly one million Americans will suffer a heart attack this year. Deaths from coronary heart disease in the U.S. have been cut by 75% …
“The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into …
Hospitals’ Geographic Expansion in Quest of Well-Insured Patients: Will the Outcome be Better Care, More Cost, or Both?, April 2012 Health Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 4 – Emily Carrier, Marisa K. Dowling, Robert A. Berenson “The emphasis that hospitals place on cutting-edge technology and niche specialty services to attract physicians and patients has set the …
2012 Federal Media and Marketing Study Overview, April 12, 2012, Fourth Annual Release “Knowing where and how to reach senior decision-makers at civilian and defense agencies is a vital component to every marketing effort aimed at the federal government. This popular syndicated study combines actual media usage of mid- to senior-level federal decision makers with …
The Wealth Report 2012, Knight Frank, April 2012 “Never before have wealth creation, economic risk and politics been so closely intertwined with the performance of prime residential and commercial property markets. Drawing on insight from Knight Frank, Citi Private Bank and other leading commentators, The Wealth Report 2012 pulls together all these strands and explains …
News release: “Two years after opening its vast storehouse of data to the public, the World Bank is consolidating more than 2,000 books, articles, reports and research papers in a search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, and allowing the public to distribute, reuse and build upon much of its workincluding commercially. The repository, launched today, is …
2012 Faculty Salary Survey – Interactive Database – How much 1,251 colleges paid their faculty members Analysis: Reframing the Salary Debate – Professors pay barely budged this year. Is it time to stop blaming salaries for the rising cost of college?
Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of open access: “Besides strengthening capacities to adopt Open Access (OA) and to serve as a clearing-house on global OA debate, the 187th session of the Executive Board identified provision of upstream policy advice as the core priority while approving the Open Access Strategy on UNESCOs contribution to …
Mysteries of Killer Whales Uncovered in the Antarctic, by fen Montaigne: “Two of the worlds leading experts on the worlds top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing a creature whose remarkably cooperative hunting behavior and transmission of knowledge across generations may be rivaled only by humans.”
“Our program is a collaboration between life scientists at the University of Missouri at Columbia and faculty members in the School of Journalism. We pay students to work in research laboratories and develop independent research projects, and, at the same time, we train them in journalistic and communication techniques. Participating students produce blogs, news articles, …
The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work – Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD – Organisational Behavior; Mark Stein, University of Leicester School of Management. March 28, 2012 “This paper employs a psychodynamic perspective to examine the development and maintenance of a leader’s identity, building on the premise that such identity work involves both conscious and …
