Investing in Entry-Level Talent

Even in today's competitive economic environment, there is much that companies can do to reduce entry-level turnover costs, increase employee engagement and retention, and create a talent pipeline for the future. Many companies pursue basic strategies to address turnover and promote advancement, such as offering competitive benefits and developing internal career paths. But our research found pioneering companies that are going beyond the basics and addressing turnover in remarkable ways. In examining the practices of these leading companies, we identified four strategies, outlined below, that markedly improve entry-level retention and advancement. This report is designed to share those strategies and practical suggestions for implementation with corporate leaders across the United States who are seeking to engage, retain, and advance their entry-level workforce

Semantic Annotation Of Product Safety Information

Due to an increasing number of regulatory restric- tions and a rising product complexity, compliance and safety management have become key issues for enterprises today. Besides the requirements to build safe products, documentation of safety compliance and in-use restrictions have to be archived and published by law. Some research projects have already tackled the problem of visually identifying hazards zones within virtual environments. Other approaches deal with the formal analysis of safety issues in expert systems for conformity checks. What is still missing is the bridge between visual representation and documentation. The virtual reality (VR) approaches do not support storage and processing of identified hazards, furthermore 3D models have to be prepared and converted to VR formats, which does not allow “online” analysis. Expert systems only cover an abstract, textual definition of hazard zones, which separates the safety domain from design. This paper describes a framework for “product safety information” to identify, track and document hazards and protective measures throughout the product life cycle. The underlying data model supports integration of geometric references into the safety information, similar to the use of product manufacturing information like GD&T

Evidence for a follicle stimulating hormone binding inhibitor (FSH-BI)

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Prioritisation of infectious diseases in public health: feedback on the prioritisation methodology, 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009

In 2004, the German public health institute, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), prioritised pathogens by public health criteria and presented the methodology and findings. In order to further improve the methodology, the RKI invited experts to give feedback on this via a structured web-based questionnaire. The survey was completed by 72 participants during 15 July 2008 to 15 January 2009. Prioritisation of pathogens was considered as useful for public health purposes by 68 participants and for both surveillance and epidemiological research by 64 participants. Additional pathogens were suggested, including some that are resistant to antimicrobials. The criteria incidence, severity, outbreak potential, emerging potential and preventability were each considered as useful or very useful for the prioritisation (by more than 65 participants for each criterion). Weighting of the criteria was judged as relevant or very relevant by 67 of participants, but needs more explanation. It was also suggested that the group carrying out the prioritisation be composed of a median of 15 experts (range: 5–1,000). The feedback obtained in the survey has been taken into account in the modification of the methodology for the next round of prioritisation, which started in December 2010

web cellHTS2: A web-application for the analysis of high-throughput screening data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The analysis of high-throughput screening data sets is an expanding field in bioinformatics. High-throughput screens by RNAi generate large primary data sets which need to be analyzed and annotated to identify relevant phenotypic hits. Large-scale RNAi screens are frequently used to identify novel factors that influence a broad range of cellular processes, including signaling pathway activity, cell proliferation, and host cell infection. Here, we present a web-based application utility for the end-to-end analysis of large cell-based screening experiments by cellHTS2.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The software guides the user through the configuration steps that are required for the analysis of single or multi-channel experiments. The web-application provides options for various standardization and normalization methods, annotation of data sets and a comprehensive HTML report of the screening data analysis, including a ranked hit list. Sessions can be saved and restored for later re-analysis. The web frontend for the cellHTS2 R/Bioconductor package interacts with it through an R-server implementation that enables highly parallel analysis of screening data sets. web cellHTS2 further provides a file import and configuration module for common file formats.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The implemented web-application facilitates the analysis of high-throughput data sets and provides a user-friendly interface. web cellHTS2 is accessible online at <url>http://web-cellHTS2.dkfz.de</url>. A standalone version as a virtual appliance and source code for platforms supporting Java 1.5.0 can be downloaded from the web cellHTS2 page. web cellHTS2 is freely distributed under GPL.</p

Prevalence of hicAB , lav , traA , and hifBC among Haemophilus influenzae middle ear and throat strains

Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an important cause of illness among children. To further understand the role of laterally transferred genes in NTHi colonization and otitis media, the prevalence of hicAB, lav , tna A, and hifBC was determined among 44 middle ear and 35 throat NTHi isolates by dot-blot hybridization.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73753/1/j.1574-6968.2007.00822.x.pd