What Attracts People to the Life Sciences Industry, and What Motivates Them to Stay?

Life Sciences is seen as a hub for innovation and an industry that is working to improve the world by creating products to eradicate major diseases and improve the lives of people. One major technology company is a part of this rapidly growing industry that even in tough economic conditions provides a lot of scope for growth and development. This growth is driven, in part, by expanded consumer access to health care in the US through the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Health care spending is expected to increase on average 4.9% during 2014-2018. Growth is also expected in other parts of the world, like Asia, Australia, Middle East, and Africa. This company faces challenges from competitors. As a result of mergers and consolidations between customers, this company\u27s customer base could become even more concentrated. In order to stay ahead of its competitors, this Fortune 500 company needs to spur innovation and attract and retain the best talent

The effect of visual impairment on quality of life of children aged 3-16 years

Background: It is well known that visual impairment (VI) has a detrimental effect on Quality of Life (QoL) in adults. Little is known about the effects of VI in childhood. Aims: To evaluate the effects of VI on QoL of children. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study containing a comparison arm for children with VI. Methods: QoL in children with VI (n¼24, age 10.1362.89, 18 male, 6 female) was compared with an age-matched comparison group (n¼24, age 9.8362.81, 18 male, 6 female) using the Low Vision Quality of Life Questionnaire. Factors (distance and near visual acuity and age) that could be used as predictors of QoL were assessed. These were measured with standard clinical tests. Results: Children with VI had significantly lower QoL scores than the comparison group (p<0.001), resulting in a 35.6% reduction in total QoL score. QoL scores in children with VI were correlated with distance and near visual acuity (p<0.05). 38% of the variance could be predicted by these factors and age. Conclusions: Consideration of the effects of this reduced QoL must be made. Further studies are needed to establish the benefit to QoL of different habilitation strategies

Primordial Magnetic Fields in the Post-recombination Era and Early Reionization

We explore the ways in which primordial magnetic fields influence the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination universe. After recombination the universe becomes mostly neutral resulting also in a sharp drop in the radiative viscosity. Primordial magnetic fields can then dissipate their energy into the intergalactic medium (IGM) via ambipolar diffusion and, for small enough scales, by generating decaying MHD turbulence. These processes can significantly modify the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination universe. We show that the dissipation effects of magnetic fields which redshifts to a present value $B_{0}=3\times 10^{-9}$ Gauss smoothed on the magnetic Jeans scale and below, can give rise to Thomson scattering optical depths \tau \ga 0.1, although not in the range of redshifts needed to explain the recent WMAP polarization observations. We also study the possibility that primordial fields could induce the formation of subgalactic structures for z \ga 15. We show that early structure formation induced by nano-Gauss magnetic fields is potentially capable of producing the early re-ionization implied by the WMAP data. Future CMB observations will be very useful to probe the modified ionization histories produced by primordial magnetic field evolution and constrain their strength.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, Minor changes to match version accepted in MNRA

How Do You Shift From a Siloed System to Portfolio Solutions?

As a result of the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, hospitals have changed the way they operate. This in turn has caused companies across the healthcare and devices sector to adapt their business models to cope with this change, resulting in changes to the organizational structure with an emphasis on improved collaboration across verticals, advancing innovative solutions faster and finding new markets for products. We believe technology and improving the diversity within R&D teams can help transform organizations, and help them achieve their business goals

Evolving turbulence and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters

We discuss, using simple analytical models and MHD simulations, the origin and parameters of turbulence and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Three physically distinct regimes can be identified in the evolution of cluster turbulence and magnetic fields. Firstly, the fluctuation dynamo will produce microgauss-strong, random magnetic fields during cluster formation and major mergers. Turbulent velocity of about 300 km/s can be maintained at scales 100-200 kpc. The magnetic field is intermittent, has a smaller scale of 20-30 kpc and average strength of 2 microgauss. Secondly, when major mergers end, turbulent speed and magnetic field undergo a power-law decay, decreasing in strength but increasing in scale by a factor of about two. Thirdly, smaller-mass subclusters and cluster galaxies produce turbulent wakes, with turbulent speeds and magnetic field strengths similar to those quoted above. The velocity scales are about 200 kpc and 10 kpc respectively, and the magnetic field scale is about 6 times smaller. Although these wakes may fill only a small fraction of the cluster volume, their area covering factor can be close to unity. So one can potentially reconcile observations that indicate the coexistence of turbulence with ordered filamentary gas structures, as in the Perseus cluster. Random Faraday rotation measure is estimated to be typically 100-200 rad/m^2, in agreement with observations. We predict detectable synchrotron polarization from cluster radio halos at wavelengths 3-6 cm, if observed at sufficiently high resolution (abridged).Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, Replaced to match version accepted by MNRA