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WennSoft announces an asset acquisition from Ensemble, LLC of Littleton Colorado. The solution has been privately labeled as “Service Estimator” and offered as part of WennSoft Signature® for over a year. New Berlin, Wisconsin (PRWEB) March 14, 2013 WennSoft announces an asset acquisition from Ensemble, LLC of Littleton Colorado. The solution has been privately labeled as “Service Estimator” and offered as part of WennSoft Signature® for over a year. It will now be...
NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "Succession is the ultimate test of a board of directors, and the board's role is to create certainty in uncertain times," says Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group, a leadership coach who has worked with hundreds of global boards, CEOs and candidates, on issues of leadership, CEO selection, and transition. "Battlefield promotions - and that is what the promotion of Michael Corbat at Citi seems to be - signal a lack of continuity and can...
The research will be presented today [Thursday 7 July] at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Academic Primary Care, hosted this year by the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol. The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (NSPCR).Dr Susannah Fleming and colleagues used a dataset containing heart rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation measurements from 873 children, and assessed the severity...
Many different aspects are involved in predicting high water and floods, such as the type of precipitation, wind, buildings and vegetation. The greater the number of variables included in predictive models, the better the prediction will be. However, the models will inevitably become increasingly more complex. PhD student from Delft Steven Weijs uses basic insight from the information theory (Shannon's Information Theory) to demonstrate the cohesion between this added complexity, the...
New research from North Carolina State University shows that most online news stories about cancer contain language that likely contributes to public uncertainty about the disease "“ a significant finding, given that at least one-third of Americans seek health information online."Previous studies show that more than 100 million Americans seek health information online, and that their findings affect their health decisions," says Dr. Kami Kosenko, an assistant professor of communication at...
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A new e-book, available free from No Map. No Guide. No Limits.(TM), offers entertaining storytelling, thought-provoking ideas, and practical advice on surviving--and thriving--in uncertain times and circumstances. In "Surviving Uncertainty: Taking a Hero's Journey," (ISBN: 978-1-4276-3955-4) adventure writer Lane Wallace applies what she's learned in the school of adventure to the broader school of life. Twenty years ago, Wallace left a...
By Amy Carlson Gustafson, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jul. 8--Forget brain rot. You can actually learn stuff while watching TV -- and we're not just talking about PBS or the Discovery Channel, either. In Jeff Alexander's new book, "A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television," the 38-year-old, who lives in Minneapolis with his wife and young son, reveals countless lessons learned watching TV. The book's 14 chapters include Saved by the Bell:...
Two Southern California engineers have created a mathematical theory of surprise, working from first principles of probability theory applied to a digital environment -- and the results of experiments recording eye movements of volunteers watching video seem to confirm it. Laurent Itti of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering and Pierre Baldi of the University of California Irvine's Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, will present their results December...
