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The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) invites journalists and print, online and broadcast news outlets to submit content to be considered for the 2023 Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence (MORE) Awards.

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Hosted by Chulalongkorn University the APRU APEC University Leaders' Forum 2022 is the first post-pandemic in-person APEC meeting held to foster high-level dialogue between CEOs, policy leaders, university presidents, and top researchers. This event begins Nov 15 at 9 PM EST.

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Ochsner Health has been recognized by The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry as a Workforce Innovator

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New research from the University of Notre Dame shows for the first time that the sourcing strategy chosen by hospitals impacts the quality of patient care. When hospitals move closer to a single-sourcing strategy, patients receive better evidence-based care.

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A research collaboration between Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers the first estimates of the economic value contributed by food pantries, and finds it is substantial – worth up to $1,000 annually to participating families and as much as $28 billion nationwide.

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Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine today presented the initial design plans for the on-campus building project named in honor of Henrietta Lacks, the Baltimore County woman whose cells have advanced medicine around the world, during an Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel meeting for Baltimore City Planning.

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University of Maryland marketing expert Jie Zhang explains why retailers don’t have high hopes for bright sales numbers this holiday shopping season.

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With inflation at a 40-year high and an economy that is growing at a sluggish pace, concerns about a recession are real. But it may be avoided if consumer spending continues to persist and if more workers enter the labor force, according to a forecast released today by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

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Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have found that Northern Ireland is the poorest performing UK region for productivity, with a productivity gap of 17% to the UK level.

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Factory workers in apparel supply chains are more likely to quit due to wage and benefit violations, relative to violations of other code provisions, such as environment protection and safety standards, according to new Cornell University ILR School research.

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Managers need to make a consistent impression in order to motivate and inspire people, and that applies even more to video communication than to other digital channels. That is the result of a study by researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They investigated the influence that charismatic leadership tactics used in text, audio and video communication channels have on employee performance. They focused on mobile work and the gig economy, in which jobs are flexibly assigned to freelancers via online platforms. The results of the study have been published in The Leadership Quarterly. (DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101631)

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Changing the wording about expiration dates on perishable food items – which is currently unregulated and widely variable – could help reduce food waste, according to a new Cornell University-led study.

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Uncertainty is bad for business; however, it can be mitigated by trade agreements which help countries become more resilient to economic shocks, according to a new University of California School of Global Policy and Strategy study.

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Online review platforms leave freelancers in fear of their future income

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An Arizona State University business professor examines how a new law in the United Kingdom deals with gender pay gap, and whether it can benefit the American workforce.

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For the first time ever, Lincoln’s Corsair SUV takes the top spot of the Kogod Made in America Auto Index. The luxury SUV replaces the Ford Mustang 5.0-liter by jumping 44 spots from its ranking in 2021. Last year, the Corsair had a 25 percent U.S./Canadian content and a foreign-sourced engine.

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Going public does not cause firms to underinvest compared to their private counterparts, shows research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

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The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC).

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A new grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University will fund the collaborative development of community-based programs to increase local production and consumption of fruits and vegetables in the Mississippi Delta.

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Researchers found high-end hotels often post more fake, positive reviews about themselves and less negative reviews about other hotels when they face greater competition from Airbnb. This shift toward “co-opetition instead of tit-for-tat" creates inflated ratings.

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University of Pittsburgh, Wexford Science & Technology partner to breathe new life of environmental sustainability into 100-year-old-plus Ford plant.

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Michael Johnson, professor of management in the University of Washington Foster School of Business, found in a new study that groups that used “multivoting” in unofficial votes were 50% more likely to identify the correct option than those that used plurality or ranked-choice voting.

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Binghamton University Philosophy Professor Nicole Hassoun considers the global health responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies, and makes the case for a new kind of ethical investment in public health.

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ASU business professor says cyber adversaries will look to midterm elections to stir the pot with voters, with most of the hyperbolic chatter coming from malicious bots spreading racism and hate on social media and in the comments section on news sites.