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This article, titled "HOW TRUST SAVED KFC," discusses how the former CEO of Yum! Brands turned around a struggling Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) by focusing on building trust. When he took over as president of KFC in 1994, the company was facing declining sales and a broken franchise system. By adopting Theory Y leadership, which believes in trusting employees and their positive intentions, the CEO was able to rebuild trust with franchisees and turn the business around. The article emphasizes the importance of trust in fostering collaboration, innovation, and positive relationships in various contexts, including business and sports. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the need for conservatives to redefine virtue within a shared moral vision that reflects American traditions and culture. Topics discussed include the decline of religious influence on American life; the challenges posed by secular elites to conservative values; and the necessity for a coherent conservative response that emphasizes obligations and community over individual rights.

The article focuses on American author Oren Cass's proposal for a shared moral vision in society that blends both religious and secular perspectives, arguing that such a vision can be grounded in the traditions and character of the nation. Topics include the role of religion in providing moral norms; the critique of relying solely on secular arguments for morality; and the necessity of recognizing the metaphysical dimension of human existence that ties moral obligations to a higher source.

'Your life is too important to leave your growth to chance.' David Novak, co-founder and former CEO of Yum! Brands, and Jason Goldsmith, sports performance coach, have both dedicated their [...]

Joseph I. Lieberman LET ME BEGIN my answer to Commentary's question with some very good news. Fifty years from now, and, for that matter, 500 years from now and 5,000 [...]

The article focuses on the intersection of Jewish and Christian thought through Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's perspectives. Topics include the apparent contradiction in Soloveitchik's stance on Jewish-Christian dialogue, the common ground between Jewish and Catholic norms concerning legalism, and the parallelism in religious practices and laws between Judaism and Catholicism.

Damaged bearings lead to downtime and lost productivity. Find out how to prevent the damage before it's too late. The top bearing 'killers,' or causes of damage and premature end [...]

Background: The Internet has become a common venue for meeting sex partners and planning participation in risky sexual behavior. In this article, we evaluate the first 18 months of the Washington, DC, Department of Health Internet-based Partner Notification (IPN) program for early syphilis infections, using the standard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Disease Investigation Specialist (DIS) disposition codes, as well as Washington, DC, Department of Health's IPN-specific outcomes for pseudonymous partners. Methods: We analyzed DIS disposition codes and IPN-specific outcomes from all early syphilis investigations initiated January 2007-June 2008. Internet partners were defined as sex partners for whom syphilis exposure notification was initiated by e-mail because no other locating information existed. If the e-mails resulted in additional locating information, we used the standard CDC disposition codes. Alternatively, the following IPN-specific outcomes were used: Informed of Syphilis Exposure, Informed of General STD Exposure, Not Informed or Unable to Confirm Receipt of General STD Exposure. Results: From the 361 early syphilis patients, a total of 888 sex partners were investigated, of which 381 (43%) were via IPN. IPN led to an 8% increase in the overall number of syphilis patients with at least one treated sex partner, 26% more sex partners being medically examined and treated if necessary, and 83% more sex partners notified of their STD exposure. Conclusions: IPN augmented traditional syphilis case management and aided in the location, notification, testing, and treatment of partners. Conversely, without IPN, these 381 partners would not have been investigated. DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181e212cb

Background: The purpose of this project was to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Boston area who had been sexually active (oral and/or anal sex) with another male within the past year. Methods: Over a 1-month period (March 2007), asymptomatic MSM in care at a Boston community health center (n = 114) were screened for gonorrhea and chlamydia using the BD ProbeTec technique. Deidentified medical record data were analyzed and linked to prevalence monitoring results. Results: Eleven percent of the sample tested positive for one of the 2 STDs (gonorrhea or chlamydia) from at least one mucosal site. Individuals who were infected with an STD were considerably more likely to have a prior history of one or more STD infections when compared with those without an STD history (OR = 3.69; P Conclusions: Screening asymptomatic MSM using nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) revealed a substantial STD burden that might not have been diagnosed using traditional assays. These data are critical for the design of effective public health interventions for this population.

Objectives: This study assessed the acceptability and perceived utility of Internet-based partner notification (PN) of sexually transmitted disease (STD) exposure for men who have sex with men (MSM) by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serostatus. Study Design: We recruited 1848 US MSM via a banner advertisement posted on an MSM website for meeting sexual partners between October and November 2005. Results: Even though there was broad acceptance of a PN e-mail across HIV serostatus groups, HIV-infected men rated the importance of each component (e.g., information about where to get tested/treated, additional education regarding the STD exposed to, a mechanism for verifying the authenticity of the PN e-mail) lower than HIV-uninfected or status-unknown participants (all P's Conclusions: Overall, this study documents broad acceptance of Internet PN by at-risk MSM, regardless of HIV serostatus, including a willingness to receive or initiate PN-related e-mail. If public health officials consider using Internet notification services, they may need to anticipate and address concerns of HIV-infected MSM, and will need to use a culturally-sensitive, social marketing campaign to ensure that those who may benefit from these services are willing to use this modality for PN. Internet PN should be considered as a tool to decrease rising STD and HIV rates among MSM who use the Internet to meet sexual partners.

The Internet is resplendent with technologies well developed from a computing perspective but incompletely applied from an information/library perspective. Consider field searching. The role of field searching in quality assessment [...]

It has taken me several years to grasp just how vast a gulf lies between searching and researching the Internet. Searching the Internet is computer science. We practice our understanding [...]

The author discusses the experience of shaking hand with American Minister Martin Luther King and mentions that King was honored for collaboration with theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Topics discussed include question concerning calling moral law as the law of the God, efforts of communities resisted by faithful Christians and Jews to change the unchangeable law of God and man-made law judged through criterion of the law of God.

Many existing studies and models of supply chain resilience conceptualize resilience from the perspective of an equilibrium‐seeking focal firm or industry. The term “supply chain resilience” is often discussed as a dimension of firm resilience, as opposed to a standalone concept. In this context, resilience is defined according to how well a firm or industry can respond to a disruption while maintaining existing structures and processes and then “bounce back” to a pre‐disruption equilibrium or “bounce forward” to a new, presumably better, equilibrium in the shortest amount of time with the least cost. In this paper, we argue that equilibrium‐based conceptualizations of supply chain resilience can be misaligned with the notion of a supply chain as complex adaptive system (CAS) that continually adapts and transforms via autonomous actions of the different actors within the system. We offer suggestions on how practitioners and researchers can advance theory and practice by adopting a CASor complexity‐basedperspective on supply chain resilience. Specifically, we address the importance of scale and the challenges associated with mismatched scales.

We address how to manage extended supply chains that lie beyond the first‐tier suppliers. The first‐tier suppliers have their suppliers who provide them with goods or services. While lower‐tier suppliers are often not an explicit concern of the focal firm, the firm's performance not only depends on the performance of its first‐tier suppliers, but also on the performance of their suppliers and beyond. These lower‐tier suppliers are much less visible and may not even be known to the focal firm. Our intention is to bring awareness to the importance of these lower‐tier suppliers and capture possible strategies that buying companies may pursue to manage them. Extended supply chains are complex and involve evolving relationships between various buyers and suppliers that are located along different tiers of the chain and across different parts of the globe. We address several topic areas and suggest emerging research focuses that should be considered in coming years.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Patent Reform Act of 2007 (H.R. 1908; S. 1145) recently passed the House and is currently on the legislative calendar in the Senate. As with previous legislative [...]

The article offers information about how can companies turn problems into opportunities, along with explores overcoming challenges associated with employee retention. It mentions that several companies offer leadership development programs. It discusses the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the employment.

The article traces the historical origins of the local practice of listening to recordings in post-war Japanese 'kissaten' or coffeehouses and its impact on technological mediation in the transnational circulation of popular music. The 'kissaten' contributed to the development of virtuosic experimental practices of listening that enabled the reinterpretation of imported recordings.

The article offers information related to the role of Catholic Church in preserving the natural law. Topics discussed include natural law discourse and advocacy pursued only by members of the Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Jewish view of the moral law that binds Gentiles as well as Jews; and role of Roman Palestine in persecution of the Jews.

The article outlines the framework for Jewish-Christian dialogue related to supersessionism. It discusses how supersessionism describes the theological conviction that the Christian Church has superseded the Jewish people, assuming their role as God's covenanted people, Israel. It reports that supersessionism seems to be a core Christian belief, making any fruitful dialogue between Jews and Christians.

High-dimensional flow cytometry is the gold standard to study the human immune system in large cohorts. However, large sample sizes increase inter-experimental variation because of technical and experimental inaccuracies introduced by batch variability. Our high-throughput sample processing pipeline in combination with 28-color flow cytometry focuses on increased throughput (192 samples/experiment) and high reproducibility. We implemented quality control checkpoints to reduce technical and experimental variation. Finally, we integrated FlowSOM clustering to facilitate automated data analysis and demonstrate the reproducibility of our pipeline in a study with 3,357 samples. We reveal age-associated immune dynamics in 2,300 individuals, signified by decreasing T and B cell subsets with age. In addition, by combining genetic analyses, our approach revealed unique immune signatures associated with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that abrogates CD45 isoform splicing. In summary, we provide a versatile and reliable high-throughput, flow cytometry-based pipeline for immune discovery and exploration in large cohorts.

Martinsville 'I know this city well, and I wouldn't live anywhere else.' This quote might seem biased, considering it came from the mayor of the Morgan County seat. But you [...]

NORTHWEST INDIANA Commercial In-Sites, a Merrillville real-estate company, reports a 4 percent vacancy rate in the Glass A office building market in southern lake County--quite an accomplishment compared to Chicago's [...]

From O Great One! by David Novak with Christa Bourg. Copyright © 2016 by the authors. Published by Portfolio/Penguin (www.penguin.com). OGO--short for O Great One--is the name my grandkids have [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Domestic and global commerce would be seriously curtailed and perhaps even come to an abrupt halt without third-party logistics providers (3PLs) and freight forwarders to ensure that goods [...]

Recognizing the behaviors you want and those you don't is essential to keeping your people on track toward achieving your Big Goal. It's important to do this formally, with things [...]

The rapid growth of unstructured data, commonly denoted as the Big Data challenge, requires new technologies that are capable of dealing with complex data objects such as multimedia. In this work, the authors focus on the content-based retrieval approach, which is able to organize such data by exploiting the similarity of data content. In particular, they focus on solutions that are able to combine multiple similarity measures during the query evaluation. The authors introduce a classification of existing approaches and analyze their performance in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability. Further, they present a novel technique of inherent fusion that combines the efficiency of fast indexed retrieval with the effectiveness of ranking methods. The performance of all discussed methods is evaluated by extensive experiments with user participation.

Roadway snow and ice control (RSIC) operations can account for as much as 10% of the annual budget of a state’s department of transportation (DOT) in the snowbelt of the United States. Important considerations for planning RSIC operations are the locations and quantities of surface treatment materials. This study examined the use of satellite salt facilities (SSFs) and developed a novel, real-world approach for locating SSFs. The paper demonstrates a method for ranking the effectiveness of individual SSFs in their reduction of the distance that vehicles must travel to reload salt. The approach is demonstrated with the federal aid roadway network for the state of Vermont, and a locally optimal SSF location is identified for each of the existing service territories in the state. The results of an informal survey of satellite salt-siting practices among snowbelt DOTs are also reported. A critical aspect to siting new SSFs is the ability to use existing right-of-way around Interstates; survey respondents noted the need to explore public–private partnerships with landowners adjacent to the state highway right-of-way who may be willing to sell or lease small portions of cleared land for use as SSFs. From the survey information, the study compared a smaller set of ready-to-use SSF locations (with adequate right-of-way) with the locally optimized SSF locations.

Stigmatizing social environments (of which ‘structural stigma’ is one component) negatively affect health-related outcomes. However, few studies have examined structural stigma related to sexual minority status as a risk factor for HIV outcomes among MSM.

Up to 25 of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients eventually develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a disease with poor prognosis unless detected early. This study identifies a blood-based RNA biomarker panel for early HCC detection in CHB.

On Oct. 28, 1965, the Pope Paul VI, 'the servant of the servants of God,' along with the 'fathers of the sacred council for everlasting memory,' proclaimed In Our Times, [...]

Sit, bounce, relieve back pain. It's that easy. Or is it? IT LOOKS LIKE A FUTURISTIC BAR STOOL, BUT Aeris USA's Swapper has far more serious ambitions. According to the [...]

The general trend in data management is to outsource data to 3rd party systems that would provide data retrieval as a service. This approach naturally brings privacy concerns about the (potentially sensitive) data. Recently, quite extensive research has been done on privacy-preserving outsourcing of traditional exact-match and keyword search. However, not much attention has been paid to outsourcing of similarity search, which is essential in content-based retrieval in current multimedia, sensor or scientific data. In this paper, the authors propose a scheme of outsourcing similarity search. They define evaluation criteria for these systems with an emphasis on usability, privacy and efficiency in real applications. These criteria can be used as a general guideline for a practical system analysis and we use them to survey and mutually compare existing approaches. As the main result, the authors propose a novel dynamic similarity index EM-Index that works for an arbitrary metric space and ensures data privacy and thus is suitable for search systems outsourced for example in a cloud environment. In comparison with other approaches, the index is fully dynamic (update operations are efficient) and its aim is to transfer as much load from clients to the server as possible.

Cyclopentenediones (CPDs) are secondary metabolites of higher plants, fungi, algae, cyanobacteria and bacteria. A common denominator of CPDs is the cyclopent-4-ene-1,3-dione skeleton (1), which is modified by several functional groups. The heterogeneity of these substitutions is reflected in around one hundred CPDs reported to date. Most of the derivatives were isolated primarily from plant sources. Synthetic analogues were then prepared with new biological activities and more interesting pharmacological potential. Antifungal substances called coruscanones (2, 3) are the most studied of the CPDs. Other intensely investigated CPDs include lucidone (4), linderone (5), asterredione (6), involutone (7), nostotrebin 6 (8), TX-1123 (9), G2201-C (10), madindolines (11, 12) and many others. In addition to antibacterial and antifungal effects, a broad spectrum of biological activities for CPDs has been reported in the past two decades, especially anti-inflammatory, cytostatic and specific enzyme inhibitory activities. The CPD skeleton has been identified in a number of substances isolated from the plant kingdom; hence, CPDs can be referred to as a new group of natural bioactive substances. The main goal of this review is to define CPDs with respect to basic chemistry, isolation, synthetic approaches and description of their biological effects. Special attention is given to a detailed view into biological activities of CPDs in vitro and their phamacological potential.

The article looks at proselytization, or attempting to covert another individual, in Judaism. It discusses Jewish missionaries, as the author reflects on the responsibilities of Jews to spread knowledge about their fair and also comments on Secular Jews. A comparison of covenant and mission in Judaism and Christianity is presented in addition to an exploration of Jewish response to Christian attempts to convert Jews, Jewish views on Gentiles, and religious communities.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one related to motorcycles in Bali, one related to the television guide in the periodical and one related to the retirement announcement by motorcycle racer Casey Stoner.

The article profiles Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a Jewish leader who died in 1994. Some books written about Schneerson are "The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson," by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman and "Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menachem Mendel Schneerson," by Elliot Wolfson. He was born in 1902 and became a rabbi in 1928. When he became the Lubavitcher rebbe, he reportedly expanded the outreach to bring about the arrival of the Messiah.