12/27/2011· Business Consulting
Buying a Franchise: Some Tips for the Unwary
For many, the idea of owning your own business and being your own boss is alluring: you set your hours and you alone reap the rewards of your endeavors. Unfortunately, the road to success is often paved with many perils: employee costs continue to spiral as do the cost of goods; increased competition from other companies both here and abroad; more regulation from local, state and federal agencies; etc.
12/20/2011· Aquatics Safety
Working With EMS Can Enhance Your Rescuer Services
By: Gerald Dworkin
For aquatics facilities to effectively integrate rescue and safety services with those of the local fire and rescue agencies and emergency medical services (EMS), it's imperative that all agencies establish collaborative agreements and cooperative training programs.
12/12/2011· Psychology
The Key to Anger Management is Being Assertive
In today's world, anger management has become a necessary concept to understand and practice in order to effectively navigate the challenges of family, work, school and social life. It is commonly thought that managing angerinvolves not getting angry anymore.
12/9/2011· Animals
Screening Questions You Should Ask When Buying a Horse
By: Bridget Brandon
There are some very important preliminary questions you should always ask when buying a horse. These screening questions should be asked right up front. If at all possible, you should ask these questions initially on the phone prior to seeing the horse.
12/8/2011· Postal Services
Certified Mail, Certificate of Mailing, or IMb Barcode: What Does Each Service Provide?
By: Peter Wade
The United States Postal Service offers two services which document that a letter has been placed in the mail at a certain place on a certain date; Certified Mail and a Certificate of Mailing.
12/7/2011· Appraisal & Valuation
Automobile Appraisals: Insurance & Diminished Value
By: James Polk
Collectibles, Classics, and Custom vehicles have increased in value, it is very important to understand the correct value. Insuring a vehicle is the most common reason creating a need for an accurate valuation followed by, financing, buying, selling etc.
12/5/2011· Radiology
A Novel Phantom Model For Mouse Tumor Dose Assessment Under MV Beams
By: Michael Gossman, MS, DABR, RSO, et al
Abstract -- In order to determine a mouse's dose accurately and prior to engaging in live mouse radiobiological research, a tissue-equivalent tumor-bearing phantom mouse was constructed and bored to accommodate detectors. Comparisons were made among four different types of radiation detectors, each inserted into the mouse phantom for radiation measurement under a 6 MV linear accelerator beam.
12/1/2011· Engineering
Engineering: Your Internet Image Could Be Sabotaging Your Career
By: John Hoschette
With the wealth of knowledge available at the click of a mouse, the Internet is a wonderful tool that can really help accelerate your career. But have you ever stopped to consider what information about you might be available to others on the Internet?
11/29/2011· Eyewitness Testimony
In the Eye of the Beholder: Did the Witnesses Really See What They Think They Saw?
Consider this scenario: Your client is facing a long prison term, if convicted of a crime for which there is conflicting evidence. The prosecution is about to present an eyewitness. Eyewitnesses can be highly persuasive. Their manner, their emotional connection to jurors and their belief in their own testimony can sway a jury.
11/19/2011· Psychiatry
Monroe was the kind of child from whom usually little is expected therapeutically. A member of a disadvantaged ethnic minority, he lived in the poverty of a big-city slum ghetto...
