Antibiotics are often over-prescribed and misused, leading to a global threat of antibiotic resistance. But in a new study, researchers say they’re a step closer to developing a rapid blood test that distinguishes between viral and bacterial respiratory infections, which would mean more accurate antibiotic prescriptions.
Duke University researchers described in Science Translational Medicine a simple blood test that within an hour could alert a doctor whether antibiotics are truly necessary. The test, while still in the early development stages, measures an infected person’s genetic reaction to a microbe.
“Considering the huge vacuum and the void in helping doctors make decisions about antibiotic use, just about any kind of test is an improvement over what’s currently available,” said Dr. Ephraim Tsalik, assistant professor of medicine at Duke University.
Currently, around 50 percent of antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections may be unnecessary, according to the American College of Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Monday, 13 July 2015
differencebetween.com
Life is full of choices to make, so are the differences. Differences are the identity of a person or any item.
Throughout our life we have to make number of choices. To make the right choice we need to know what makes one different from the other.
We know that making the right choice is the hardest task we face in our life and we will never be satisfied with what we chose, we tend to think the other one would have been better. We spend a lot of time on making decision between A and B.
And the information that guide us to make the right choice should be unbiased, easily accessible, freely available, no hidden agendas and have to be simple and self explanatory, while adequately informative. Information is everything in decision making. That’s where differencebetween.com comes in. We make your life easy by guiding you to distinguish the differences between anything and everything, so that you can make the right choices.
Whatever the differences you want to know, be it about two people, two places, two items, two concepts, two technologies or whatever it is, we have the answer. We have not confined ourselves in to limits. We have a very wide collection of information, that are diverse, unbiased and freely available. In our analysis we try to cover all the areas such as what is the difference, why the difference and how the difference affect.
What we do at DifferenceBetween.com, We team up with selected academics, subject matter experts and script writers across the world to give you the best possible information in differentiating any two items.
Easy Search: We have added search engine for viewers to go direct to the topic they are searching for, without browsing page by page.
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Throughout our life we have to make number of choices. To make the right choice we need to know what makes one different from the other.
We know that making the right choice is the hardest task we face in our life and we will never be satisfied with what we chose, we tend to think the other one would have been better. We spend a lot of time on making decision between A and B.
And the information that guide us to make the right choice should be unbiased, easily accessible, freely available, no hidden agendas and have to be simple and self explanatory, while adequately informative. Information is everything in decision making. That’s where differencebetween.com comes in. We make your life easy by guiding you to distinguish the differences between anything and everything, so that you can make the right choices.
Whatever the differences you want to know, be it about two people, two places, two items, two concepts, two technologies or whatever it is, we have the answer. We have not confined ourselves in to limits. We have a very wide collection of information, that are diverse, unbiased and freely available. In our analysis we try to cover all the areas such as what is the difference, why the difference and how the difference affect.
What we do at DifferenceBetween.com, We team up with selected academics, subject matter experts and script writers across the world to give you the best possible information in differentiating any two items.
Easy Search: We have added search engine for viewers to go direct to the topic they are searching for, without browsing page by page.
Visit the website
Friday, 24 May 2013
Emerging trends in urban informatics
City administrators are using technology to help them better deliver services, improve planning processes, and increase public engagement.
In their efforts to manage cities more effectively and efficiently, many local administrations are turning to “urban informatics”—the use of information and communications technology to better understand metropolitan needs, challenges, and opportunities. Recently, we conducted research, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, to determine which applications of urban informatics were being piloted around the world and what type of impact these efforts were having. We reviewed the published literature on the subject and interviewed more than 65 people in city government, academia, and the technology industry. Based on our analysis of 200 deployments, we have grouped these applications into three general categories:
Using existing city data to improve service delivery;
Building new data for better operational and planning decisions; and
Increasing public engagement to improve problem solving.
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In their efforts to manage cities more effectively and efficiently, many local administrations are turning to “urban informatics”—the use of information and communications technology to better understand metropolitan needs, challenges, and opportunities. Recently, we conducted research, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, to determine which applications of urban informatics were being piloted around the world and what type of impact these efforts were having. We reviewed the published literature on the subject and interviewed more than 65 people in city government, academia, and the technology industry. Based on our analysis of 200 deployments, we have grouped these applications into three general categories:
Using existing city data to improve service delivery;
Building new data for better operational and planning decisions; and
Increasing public engagement to improve problem solving.
Download the whitepaper
Monday, 26 November 2012
Seven Little-known Ways to Sell Your Ideas
If an idea is good, it will be bought, right? Wrong. The world is not as Kant desired it and humans are not perfectly rational.
The reality of decision-making is that it isn’t based solely on the facts. Sure, decision-makers will ask for all the data they can get their hands on, will weigh the pros and cons, and they will look at the trade-offs, but when it comes down to call-time, other non-rational reasons come into play. And that makes persuading people more an art than a science.
No other member of the business class is possibly more aware of this than the CIO. That’s thanks to the nature of IT and IT projects. IT projects bring significant—and often frequent—changes to large swathes of the enterprise, making change management among the most important skills for IT leaders.
Also, in many organizations, especially those in which IT is seen as an enabler, the CIO needs to dip into the budgets of other departments to build a CRM, for example—but has to convince business owners to spend their money in a way that IT wants. And even in companies where IT departments do have sizable budgets of their own, it needs to be spent—and justified to the top brass—on projects that are hard to sell like security, consolidation, or IT staff training.
CIOs also have possibly the most number of audiences to convince, compared to their peer group—often with the least authority. “There are at least five categories of people that IT leaders have to convince,” says Anuragi Raman, associate director, BPEX deployment leader and head-IT at Motilal Oswal Securities.
They could, for instance, be a business peer who proposes a less-than-visionary way of getting business intelligence, but whose budget a CIO needs to spend. (It might be their money and their project, but it’s your IT architecture.) Or a chief executive who doesn’t want to release funds to fight off a security threat he doesn’t think is serious. Or it could be the hundreds of staffers who refuse to use a new ERP; a vendor who won’t budge; a business partner, like a dealer, who won’t align his systems to yours.
To coax the crowd, CIOs have picked up tricks you won’t find in business manuals. Sometimes their advice can seem completely counter-intuitive. Take this for example: To sell your ideas you need to avoid a decision and the decision-maker. Or you mustn’t be passionate about your ideas. Or how it’s okay to be politically incorrect, because if you want to watch your ideas spin into shape, like a jar on a potter’s wheel, you need to get your hands in the clay.
Here are seven little-known win-over ideas you won’t find in management books, lessons that aren’t celebrated in public forums, but rather exchanged in hushed whispers from one CIO to another.
Don’t Present
Skip the Decision Maker
Fear Isn’t the Key. Envy Is
Remember, Politics is Part of the Game
Tame Your Passion
Don’t Seek a Decision
Don’t Give Everyone the Same Story
Friday, 5 October 2012
Info-graphics: A buyer's guide to cloud apps
This infographic (courtesy of Veracode) offers a snapshot of the cloud application market, the primary purchasing decisions that must be addressed, and a general feel for the data protection issues that concern would-be buyers.
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Steve Jobs' 7 Key Decisions
When Steve Jobs officially returned to Apple 15 years ago, it marked a moment of rebirth for the ailing company. Within eight months (September 17, 1997, to be exact), he assumed the mantle of Interim CEO (later abbreviated to "iCEO" for cuteness) and executed a stark and keen strategy to save Apple from oblivion.
Almost a year after his untimely passing, it's a good time to look back at seven key moves Jobs made to right the Apple ship during his early days as iCEO.
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Big Data: The Management Revolution
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” There’s much wisdom in that saying, which has been attributed to both W. Edwards Deming and Peter Drucker, and it explains why the recent explosion of digital data is so important. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance.
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