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Lab managers have a responsibility to see that appropriated funds are used wisely and in accordance with their laboratories' business goals.
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Due diligence in purchasing requires an investment in time and resources to manage risk and obtain the most value for the money. This requires some oversight of the actual buying cycle and is not a trivial task. How complicated is the process at your
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It seems as if we've been preparing for this recession for two or three years, constantly predicting it and staving it off as long as we could, all the while listening to the media tell us that it was just around the corner. And now that it is here -we're witnessing a new media-inspired cottage industry building up around the "down economy" and the bad times that are upon us and that lie ahead.
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An EMS is an important part of laboratory activities and demonstrates a commitment to environmental stewardship and compliance with standards and regulations
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Learn at Lunch is a way to get more training done by making the lunch hour multi-tasking.
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Scientific research may not have made Health Magazine's top-10 list of the most stressful jobs, but most scientists experience considerable stress--especially early in their careers when an unsuccessful proposal or insufficient research productivity
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He also said, "We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do."
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In Barrack Obama's inaugural address, he pledged to "restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost."
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As companies struggle to stay afloat in the current economic climate, they must cut expenses any way they can, including making reductions to employee headcount.
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Eliminating the risk of cross-contamination in pharmaceutical production areas, R&D labs, cleanrooms, and support areas includes effective methods for hand sanitization.
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Invention is "new technology that really changes things, that is radical disruption," explains Dr. Lienhard. One reason for this disruption is that invention is cumulative, as noted by Merton Flemings, director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, a nonprofi
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"Invention and innovation are quite different things," declares Dr. Lienhard, emeritus professor of technology and culture at the University of Houston. To promote invention, a lab manager has to devise methods of instilling a sense of freedom in the research staff.
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