Taking a bite out of a fellow worker helps wasps recruit new foragers
If you think you've got a bad boss, one who loves to chew people out, or if you work with backstabbing co-workers, be thankful you are not a wasp. If you were, chances are your nestmates might bite you to communicate that it is time to leave the nest and forage for the colony, according to research by a University of Washington animal behaviorist. Biting is a way that workers in a colony...'Empty nester' parent birds use recruitment calls to extend offspring care
By studying a habituated population of pied babblers (Turdoides bicolor) in the Kalahari Desert, researchers have discovered a surprising new way in which parent birds can extend the period of their care of offspring. The findings are reported by Andrew Radford of the University of Cambridge and Amanda Ridley of the University of Cape Town and appear in the September 5th issue of Current Biology,...Why and how you should befriend a tech recruiter
Everyone has to network, we argued, or at least everyone can benefit from an occasional networking outing. So heres the corollary: Whether...Companies recruiting more UW engineering students
This is the best hiring situation weve seen for [bachelor of science] students since 2001, said Susan Piacenza, associate director of . Fall 2004...OpGen recruits CEO to further gene-mapping business
I think Joe Shaw comes to OpGen with a good history of raising serious funds, and we hope he continues to do the same here, said <a target="blank" href="htt...New Web site makes recruiting from Wisconsin universities easier
MADISON - Companies in Wisconsin and beyond have been given a new Web-based tool that makes it easier to identify potential employees and interns among the graduates and students of Wisconsins universities and colleges. A new brings together the career services offices at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and provide...Testing For HIV/AIDS Compulsory For New Military Recruits
Terming the disease as "virus enemy number one", the Indian armed forces will make testing for HIV/AIDS compulsory for new recruits in all the three wings from Oct 1. "Today the armed forces considers the HIV virus enemy number one// and, therefore, AIDS/HIV testing for all new recruits to the navy, army and the air force will be made mandatory from Oct 1," said the Director General o...Indian Hospital Recruits UK Based Doctors
India’s Advanced Medicare and Research Institute (AMRI), in the city of Kolkata is engaged in recruiting UK trained doctors to cater to patients who travel from Britain to India for medical treatment.// The medical treatment available in India is reputed to be both low priced and fast. Some companies have been doing brisk business for the past few years arranging for the medical treatment...South Africa To Recruit Indian Nurses
A private hospital group in South Africa will be recruiting Indian nurses to overcome the shortage of staff the country faces. // Estelle Jordaan, Director of Nursing at Medi-Clinic, told the Afrikaans daily Beeld here that a team from the private hospital group would be leaving for India to start a selection process for 60 clinical nurses. These nurses are destined for a pilot proje...Pneumococcal Vaccine: Childhood Immunization Programme has a new recruit
The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has announced the introduction of the routine pneumococcal vaccine into the childhood immunization programme , with a motive to prevent children from falling ill, and thus saving many lives. // The pneumococcal infection, upon entering the blood stream, can cause health complications, as grave as meningitis, septicemia (blood poisoning) a...Move To Recruit Polish Dentists Questioned In Scotland
Dentists have come don heavily on the Polish recruitment scheme to beef up NHS and have termed it as a "short term fix." These comments were made even as ministers// welcomed the first 11 Polish dentists into the NHS, who will practice in Fife, Forth Valley and Argyll and Clyde.The Scottish Executive revealed that around 40 Poles have been recruited so far this year. The British Dental As...Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection
St. Jude Study Success in Using Virus Enzyme to Treat Mouse Modelof Acute Otitis Media Suggests that Nasal Spray Could Be Used toPrevent Both Ear Infection and Pneumonia in People with Influenza MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 22, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents might oneday give their children a weekly treatment with a nasal spray ofvirus enzymes to prevent them from getting a severe middle earinfect...