NLRB Continues Battle to Allow Organizing of Gig Workers

Chikungunya in Singapore--the battle continues.

The battle over workers' compensation.

Faced with lower profits and rapidly increasing premium costs in the 1980s, insurers and employer organizations cleverly parlayed the public perception of worker fraud and abuse in the workers' compensation system (that they helped to create) into massive legislative changes. Over the last decade, state legislators and governors, Republican and Democrat alike, have jumped on this bandwagon, one...

Streptococcus Mutans and its Detection - The Battle Continues

J Bacteriol Mycol Open Access 2017, 4(4): 00102 S. mutans is considered to be an important biomarker of caries risk assessment. There are various methods to detect the S. mutans counts that include both conventional as well as latest advancements. The various conventional culture medias used are mitis salivarius with bacitracin (MSB), mitis salivarius kanamycinbacitracin (MSKB), glucose-sucrose...

GIG - Pattern 1 GIG - Pattern

This paper presents a pattern called GIG, a generic interface graph which deals with definition and control of processes taking into account some specific requirements of simplicity, easiness of definition from algorithmic language and flexibility in the granularity of defined processes. The pattern is intended to help the design and reuse of programs.

The treatment of stable coronary artery disease in diabetics: the battle between "conservative" and "invasive" continues.

D iabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease are nowadays considered to be two sides of the same coin. Patients with type 2 DM are at clearly higher risk (2-4 times) of cardiovascular events and death compared with non-diabetics. In patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and type 2 DM there are two important questions that have gone begging for years now: 1) What is the best s...