Transferring Skills into Career Options

Transferring Skills to a Simulated Robot

A skill transfer and improvement framework was designed and implemented to transfer skills to a simulated robot without the help of a robotics expert. A skill expert first learns to perform the desired task by maneuvering the robot and giving actuator commands using the keyboard. The framework is then used to transfer the expert’s skills to the robot by teaching the robot’s controller to perfor...

Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns, and whether formal skills, acquired early on, are able to shield workers from the effect of recessions. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of education choice, labor supply and wage progression using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerou...

Transferring skills in quality collaboratives focused on improving patient logistics

BACKGROUND A quality improvement collaborative, often used by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is used to educate healthcare professionals and improve healthcare at the same time. However, no prior research has been done on the knowledge and skills healthcare professionals need to achieve improvements or the extent to which quality improvement collaboratives help enhance both knowledge...

Introduction: Transferring Anthropological Skills to Applied Health Research

Transferring isolated mitochondria into tissue culture cells

We have developed a new method for introducing large numbers of isolated mitochondria into tissue culture cells. Direct microinjection of mitochondria into typical mammalian cells has been found to be impractical due to the large size of mitochondria relative to microinjection needles. To circumvent this problem, we inject isolated mitochondria through appropriately sized microinjection needles...