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How Smart Buildings Use Data to Help Businesses Cut Costs

Smart Data Collective

There are many ways businesses are using big data to make better decisions and operate more efficiently Organizations can use big data to optimize expenses and reduce costs. A modern data infrastructure can help get more value from data by accelerating decision making, simplifying operations, and powering analytics. One of the many ways big data is helping companies operate more cost-effectively is through the construction of smart buildings.

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The right sports bra may increase your running performance by 7%

Frontiers

By Suzanna Burgelman, science writer Researchers are one step closer to understanding the influence of good running apparel on running performance and injury risk. A new study in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living found that greater breast support during running is associated with increased knee joint stiffness, altering the lower body biomechanics of female runners.

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Self-Care A-Z: Earth Day and Self-Care—It’s All Connected

The New Social Worker

You might be surprised to see the topic of planetary well-being on a blog focused on self-care. Yet, Earth Day is an ideal occasion to talk about the inextricable and important connection between self-care and planetary care.

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The Role of Data in Understanding Demographics for Effective Marketing

Smart Data Collective

In the past, large data sets about consumers were far more difficult to come by. For small businesses and agencies, this meant being at a significant disadvantage to larger businesses and corporations that could afford to conduct large-scale research. Today, however, this is far from the case and consumer data is more available than it ever has been before.

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The Surprising Role of AI in Making PowerPoint Presentations

Smart Data Collective

We have talked extensively about the benefits of using AI technology in marketing. One benefit we haven’t covered has been the use of AI to create amazing PowerPoint presentations. AI Makes it Easier than Ever to Create Amazing PowerPoint Presentations and Convert them to More Usable File Types AI tools such as Designs.ai can help you create beautiful presentation slides and templates that use A.I. technology.

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How Does Next-Gen SIEM Prevent Data Overload For Security Analysts?

Smart Data Collective

Understaffed, with their budgets cut, and overworked — why does that describe the state of security operation centers today when businesses need effective protection more than ever? Cyber professionals are facing more hacking threats than ever before, there’s a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals and a flood of data that is coming from a large number of protective tools.

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Data Careers That Make a Positive Impact on the World

Smart Data Collective

Are you interested in a career in big data? As we said before, there are many careers you can go into with a degree in data science. The BLS reports that there are 113,000 data scientists in the country. That figure is growing by the year. Finding a career that you are passionate about is not an easy task in itself. Once you have finished school it is likely that your career will take up the majority of your life going forward – so it’s important to find the right one.

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The Importance of CSRD Data for EU-Operative Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Data reporting is often a requirement for large corporations, but traditionally it’s been related to finances. Many companies need to report accurate financial data to keep them accountable to their stakeholders and customers. However, we’re seeing new data reporting requirements emerge from the European Union that are about to impact businesses worldwide: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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Restoring Asia’s Roar: Our plan to see tigers flourish again in historic locations

Frontiers

By Dr Thomas Gray, WWF Tigers Alive Initiative Image: Shutterstock.com Dr Thomas Gray is a conservation biologist and Tiger Recovery Lead at the WWF Tigers Alive Initiative. His current research focuses on the active recovery of threatened Asian species and sustainable financing for landscape-scale conservation. In this newest guest editorial, he explains how habitats from which tigers have been lost could be restored and how this may help biodiversity and landscape restoration at large.

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‘Think of the teachers!’ How secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout are increasingly impacting teachers

Frontiers

By Glenys Oberg , School of Education, University of Queensland , Australia Glenys Oberg Glenys Oberg is a PhD student and research assistant at the School of Education of the University of Queensland. A former teacher, she focuses in her research on trauma-informed pedagogy and practice. Recently, Oberg and her colleagues Annemaree Carroll and Stephanie Macmahon published a review article in Frontiers in Education , which investigated the impact on teachers of working with students who experien

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Can AI Help Factories Lower Costs Enough To Survive The Coming Recession?

Smart Data Collective

The times are becoming tougher every day, and it doesn’t help that there’s a potential recession on the horizon. As early as now, you might be looking for ways to cut costs and keep your factory afloat. You understand that lowering costs is the key to surviving tough times, but you need help figuring out where to start. That’s where artificial intelligence or AI comes in.

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Orb weaver spider glue properties evolve faster than their glue genes, scientists find

Frontiers

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Orb weaver spiders make the capture threads of their webs sticky with an aqueous glue made in special aggregate glands. Scientists studied different species living in different environments to see how the glue changed and found that although the glue was mostly made of the same components, the proportions of the proteins involved were different, changing the glue’s properties.

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Key Strategies for Leveraging User Data for Content Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Companies are spending nearly $30 billion a year on big data for marketing initiatives. One of the many reasons that they are using big data is to create better content marketing strategies. A content marketing strategy can help businesses establish brand awareness, increase conversions, and connect with their target audience. The goal of creating a successful content marketing strategy is not simply to create and publish content.

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Book Review: Unraveling Faculty Burnout

The New Social Worker

When I read Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark’s book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, I felt seen. It's the rare educator who isn't acquainted with this sense of "never enough," of never feeling that there is an obtainable career stride they can reach.

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Conversations on Social Work Careers: Consulting, Advocacy, and Impact With Zander Keig

The New Social Worker

Zander Keig shares his perspective as a 56-year-old first-generation American of Mexican heritage (Latino) trans man, TBI survivor, and neurodivergent first-generation college graduate. Zander was NASW 2020 Social Worker of the Year.

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The Science and Research Centre Koper forms publishing agreement with Frontiers? 

Frontiers

The Science and Research Centre Koper has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Science and Research Centre Koper researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal with a simplified process.  Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount. The Science and Research Centre Koper supports its researchers in making their research more widely available.

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The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) forms open access publishing agreement with Frontiers? 

Frontiers

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has joined the Sikt Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement , the national partnership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This partnership means that eligible UNIS researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them, with a simplified process, and may benefit from a 10% partnership discount.

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Educational Research Institute of Slovenia forms publishing agreement with Frontiers? 

Frontiers

The Educational Research Institute of Slovenia has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Educational Research Institute researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount.

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