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...hands of whoever happens to be on duty at any point in the day and a doctor on the night shift knowing little about a patient whose surgeon worked the day shift. Dr. Alfred Casale, Geisinger's chief of cardiothoracic surgery, tells stories of surgeons who don't even conform to the same rules for color-coding wires in a heart device, making it awfully hard for an intensive-care technician to do repairs if something goes wrong. "When there's a complication at 2 in the morning," he says, "too often nurses can't ask, 'What's his problem...
According to co-author Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, society relies on incentives, in the form of rewards and punishments, to encourage people to conform to certain standards of behavior. "Economists and even psychologists haven't been paying much attention to the fact that small changes in our environment can have dramatic effects on behavior. We underemphasize these subtle environmental cues," he says...
...makeup tips and style advice? Would she be in charge of helping Her Campus perpetuate the single standard of beauty touted by just about all fashion and women’s magazines? What if an applicant has a really grotesque sense of beauty, one that doesn’t conform to the mostly thin, mainstream, well-manicured version that Her Campus (so far) seems to support? (Yes, we mean, what if you think the applicant is ugly...
...Chinese intellectual life has also improved, although over time this remains one of the real dark spots of Chinese communist rule. For six decades intellectuals have been persecuted, harassed and forced to conform and create within various boundaries set by the state. They continually probe the boundaries - until the state pushes back. Despite continuing controls, public and private discourse in China has never been so free. The blogosphere and Internet are alive with unbridled discussion - unless and until it crosses the state censor's invisible hand. (Read "Avoiding Censors, Chinese Authors Go Online...
...flexibility of the SDM Hand lets it conform to and grasp objects of different sizes and shapes that may not be in the position predicted—in other words, the environment found outside of the laboratory, added Dollar...