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Over the past two months, the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has spread across the country further derailing the lodging recovery. While leisure demand remains robust, continued uncertainty surrounding the duration and magnitude of future variants has made it increasingly difficult for corporations to hold return-to-office plans.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common breathing disorder causing excessive daytime sleepiness and increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and stroke.

Sleep disorders and insufficient sleep are major global problems contributing to, e.g., increased health care costs and sick leaves, and reduced quality of life. According to recent estimates, sleep apnea alone affects approximately 1 billion people worldwide, and up to half of the world’s population suffers from insomnia at some point in their lives.

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Organizational Setting and Work Relationships Framed by the Global Compact for Refugees (GCR) and UNHCR¿s mission to find solutions to refugee situations, strengthened cooperation with development and private sector partners is essential. The increasing number of refugees and internally displaced persons in protracted displacement situations, together with the increasing scale of irregular migration, large-scale refugee movements, and costs of responding to humanitarian situations, have placed...

Date Time Recognition, belief and an emotional response to disinformation are key factors Fake news stories are more likely to be believed and consequently shared on social media if readers think they have seen them before, research suggests. Academics at Cardiff University’s Crime and Security Research Institute say their report offers insights into the reasons why seemingly outlandish claims on social media can gain traction. The team devised a fake news story and showed it to 8,630 citizen...

Partnership to Improve Safety on America’s Roads Expands Partnership to Improve Safety on America’s Roads Expands Today, a partnership dedicated to the advancement of traffic safety launched the next phase of the Partnership for Analytics Research in Traffic Safety (PARTS). The group, made up of public and private participants, including eight automakers, MITRE and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, works together to improve traffic safety in a data-sharing partnership by ...

App State’s SBTDC was a ‘first responder’ for small businesses during the pandemic Appalachian State University’s Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) has aided small businesses in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of its efforts, the center helped a company develop a new business stream: producing COVID-related retail signage and floor decals, such as the one pictured, to promote physical distancing and the wearing of face coverings. Shutterstock ...

One for the history books: Top App State moments of 2020 This image, which shows numerous Appalachian Community members wearing face coverings, is part of Appalachian State University and AppHealthCare’s #ShowYourLove public health campaign. The campaign, created to help slow the spread of COVID-19, kicked off across the High Country this summer. Graphic by University Communications By Jessica Stump Posted Dec. 21, 2020 at 5:03 p.m. BOONE, N.C. — In...