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Gaya: IIM Bodh Gaya organized its maiden edition of the International Management Conference on 23rd and 24th April 2021. The conference’s theme was “Post COVID Management Strategies: Recovery, Resilience, and Adaptation.” In these challenging times, IIM Bodhgaya conducted the virtual conference with the thought that “this is the time for us to recover, become resilient, and adapt to the new normal.” Amidst a plethora of colossal challenges, business leaders, policymakers, and management gurus are under extraordinary pressure to re-think strategies for recovery, building resilience, and adaptation to the new normal.
A two-day pre-conference workshop preceded the conference. The workshop conducted on 21st April had sessions by Prof. Teena Bharti, Assistant professor in Organization Behaviour and Human Resource Management, IIM Bodh Gaya; Dr. Nidhi Mishra, Assistant Professor, Organization Behaviour, IIM Bodhgaya; Dr.Subhadip Roy, IIM Ahmedabad. The Day 2 of the worksho
Addiction experts seek to understand why people engage in extreme drinking
It s a health crisis often hidden in plain sight.
While binge drinking behaviors drinking alcohol to a blood alcohol concentration level of 0.08% or higher have been studied before, relatively little research has focused on people s behaviors and the consequences surrounding extreme drinking, or drinking alcohol to a blood alcohol concentration level of more than 0.16%. Now, using a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, addiction experts at the University of Missouri from the Department of Psychological Sciences hope to provide a more accurate picture of why people engage in extreme levels of drinking using a combination of portable breathalyzers and a smartphone app, along with laboratory data.
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Nelson Cowan
Imagine a 7-year-old and a college student both take a break from their virtual classes to get a drink of water. When they return, the 7-year-old has difficulty restarting the assignment, while the college student resumes working as if the break never occurred. Nelson Cowan, an expert in working memory at the University of Missouri, believes understanding this developmental age difference can help younger children and their parents to better adjust to a virtual learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“By understanding this developmental difference, then we can work to provide a little more structure for younger children in online settings, such as helping them organize their homework,” said Cowan, a Curators Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences. “At school, teachers can provide more of that structure, but in a virtual environment, parents may also have to take on more of that responsibility. For parents who have younger c