Image via WikipediaStudies of workers in two US cohorts of asbestos textile workers exposed to chrysotile (North Carolina (NC) and South Carolina (SC)) found increasing risk of lung cancer mortality with cumulative fibre exposure. However, the risk appeared to increase more steeply in SC, possibly due to differences in study methods. The authors conducted pooled analyses of the cohorts and investigated the exposure-disease relationship using uniform cohort inclusion criteria and statistical methods.
Increased rates of lung cancer were significantly associated with cumulative fibre exposure overall and in both the Carolina asbestos-textile cohorts. Previously reported differences in exposure-response between the cohorts do not appear to be related to inclusion criteria or analytical methods.
Recently, I went to the Performance Conference in Chicago, where I had many interesting discussions regarding HIPO’s. In HR slang HIPO’s are defined as an organization’s high performers. But as I delivered a presentation with my colleague Sue Bond from Halogen Software, it became crystal clear that high performers and high potentials are two very different types of employees. I am a fan of segmenting employee populations just like we do consumers as I think you can really gain insights on employee behavior and employee needs by analyzing segments versus all employees.
I have not participating some Nostalgia meme this past couple of weeks due to my busy busyhan life hehhe. I’m hooked again in FB game Frontierville which made me tired to update my blogs. And besides I also lost my focus on blogging lately, and only updated the moolah post and some interim. I guess this is the prize of having too many blogs, confuse which one to update first. Anyway, this is my entry for nostalgia. High school friends. I snagged this picture in our batch group in Facebook.
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