Q79. When should a person with HIV begin taking HIV medicines?
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BY THE NUMBERS

53: School districts represented at UNCs first fall teachers fair

150: Teacher candidates who had passed through the UNC Ballrooms by 11 a.m. Tuesday

2,601: Number of UNC College of Education and Behavioral Science students, a 20 percent increase since fall 2009.

729: Number of UNC College of Education graduates in 2013-2014, which is 42 more graduates than UNC had in 2009-2010.

78: Percent of UNC College of Education graduates who get jobs within a year of graduation.

74: Percent of UNC College of Education graduates who get jobs in Colorado following graduation

Pens clicked, feet tapped and papers were shuffled as dozens of future teachers sought to strut their stuff at the University of Northern Colorados first Fall Teachers Fair.

School district representatives from as far away as Alaska, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona were equally pleased to meet teacher candidates from UNC and other Colorado universities.

After all, both sides goals were the same: Gainful employment for future teachers.

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From the playground to the board room, people often follow, or conform, to the behavior of those around them as a way of fitting in. New research shows that this behavioral conformity appears early in human children, but isn't evidenced by apes like chimpanzees and orangutans.

"Conformity is a very basic feature of human sociality. It retains in- and out-groups, it helps groups coordinate and it stabilizes cultural diversity, one of the hallmark characteristics of the human species," says psychological scientist and lead researcher Daniel Haun of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Jena.

"This does not mean that conforming is the right thing to do under all circumstances conformity can be good or bad, helpful or unhelpful, appropriate or inappropriate both for individuals and the groups they live in. But the fact is that we conform often and that human sociality would look very differently without it," Haun explains. "Our research shows that children as young as 2 years of age conform to others, while chimpanzees and orangutans instead prefer to stick with what they know."

The research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is novel in that it provides a direct comparison between apes and humans indicating that the tendency to abandon one's own preferences just in to fit in appears to be particularly pronounced in humans.

In previous research, Haun and colleagues had found that both human children and chimpanzees rely on the majority opinion when they are trying to learn something new, which makes sense if the group has knowledge that the individual doesn't. But other research has shown that human adults sometimes follow the majority even when they already have the relevant knowledge, just so that they don't stand out from the group.

To find out whether very young children and apes would also show this so-called "normative" conformity, Haun and co-authors Michael Tomasello and Yvonne Rekers presented 18 2-year-old children, 12 chimpanzees, and 12 orangutans with a similar reward-based task.

Each participant was shown a box that contained three separate sections, each of which had a hole in the top. By interacting with the box, the participants learned that although the ball could be dropped in any of the three sections, only one of the sections would deliver a treat (peanuts for the apes and chocolate drops for the children).

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SPEARFISH Dr. James Hess, professor of psychology and chairman of the School of Behavioral Sciences at Black Hills State University, recently pledged a $1 million gift to BHSU to establish the School of Behavioral Sciences Make a Difference Initiative. In exchange for scholarship funds, students will be challenged to lead sustainable community projects designed to make a difference in the lives of others.

Hess has been a psychology professor at BHSU for 32 years and his generous donation is equivalent to the salary he made in his first 19 years of teaching at BHSU. He says he intends to keep teaching as long as he feels like he is making a difference in the lives of students.

This million-dollar scholarship gift from Professor Hess will have a profound impact on students while they earn their degrees by providing scholarship funds and encouraging community leadership skills. However, the Make a Difference Initiative also ensures our graduates will become leaders in their future communities, BHSU President Tom Jackson, Jr., said. I commend Professor Hess for his visionary idea and express my sincere thanks for his generosity and commitment to Black Hills State University.

By establishing the Make a Difference Initiative, Hess hopes to change the culture of scholarship funding by encouraging recipients to give back right from the start and continue that practice long after they graduate.

Even while theyre receiving funds from the initiative, I want our scholarship recipients to engage and make a difference in the lives of others, said Hess. I want the students to remember their experience years from now, changing their attitude and encouraging them to continue giving back.

The initiatives board of directors will meet this year to polish the initiative and will distribute the first two $2,500 scholarships in 2015. In addition to the scholarship, recipients will receive a $2,500 match allocated for student projects. Future scholarships and projects will be added in the coming years, and the dollar amounts will be increased.

Students receiving the Make a Difference Initiative scholarships must give something more than going to class and getting good grades, said Hess.

Student projects must create sustainable solutions, said Hess, referencing the proverb give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Examples of sustainable solution projects described in the initiatives planning document include implementation of a self-concept improvement program for a womens shelter or designing a summer camp for children of divorced families.

Steve Meeker, BHSU vice president for university advancement, said Hess gift will teach students how to make a difference in peoples lives while also teaching them to give back in both time and treasure.

Dr. Hess gift is extremely generous, and he has a great plan to motivate future leaders, said Meeker. This gift sends a strong message as to what BHSU and our students mean to him and is very much appreciated.

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Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) October 30, 2014

Why do customers engage with brands?

Customer experience can be a misleading term, because the experience is not built on a singular factor. Brands that have mastered the art of CX understand that an amalgamation of positive encounters combines to form the overall desired customer experience success.

At the 2014 Engagement & Experience Expo, AT&T and United Way will present sessions on fostering effective customer engagement paradigms that lead to all-encompassing customer experiences.

AT&T will present a session titled, How to Enable Change in Customer (and Associate) Centricity. In this session, attendees will learn how AT&T builds customer-centricity into the fabric of its organization, and how companies can follow that model to develop thriving customer experience strategies. Additionally, AT&T will share the importance of communication, engagement, and conversational intelligence in improving customer centricity.

Before building customer-centricity, marketers need to understand why customers engage with certain brands. United Way and The Behavioral Science Lab will speak from a behavioral economics perspective in a session titled, Increasing Brand Engagement Through Behavioral Economics. In this session, attendees will learn how United Way uses behavioral economics to understand the psychological and emotional factors that improve customer acquisition and sustained experiences. United Way will reflect on its past dearth of customer knowledge, and demonstrate how the introduction of data tools and behavioral economics insight has illuminated its understanding of the influencing factors of its donors.

Thanks to new technologies and enhanced analytic tools, todays brands are better equipped to create outstanding customer experiences, shared Erin Raese, President and COO, Loyalty360 The Loyalty Marketers Association. We are thrilled to feature highly regarded speakers from AT&T and United Way whose success stories can help show attendees the way.

About Engagement & Experience Expo Engagement & Experience Expo is a forum to openly discuss customer, brand and channel challenges and solutions. Discover how to optimize the customer experience at all touch-points and increase the impact of engagement throughout the customer lifecycle. Through a robust slate of best-in-class speakers and interactive discussions, attendees will learn about the latest theories, best practices, relevant case studies, emerging trends and strategies that drive measurable behavioral change and quantifiable results. The 4th annual Engagement & Experience Expo will be held Nov. 10-12, 2014, at the Renaissance Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

About Loyalty360 Loyalty360 is an unbiased, market driven, voice-of-the-customer focused clearinghouse and think-tank that is committed to bringing customer loyalty to the forefront as a critical marketing strategy. A trusted source for cutting-edge research, best practices, and networking opportunities, Loyalty360 gives members the expert insights and guidance they need to better understand loyalty and develop programs that effectively engage their customers and employees and build stronger relationships with them. [http://www.loyalty360.org

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