(Robert Half: Menlo Park, CA) -- How useful are performance reviews? It depends on whom you ask.

A new report by a national committee of U.S.

In a business climate where only the best companies survive and thrive, one thing is clear: You must avoid the stupid stuff. You must eliminate the things that leave customers and employees scratching their heads, frustrated, and mystified.

(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- Artists put their work on display for everyone to judge, accepting a position of vulnerability to comment on the human condition and contribute to the common good. Artists bring people closer together by providing a forum for shared experiences.

(Adept Technology: Pleasanton, CA) -- Adept Technology, a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, will be demonstrating to China’s food-industry professionals how the Adept Quattro s650H robot, when integrated within high-speed automated packaging applications

(AST: Mt. Olive, NJ) -- American Sensor Technologies Inc.

(Frost & Sullivan: Palo Alto, CA) -- Given the current trying financial circumstances, consumers have adopted a conservative approach toward investing in capital equipment, according to a new study now available from Frost & Sullivan.

Statistics can be unintuitive. What’s a large difference? What’s a large sample size? When is something statistically significant? You might think you know, based on experience and intuition, but you really don’t know until you actually run the analysis.

(Balluff: Florence, KY) -- Balluff, a manufacturer of sensors and sensing technology, has an answer to the market’s desire for a compact evaluation unit that enables the simultaneous connection of up to four read/write heads: the

You won’t hurt RUTH the robot’s feelings if you disagree with her, but it will be difficult to prove your point, given that her opinions are backed by mathematical evidence.