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DAT said this new integration will help our mutual customers run their businesses more profitably and efficiently at no additional cost.
InMotion Global announced that AscendTMS has partnered with DAT Solutions to offer carriers a totally free TMS software solution. AscendTMS has been deeply integrated with DATs most popular carrier features, and is offered at no cost to any current and future DAT customer.
Tim Higham, president and CEO of InMotion Global, said, Everyone knows that DAT is the undisputed leader in load board technology, load volumes, and load quality. By providing the number one rated carrier TMS software to their customers, they are now also the undisputed leader in TMS technology. DAT are relied upon by the majority of the freight transportation industry to keep trucks full and freight moving. We are truly honored to have been chosen to be their long term carrier TMS solution and partner.
The free DAT Solutions carrier TMS offering is available immediately. It offers motor carriers of any size, a complete business management solution. AscendTMS provides features such as complete dispatch control, IFTA tax reporting, fuel card imports, asset and driver management, driver pay and settlement, free shipper credit reports, a 26,000 strong shipper directory, full accounting, QuickBooks integration, immediate and real-time load funding with Triumph Business Capital, branch and agent management, full document management, load tracking, ELD integration, driver texting, a free truckload rate index, cargo claims handling, EDI, and integrated load searching and matching.
DAT takes pride in our best in class solutions, and AscendTMS shares that same mindset, stated Don Thornton, DAT senior vice president of sales and marketing. This new integration will help our mutual customers run their businesses more profitably and efficiently, and at no additional cost. The AscendTMS offering includes a deep and intelligent integration to DATs load searching and truck matching services so our carrier customers can match up their empty trucks with available DAT posted loads with the press of a single button.
Higham continued: Carriers simply need to go to http://www.TheFreeTMS.com to get their free DAT Solutions TMS software account. As AscendTMS is truly cloud based, the entire process takes about 10 seconds. AscendTMS requires no installs, no downloads, no setup, no hardware, and no contracts. It works on any web enabled device like a PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone, and we even provide any training needed, at no cost, to DAT customers. This is the perfect carrier TMS solution, and provides the best of DAT and AscendTMS, at no cost, in one powerful yet easy to use TMS software solution.
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A new online tool offers GPs help in diagnosing genetic illness.
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Everyone is born with a few hundred genetic typos studded throughout their genome. Most of these are inconsequential. But for a person with an unexplained genetic disease, these glitches could hold the answers to their mysterious condition.
A new software tool, developed by Raony Cardenas and colleagues at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil, could help doctors to pinpoint which genetic glitch is responsible for a patients disease, according to a study published in PLoS Computational Biology.
Since the Human Genome Project announced it had decoded the 3.2 billion chemical letters of our genome in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has plummeted.
Hospitals now regularly sequence patients exomes the roughly 1% of our genome that carries instructions for making proteins in search of mutations that could explain diseases.
The challenge for all health professionals is to glean robust and meaningful information from that data, says clinical geneticist Sue White from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, who was not involved in the study.
This involves a two-step process. In the first, a patients exome or, less commonly, their whole genome is compared to a reference genome, to spot all instances where theres a difference. This list can have thousands of entries.
The second step is to sort through the list, separating potentially meaningful changes disease-causing mutations, perhaps from trivial variations that occur naturally throughout different human populations.
The new open-source program, called Mendel,MD, tackles this second step. Doctors can upload a file containing a list of the genetic variants within a persons genome. From this, Mendel,MD produces a shortlist of genes most likely to be the disease culprit by searching databases of known disease-causing mutations.
The team behind Mendel,MD tested the programs mettle on 57 cases of suspected genetic disorders in Brazilian patients. In half of these cases, the program gave a definitive diagnosis, pinpointing the responsible gene mutation. Without exome sequencing, only around 1 in 10 cases are usually diagnosed, says White.
The program also identified the responsible gene mutation for 11 out of 42 cases of epilepsy at the Childrens University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
Importantly, you dont need to be a computer programmer to use Mendel,MD. Clinicians, researchers and even graduate students were all able to use the online tool.
We designed the software to be simple and intuitive enough to be used directly by physicians, even those who are not proficient in bioinformatics, says Srgio Pena, a co-author on the study.
A patients data can also be readily reanalysed as new information on disease-causing genes becomes available.
As a geneticist, White sleuths through mutations every day to diagnose genetic disorders. But its becoming increasingly important for other medical specialists neurologists, immunologists, obstetricians to be able to access this information. Easy-to-use tools like Mendel,MD could go some way to achieving this, she says.
Thats not to say that anyone can search through a list of their own genetic quirks. Direct-to-consumer genetic tests still keep a tight reign on what information is released to consumers. Getting your hands on a full list of your oddities would be very difficult.
And even with a full list, making sense of it isnt easy.
Theres still a tremendous amount of skill and clinical acumen that's involved in understanding for sure that something is causing a disease, says Simon Sadedin, Head of Clinical Bioinformatics at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, who was also not involved in the study. Its quite a difficult thing to do.
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Software development KITT ... Truly self-driving cars coming to Washington
The governor of Washington has green-lit the testing of self-driving cars on the US state's public roads, with or without human operators, calling the technology "foolproof."
Gov. Jay Inslee this week signed an executive order (PDF) that called for new rules on autonomous car testing and, for the first time, provisions to test cars fully autonomously on Washington's streets, without the need for a human to sit behind the wheel.
In order to operate completely sans-meatware, the car would need to be fully certified and shown to have safety protections in place to assure it can get itself out of harm's way should something go wrong.
"Vehicles shall be equipped with an automated driving system that performs all aspects of the driving task on a part- or full-time basis within the vehicles operational design limits, and it must be capable of bringing the vehicle to a safe condition in the event of a system failure," the order reads.
Inslee announced the move while flanked by executives from General Motors and Google, who will no doubt be pleased with the looser testing standards and are no doubt looking forward to exploiting the new rules. Inslee, meanwhile, will be able to court those companies to bring their jobs and tax dollars to Washington when they set up testing facilities.
The governor also seems to have an extraordinary, if not impractical, confidence in the safety of fledgling autonomous cars and complex computer systems in general.
"One thing I know about radar, it doesnt drive drunk, it doesnt drive distracted, he is quoted as saying.
"We humans are really good at a lot of things, driving cars isnt necessarily one of them compared to the automated processes that are digital and foolproof. I just have huge confidence in the safety aspects of this."
We dare say a few people, particularly security researchers and embedded engineers and AI developers and anyone else who has touched a keyboard and mouse, will take exception to the "foolproof" comment. On multiple occasions, experts have shown that connected cars are vulnerable to hijacking, and even without hackers, self-driving cars have been found to contain rather dangerous bugs.
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A never-ending supply of readily availablecrispy bacon, sloppy joes, and sausages for breakfast might be out of the question for many SMEs, but one SiliconValley startup believes a free breakfast for employees can deliver a serious productivity boost.
Writing in Harvard Business Reviewlast month, staff product manager at software development company Pivotal, Jay Hum, outlined the main reason Pivotal offers staff free breakfasts.
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Our startup, Pivotal, calls the South of Market (SOMA) neighbourhood home, alongside companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Adobe, Slack, Salesforce, and Uber. So, of course, Pivotal serves free, catered meals. Its just expected, Hum writes.
While thats true, even if no other startup around us served free, catered meals, we still would.
Pivotal employees work in a pair programming arrangement where two software developers share the same computer but with different peripherals. This level of collaboration requires the two workers to be seamlessly in sync, and thats where breakfast comes in.
Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show up at the same time to kick off the workday, explains Hum.
Whiles Pivotals pair programming system emphasises the importance of developers coming to work on time, getting workers to start the day together is essential in many businesses. If left to their own devices, Hum says Pivotals developers would likely roll into the office around 10 or11 am and not start real work until after lunch.
The company also rings a cowbell at 9.06 amto signify the start of the day,followed by a short office-wide meeting before developers get to work.
Working closely with a languishing employee who skipped breakfast because they woke up late is no fun for anyone involved. It can affect productivity, and grind work to a halt if the employee needs to leave for an impromptu snack.
For this reason, Hum says the inclusion of a synchronised breakfast time not only gets people into the office on time but makes sure energy is high across the board.
Pairing only works when you are a pair. Free breakfast aligns not only our employees schedulesbutalso their blood sugar levels, he says.
Employees workdays at Pivotal are intense and highly productive, which doesnt leave much room for interacting with workers outside of an employees team. Hum says the companys morning breakfasts give employees time to build a collaborative atmosphere while still getting lots of work done.
We want a collaborative atmosphere that promotes knowledge transfer within and across disciplines. But that only happens when people are communicating and sharing, he says.
Thats the third reason for serving free breakfast. You and I can grab a plate of healthy food and sit down at one of the tables in the cafeteria. It gives Pivotal employees and clients a daily window to discuss what they are currently working on, share war stories, and help each other.
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