Engaged employees are good, but don't count on commitment
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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The notion that highly engaged workers will continue to work tirelessly for organizations despite diminishing resources often isn't true, according to Clemson University psychology professor Thomas Britt.
Diode lights offer bright future for low energy
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German scientists said Wednesday they had tweaked organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) -- the materials used in flat-screen TVs, laptop computer screens and mobile phone displays -- to become flexible, energy-efficient ...
Coral Triangle could die by century's end: WWF
May 13, 2009 |
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Coral reefs could disappear entirely from the Coral Triangle region of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the century, threatening the food supply and livelihoods for about 100 million people, according to a ...
Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals (w/Animation)
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's ...
Let the Planet Hunt Begin
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring ...
Astronauts grab Hubble, prepare for tough repairs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will attempt over the next ...
Game theory and machine learning offer better bidding strategies
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction ...
WHO urges restraint on Tamiflu in swine flu cases
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become ...
Software allows disabled to work on computers
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For Christine Bakanoff-Adams and Gloria Kaswen too much of life has been about loss. Losing vision. Losing the use of their legs, then not being able to use their arms and ultimately not being able to work their hands.
Atlantis moves in on Hubble to grab telescope (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shuttle Atlantis and its crew moved toward the Hubble Space Telescope for a 350-mile-high grab Wednesday that will set the stage for five days of treacherous spacewalking repairs in an orbit littered ...
James Webb Space Telescope unfolds by animation (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out long ago, how it ...
New tool can help predict risk of Alzheimer's in elderly
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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A new tool can help predict whether people age 65 and older have a high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Research on the tool is published in the May 13, 2009, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Google digging deeper to improve search results (Update)
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine - and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario ...
Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?
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If somebody asks you "Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?" you are very likely to answer "I don't know", even if your memory is excellent.
Enriched environment improves wound healing in rats
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2009 |
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Improving the environment in which rats are reared can significantly strengthen the physiological process of wound healing, according to a report in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.
