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Interest rate shock could kick-start stock exchange
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Norges Bank surprised most experts by cutting the interest rate by as much as 1.75 percentage points during the final interest rate meeting in 2008. Surprise interest rate changes like this, so-called interest rate shocks, ...
Observers of first dates can predict outcome, study shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 30, 2009 |
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When it comes to assessing the romantic playing field -- who might be interested in whom -- men and women were shown to be equally good at gauging men's interest during an Indiana University study involving speed dating -- ...
Partner status influences women's interest in men
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 28, 2009 |
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A study by Indiana University neuroscientist Heather Rupp found that a woman's partner status influenced her interest in the opposite sex.
Students with depression twice as likely to drop out of college (w/ Podcast)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school, new research shows.
Just in the time for holiday shoppers: Personal finance professor offers advice on breaking credit addiction
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An October survey of 3,800 consumers by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling found that more than two thirds (68 percent) planned to pay in cash for their holiday purchases this year, ...
Single women gaze longer
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 03, 2009 |
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A study by neuroscientist Heather Rupp and her team found that a woman's partner status influenced her interest in the opposite sex.
Anemia associated with greater risk of death in heart disease patients
May 28, 2009 |
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May 28, 2009 - A new study appearing in Congestive Heart Failure has found that the presence of anemia in patients with chronic heart failure is associated with a significantly increased risk of death. The findings also s ...
Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...
Playing Dead Increases Survival Rate at the Expense of Active Neighbors
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A study published in the Proceeding of The Royal Society B entitled "Tonically Immobilized Selfish Prey Can Survive By Sacrificing Other", authored by researchers at Okayama University in Japan point out de ...
Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Walk into almost any household that includes teenage boys and you'll find one or more video game consoles. Walk into that household past 10PM and you’re likely to find one or more teenage boys playing those ...
MicroRNA-mediated metastasis suppression
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Metastases are responsible for over 90% of cancer deaths. In the upcoming issue of G&D, Dr. Robert Weinberg (MIT) and colleagues lend molecular insight into how microRNAs suppress tumor metastasis.
Study: Benefit to women not enough to sway men to get HPV vaccine (w/Video)
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest ...
Research suggests we are genetically programmed to care about climate change
May 27, 2009 |
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Humans may be programmed by evolution to care about the future of the environment, suggests research published today.
Landmark paper compares scientific productivity and impact of top 100 AD investigators
Mar 09, 2009 |
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IOS Press announced the publication of a landmark study in which both traditional and highly-innovative scientometric approaches are employed to measure scientific productivity and impact of the top 100 Alzheimer's disease ...
Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...
