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Lessons for Obama in study of Bush efforts to 'frame' Iraq war
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Wartime leaders have long sought to sway public opinion by "framing" bad news from the frontlines. They present inconvenient facts in an altered format in order to generate support for their policies. A new study from North ...
Falling public support for health-care reform can be turned around
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Survey results published this week in the journal Health Affairs show that while only 27 percent of adults currently support the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's proposed healthcare legislation, an amended bill could gain ...
White House rhetoric is important in forming foreign policy opinions
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Surveys have shown that the public pays little attention to foreign policy, but politicians regularly cite the importance of public support for military actions overseas. Now, a new study has found that these ...
Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "The very thought of you ... the mere idea of you" -- from the song "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble. Can the mere thought of your loved one reduce your pain?
NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy
Nov 20, 2009 |
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NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following ...
Fewer hikers means less support for conservation, study says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Serious hikers and backpackers tend to become supporters of environmental and conservation groups while casual woodland tourists do not, a new study says -- and a recent fall-off in strenuous outdoor endeavors portends a ...
1,700 UK scientists back climate science
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fighting back against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.
Butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 ...
Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough ...
New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...
Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...
85% Of Young People Would Be More Inclined To Go Into Politics If They Had More Information
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent poll conducted by The George Washington University Graduate School of Public Management’s new PoliticsUnder30.org initiative, 85% of respondents answered yes when asked if having a comprehensive ...
NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science ...
Industry support of academic life science research may be dropping
Nov 03, 2009 |
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While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with industrial entities, the prevalence of such relationships - particularly direct funding for research ...
Iowa State researchers looking for catalyst that allows plants to produce hydrocarbons
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Plants and algae may be a source of green, renewable hydrocarbons that could replace the ancient, finite hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, according to a team of researchers led by Iowa State University's Jackie ...
