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Study: Americans Expect Business Leaders to Be White
Jul 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite decades of progress for minorities in corporate settings, Americans still expect business leaders to be white, and they judge white leaders as more effective than their minority counterparts. This ...
Chile to adopt Japanese digital TV standard: Bachelet
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Chile will adopt the Japanese digital television standard ISDB-T, which is high-definition capable, joining neighboring Peru and Argentina, President Michelle Bachelet said Monday.
Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Brent T. White, a University of Arizona associate professor of law, said policymakers must consider ways that emotions drive financial decisions.
Race and gender determine how politicians speak
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Race and gender influence the way politicians speak, which is not always to their advantage. Camelia Suleiman from Florida International University and Daniel O'Connell from Georgetown University in the US have come to this ...
Emerging imaging modalities impact diagnosis of digestive disease
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Recent advances in colonoscopic technology are featured in a number of studies presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology this week. In this research some technologies fare better ...
XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular ...
Unusual supernovae may reveal intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters
Jan 29, 2008 |
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A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole's gravitational pull on the white dwarf would cause ...
Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be necessary
Dec 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement.
Trapping white blood cells proves novel strategy against chronic viral infections
Aug 13, 2008 |
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Seeing disease-fighting white blood cells vanish from the blood usually signals a weakened immune system. But preventing white blood cells' circulation by trapping them in the lymph nodes can help mice get rid of a chronic ...
Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with national standards organizations, have taken the lead in developing the first two standards for solid-state lighting ...
Israeli scientists find way to combat forged DNA
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Israeli scientists have developed new technology to fight biological identity theft after realising that DNA evidence found at crime scenes can be easily falsified.
First worldwide analysis of cancer survival finds wide variation between countries
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Cancer survival varies widely between countries according to a worldwide study published online today in Lancet Oncology.* More than 100 investigators contributed to the study.
Scientists Make Ink Disappear, Make Paper Reusable
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite ongoing efforts to save the trees, many offices print high volumes of paper documents on a daily basis. Although many companies encourage paper recycling, both disposing of and recycling ...
New oxidation methods streamline synthesis of important compounds
Aug 02, 2007 |
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One of the fundamental challenges facing organic synthesis in the 21st century is the need to significantly increase the efficiency with which carbon frameworks can be constructed and functionalized. Chemists at the University ...
Palm Vein Biometric PC Mouse Goes on Sale
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 11, 2007 |
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Fujitsu today announced that it has developed a PC Login Kit for use with the PalmSecure palm vein biometric authentication device and begun sales of a mouse model and a standard model for corporate users.
