Search results for world values
Conventional wisdom wrong about Arab journalists' anti-Americanism
Jun 20, 2008 |
3.3 / 5 (13) |
2
[B]Research published in International Journal of Press/Politics[/B] Since September 11, U.S. politicians have repeatedly reminded us that the journalists in the Arab world are biased against America and the West. Ground-breaking res ...
Revised Vienna Classification for diagnosing colorectal epithelial neoplasias
Jun 10, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Considerable discrepancies have been reported between diagnoses of colorectal epithelial neoplastic lesions made by Western and Japanese pathologists from endoscopic cold biopsies and resected specimens of the same lesions.
I feel like a different person
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 14, 2009 |
4 / 5 (6) |
2
Scientists have long been interested in the interplay of emotions and identity, and some have recently focused on cultural identity. One's heritage would seem to be especially stable and impervious to change, simply because ...
Human values key to the development of new technologies
Apr 04, 2008 |
3.5 / 5 (8) |
1
Emerging computer technologies will change our lives for the better by 2020. But we need to retain control to ensure that these developments do not impact negatively on basic human values, according to a new report co-edited ...
Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Feb 23, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Happiness is rising around the world: study
Jun 30, 2008 |
3.5 / 5 (37) |
2
People in most countries around the world are happier these days, according to newly released data from the World Values Survey based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.
Fluorescent glass SRMs are new tool for spectroscopy
Jun 09, 2007 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
0
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed two new calibration tools to help correct and validate the performance of analytic instruments that identify substances based on fluorescence.
Self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
5
(PhysOrg.com) -- Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to ...
Global glacier melt continues
Jan 29, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (20) |
8
Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...
Fuzzy logic water quality
Apr 17, 2008 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
A fuzzy logic approach to analyzing water quality could help reduce the number of people in the developing world forced to drink polluted and diseased water for survival. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Jo ...
All prejudice isn't created equal; whites distribute it unequally to minorities
Feb 25, 2009 |
2.9 / 5 (10) |
6
The Declaration of Independence may proclaim that all men are created equal, but American whites tend to distribute their prejudice unequally toward certain members of minority groups, according to new research.
Will the economic crisis lead to major societal changes?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 08, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (4) |
1
Why are former business executives and attorneys volunteering more time to help their communities? Why do the children of immigrants assume values very different from those of their parents? Why has the size of Japanese families ...
Playboy Founder Embodies American Dream; Changes American Culture
Sep 11, 2008 |
2.9 / 5 (13) |
3
There is little doubt that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has become one of the most controversial figures of the past half century. From his highly publicized lifestyle to his risqué magazine, to his multi-million dollar company, ...
Switchable nanovalves: pH-sensitive pseudorotaxane as reversible gate for drug nanotransporter
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (7) |
0
We encounter valves every day, whether in the water faucet, the carburetor in our car, or our bicycle tire tube. Valves are also present in the world of nanotechnology.
New Algorithm Ranks Sports Teams like Google's PageRank
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sports fans may be interested in a new system that ranks NFL and college football teams in a simple, straightforward way, similar to how Google PageRank ranks webpages. The new sports algorithm, ...
