News tagged with assumption
Quantum physicist explains $100K offer for proof scaled-up quantum computing is impossible
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researcher Scott Aaronson has certainly riled the physics community with his offer this past Friday, of $100,000 to anyone who can prove that scaled-up quantum computing is impossible. ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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The general link between worker happiness and productivity challenged
Managers encouraging employees to be more proactive and flexible do make gains in performance and productivity. But this is at the expense of employee job satisfaction, according to the latest research in the journal Human Re ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Study finds superior drug combo for difficult-to-control epilepsy
A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report to be published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Study debunks myths about gender and math performance
A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement — in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Traumatic injury sets off a 'genomic storm' in immune system pathways
Serious traumatic injuries, including major burns, set off a "genomic storm" in human immune cells, altering around 80 percent of the cells' normal gene expression patterns. In a report to appear in the December Journal of ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere of early Earth
Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth. The findings, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Beyond calories and consumption, new book critiques obesity orthodoxies
Countering the so-called obesity crisis with local, organic, and seasonal food is a nice idea but one that is not likely to work, writes Julie Guthman, associate professor of community studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Google Dart debut sparks chatter of JavaScript coup
(PhysOrg.com) -- When the news appeared earlier this week that Google was unveiling a new programming language, Dart, for developers. tech blogs ignited with talk of how Google is staging a JavaScript coup. ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Incompatible assumptions common in biomedical research
Strong, incompatible views are common in biomedicine but are largely invisible to biomedical experts themselves, creating artificial barriers to effective modeling of complex biological phenomena. Researchers at the University ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Frequently used weight-loss method is light on evidence
Although the transtheoretical model stages of change (TTM SOC) method is frequently used to help obese and overweight people lose weight, a newly published Cochrane systematic review indicates there is little evidence that ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Older people are happier in Brazil and South Africa
Contrary to belief, older people in South Africa and Brazil become happier as they age. New research suggests that, with the right policies in place, a developing country can significantly improve the wellbeing of its older ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 03, 2011 |
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New report reveals the impact of global crises on international development
Global crises and the slow burn of climate change are having a profound impact on the lives and livelihoods of poor people around the world, and bringing into question core ideas about what development is and how it happens, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2011 |
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The benefits of biotech: How GM crops benefit farmers and the developing world
The biotech industry boosted farming across the globe to the tune of almost $65 billion during the period 1996 to 2009, according to the latest analysis published in the International Journal of Biotechnology. $65 billio ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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New evidence for a preferred direction in spacetime challenges the cosmological principle
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the cosmological principle, there is no special place or direction in the universe when viewed on the cosmic scale. The assumption enabled Copernicus to propose that Earth was ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Who takes risks?
A forthcoming paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, by Bernd Figner, Research Scientist at the Center for Decision Sciencesat Columbia Business School ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 09, 2011 |
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