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New business theory shows compensation plans can make or break a firm
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Greed has been blamed for most of Wall Street's woes and the banking sector's recent collapse, but two professors at Washington University in St. Louis say envy is really to blame. And, they warn, envy is ...
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Stem cells and cancer: Scientists investigate a fine balancing act
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Speaking today at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Edinburgh, Professor Silvia Marino shows how the mechanisms normally involved in balancing different functions of stem cells may also contribute ...
Brain plasticity: Changes and resets in homeostasis
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 25, 2009 |
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In an article published in the June 25th edition of the journal Neuron, researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, have found that synaptic plasticity, long implicated as a device for 'change' in the ...
The benefits of stress ... in plants
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Chronic stress in humans has been implicated in heart disease, weight gain, and diabetes, among a host of other health problems. Extreme environments, a source of chronic stress, present a challenge even for the hardiest ...
Turbulence responsible for black holes' balancing act
Jul 14, 2009 |
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We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and ...
A balancing act in Parkinson's disease: Phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Both genetic and pathologic data indicate a role for the neuronal protein alpha-synuclein in Parkinson disease. Previous studies have indicated that phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein at amino acid 129 (Ser129) is a key event ...
Drink less rather than shower less to save water
May 25, 2005 |
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If you are trying to do your bit for sustainability and save water by taking shorter showers, then a new report on sustainability reveals for the first time that there are more effective ways that our everyday choices can ...
Right warfarin dose determined by 3 genes
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Uppsala University, together with colleagues at the Karolinska Institute and the Sanger Institute, have now found all the genes the determine the dosage of the blood-thinning drug warfarin. The findings are ...
Argonne scientists reach milestone in accelerator upgrade project
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have successfully stopped and then reaccelerated a stable ion through a newly constructed charge-breeder, bringing the CAlifornium Rare Isotope ...
Long carbon fibers could improve blast resistance of concrete structures
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Jeffery Volz, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his team have received $567,000 to explore ...
In spiders, size matters: Small males are more often meals
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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Female spiders are voracious predators and consume a wide range of prey, which sometimes includes their mates. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for why females eat males before or after mating. Researchers ...
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