News tagged with behavior network
Is that song sexy or just so-so?
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Why is your mate's rendition of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" cute and sexy sometimes and so annoying at other times? A songbird study conducted by Emory University sheds new light on this question, showing that a change ...
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Developing a neighborhood watch for the Internet
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Internet network performance problems are not only annoying to users -- they are costly to businesses and network operators. But since the Internet has no built-in monitoring system, network problems often go unnoticed.
It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...
STOP terrorism software
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization ...
Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Anorexic patients drastically reduce food intake and are often not capable of changing their behavior. This can lead to life-threatening weight loss. Using MRI technology, scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital have ...
Metabolic reactions: Less is more in single-celled organisms
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Dec 05, 2008 |
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All single-celled organisms are not alike. Or are they? A Northwestern University study has found a surprising similarity among four quite different organisms. The simplest organism, a bacterium called H. pylori, uses the sa ...
Facebook, Nielsen team up to measure ad performance
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Facebook, in a move aimed at boosting its appeal to advertisers, teamed up with measurement company Nielsen on Tuesday to allow marketers to better gauge ad performance on the social network.
Strictly ballroom analysis: Computers get to know their rumba from their cha-cha-cha
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Computer scientists in Taiwan have devised a neural network program that can successfully classify a computerized music file based on its beat and tempo. The system could be a boon for music archivists with large numbers ...
Researchers develop a worldwide tourism network
Jun 11, 2008 |
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It wasn't too long ago in human history that people rarely, if ever, traveled beyond the village they were born in. We've come a long way since then: according to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), international ...
Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new "guilt-by-association" threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper ...
This is your brain on violent media
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Violence is a frequent occurrence in television shows and movies, but can watching it make you behave differently?
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