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Engineers create system for combating manipulation of online product ratings

As online shopping continues to grow in popularity around the globe, shoppers increasingly depend upon consumer-based rating systems that vendors like Amazon.com and eBay use to rate products and sellers. But those rating ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Patients' online hospital reviews reflect data on hospital outcomes

Patients' ratings of hospitals tally with objective measures of the hospital's performance, according to an independent study published today in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Baseball legend fields fantasy world video game

Electronic Arts has released a much-anticipated "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" video game created by an all-star team put together by World Series champion pitcher Curt Schilling.

Technology / Software

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

My connectome, myself

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each of which is connected to many others. Neuroscientists believe these connections hold the key to our memories, personality and even mental disorders such as schizophrenia. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Children can learn arithmetic faster and better

During the first two years of primary education children can learn to do arithmetic faster and better with the help of a more systematically structured educational programme. For older children, teaching arithmetic with the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Firms' own social networks better for business than Facebook

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using Facebook and Twitter may be good for a company's bottom line, but firms can rake in even bigger profits if they have their own virtual brand community, says a University of Michigan ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What patients talk about when they talk about doctors

(Medical Xpress) -- An analysis of hundreds of reviews posted to physician-rating sites on the Internet revealed that patients generally give their doctors favorable reviews in this forum. If they complain, it is generally ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Adversity can be a catalyst for positive change

Tragedy, natural disasters, terrorism, divorce; 75 per cent of us will experience some form of trauma in life. But the experience can be a catalyst for positive change.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study compares the accuracy of valuation methods of insurance companies

A study by Columbia Business School Professor Doron Nissim, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting & Finance, reveals a better understanding of how investors value insurance companies. Two alternative approaches are typically ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B

(AP) -- Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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