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Textbook for one of most-taught community college courses available free

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Rice University's Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country's most-attended transfer-level ...





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K-State plant pathologists develop online teaching modules used globally

Biology / Other

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Managing plant diseases that threaten the food supply and economy is a challenge for agriculturalists around the world.


Fear of lawsuits may prompt some doctors to overprescribe antibiotics

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study led by a team of researchers at New York Medical College suggests that that medical liability concerns may be playing a role in the increase of MRSA in healthcare settings by encouraging clinicians to prescribe ...


Telephone-delivered care for treating depression after CABG surgery appears to improve outcomes

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood ...


New statistical technique shows more informative picture of survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have developed a new method for presenting clinical trial survival data that includes data from all trial participants unlike the standard method, according to a commentary published online January 8 in the Journal of ...


Electrical engineers go head to head with Genius on music playlists

Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius - the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes - against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs ...


Premature births worsen US infant death rate

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday.


Google's Wave communications platform testing continues to be private with "a lot of features yet to be done"

Google wants businesses to ride Wave

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.


The two species now endangered are the flapper skake and the blue skate

Mislabelling drives skate to brink of extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ago, reveals research published today ...


New IBM Lotus Connections Software Brings Consumer Social Networking Features to the Office

Technology / Software

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM today announced an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment.


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Pharmaceuticals Look to Adaptive Trials

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, trials of pharmaceuticals have revolved around the double-blind test, controlled with a placebo, in which not even those conducting the investigation knew who was receiving what ...



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