News tagged with consensus
Television has less effect on education about climate change than other forms of media
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant ...
Democrats win approval of health bill in committee
Aug 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are looking ahead to a health care showdown on the House floor in September following a key committee's passage of sweeping overhaul legislation.
Misdiagnosis of disorders of consciousness still commonplace
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 21, 2009 |
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A sixteen-month study of consensus-based diagnosis of patients with disorders of consciousness has shown that 41% of cases of minimally conscious state (MCS) were misdiagnosed as vegetative state (VS), a condition associated ...
Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don't.
New treatment option for patients with chronic hepatitis C
May 28, 2009 |
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A new combination therapy of daily consensus interferon (CIFN) and ribavirin is effective for some people with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) who do not respond to standard therapy. The treatment works particularly well in interferon-sensitive ...
Scientists urge world leaders to respond cooperatively to Pacific Ocean threats
May 12, 2009 |
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More than 400 leading scientists from nearly two-dozen countries have signed a consensus statement on the major threats facing the Pacific Ocean. The threats identified as the most serious and pervasive include overfishing, ...
Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science, a jour ...
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 ...
Fish choose their leaders by consensus
Biology /
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Just after Americans have headed to the polls to elect their next president, a new report in the November 13th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveals how one species of fish picks its le ...
