News tagged with extended
Extended service contracts: When and why do people buy them?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Consumer experts have long recommended against buying Extended Service Contracts (ESCs) with products, since they are rarely cost effective. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the reasons why so man ...
Will the economic crisis lead to major societal changes?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 08, 2009 |
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Why are former business executives and attorneys volunteering more time to help their communities? Why do the children of immigrants assume values very different from those of their parents? Why has the size of Japanese families ...
Samsung NC310 Netbook Claims 11 Hour Battery Life
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most standard netbooks offer between two and five hours of battery life, the newly released Samsung NC310 goes beyond these limits and can achieve 11 hours of computing time on a single charge. ...
Scientists 'watch' as individual alpha-synuclein proteins change shape
Mar 16, 2009 |
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In an Early Edition publication of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, the researchers demonstrate the "alpha-synuclein dance" - the switching back and forth of the protein between a ben ...
Prolonged nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected ...
