News tagged with female teachers


Teacher talk strains voices, especially for women

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Teachers tend to spend more time speaking than most professionals, putting them at a greater risk for hurting their voices -- they're 32 times more likely to experience voice problems, according to one study. And unlike singers ...


Gender bias found in student ratings of high school science teachers

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study of 18,000 biology, chemistry and physics students has uncovered notable gender bias in student ratings of high school science teachers.





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Figitumumab has anti-tumor activity in Ewing's sarcoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A preliminary study of the anticancer drug figitumumab has found that it has antitumour activity in Ewing's sarcoma—a cancer which affects mainly teenage boys. The results have led to the drug's progression to a Phase 2 trial ...


Turtles' Christmas journey tracked by scientists

Turtles' Christmas journey tracked by scientists

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The journeys of two marine turtles around the world's oceans will be available to view online this Christmas, thanks to a new research project launched by the University of Exeter.


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Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...


Teenagers use violence to boost their social standing

Teenagers use violence to boost their social standing

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study looks in depth at the social relationships between male and female teenagers, relational violence, and psycho-social adjustment factors such as loneliness, self-esteem and satisfaction with life. ...


Fungal footage fosters foresight into plant, animal disease

Meddling in mosquitoes' sex lives could help stop the spread of malaria, says study

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a 'mating plug' could prevent mosquitoes from reproducing, and offer a potential new way to combat malaria, say scientists ...


Protein that represses genes may play role in cell growth

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study shows the protein not only activates some genes involved in the regulation of cell growth and signaling, but also may play a role in preventing cancers by inhibiting cell proliferation.


Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lan Nguyen Chaplin, an assistant professor in the Eller College of Management, says children and teenagers, in finding happiness, do not always place material things before personal relationships.


Research suggests link between infertility, low egg reserve, and breast/ovarian cancer gene (BRCA1)

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

A New York Medical College physician who specializes in restoring or preserving fertility in female cancer patients has discovered a possible link between the presence of breast cancer genes and infertility.


New study explores role of sexual, social behaviors in seniors' well-being

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers and the general public have a new resource for information on the health and intimate relationships of older people, thanks to a new supplemental issue of The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological an ...


Disordered eating may affect 10 to 15 percent of women

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Several maladaptive eating behaviors, beyond anorexia, can affect women. Indeed, some 10 to 15 percent of women have maladaptive eating behaviours and attitudes according to new study from the Université de Montréal ...



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