News tagged with initial

Sorry no news are found ... Your search criteria may have been too narrow. You can quickly re-sort the news in different ways by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.

Search results for initial

Study: Half of urban teen girls acquire STIs within 2 years of first sexual activity

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 14, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Half of urban teenage girls may acquire at least one of three common sexually transmitted infections (STI) within two years of becoming sexually active, according to an Indiana University School of Medicine and Regenstrief ...

USGS monitoring Twitter for earthquake details

Technology / Internet

9 hours ago | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- OMG! Earthquake!

Tool use in an invertebrate: The coconut-carrying octopus

Biology / Plants & Animals

Dec 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the December 14th issue ...

Marketing a 'spoonful of sugar'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

2 hours ago | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Your kids won't wear their seatbelts, take their vitamins or brush their teeth? A new study by Tel Aviv University offers a simple formula that will get better compliance in the kid department -- and has implications for ...

Painkiller undermines aspirin's anti-clotting action

Medicine & Health / Research

19 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Millions of Americans take Celebrex for arthritis or other pain. Many, if they are middle-aged or older, also take a low-dose aspirin tablet daily to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Yet they may be getting little ...

CEO charisma biases financial analysts, can hurt investors, study says

Other Sciences / Economics

3 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Projecting the charisma of a newly hired Chief Executive Officer often leads financial analysts to make crucial errors in forecasting the company's future performance, according to a new study in the current issue of Organization Sc ...

Researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola

Other Sciences / Mathematics

4 hours ago | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential ...

Study finds over 90 percent of people with gum disease are at risk for diabetes

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 14, 2009 | 3 / 5 (3) | 1

The study, led by Dr. Shiela Strauss, Associate Professor of Nursing and Co-Director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined data from 2,923 adult participants in the ...

California's troubled waters: Satellite-based findings reveal major groundwater loss in Central Valley (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California's primary agricultural region - the Central Valley - and its major mountain water source - the Sierra Nevada - have lost nearly ...