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Coffee catch-ups used to measure communications effectiveness

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has found that most businesses measure the effectiveness of internal communication in the most obvious way possible: by asking staff what they think.


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New research helps predict stock market

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Massey University have developed a new way to predict stock markets that has been recognised with an award from New Zealand finance specialists.


Violence is a problem in the workplace, study shows

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A survey on the incidence of violence in the workplace has indicated that one in three employers have had problems with their staff being attacked or assaulted in the past year.





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Investors need not lose sleep over daylight saving

Other Sciences / Economics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The changeover to and from daylight saving does not have a detrimental effect on financial markets, according to new research.


Ecstasy use up as methamphetamine levels off

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An increase in the use of ecstasy may be due to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring work done by Massey University researchers.


Biochar: turning waste into wealth

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

As all gardeners know, manure helps the flowers grow. But that manure also gives off greenhouse gases, contributing to global climate change.


Declining water quality threatens freshwater fish species with extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increasing urbanisation and more intensive farming are killing New Zealand's freshwater fish species by degrading water quality, says the author of a report published this week by the Ministry for the Environment.


Pseudoephedrine no boost to performance

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many top-level cyclists may be putting their health at risk for no competitive gain by taking pseudoephedrine, according to new research.


Too much security reduces trust in online banking

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The more security measures banks impose on internet banking the more customers lose faith in the system's ability to protect their money, a Massey University study has found.


Smelling a rat to catch a rat

Smelling a rat to catch a rat

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created Mar 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A novel experiment using laboratory rats to attract wild rats could pave the way for “rat perfumed” bait capable of reducing the millions of rats threatening New Zealand’s native species, say Massey conservation ...


GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.


Why criminals cannot say 'no'

Why criminals cannot say 'no'

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 09, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (17) | comments 4

A study integrating theories from criminology and psychology has provided an in-depth explanation for the link between self-control and why people get into crime.


Scientists nail quail mystery

Scientists nail quail mystery

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Massey biology researcher has used DNA analysis to prove quail on Tiritiri Matangi Island are Australian and not remnants of an extinct New Zealand species.



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