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How to be a good boss in a bad economy

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When cutbacks are necessary, can a good boss do right by the company's finances and by its staff? Some pain is probably unavoidable, but Stanford management science and engineering Professor Bob Sutton says ...





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Sharing Scarce Flu Vaccine May Be Best: Game Theory Model Shows Hoarding Supplies Isn't Healthiest Choice

Sharing Scarce Flu Vaccine May Be Best: Game Theory Model Shows Hoarding Supplies Isn't Healthiest Choice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As manufacturers race to test and deliver an H1N1 influenza vaccine by October, public health officials are working equally feverishly to determine how scarce doses should be allocated.


Neural networks mapped in dementia patients

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Different types of dementia show dissimilar changes in brain activity. A network mapping technique described in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has been applied to EEG data obtained from patients with Alzheimer's diseas ...


Thinking of you: Studies of blind reveal how we think about other people

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Human beings constantly make inferences about other people's state of mind, usually without even realizing they are doing it. Cognitive scientists call this ability "theory of mind," and until recently, not ...


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


Health experts: Kids should get seasonal flu shot

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year - a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.


No experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study finds a surprising similarity in the way neural circuits linked to vision process information in both sighted individuals and those who have been blind since birth. The research, published by Cell Press in the ...


Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development

Biology / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called Category Theory, the ...


Zogby poll on evolution is released

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created Mar 07, 2006 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (25) | comments 0

A poll by Zogby International reportedly shows most Americans support public school teachers presenting evolution and intelligent design theories.


Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacetime, which consists of three dimensions of space and one time dimension, is such a large, abstract concept that scientists have a very difficult time understanding and defining it. Moreover, ...


Theory of Physics Explains Human Patterns

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 12, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (60) | comments 0

Why does a railway network look like a river? Why do the streets of old Rome look like a leaf? Because whether their shape is determined by the interactions of molecules or the choices made by individual humans, all of these ...



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