News tagged with rural
Magnetic leaves reveal Bellingham's most polluted byways
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Tree leaves may be powerful tools for monitoring air quality and planning biking routes and walking paths, suggests a new study by scientists at Western Washington University in Bellingham. The research will ...
Wealth link to alcohol crime
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rich rural towns show higher levels of alcohol-related crime than poorer communities, according to new research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.
Rural roads dangerous for young drivers
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Results from Australia's largest study of young drivers have shown that they are at significant risk of crash on rural roads. According to researchers from The George Institute, young drivers living in rural areas are more ...
What sustainability really means to rural decision-makers
Sep 22, 2009 |
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From book titles to real estate developments, it's easier to find things claiming to be sustainable than it is to define it.
Too many bars in rural America linked to high suicide rates instead of idyllic life
Sep 18, 2009 |
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There is a strong relationship between drinking and taking one's own life. In any given year, people with alcohol dependence (AD) commit more than 20 percent of suicides in the general population; some 80 to 90 percent of ...
City dwellers bear disproportionate federal tax burden
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Live in an expensive city? Think you pay too much in federal taxes? If so, a study in the current issue of the Journal of Political Economy finds that you're exactly right.
Nurses in Africa know when to start antiretroviral treatment
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Nurses and clinical officers (non-physician clinicians, NPCs) are capable of determining when a person should receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Declining road fatalities: Less driving not the only cause
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fewer Americans are dying on our nation's roads, not only because they are driving less, but also because the type of driving has changed, says a researcher at the University of Michigan Transportation ...
Computer modeling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 02, 2009 |
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An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.
17 million US children live more than an hour away from trauma care
Jun 01, 2009 |
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More than 17 million U.S. children live more than an hour away by ground or air transportation from a life-saving pediatric trauma center, according to a new study by researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...
City-dwellers have higher risk of late-stage cancer than rural residents
May 11, 2009 |
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People who live in urban areas are more likely to develop late-stage cancer than those who live in suburban and rural areas. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the June 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journa ...
Verizon offers to cut exclusive time for phones
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Verizon Wireless has offered to shorten the period in which it demands exclusive rights to new cell phones from LG and Samsung in an effort to give small rural carriers a better chance to sell up-to-date phones.
Adults with HIV in Rural Areas Experience Discrimination, Stigma
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Oregon State University researchers shows that rural residents in Oregon who have HIV/AIDS experience stigma and discrimination in day-to-day living and when accessing health care services.
Treating kids with malaria at home doesn't work
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Treating African children at home for malaria doesn't help in cities because most fevers aren't actually caused by malaria, a new study said Tuesday.
Spreading high-speed Internet to rural areas
Mar 16, 2009 |
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To cut the cost of bringing high-speed Internet to rural areas, Dr. Ka Lun Lee and colleagues at the University of Melbourne and NEC Australia in the state of Victoria are experimenting with a way to boost the reach of existing ...
