News tagged with rural
UM researchers map out America's deadliest roads
Jul 28, 2008 |
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Would you be surprised to learn that nine people died last year on the highway you take to work everyday? Or would you be shocked to see that six teenagers died within five miles of your home in fatal car accidents? With ...
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 ...
New biomass charcoal heater: A 'new era' of efficiency and sustainability
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved "biomass charcoal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Rural America more prosperous than expected
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For many people "rural" is synonymous with low incomes, limited economic opportunity, and poor schools. However, a recent study at the University of Illinois found that much of rural America is actually prosperous, ...
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.
IT outsourcing could benefit rural hospitals, researchers find
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Patients expect the most up-to-date equipment and technology at hospitals, regardless of the institution's size or budget. Providing that technology, however, can be difficult for small, rural hospitals that often lack the ...
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.
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.
New study on rural HIV care has economic and health implications
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 11, 2008 |
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An Indiana University study found that HIV care providers in rural Indiana report significant stigma and discrimination in the rural medical referral system surrounding issues of HIV and substance abuse. Providers felt that ...
MSU doctors bring much-needed psychiatric care to rural areas via technology
Oct 27, 2008 |
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To tackle the growing number of psychiatric cases in Michigan's rural areas, particularly among children and adolescents, a team of Michigan State University doctors from the colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and Human Medicine ...
Telemedicine can dramatically improve child sexual assault examinations in rural areas
Jan 26, 2009 |
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The use of telemedicine can dramatically improve the quality of child sexual assault examinations in rural communities where rates of abuse and neglect are highest — sometimes more than double the statewide rate — a study ...
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.
