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How Temporary Help Agencies Impact the Labor Market

Other Sciences / Other

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Temporary help agencies place nearly 3 million Americans in jobs each day -- but the temp industry's very success may embolden some managers to view all workers as impermanent, jobs scholar Vicki Smith argues ...


World-first to predict premature births

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy.


Spotted hyenas can increase survival rates by hunting alone

Biology /

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Recent research by Michigan State University doctoral student Jennifer Smith has shed new light on the way spotted hyenas live together and – more importantly – hunt for their food alone.





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San Jose police mount cameras on officers' heads

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras.


Nobel Physics laureates undeserving, colleagues say: report

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Former colleagues of two American scientists who won the 2009 Nobel physics prize say the winners, Willard Boyle and George Smith, did not deserve the award, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.


Efficient new wireless system can save 10 percent of bandwidth

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Driven by fast-growing use of smart phones and Internet videos, wireless communication among Americans is expanding so rapidly that a tsunami of megabytes could soon threaten to overwhelm the bandwidth available.


How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical ...


New compounds may control deadly fungal infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An estimated 25,000 Americans develop severe fungal infections each year, leading to 10,000 deaths despite the use of anti-fungal drugs. The associated cost to the U.S. health care system has been estimated at $1 billion ...


The role of medical expert witnesses: the Goudge Inquiry

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The role of a medical expert witness needs to be strictly defined and carefully controlled during legal proceedings and physicians need to be aware of their role, states an analysis of the Goudge Inquiry into pediatric forensic ...


Next generation lens promises more control

Next generation lens promises more control

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater ...


Will a carrot or a stick prompt purchase of more carrots?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Would a so-called Twinkie tax help curb obesity rates? Should shoppers who buy healthy goods earn rebates? A new study will seek to unravel the likely implications of legislative attempts to promote healthy ...


Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


New Intel products to be launched in January

Next-generation Intel products to be launched in January; Include first 32-nm Core i3, i5 processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has announced it will launch over two dozen new products next month, including new processors, chipsets, and a number of wireless components.



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