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Heart Hazards of Woeful Wives

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, ...





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Marital problems lead to poorer outcomes for breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients who have a poor relationship with their spouse may face a more difficult road to recovery than would other women, according to a new study.


Religion, other factors contribute to successful African-American marriages

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study in the journal Family Relations reveals that unity, religion, and communication are vital to the success of African-American marriages.


Probing Question: What predicts a happy marriage?

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

You’ve planned the perfect Valentine’s Day, booked the candlelit restaurant, bought chocolate and flowers. (Or, depending on your darling's taste, bought tickets to a monster truck rally.) The night couldn’t have gone better… ...


Stretching silicon

Stretching silicon: A new method to measure how strain affects semiconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics.


Marriage improves after kids fly the coop, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- So much for the empty nest blues. A University of California, Berkeley, study that tracked the relationships of dozens of women has found evidence that marriages improve once the kids have flown the coop.


Rebound Marriages No More Likely to End in Divorce

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created Mar 28, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Many self-help books and well-meaning friends and relatives offer this advice to newly divorced friends: Don't marry on the rebound. Don't rush into or commit to a serious relationship prematurely. Wait until you are good an ...


Commitment to marriage, emotional engagement key to wives' happiness

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created Mar 02, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

A study by University of Virginia sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock finds that the single most important factor in women's marital happiness is the level of their husbands' emotional engagement -- not money, ...


Stress Management: X-Rays Reveal Si Thin-Film Defects

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 06, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Pile-ups, bad on the freeway, also are a hazard for the makers of high-performance strained-silicon semiconductor devices. A sensitive X-ray diffraction imaging technique developed by researchers at the National Institute ...


Rethinking monogamy in Western Canada

Rethinking monogamy in Western Canada

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- You hear it all the time, especially in debates concerning same-sex marriage and polygamy: The biggest threat to the social order is the breakdown of monogamous marriage.


Advanced engineered substrates boost chip performance

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 21, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A single platform that combines the benefits of strained silicon and silicon-on-insulator technologies hopes to offer much improved performance for future chip generations.



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