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Virtual world offers new locale for problem solving

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide who go there for everything from college recruiting to shopping. Now, Penn State researchers are investigating how virtual ...


Individual personal ties strengthen teams' overall creativity

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

With more employees working in teams, it is critical to find ways to enable teams to be more creative in their work. A new article in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal explores how imagination, insight, and creative ideas ...


Study: Individual Personal Ties Strengthen Teams’ Overall Creativity

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With more employees working in teams, it’s critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work.


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NASA Selects Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country, including two from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, to study the origins, ...


Groups share information in workplace, but not the 'right' information

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From the operating room to the executive board room, the benefits of working in teams have long been touted. But a new analysis of 22 years of applied psychological research shows that teams tend to discuss information they ...


ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge: A tough task for the student teams

ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge: A tough task for the student teams

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation ...


Pervasive collaboration for modern business

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Highly dispersed and mobile teams are the definition of modern business, but organising them is a hard problem. Now European researchers have developed a service bundle that could make virtual team organisation ...


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Odds are, seedings don't matter after Sweet 16, professor says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For budding "bracketologists" busily weighing picks for their annual March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois professor has some advice on how to pick winners: In the later rounds of the tournament, ...


Study: Lack of capital not a 'death sentence' for start-ups

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new study from North Carolina State University is turning the conventional wisdom about technology start-up companies on its head, showing that ventures with moderate levels of undercapitalization can still be successful ...


Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will ...