News tagged with training methods

If you're aggressive, your dog will be too, study

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new, year-long University of Pennsylvania survey of dog owners who use confrontational or aversive methods to train aggressive pets, veterinary researchers have found that most of these animals will ...

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2




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Tailor-made search tools for the Web

For companies, customer feedback is a matter of strategic importance. Smart apps for the semantic analysis of user opinions from the Web help businesses keep an eye on feedback. Users benefit as well: with ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stanford develops new tool for teaching doctors to treat sepsis

Jack was sinking fast, his vital signs registering alarming numbers. With every passing second, his doctor, Charles Prober, could see his patient being overwhelmed by sepsis, a deadly complication of infection ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Statistical model unlocks barriers to use of fingerprint evidence in court

Potentially key fingerprint evidence is currently not being considered due to shortcomings in the way it is reported, according to a report published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and th ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Smartphone training helps people with memory impairment regain independence

The treatment for moderate-to-severe memory impairment could one day include a prescription for a smartphone.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers use Google Earth to verify Mediterranean fish farming data

The Great Wall of China is not the only thing you can see from space. Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth's satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers have used them to estimate ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Artificial intelligence: Getting better at the age guessing game

Scientists are developing artificial intelligence solutions for image processing, which have applications in many areas including advertising, entertainment, education and healthcare. They have, for example, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Football findings suggest concussions caused by series of hits

A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by many hits over time and not from a single blow to the head, as commonly believed.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists create first 'frequency comb' to probe ultraviolet wavelengths

Physicists at JILA have created the first "frequency comb" in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength. Laser-generated frequency combs are the most accurate ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Paper calls for more to be done to help young people with depression

Depression is one of the most common mental health problems in young people worldwide, but it often goes unrecognised and untreated. Left untreated, adolescent depression increases the risk of suicide, substance abuse, and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IPM decreased pesticide use in University of Florida housing

A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) shows that from 2003 to 2008, the use of insecticide active ingredients was reduced by about 90% in University of Florida housing buildings after ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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