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

Biology /

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

(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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Virtual reality: Keyhole surgeons training could help meet European working time directives

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Trainee surgeons who add virtual reality (VR) training to standard 'apprenticeship' training in key-hole surgery learn more quickly, work with greater accuracy and have less errors than those with no VR training, and perform ...


Surgeon training found effective in breast cancer sentinel lymph node trial

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Training methods for surgeons who perform breast cancer sentinel lymph node resection were found to be effective in almost 97% of surgeons assessed, according to a new study published online August 24 in the Journal of th ...


Slow exercise (not fast) is better for menopausal women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

It's an inevitable truth: as we get older, our muscles deteriorate and we become weaker. Not only can this be an immensely frustrating change, but it can also have many other, more serious implications. We become clumsier ...


Findings could lead to improved lip-reading training for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

Findings could lead to improved lip-reading training for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A new study by the University of East Anglia suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans.


Researchers develop better training for keyhole surgery

Researchers develop better training for keyhole surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher Sanne Botden has improved the training methods for surgeons who perform keyhole operations. At present, a relatively large number of errors are made during surgery of this kind. She defends her ...


Flu pandemic in prison: A model for public health preparedness

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When pandemics occur, correctional facilities are not immune. With more than 9 million people incarcerated across the globe 2.25 million in U.S. jails and prisons alone it is vital that correctional officials and health professionals ...


Web-based in-service training requires new skills

Web-based in-service training requires new skills

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mona Nilsen from the Department of Education and Didactics, University of Gothenburg, has analysed continued professional development within the food production industry, a sector with a generally low level ...


Where's the science? The sorry state of psychotherapy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4

The prevalence of mental health disorders in this country has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Who is treating all of these patients? Clinical psychologists and therapists are charged with the task, but many are falling ...


Matter in hand: Jugglers have rewired brains

Matter in hand: Jugglers have rewired brains

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning to juggle leads to changes in the white matter of the brain, an Oxford University study has shown.


Chinese teen dies at Internet addiction rehab camp (AP)

Chinese teen dies at Internet addiction rehab camp

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- China is investigating the death of a teenager who was allegedly beaten to death in a camp designed to treat Internet addiction, state media said.



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