KTU – Officially the Best at Implementing ERASMUS+ Mobility Project in the...
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) took home the main prize for implementing academic mobility in the category of Higher Education established by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation (EESF)....
View ArticleKTU Sociologists: Lithuanian Employers Are Inclined to Discriminate People...
Who is more valuable for a company: an experienced employee or someone, who is just starting their career? Older or younger people? These questions are extremely important now, when in the context of...
View ArticleEl cerebro de las personas obesas muestra una mayor activación ante la comida...
Científicos del Centro Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC) de la Universidad de Granada emplean la técnica de resonancia magnética funcional para evaluar el comportamiento del circuito de...
View ArticleVice-Rectors for Research of the Most Innovative Universities in Europe Will...
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) who has recently joined European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) is opening new possibilities for the researchers, start-ups and students. In December...
View ArticleCooking and masculinity in Sweden
In a newly published study in The Sociological Review, researchers from Uppsala University and Stockholm University have explored how everyday domestic cooking is part of a (self-)understanding of men...
View ArticleMapping migrations by using mobile phone data
Researchers from UPM infer the displacement of tens of thousands of seasonal workers in Senegal using data of mobile phone tracking.
View ArticleCartografiar migraciones mediante datos de telefonía móvil
Investigadores de la UPM infieren los desplazamientos de decenas de miles de trabajadores estacionales en Senegal utilizando datos de telefonía móvil geolocalizados.
View ArticleClimate agreements are a side track
The historic UN climate agreement has recently entered into force. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, has little confidence in the agreement. He claims...
View ArticleWhat your choice of smartphone says about you
Android users are more honest than iPhone users say psychologists, in a study published this week which is the first to find a link between personality and smartphone type. Four out of five UK adults...
View ArticleStudy Uncovers High Prevalence of Military Sexual Trauma among Transgender...
New research found a high prevalence of military sexual trauma (MST) among transgender veterans and an association between the experience of MST and certain mental health conditions.
View ArticleHousehold Smoke Exposure Linked to Antisocial Behavior in Young Adolescents
Researchers found modest, yet reliable long-term links between early childhood household smoke exposure and self-reported antisocial behavior in early adolescence. For the study, parents of 1035...
View ArticleInvesting in the “Bioeconomy” Could Create Jobs and Reduce Carbon Emissions
A new article looks at the potential benefits of a Billion Ton Bioeconomy, a vision to enable a sustainable market for producing and converting a billion tons of US biomass to bio-based energy, fuels,...
View ArticleAdvertising gone wrong: Issues in International advertising
A recent study from the University of Vaasa shows that advertisement developed in one culture can go wrong in another culture. International marketing and advertising managers should have a...
View ArticleLondon seminar to explore the ‘migration crisis’
02/12/2016, Migration and asylum are proving to be the touchstone issues of our time, shaping politics in ways that extend far beyond immigration regimes. A major event in London on 2 December 2016...
View ArticleScripps Florida Scientists Find Surprising Answers to ‘Food Coma’ Conundrum
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Florida Atlantic University and Bowling Green State University may have finally found a reason for the 'food coma' phenomenon.
View ArticleChildren learn early on that scientists are men
When children were asked to draw a scientist, a bald, middle-aged man in a white coat was most often depicted. Why is that? A group of Leiden University science communication researchers discovered...
View ArticleUna nueva herramienta muestra los ingresos por publicidad que genera cada...
Investigadores de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) han desarrollado, en el marco de un proyecto de investigación europeo, una nueva herramienta informática que permite visualizar los ingresos...
View ArticleNew guidelines aim to improve understanding of scientific data
Researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) have produced new guidelines aimed at improving the communication and understanding of scientific data - using knowledge of how the human brain...
View ArticleDNA influences selection of partners for educational achievement
A study co-led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people with genes for high educational achievement tend to marry, and have children with, people with similar DNA.
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