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Serving women prisoners address major social work conference on the effects...

SERVING women prisoners were given leave to attend a conference at the University of Huddersfield and when they spoke about the effects of separation from their children it led to a change in hearts...

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Wie unser Gehirn Bewusstein erzeugt

Entsteht unser Bewusstsein aus kontinuierlich verarbeiteten Sinneseindrücken? Ein neuer Ansatz von Wissenschaftlern der Universitäten Zürich und Ulm sowie der EPFL zeigt nun, wie das Gehirn...

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Concussion Can Alter Parent-Child Relationships

A study published in the Journal of Neuropsychology, reveals the adverse effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on the quality parent-child relationships. The young brain is particularly...

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Une Commotion Cérébrale En Bas Âge Changerait La Relation Parent-Enfant

Une étude de publiée dans le Journal of Neuropsychology révèle les effets indésirables d’une commotion cérébrale sur la qualité des relations interpersonnelles parent-enfant. Le jeune cerveau est...

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Case study investigates the strategic use of roadmaps within companies

In cooperation with TIM Consulting, Fraunhofer IAO conducted an online survey from July to September 2015 on the use, challenges and success factors of roadmaps in everyday company operations. An...

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Hiring Knut ahead of Muhammed

Despite the fact that both men have grown up in Norway and have the same education and work experience, Norwegian employers choose Knut more often than Muhammed.

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How to measure the quality of life in smart cities?

From the Internet of Things to the Internet of “meaningful” Things. Nowadays several indicators aim to quantify the smartness of our cities. Next step will be to create a thermometer of citizens’...

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Economic development equals greater carbon footprint and greenhouse gas...

Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions? “In theory, no, but in practice this seems to be the case”, says researcher Max Koch from...

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B-School Innovation Professor Discovers Pathway between Diabetes and...

In a new paper published by The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Professor Melissa Schilling, a strategy and innovation expert at the NYU Stern School of Business, uncovers a surprising new connection...

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How depression may compound risk of type 2 diabetes

Depression may compound the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people with such early warning signs of metabolic disease as obesity, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels, according...

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La dépression pourrait augmenter le risque de diabète de type 2

La dépression pourrait multiplier le risque de diabète de type 2 en présence de signes annonciateurs du syndrome métabolique tels que l’obésité, l’hypertension et des taux de cholestérol anormaux....

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Nearly winning is more rewarding in gamblings addicts

Pathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so-called near-miss events: losing events that come very close to a win. Neuroscientists of the Donders Institute at Radboud University show this...

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Our employment status affects our morals around money

According to a pioneering, quantitative study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country published by the PNAS, becoming unemployed changes people’s morals around the distribution of money

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Maple syrup protects neurons and nurtures young minds

Maple syrup protects neurons and prevents the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in C. elegans worms, according to a study by college students, now students at the university level, and...

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Le sirop d’érable protège les neurones et forme la relève scientifique

Le sirop d’érable protège les neurones et empêche le développement de la sclérose latérale amyotrophique chez le vers C. elegans, selon une étude menée par des étudiantes du collégial, aujourd’hui...

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Listed Companies: Strategic Information Disclosure Moves Stocks by 8%

Research by Antonio Marra and colleagues shows that when strategic plans are disclosed stocks move 8% more than average and the accuracy of analysts’ earning forecasts improves by 14%

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Gene defect may point to solution for Alzheimer’s

University of Bergen researchers have found a protein that could hold the key to understanding how Alzheimer’s disease develops.

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Disability assessors must be properly trained says British Psychological...

Following the airing of Channel 4’s Dispatches programme The Great Benefits Row on Monday 11 April 2016, the British Psychological Society (BPS) is extremely concerned about the appropriateness of the...

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Simplifying Complexity by George E. Yoos

""This book is dedicated to the rhetoric of the sciences and technologies discussing a multitude of ways for framing and modeling. Organized in a collection of essays, George E. Yoos surveys a number...

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“Margin trading should be regulated like gambling”, says University of...

New research shows similarity between behaviour of margin traders and gamblers Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester have analysed the behaviour of margin traders...

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