The Queen Bee Effect: Female Managers Are Good for Innovation, Less So for...
Bocconi’s Nicolai Foss and a colleague observe that gender diversity in the top management team is positive for the firm's entrepreneurial outcomes, but with conditions: a certain threshold must be...
View ArticleEffetto ape regina: le donne manager fanno bene all'innovazione, meno alle...
Nicolai Foss della Bocconi e un collega osservano che la diversità di genere nel top management team è positiva per i risultati imprenditoriali dell'azienda, ma con alcune condizioni: bisogna...
View ArticleDiscrimination, Lack of Diversity, and Societal Risks of Large-Scale Data...
A special issue of Big Data presents a series of insightful articles that focus on Big Data and Social and Technical Trade-Offs. Despite the dramatic growth in big data affecting many areas of...
View ArticleResearchers find functional change in brains of patients with type 1 diabetes
Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience and the Institute of Complex Systems ( UBICS ) of the University of Barcelona have identified differences in the pattern of the neurofunctional activation...
View ArticleDetectan cambios funcionales en los cerebros de los pacientes con diabetes de...
Investigadores del Instituto de Neurociencias y del Instituto de Investigación de Sistemas Complejos (UBICS) de la Universidad de Barcelona han identificado diferencias en el patrón de activación...
View ArticleLess than 5% of FP7 bioeconomy projects are ready to enter the market and...
An analysis by the Horizon 2020 ProBIO project has found that less than 5% of bioeconomy projects funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7) have results with the...
View ArticlePTSD in children quickly and effectively treatable within hours
Children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) can be successfully treated with only a few hours of EMDR or cognitive behavioral writing therapy (CBWT). This is the finding of a new...
View ArticleSocial status of listener alters our voice
People tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to, and how dominant they feel, a study by the University of Stirling has found.
View ArticleUniversity of Surrey’s cutting edge research reveals the secrets of success...
University of Surrey research into innovative entrepreneurs starting to work in tourism has found, in some of the first analysis undertaken, how they have to use initiative and hard work – and often...
View ArticleUnlocking the power of research data
The wealth of data produced by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is now available to external users. The JRC Data Catalogue is an online platform which provides scientists, policy...
View ArticleThree Valencian universities create an application for the prevention and...
Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I, the Universitat Politècnica de València and the University of Valencia have developed a self-administered Internet programme for the prevention and treatment of...
View ArticleTres universitats valencianes creen una aplicació per a la prevenció i...
Investigadors de la Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, la Universitat Politècnica de València i la Universitat de València han desenvolupat un programa autoaplicat mitjançant Internet per a la prevenció...
View ArticleTres universidades valencianas crean una aplicación para la prevención y...
Investigadores de la Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, la Universitat Politècnica de València y la Universitat de València han desarrollado un programa autoaplicado mediante Internet para la prevención...
View ArticleMonitoring the development of foster children
Foster children’s behaviour is more problematic than that of their peers in ‘normal’ family situations. However, it is difficult to determine the exact cause of behavioural problems. Anouk Goemans, a...
View ArticleDemenzerkrankung: Nichtmedikamentöse Therapieverfahren sind wirksam bei...
Nichtmedikamentöse Therapieverfahren, wie Erinnerungstherapie, Ergotherapie, Musiktherapie oder körperliche Aktivitäten, sind bei der Behandlung von Verhaltensstörungen Demenzerkrankter wirksam. Dies...
View ArticleJapanese children learn to write through rhythm
How do we learn to write? A Japanese study looked at the development of writing skills in Japanese first-grade students, and revealed aspects of handwriting development that have been largely neglected...
View Article日本の子どもは文字をリズムで学んでいる？
神戸大学大学院人間発達環境学研究科の野中哲士准教授は、小学1年生を対象に、ひらがなの学習における書字身体技能の発達を調査。児童のペン先の動きを数値化し、欧米のラテンアルファベット圏の発達研究の知見とは異なる、「運動パターンの区別を身につけるプロセス」の存在を明らかにしました。 本研究成果は、2017年6月13日に、科学誌「Developmental Psychobiology」に掲載されました。
View ArticleA study shows that people finds sport less strenuous if they believe it’s...
“Sport is too much like hard work.” For many, that is reason enough to pass when it comes to exercise. But does sport really have to make you break into a sweat? Psychologist Hendrik Mothes of the...
View ArticleEducational summit for peace in Jerusalem answers Pope Francis' call to...
02/07/2017 — 05/07/2017, 40 Palestinian and Israeli youth, together with youngsters from the five continents will meet the most important religious and academic referents from 41 universities of 19...
View ArticleResearchers develop guidelines to reduce the risk of minor earthquakes during...
Keele University researchers are advising on new safety guidelines for hydraulic fracturing to help prevent minor earthquakes.
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