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Business and Finance

Enhancing Employee Skills Through Customer Insights

Developing employees’ skills and expertise is vital for knowledge-intensive enterprises. Much is written about the plethora of courses, training programmes and…

Social Sciences

New Insights on Wet AMD Impact from 7th International Congress

7th International AMD Congress, Marbella, Spain, 19th October 2007: New research1 released today reports that 90 percent of people with wet AMD say receiving…

Physics & Astronomy

Columbus Hatch Closes: Milestone for Innovation Journey

Although there was no formal ceremony to mark the occasion, the hatch closure is an important milestone for all involved. “This means we are 99% ready for…

Physics & Astronomy

Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta's Earth approach

After passing Mars in April 2007, Rosetta is now approaching Earth for the second time – the third of four planetary swing-bys that provide fuel-saving…

Environmental Conservation

University of Leicester Promotes Sustainability with People Power

The event at 1pm on Friday October 19 is the culmination of Big Green Week- the biggest environmental festival in the University’s history.They will form the…

Life & Chemistry

Sugar Buildup in Neurons Linked to Neurodegenerative Diseases

Published in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience, this finding has been made by a team of Spanish researchers led by Joan J. Guinovart, director of the…

Life & Chemistry

Hormones and Pheromones: New Insights from Yeast Research

New insights into the cellular signal chain through which pheromones stimulate mating in yeast have been gained by scientists at the European Molecular Biology…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Customer Loyalty: Insights from Recent Marketing Study

The study was conducted by Robert W. Palmatier, Evert McCabe faculty fellow and assistant professor of marketing in the Michael G. Foster School of Business at…

Physics & Astronomy

Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Found in Nearby Galaxy M33

The black hole is part of a binary system in M33, a nearby galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth. By combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Crab Species Discovered: 150 Million Years Old

Previously unexamined, these ancient crabs from the Prosopidae family existed more than 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period.“Studying primitive…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Estimate Mercury Emissions from U.S. Fires

Forest fires and other blazes in the United States likely release about 30 percent as much mercury as the nation's industrial sources, according to initial…

Life & Chemistry

Fossilized Cashew Nuts Illuminate Europe’s Role in Plant Migration

It was previously proposed that Anacardium and its African sister genus, Fegimanra, diverged from their common ancestor when the landmasses of Africa and South…

Physics & Astronomy

Toward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music

The “carbon nanotube radio” device is thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The development marks an important step in the evolution of…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Human Sensitivity to Biological Motion Misunderstood

Humans may not be any more sensitive in detecting biological motion compared with nonbiological motion, concludes a study recently published in Journal of…

Health & Medicine

MicroRNA Scan Reveals Promising Leads For Muscle Degeneration

The study, to be published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by Iris Eisenberg, PhD, of the Program in Genomics…

Life & Chemistry

X-Effect: Female Chromosome’s Role in Speciation Unveiled

Biologists have argued for years whether the X chromosome—the female chromosome in most animals—plays a special role in the process of speciation. In a new…

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