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Environmental Conservation

Understanding Ecological Communities: Why Distance Matters

But while this pattern has been widely recognized, there has been astonishing lack of consensus on what the main drivers of this pattern are. By integrating a…

Physics & Astronomy

Liverpool John Moores University Excels in Space Science Research

This impressive ranking is based on the number of times ARI research papers are cited by other scientists. Over the last decade, the ARI's 10 most-cited papers…

Power and Electrical Engineering

£20M Investment Boost for UK Bioenergy Innovation

The initiative by BBSRC which will take total public funding to £36M over the next five years was launched at Imperial College in London. It will support the…

Business and Finance

Managers salute impact of Lancaster’s ‘Wilderness Thinking’

Fifty managers who experienced the Lancaster ‘learning retreat’ – a 48-hour period of individual reflection in the Lake District – reported significant…

Life & Chemistry

Statins Show Promise in Reducing Blood Pressure, Study Finds

The research, led by Professor Francesco Cappuccio at Warwick Medical School, examined 20 studies on the effects of statins that covered 828 patients. Of those…

Life & Chemistry

Laying sleeping sickness to rest

Shulamit Michaeli and colleagues describe a pathway in T. brucei parasites that they named SLS (SL-RNA silencing). Triggering this pathway shuts down the…

Business and Finance

Changes needed to dismissal law in the US and Netherlands

This topic is central to Grace van Arkel’s dissertation 'A Just Cause for Dismissal in the United States and the Netherlands, A study on the extent of…

Business and Finance

New Insights into Mutual Funds

Funds that display strong (weak) performance over a past period continue to do so in future periods. More importantly, Huij demonstrates that some fund…

Business and Finance

The impact of immigration on UK wages

The research looks at the period from 1997 to 2005 and finds evidence of an overall positive impact of immigration on the wages of native born workers,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

The inside scoop on semen

Some 90% of all births of cattle and pigs in Norway result from artificial insemination with frozen, or fresh and stored semen. Highly fertile semen fetches a…

Earth Sciences

Leicester Researcher To Lead Global Team Tackling Carbon ‘Time-Bomb’

Dr Susan Page, of the Department of Geography, has been awarded 458,000 Euros funding from the European Commission for the international project involving…

Power and Electrical Engineering

University of Twente starts severe testing of cables for ITER reactor

Superconducting magnets will be about one third of the building costs of the International Thermonuclear Reactor, to be built in Cadarache in France; this…

Social Sciences

Nordic countries still best in Europe on welfare, but for how long?

Combining competitiveness and growth with a high level of social services, the so-called Nordic model is attracting international attention. When European…

Environmental Conservation

Pollution shown cutting rainfall in hilly areas

The Chinese and Israeli researchers showed that the average precipitation on Mount Hua near Xian in central China has decreased by 20 percent along with…

Studies and Analyses

Proteochemometrics achieves better retardants for HIV/Aids

The new method, developed by Professor Jarl Wikberg at Uppsala University, allowed the researchers to create a ‘map’ that in detail shows how 61 drug targets…

Life & Chemistry

Subliminal Advertising: Impact on Brain Activity Revealed

Using fMRI, the study looked at whether an image you aren’t aware of – but one that reaches the retina – has an impact on brain activity in the primary visual…

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