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Consumers don't pardon the intrusion of advertisements

“Media create the audience for most advertising. Consumers come to a medium for its content,” explain Jing Wang (University of Iowa) and Bobby Calder…

Studies and Analyses

Biological Traits and Bird Diversification Rates: What We Found

“Few studies have looked at ecological traits such as dispersal and feeding generalization as explanations for variation in rate of diversification, perhaps…

Physics & Astronomy

Nanotechnology Sparks Faster Computers: £555K Project Unveiled

The University of Bath is to lead an international £555,000 three-year project to develop a system which could cut out the need for wiring to carry electric…

Life & Chemistry

New Methods for Preserving Rhino Sperm Unveiled

Catherine Reid’s task, supervised by team member Dr. Robert Hermes, is to look for new ways to preserve rhino sperm so that it can be used after months of…

Environmental Conservation

Separating and Purifying Urine: A Nutrient-Rich Innovation

Urine accounts for less than 1% of our waste water, but it contains 50-80% of the nutrients in the waste water. For this reason, it is extremely burdensome for…

Information Technology

How Robots are Learning Social Skills for Better Interaction

Most research into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) that underpins any form of intelligent machine-machine or machine-human interaction has centred on…

Health & Medicine

Pre-Scan Warnings: Women’s Views on Fetal Health Discoveries

Research published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing shows that although women wanted to be told immediately if a problem was detected, they didn’t…

Health & Medicine

Identification of role for proteins in children's muscle disease could open up new treatment options

The specific response has earlier been observed in juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but to date, little is known about the role of HSP60 in inflammatory…

Health & Medicine

Hospital Overcrowding Increases MRSA Risk in England

The researchers found that three quarters of English hospitals exceed the recommended 82% bed occupancy rate – with a third of trusts having occupancy rates of…

Health & Medicine

Rheumatoid arthritis could be prevented if the timing is right: Methotrexate shown to delay and prevent RA progression

The PROMPT-study (Probable rheumatoid arthritis: Methotrexate versus Placebo Treatment-study) is a double-blind placebo controlled randomized multicenter trial…

Life & Chemistry

Green Leaf Extract May Help Curb Appetite: Study Insights

The idea grew out of collaboration between a professor of medicinal and physiological chemistry, Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson, who does research on obesity…

Life & Chemistry

Flatfish Slime Discovery: New Protein Fights Bacteria

Chemical engineer Trude Tvete has found a bacteria-killing protein in plaice slime, isolated the protein from the slime and tested it on staphylococcus…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Supports Cryopreservation for Slow-Frozen People

He conducted the study, scheduled for the July 6 issue of the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry B, one of 34 peer-review journals published by the American…

Studies and Analyses

How Peer-to-Peer Sharing Fosters Social Solidarity

But a groundbreaking new study in the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research argues that members of peer-to-peer file sharing networks, like the…

Environmental Conservation

Tropical Rainforest Nutrients Impact Global CO2 Levels

Results of the research, conducted by Cory Cleveland and CU scientist Alan Townsend, are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy…

Environmental Conservation

Understanding Biodiversity: The Importance of Time in Ecology

By studying how plants in three hyper-diverse grasslands change annually over a decade, ecologists Jason Fridley (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),…

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