Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

How Stock Graphs Mislead Investors’ Preferences for Shorter Runs

Stock graphs are everywhere, available on financial and public websites to be loaded and customized by users. Authors Priya Raghubir (New York University) and…

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Hurricane Frequency Rises: Insights from Clemson Researchers

Robert Lund, professor of mathematical sciences at Clemson, along with colleagues Michael Robbins and Colin Gallagher of Clemson and QiQi Lu of Mississippi…

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Minimal Training Boosts Airway Mask Effectiveness in Emergencies

A study, published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine, also found that just two hours of training was enough to make first-responders faster and…

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SMU Professors Discover Breathing Technique to Alleviate Asthma

As the health care reform debate turns to cutting costs and improving treatment outcomes, two professors at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are…

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Race Has Little Effect on People’s Ability to Spot Family Resemblances

In the study recently published in the Journal of Vision (“Cross-cultural perceptions of facial resemblance between kin”), French and Senegalese participants…

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Perceptual Learning Relies on Local Motion Signals to Learn Global Motion

The brain first perceives changes in visual input (local motion) in the primary visual cortex. The local motion signals are then integrated in the later visual…

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Cetuximab Boosts Chemotherapy for Advanced Lung Cancer Survival

While a large study last year found that patients lived five weeks longer when the targeted drug cetuximab was added to a particular chemotherapy combination,…

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Short-Term Stress Boosts Anti-Tumor Activity in Mice

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that, at least in laboratory mice, bouts of relatively short-term stress can boost the…

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Addressing Rural Road Hazards for Young Drivers Today

These results and other young driver issues will be discussed today at the launch of the Young Driver Factbase – www.youngdriverfactbase.com – a new online…

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OceanScope: Discovering the Depths of the Ocean’s Mysteries

Representatives from academia, ship owners and operators, naval architecture, government agencies and ocean technology companies gathered in Montreal, Canada…

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US Tax Breaks Boost Foreign Oil Production Over Renewables

The research demonstrates that the federal government provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables. Fossil fuels benefited from…

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Young age at first drink may affect genes and risk for alcoholism

A team of researchers, led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studied 6,257 adult twins from Australia. They wanted to…

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Caution Advised: Insights on Bitemark Evidence Analysis

The Congressional hearing focused on the findings of a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on the scientific basis of forensic disciplines. Among the…

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Debating the Drinking Age: Should It Be Lowered to 18?

As college administrators, social scientists and law enforcement officials across the country continue to debate whether the drinking age should be 18 instead…

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Global Warming’s Impact on Spring Flowering Times

The study, published in the International Journal of Climatology, predicts a difference in flowering times of certain plants in certain climates by as much as…

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Color-coded chart improves parents’ understanding of body mass index (BMI)

A new study shows that parents are more likely to understand a body mass index (BMI) chart if it’s color-coded, like a traffic light, than the standard charts…

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