Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Ceiling Height’s Impact on Thinking and Behavior Revealed

But recent research by Joan Meyers-Levy, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, suggests that the way people…

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How Hay Fever Affects Work Productivity: New Study Insights

A new study of nearly 600 people with hay fever symptoms, including sneezing, watery eyes and runny and itchy noses, found that workers missed an hour of work…

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Swifts’ Flight Performance Boosted by Innovative Study

Their study, published as cover story in Nature on April 26, proves that swifts can improve flight performance by up to three-fold, numbers that make 'wing…

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"No" doesn't always mean "no"

Misunderstandings about the nature and process of a study often contribute to expressions of non-consent, a factor that should be incorporated in the design of…

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New Study Confirms Lisinopril Safety for Stroke Recovery

The research published in the American Journal of Hypertension confirms the safety of a drug, Lisinopril, that lowers their blood pressure-without reducing the…

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New Evidence Unearthed on First European Voyage Up the Delaware

Jaap Jacobs, a senior fellow at Penn's McNeil Center for Early American Studies, detailed his findings in a paper, “Truffle Hunting with an Iron Hog: The First…

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You don't have to be smart to be rich

A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those in similar circumstances but with higher…

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School Environment’s Role in Reducing Student Aggression

The study assessed individual, family and school predictors of aggression in 111,662 middle school students. The findings appear in the March 2007 issue of the…

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GP Surgeries With Specialist Nurses Can Help Save Lives – New Research

The University of Leicester research discovered that cardiac nurses were able to benefit patients with angina, heart attacks and heart failure.Dr Kamlesh…

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TV food adverts more than double obese children's food consumption

Researchers from Liverpool University found that children exposed to food ads did not just respond to individual brands advertised, but consumed more overall.The study, involving a group of 60 children, aged between nine and eleven years, exposed them to a series of both food television adverts and toy adverts, followed by a cartoon. Food intake following the food adverts was significantly higher compared with the toy adverts in all weight groups, with the obese children increasing their consumption by 134%; overweight children by 101% and normal weight children by 84%….

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Innovative Adjuvants Enhance Vaccine Design for Better Immunity

Randolph Noelle and colleagues from Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, USA show that certain adjuvants can induce antigen specific memory B cells, in the…

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Long-Term Health Effects on Rescue Workers After Disasters

Using a unique Dutch electronic medical record database that allows pre- and post-disaster comparisons as well as comparisons between case and control cities,…

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Why GNEP can't jump to the future

Congress is now considering whether to approve or zero out the $405 million that President Bush is proposing to spend in fiscal year 2008 on the Global Nuclear…

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Solar Panel Payback Time

Solar and wind power, and other renewable sources, such as wave and tidal power, represent an energy source that could underpin a sustainable energy policy by…

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National Child Health Study on Air Pollution Launches

Primary school children, aged between 7 and 11 years, living in ACT, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales will be invited to…

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Ethanol Vehicles: Health Risks Behind the Green Promise

''Ethanol is being promoted as a clean and renewable fuel that will reduce global warming and air pollution,'' said Jacobson, associate professor of civil and…

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