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- Obesity and pain linked, study of one million Americans shows
- Shoulder pain from using your iPad? Don't use it on your lap
- Facebook is a community
| Obesity and pain linked, study of one million Americans shows Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:29 AM PST A clear association between obesity and pain -- with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals -- was found in a study of more than one million Americans. |
| Shoulder pain from using your iPad? Don't use it on your lap Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:10 AM PST The sudden popularity of tablet computers such as the Apple iPad has not allowed for the development of guidelines to optimize users' comfort and well-being. Researchers now report that head and neck posture during tablet computer use can be improved by placing the tablet higher to avoid low gaze angles, and through the use of a case that provides optimal viewing angles. |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:10 AM PST Researchers in Italy have used two high-speed computer algorithms to analyze the connections between a large sub-set of the more than half a billion users of the social networking site Facebook to reveal that the system has a very strong structure. The study shows that Facebook has a well-defined community structure that follows a statistical power law in which there are a huge number of people with few connections and a much smaller number with a large number of connections. |
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