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- Benefit vs. risk of facial recognition technology
- Providing workplace wellness centers could backfire
- PCB concentrations same in urban and rural areas
- Human impacts on natural world underestimated
- Coumarin in cinnamon and cinnamon-based products and risk of liver damage
- Early math and reading ability linked to job and income in adulthood
- Soy and tomato may be effective in preventing prostate cancer
- Why family conflict affects some children more than others
- Father and teenagers: Desire for children affects relationship
- Look! Something shiny! How some textbook visuals can hurt learning
- 5,000 steps a day to avoid paying higher health insurance costs? When money talks, people walk
| Benefit vs. risk of facial recognition technology Posted: 08 May 2013 06:32 PM PDT Law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition software as a crime-fighting tool. Now businesses are looking to use the technology to reach customers. But a professor questions whether customers are ready for it.  |
| Providing workplace wellness centers could backfire Posted: 08 May 2013 06:30 PM PDT People who signed up for a workplace wellness center but then used it infrequently experienced declines in their mental quality-of-life, finds a new study.  |
| PCB concentrations same in urban and rural areas Posted: 08 May 2013 02:22 PM PDT Despite the expectation of a large environmental exposure difference, researchers report that mothers and children in East Chicago, Ind., and residents in a rural area in Iowa have the same PCB levels in their blood as residents in urbanized East Chicago.  |
| Human impacts on natural world underestimated Posted: 08 May 2013 02:21 PM PDT A comprehensive five-year study by ecologists -- which included monitoring the activity of wolves, elks, cattle and humans -- indicates that two accepted principles of how ecosystems naturally operate could be overshadowed by the importance of human activity.  |
| Coumarin in cinnamon and cinnamon-based products and risk of liver damage Posted: 08 May 2013 09:31 AM PDT Many kinds of cinnamon, cinnamon-flavored foods, beverages and food supplements in the United States use a form of the spice that contains high levels of a natural substance that may cause liver damage in some sensitive people, scientists are reporting.  |
| Early math and reading ability linked to job and income in adulthood Posted: 08 May 2013 09:31 AM PDT Math and reading ability at age 7 may be linked with socioeconomic status several decades later, according to new research. The childhood abilities predict socioeconomic status in adulthood over and above associations with intelligence, education, and socioeconomic status in childhood.  |
| Soy and tomato may be effective in preventing prostate cancer Posted: 08 May 2013 08:43 AM PDT Tomatoes and soy foods may be more effective in preventing prostate cancer when they are eaten together than when either is eaten alone, said a new study.  |
| Why family conflict affects some children more than others Posted: 08 May 2013 06:28 AM PDT New research reveals why some children are badly affected by negative family conflicts while other children survive without significant problems. Researchers found that the way in which children understood the conflicts between their parents had different effects on their emotional and behavioral problems. Where children blamed themselves for the conflicts between their parents, they were more likely to have behavioral problems, such as anti-social behavior. But if their parents' fighting or arguing led to a child feeling threatened, or fearful that the family would split up, the child was more likely to experience emotional problems, such as depression.  |
| Father and teenagers: Desire for children affects relationship Posted: 08 May 2013 06:28 AM PDT The relationships of fathers to their teenaged children are apparently influenced by the nature of their previous desire for children. The more acute that this feeling is, the more closely fathers engage with their children at an everyday level.  |
| Look! Something shiny! How some textbook visuals can hurt learning Posted: 08 May 2013 06:24 AM PDT Adding captivating visuals to a textbook lesson to attract children's interest may sometimes make it harder for them to learn, a new study suggests.  |
| 5,000 steps a day to avoid paying higher health insurance costs? When money talks, people walk Posted: 08 May 2013 06:24 AM PDT Faced with a choice between higher insurance prices or exercising, people who were obese enrolled in and stuck with Internet-tracked walking program for a year.  |
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