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- Lower blood sugars may be good for the brain
- Students text, a lot, during class
- The math says Red Sox have a big edge in the World Series
- Anthropologist examines the motivating factors behind hazing
- Deciding when 'not' to maximize profits: How and why some corporations sabotage their own subsidiaries
- First-ever information systems job index shows healthy market for college students majoring in information systems
- A young Picasso or Beethoven could be the next Edison
- Vinyl flooring linked to potentially harmful substances at schools and daycare centers
- Study links youth obesity to TV fast food advertising
- Value, limitations of patient assistance programs for women with breast cancer
- People tend to communicate with similar people, even more than previously thought
- Internet therapy may help postnatal depression
- What a difference a grade makes: First graders with attention problem lag for years afterward, Second graders, less so
| Lower blood sugars may be good for the brain Posted: 23 Oct 2013 01:50 PM PDT Even for people who don't have diabetes or high blood sugar, those with higher blood sugar levels are more likely to have memory problems, according to a new study.  |
| Students text, a lot, during class Posted: 23 Oct 2013 12:16 PM PDT The typical student plays with smartphones, laptops, tablets and other digital devices an average of 11 times a day in class. More than 80 percent say their digital habits interfere with learning.  |
| The math says Red Sox have a big edge in the World Series Posted: 23 Oct 2013 11:46 AM PDT Now that the World Series is about to begin, a math professor has announced the probability of each of the contenders winning the best 4 out of 7 game contest. "The Boston Red Sox have a nearly 70 percent chance of winning the series", he says. But he gives the caveat that the St. Louis Cardinals have defeated both the competition and his mathematical model in each of their previous series.  |
| Anthropologist examines the motivating factors behind hazing Posted: 23 Oct 2013 11:11 AM PDT It happens in military units, street gangs and even among athletes on sports teams. In some cultures, the rituals mark the transition from adolescence to adulthood. And in fraternities and sororities, it's practically a given. With a long history of seemingly universal acceptance, the practice of hazing is an enduring anthropological puzzle.  |
| Posted: 23 Oct 2013 11:11 AM PDT Corporate America doesn't always maximize profits -- companies sometimes deliberately leave money on the table in an effort to "get along" with and not upset their competitors. Corporate leaders "selectively intervene" in the everyday business of a subsidiary to deliberately sabotage decisions that could positively shift the balance of power in the marketplace. This "collusive behavior" and "mutual forbearance" reduces competitive aggressiveness in the market place and less competition usually hurts consumers.  |
| Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT Despite a 7.2 percent national unemployment rate, the job market is a healthy one for college students majoring in information systems, with nearly three quarters of students receiving at least one job offer, according to the U.S. nationwide IS Job Index.  |
| A young Picasso or Beethoven could be the next Edison Posted: 23 Oct 2013 08:27 AM PDT Good news for parents: Those pricey piano lessons or random toy parts littering your floors may one day lead to the next scientific breakthrough. That's according to new research linking childhood participation in arts and crafts activities to patents generated and businesses launched as adults.  |
| Vinyl flooring linked to potentially harmful substances at schools and daycare centers Posted: 23 Oct 2013 08:26 AM PDT Large areas of vinyl flooring in daycares and schools appear to expose children to a group of compounds called phthalates, which have been linked to reproductive and developmental problems, scientists are reporting.  |
| Study links youth obesity to TV fast food advertising Posted: 23 Oct 2013 07:09 AM PDT Youth obesity is associated with receptiveness to TV fast food advertising researchers have found.  |
| Value, limitations of patient assistance programs for women with breast cancer Posted: 23 Oct 2013 06:09 AM PDT Patient assistance programs can help breast cancer patients meet a variety of needs that can interfere with getting recommended adjuvant therapies such as radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal treatments, according to a study.  |
| People tend to communicate with similar people, even more than previously thought Posted: 23 Oct 2013 06:07 AM PDT People's tendency to communicate with similar people is stronger than earlier believed, which restricts the flow of information and ideas in social networks.  |
| Internet therapy may help postnatal depression Posted: 22 Oct 2013 05:51 PM PDT Researchers have teamed up with online forum Netmums in a pilot study which has shown that postnatal depression can be treated effectively using online therapy. Rates of postnatal depression are high -- between 10 to 30 percent of mothers are affected -- but many cases go unreported and few women seek help.  |
| Posted: 22 Oct 2013 02:08 PM PDT Children with attention problems that emerge in first grade show poorer school performance for years afterward, including scoring lower on fifth grade reading. The poor performance occurred even if the attention problems were fleeting and improved after first grade. By contrast, children who developed attention problems starting in second grade performed as well as their peers in later years.  |
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