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• New approaches in landscape monitoring
• Congregations' smaller racial groups feel less belonging and are less involved, Baylor study finds
• New definition for old age
• Scientists map food security, self-provision of major cities
• Muting the Mozart effect
• Sleep-deprived mice show connection with diabetes, age
• Course offers students opportunity to be leaders of social change
• Staph can lurk deep within nose, study finds
• Dementia risk greatest for older Native-Americans, African-Americans with diabetes
• Personal care products possible sources of potentially harmful parabens for babies
• How horses can teach humans communication skills, kindness
• Incarceration has no effect on nonresident fathers' parenting
• Establishing the basis of humor
• Evolution of 'third party punishment'

New approaches in landscape monitoring Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:33 AM PST People who live in rural parts of rural parts of Switzerland perceive their place of residence as a more beautiful and authentic landscape than people who live in peri-urban areas.

Congregations' smaller racial groups feel less belonging and are less involved, Baylor study finds Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:02 AM PST People who are part of a congregation's largest racial group are more likely to feel they belong and be more involved -- regardless of whether their group is barely half or nearly all of the members.

New definition for old age Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:01 AM PST Age is not just the number of years one has lived, argue population researchers. A new study provides a set of tools for measuring age in all its dimensions.

Scientists map food security, self-provision of major cities Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST Wealthy capital cities vary greatly in their dependence on the global food market. The Australian capital Canberra produces the majority of its most common food in its regional hinterland, while Tokyo primarily ensures its food security through import. The Copenhagen hinterland produces less than half of the consumption of the most common foods. For the first time, researchers have mapped the food systems of capital cities, an essential insight for future food security.

Muting the Mozart effect Posted: 11 Dec 2013 03:53 PM PST Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, two new studies show no effect of music training on the cognitive abilities of young children.

Sleep-deprived mice show connection with diabetes, age Posted: 11 Dec 2013 03:52 PM PST For the first time, researchers describe the effect of sleep deprivation on the unfolded protein response in peripheral tissue. Stress in pancreatic cells due to sleep deprivation may contribute to the loss or dysfunction of cells important to maintaining proper blood sugar levels, and that these functions may be exacerbated by normal aging. The combined effect of aging and sleep deprivation resulted in a loss of control of blood sugar, somewhat like pre-diabetes in mice.

Course offers students opportunity to be leaders of social change Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:24 AM PST In a new paper, an author describes a unique undergraduate honors elective in social entrepreneurship, which connects the nursing profession to its roots of social innovation and action for change.

Staph can lurk deep within nose, study finds Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:16 AM PST Scientists have revealed that formerly overlooked sites deep inside the nose may be reservoirs for Staphylococcus aureus, a major bacterial cause of disease.

Dementia risk greatest for older Native-Americans, African-Americans with diabetes Posted: 11 Dec 2013 07:42 AM PST In the first study to look at racial and ethnic differences in dementia risk among older adults with Type 2 diabetes, researchers found that dementia was much higher among Native-Americans and African-Americans and lowest among Asian-Americans.

Personal care products possible sources of potentially harmful parabens for babies Posted: 11 Dec 2013 07:42 AM PST Through lotions, shampoos and other personal care products, infants and toddlers are likely becoming exposed to potentially harmful substances, called parabens, at an even higher level than adult women in the US, researchers have reported. Their findings on parabens have been linked to reproductive and other health issues.

How horses can teach humans communication skills, kindness Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:36 AM PST One social work student spent the last 18 months at Spirit of Leadership at the Pebble Ledge Ranch in Novelty, Ohio, learning to communicate with horses (and a zebra), becoming "one with the herd" and teaching others how to do the same in an experiential learning with horses program that inspires self-discovery.

Incarceration has no effect on nonresident fathers' parenting Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:36 AM PST A prison sentence may not always have negative consequences for children of the incarcerated, says one sociologist. In a new study, she finds that when an uninvolved dad spends time behind bars, there are no negative effects on his parenting.

Establishing the basis of humor Posted: 11 Dec 2013 04:02 AM PST The act of laughing at a joke is the result of a two-stage process in the brain, first detecting an incongruity before then resolving it with an expression of mirth. Interestingly, the brain actions involved in understanding humour differ between young boys and girls.

Evolution of 'third party punishment' Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:31 PM PST The stronger a community's social ties and the longer most people stay within the community, the more likely it is that bystanders will step forward to punish a neighbor for perceived wrongdoing. A psychologist teamed with campus computer scientists, using evolutionary game theory to predict the emergence of this complex human behavior.

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