The trust game: Measuring social interaction
...ll us the amount of trust and trustworthiness, the degree of betrayal and benevolence." In early rounds, Montague and his colleagues were able to identify a physical response in the brain of the trustee that correlated with the intention to increase their trust or investment on the next move. By later round...A marker for new blood vessel formation in tumors
...entify tumors that express this marker, assess the degree of new vessel formation in tumors, and help in the planning and monitoring of anti-angiogenic therapies which target this integrin....Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...t of pharmaceutical companies may invoke a healthy degree of skepticism among viewers of their advertisements, academic medical centers may be viewed as more trustworthy sources of information. "We are concerned that when potential patients read these ads, they may not realize that the underlying motivatio...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
.... So fans of today may be more concerned with the degree of competitiveness between teams an area in which Baird's research found that Cuba comes up short. Fans generally prefer an even distribution of talent. Despite complaints about New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner's domineering deals, Baird f...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
...Work Index-Revised (NWI-R) designed to measure the degree to which these organizational traits are present i... study, respondents were not asked to indicate the degree that traits depicted by the NWI-R were "present" in their work environment. Instead, nurses were ask...Understanding how vulnerabilities may keep women in abusive relationships
...nerability emerged: 1) external orientation or the degree to which the women see themselves as having value independent of others 2) socialization to violence 3) socialization to the abuse of power 4) a caretaker identity that led to problematic, needy partners, and 5) cultural factors. The first four cate...Pushy parents can be bad for their children's health
...al to psychological services. In 12, a significant degree of family conflict/dysfunction and a lack of insight into the consequences of parental behaviour on illness pattern were evident. Eleven of these children improved after psychological support and resumed normal activities within a year. Ten families...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...ectric, Newark, received an electrical engineering degree in 1991 from NJIT. He also participated in NJIT's...n bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 100 degree programs offered by six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, ...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
... in the body, meaning they are polar, or have some degree of charge. SFC uses carbon dioxide-based fluids for the isolation of compounds. Carbon dioxide is not polar, so could not be used to separate polar drugs, or ionic analytes. "We discovered you can add a small amount of polar solvent that contains an...Effects of education level on rates of obesity differ by race
...or less; moderate, some college; and high, college degree or more, on body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) and changes in BMI over four years in 2,019 middle-aged African-American and white women from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation...Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
...that we measured would be blunted. This makes the degree of increases even more noteworthy." Robert Wolk, M...r individuals with established heart disease. "The degree of speeding up of heart rate and increase in blood pressure, as well the increase in adrenalin (epin...2005 Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research Award
...niversity of Turku (Finland); his Dr. of Dentistry degree (DOdont.) from the University of Kuopio (Finland) in 1983; and his MPH degree from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA) in 1986. Dr. Hausen was appointed as the f...Study suggests smoking while pregnant may increase chromosomal abnormalities in fetal cells
....1 percent; controls: 3.5 percent) and to a lesser degree for the proportion of metaphases (a phase of cell division) with chromosomal instability (smokers: 10.5 percent; controls: 8.0 percent), and for the proportion of chromosomal lesions (smokers: 15.7 percent; controls: 10.1 percent). Statistical analys...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...by workplace and traffic accidents, given that the degree of injury and muscular contraction can be quantified objectively and with exactitude. Facial paralysis Facial Paralysis is a relatively frequent pathology (each year there are nine new cases per 100,000 inhabitants), its origin being diverse such ...Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man
...mice with mutations in this gene displayed a lower degree of atherosclerosis, while mice with more active variants of the gene displayed the opposite. Studies of two patient groups revealed that a certain variant of the human homologue of the gene was more common in people who had a history of cardiac infar...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...er studies, the researchers plan to manipulate the degree of emotion experienced by the subjects, as well as how much detail is remembered, to explore the specific interactions among brain structures in processing emotional memories. They also plan to analyze activity of other regions -- such as those that ...Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
...ing of intimate feelings." Kalin believes that the degree to which a person may be willing to call for help probably depends on a variety of factors, including how frightened or threatened the person feels, what his or her general temperament is, the person's past experiences and what kind of social support...Non-invasive and invasive breast cancers share the same genetic mutations
... diagnosed with ovarian cancer and to have a first degree family member (mother, sister or daughter) diagnosed with breast cancer, particularly at a young age. "This study highlights the fact that although DCIS is generally associated with a favorable clinical prognosis, it is important to consider women di...Inflammation elevates risk of cardiac death in rheumatoid arthritis patients
...r study. The investigators hypothesize that if the degree of a rheumatoid arthritis patient's inflammation can be closely monitored and kept under strict control, the risk of death by heart condition may decrease. This hypothesis is also the subject of ongoing research. The study was conducted using the res......e receiving their doctoral insignia, cap, ring and degree at a conferment ceremony in Stockholm City Hall on 13 May 2005....