The trust game: Measuring social interaction
... the brain of the trustee that correlated with the intention to increase their trust or investment on the next ...timing of that response changed so that his or her intention to trust occurred before the completion of the previous round. The technique holds promise for unde...'Temp doctors' choose career for flexibility, easier lifestyle
...ill be going from assignment to assignment with no intention of remaining in one place for long. The fact that such a large minority of LT physicians has no intention of settling down to one job has positive and negative implications for health care, according to Alo...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
...gh the study was limited to women who stated their intention to avoid pregnancy for the duration of the trial, eight percent of women in each group became pregnant. About 40 percent of women in each group self-reported having unprotected sex at least once over the study period. Women's number of sexual partner...Medicare HMOs fail to control costs of colon surgery in elderly patients
...mplications from this procedure remained low. The intention of Medicare HMOs is to reduce waste in the system by trying to eliminate unnecessary and inappropriate care, while giving providers incentives to use cost-efficient care. The elderly who opt to enroll in a Medicare HMO, a managed care model that emph...Dartmouth Medical School receives $1.6 million in AIDS funding
... children in Dar Es Salaam," Dr. Noel said. "Our intention in awarding this grant is to play a role, albeit a small one, in placing the spotlight on the needs of children and to address issues that have the greatest promise in affecting the lives of HIV-infected children." DMS Dean Stephen P. Spielberg, MD, ...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...nsible for implementing the project. The long-term intention is to build HUMAN into a self-sufficient service for non-governmental and public organisations....TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
... all three areas of sustainable development. "Our intention is to develop water resource services that can become self-sustaining, with the support of funding and development agencies such as the World Bank and the European Commission." Freshwater is already a scarce commodity across much of Africa, one se...Researchers develop neural prosthesis allowing a monkey to feed self using only its brain
...serve as the control signal to convey the monkey's intention to the prosthetic arm. Because the software had to rely on a small number of the thousands of neurons needed to move the arm, the monkey did the rest of the work, learning through biofeedback how to refine the arm's movements by modifying the firing ...Tony Blair launches UK's new global AIDS strategy
...ling the pandemic, but not nearly enough. It is my intention that this strategy will lead and inform global efforts to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and reduce the devastating impact of AIDS." Speaking later, International Development Secretary Hilary Benn said: "Our new strategy sets out h...New asthma program in Detroit public schools may improve student grades and decrease absences
...rogram into 14 Detroit elementary schools with the intention of evaluating the program's effects on symptom management and school attendance and performance. Participating schools were randomly selected to either receive the program or serve as the study control group with the option of receiving the program ...Seal of approval scheme needed for complementary and alternative websites
...nventional therapies." He said that it was not the intention to deny that cancer patients can feel empowered and be supported by accessing health information on the internet. But, 600 million people worldwide currently access the Internet and public awareness needed raising about the usefulness of the informat...Nonprofit pharmaceutical seeks drug approval next year
...onal meeting, Dr. Hale announced OneWorld Health's intention to bring paromomycin to market in India in the next year. Paromomycin is a treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala azar. An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are infected with VL, and without treatment, the disease is fa...Near-real time ozone forecasting made possible by Envisat
...ne (ClOx), both implicated in ozone thinning. The intention to use the MIPAS data to 'fine-tune' the model in future for increased accuracy, along with assimilating data from other Envisat instruments such as GOMOS (Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars) and SCIAMACHY (Scanning Imaging Absorption Sp...Study finds classroom study groups more effective when organized by social networks
... set out to do), refusal skills, coping skills and intention to smoke. Students in the network groups liked t...s, showed improved self-efficacy and had decreased intention to smoke when compared to students organized in the two other types of groups. "Many adults fear tha...Retention study might aid nursing home worker shortage
...alist can make to CNA retention, job satisfaction, intention to quit and commitment to the institution. The researchers also will look at turnover rates, absenteeism and use of temporary agencies, as well as what factors promote or hinder the effective use of the retention specialist mode. "We also will analyz...Sex selection for social reasons: religious and moral perspectives
...s report is the fact that most respondents have no intention of using sex selection techniques, reflecting, I believe, a moral intuition that there is something inherently wrong with the process itself. That is a healthy perception that needs to be reinforced through laws and policies governing the availabilit...European study highlights frequency of medical end-of-life decisions in terminally ill pts
...zerland. Administration of drugs with the explicit intention of hastening death varied between countries: about 1% or less in Denmark, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland, 182% in Belgium, and 340% in the Netherlands. Large variations were recorded in the extent to which decisions were discussed with patients, rela...Trauma surgeon seeks change in law that discourages counseling of problem drinkers
...th the support of the insurance industry, with the intention of decreasing insurance costs -- states: "The insurer shall not be liable for any loss sustained or contracted in consequence of the insured's being under the influence of any narcotic" This law was created before the nation's system of trauma center...The Lancet Neurology October press release
...t have caused widespread concern. The government's intention is to protect the vulnerable in society; but in doing so, is it undermining the rights of those with mental illness? This month's Leading edge discusses the changes proposed in the draft bill and their implications for both those with a mental illnes......tion created for women with breast cancer, with an intention to help patients to understand their situation, en...theme of breast cancer. They were painted with the intention to help patients understand their situation, environment and procedures that awaited them. Ms. Mcfar...