The trust game: Measuring social interaction
...0 rounds of the game. That person decided how much money to give the other subject. That sum was then tripl...subject, 1,500 miles away, decided how much of the money he or she kept and how much he or she left for the other subject. Each interaction of that type comp...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...m in a different way it prevents them from making money in foreign baseball leagues that are keen to hire Cuban talent. "In this sense," she said, "many Cuban players can be thought of as exploited by their government." The clampdown on foreign contracts led, of course, to a new round of defections, mos...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...dren. It would also dramatically cut the amount of money society is going to have to spend on you and those...ut studies confirming that NEPs can save lives and money without increasing drug abuse. Last year, for example, California became another state that allows ...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...ew Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is saving money and energy while also protecting the environment. ...state. Solar electricity saves NJIT and taxpayers money while also preserving the environment. It's a win-win for all." New Jersey Institute of Technology,...Finances, not having a dentist are primary barriers to seniors receiving needed dental care
...pprehension about spending a significant amount of money on dental treatment because they may have retired recently and now are living on a fixed income. This generation of seniors also remembers a time when going to the dentist was associated with painful procedures without anesthesia, resulting in more ...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...hing the National Institute on Aging in 1974, that money has predominately gone to disease specific research, such as Alzheimer's disease, or towards the behavioral aspects of aging. "Instead of addressing individual age related diseases, we are looking at the bigger picture. Being able to extend the nor...Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
...d into postpartum. Women who reported insufficient money for food and housing, and lack of exercise, were most associated with poor health, before, after and during pregnancy. The article states that "depression is more common among disadvantaged and minority women." Exercise is recommended and seen as ...eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
... and sit in a waiting room. The service is saving money for corporations, associations and insurance companies, as well as their employees and members. The Morgan White Group, eDocAmerica's largest international client, recently selected eDocAmerica for its business clients in Latin America. Morgan Whit...Chemists synthesize molecule that helps body battle cancers, malaria
...veness. The molecule could therefore save patients money on expensive drugs and stretch limited supplies of antigens and vaccines. Gin and his collaborators are now exploring ways to improve the molecule. By investigating structure activity relationships, they want to strip away nonessential structures, le...Unsafe water and poor sanitation causes 4000 children to die each day
... write that this requires neither colossal sums of money nor scientific breakthroughs or technological advances. Dr Bartram concludes: "Investment in water is an efficient and effective way to combat waterborne and vector-borne diseases. In view of the financial constraints and shortages of trained health...Slow growth in infancy signals poor economic prospects in adulthood
...he taller a boy was at the age of 1 year, the more money he was likely to be earning in 1990. Earnings increased by 3.5% with every additional 2 cm of height. And a child who had been 72 cm or less in height at the age of 1 was twice as likely to be doing manual work in adulthood as a boy who had been over...Rice's CNST awards Smalley/Curl funds for innovation
...ative of early precancerous changes. With the seed money from the Smalley/Curl Fund for Innovation, Drezek and Hafner will evaluate targeted nanorods as molecular probes for reflectance confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography--two real-time, high-resolution optical imaging techniques. "These f......blic regard as necessities of life: such as enough money to pay heating, electricity and telephone bills on time and new, not second hand clothes. The Bottom Line also showed that children and families in Northern Ireland are more deprived than their counterparts in Britain. In the words of Professor Hilly...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...the federal statistics together, it seems that the money smokers spend on cigarettes comes out of income that normally would be saved," Zagorsky said. "It may be that smokers spend as much as others on everything else, and pay for smoking out of potential savings." The study was published in the current is...Views from space help oil prospectors see deep underground
... "This is vital, because our customers do not make money for the amount of hydrocarbons theoretically in the ground, but what they actually recover." "The vibroseis method uses trucks with heavy masses and baseplates that vibrate the ground to provide a far more controlled source," Laake explains. "...Computer memory, MRI technology benefit from student research at UH
...hree UH graduate students won top honors and prize money at the biannual UH Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials (TcSAM) Student Symposium. The symposium series highlights the original research efforts of undergraduate and graduate students working in TcSAM, which is a NASA Research P...Need better social research but it doesn't come cheap
...ies, and the human welfare implications of how the money is spent, may be significantly influenced by the r...longer-term, although they really aren't given the money to do the job properly. However, we hope that the results of our study will be of value to those pla...Disaster funding needs radical reform
...sed contributions rather than having to appeal for money after each disaster. This would allow agencies to build reserve funds, to invest in training, and to act more quickly and save more lives. The system for tracking donations and spending should also be improved, and "disaster proofing" should be taken...Longer cardiac rehab programs necessary, says U of T study
...after 26 weeks. Kavanagh says this shows that more money can be saved by introducing a progressive tapering of supervision. "Our results justify the approach first taken by the Toronto Rehabilitation Centre in 1968, and which has made it one of the largest, best-known and most effective cardiac rehabilitat......diology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "When money is wasted on ineffective interventions, it drives up the cost and decreases the availability of other necessary healthcare interventions," he said. The researchers evaluated the cost-effectiveness of a single whole-body CT screening examination, whic...