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UrduThe BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In a career-spanning installment of the journal BioScience ‘s In Their Own Words oral history series, Missouri Botanical Garden President Emeritus Peter Raven illuminates numerous topics,…
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nTIDE December 2020 Jobs Report: COVID surge slows recovery for people with disabilities
National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) issued semi-monthly by Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
Human migration patterns connected to vitamin D deficiencies today
A new study in the Oxford Economic Papers finds that migration flows the last 500 years from high sunlight regions to low sunlight regions influence contemporary health outcomes in destination countries. The researchers here noted that people’s ability to synthesize…
Experts tap into behavioral research to promote COVID-19 vaccination in the US
As the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, it is still unclear whether enough Americans are willing to be vaccinated to allow the nation to return to normalcy. Many believe a key part of the equation lies…
How market incumbents can navigate disruptive technology change
News from the Journal of Marketing
Dungeness crab fishing industry response to climate shock
How do fishing communities respond when disrupted by marine heatwave-associated harmful algal bloom closures?
Frequent travel could make you 7% happier
VANCOUVER, Wash. –People dreaming of travel post-COVID-19 now have some scientific data to support their wanderlust. A new study in the journal of Tourism Analysis shows frequent travelers are happier with their lives than people who don’t travel at all.…
How to harness artificial intelligence to boost business and make our world more human
Welcome to the World of Hyperautomation
Study examines the most effective COVID-19 control policies
Toronto – With the arrival of effective vaccines for the COVID-19 virus, the end of the pandemic is on the horizon but in the short term the virus continues to spread. A timely new study published today by PLOS ONE…
Modeling can help balance economy, health during pandemic
Nearly 300,000 deaths could be averted, depending on how severe isolation measures become
Cooperation with R&D organizations is significantly distinctive for advanced innovators
The innovation performance of firms depends on their ability to innovate in cooperation with external partners. In a study, HSE researchers found that most of innovation in Russian manufacturing happens in a sort of open processes, but extensive cooperation networks…
Can we be manipulated into sharing private info online? Yes, says Ben-Gurion U. study
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, December 22, 2020 – Online users are more likely to reveal private information based on how website forms are structured to elicit data, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have determined. The intriguing study, “Online Disclosure Depends…
Consumers challenged by high status peers make a ‘status pivot,’ new study finds
Consumers prefer to make a ‘status pivot’ so they can shine brighter than their successful peers
COVID-19: what strategies are beneficial to the state
Competing benefits: economic theory and COVID constraints
nTIDE COVID Update November 2020: Surge takes its toll on jobseekers with disabilities
Following months of decline, furloughs increased for people with disabilities in November while continuing to decline for workers without disabilities
Public cameras provide valuable insights on pandemic, consumers
Patented systems may help reduce misinformation in the media
When genetic data meets marketing
News from the Journal of Marketing
Investigating the carbon intensity of ferries
Climate change mitigation requires curbing emissions from all sectors, including shipping. The European Union has set ambitious targets to achieve this goal. The European regulation number 757 on Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of CO2 emissions (EU- MRV ) contributes to…
Financial woes grow worse during pandemic for American families
Study tracking families finds more report trouble paying bills
Extracting precious zinc from waste ash
Incineration of solid waste produces millions of tonnes of waste fly ash in Europe each year, that most commonly ends up in landfill. But this ash often contains significant amounts of precious metals, such as zinc. A unique method developed…
Energy transition at the crossroads: New topical issue in Russian Journal of Economics
Titled “Energy transition at the crossroads”, the new issue of the Russian Journal of Economics gets a set of profound messages across, which can be summarized as: “transition matters, transition goes, yet transition is not a simple, unified march towards…
Italy concludes first National Open Access deal for Biomedical Institutions
The first National Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions has today been signed by the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries – Bibliosan – and the leading open access publisher, Frontiers. The agreement is fully aligned with international…
Buildings-related CO2 emissions hit record high: UN
Including construction, building sector now accounts for 38% of CO2 emissions; Direct building CO2 emissions need to halve by 2030 to get on track for net zero carbon building stock by 2050; Governments must prioritize low-carbon buildings post-pandemic
Towards circular economy: European manufacturers tend not to report on their actions
After analyzing the data from 226 large manufacturing companies from the European Union, a team of researchers from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden have drawn a conclusion that organizations almost do not mention circular economy principles
Many Americans reported economic hardships even early in the COVID-19 pandemic
Almost 25 percent of US respondents experienced two of four types of deprivation, rising to over 37 percent among Hispanic respondents
Harvard Data Science Review explores reproducibility and replicability in science
CAMBRIDGE, MA–December 16, 2020– In 2019, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a consensus report for the US Congress– Reproducibility and Replicability in Science –which addressed a major methodological crisis in the sciences: The fact that…
Crowdfunding can affect consumer product choices — especially when the products do good
When it comes to introducing new products to the market, crowdfunding has become a hugely popular way for sellers to attract customers. A new study from the UBC Sauder School of Business shows that people will pay far more for…
Ignoring CDC guidelines leads to fear, anger among employees
Mixed messaging amid COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts trust in organization
Flexible working time as an opportunity to save costs and increase productivity
The Covid-19 pandemic has turned flexible working arrangements a new reality, but differences in employees’ preferences and the financial implications for companies still require unravelling. At the time, when the companies are in the quest for competitive advantages in the…
St. Edward’s University study finds a manly beard may help drive sales
Austin, Texas — The next time you are considering purchasing a big-ticket item, it might be worth paying attention to the salesperson’s facial hair. The beard seems to be a subtle but consistent clue used in evaluating the knowledge and…
Success in the Amazon
In 2006, Greenpeace launched a campaign exposing deforestation caused by soy production in the Brazilian Amazon. In the previous year, soy farming expanded into more than 1,600 square kilometers of recently cleared forests.
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
Our fixation with Gross Domestic Product for over half a century as the primary indicator of economic health has rendered nature “invisible” from national finances, intensifying the biosphere’s destruction by omitting its value from the systems that govern us. This…
Benefits of renewable energy vary from place to place
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that the environmental benefits of renewable power generation vary significantly, depending on the nature of the conventional power generation that the renewable energy is offsetting. The researchers hope the work will…
The video referee in the spotlight
Fans are not amused about decisions made by video assistants
Explained: Political polarization
Economic inequality can cause it; Reversing it is difficult
Negative reviews boost sales
Aleksei Smirnov, Assistant Professor, HSE University Faculty of Economic Sciences, and Egor Starkov, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, have constructed a mathematical model that explains why it is advantageous for sellers not to delete negative reviews of their products. A…
The role of platform protection insurance in the sharing economy
News from the Journal of Marketing
Bosses need appreciation, too
Study shows supervisors who feel appreciated have better outlook at work
Social media provides SMEs with tools to mitigate internationalisation-related threats
For SMEs seeking to enter the international markets, social media is a tool for overcoming liabilities connected to their smallness, newness and foreignness, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. According to the study, SMEs use social…
Singapore looks forward to deepening ties with India: Prime Minister Lee
PM Lee stresses on the value of the relationship during launch of book on 50 essays by 51 Singaporeans on Singapore-India relations
An eventful year in pharma
As 2020 draws to a close, the global pandemic has cast an even brighter spotlight on the pharmaceutical industry. Experts have spent the year racing to develop tests, therapeutics and vaccines to diagnose and combat COVID-19, while also trying to…
The impact of the pandemic on the Brazilian labor market
Black people and women are worst-off – blacks because they mainly work in the informal sector and women because they are mainly considered non-essential workers
CO2 pricing & financial transfers: small changes can have a huge effect on climate equity
Global greenhouse-gas emission reductions could be achieved in a fair and thrifty way by surprisingly small variations of well-known policies. This is shown by a team of economists in a quantitative study now published in Nature . Differentiated CO2 prices…
Honey bees fend off giant hornets with animal dung, U of G researchers discover
Honeybees spread animal dung on the entrance of their hives to effectively ward off giant hornets
UTSA Institute for Economic Development to host Texas Retail Academy
December 9, 2020 – The UTSA Institute for Economic Development has partnered with Retail Strategies, LLC to offer Retail Academy to six communities across Texas. The UTSA Institute for Economic Development will act as an accountability partner for the communities.…
ERC consolidator grant for Christina Felfe
Saturday on the playground. “Look, there are some kids playing. Shall we go there?” The four-year-old daughter shakes her head: “I don’t want to play with them. Because they’re fat.” People decide very early in their lives which groups they…
Eyebuy: Sweeping glances can cost you money
Unplanned purchases are an important profit source for retailers. Because looking at products is always the first step in making a purchase decision, retailers apply various strategies in order to bring shoppers in juxtaposition with the store assortment. “Over the…
The crucial role of human values for the prosperity of individuals and societies
Hard work, thrift and trust all make a difference
Sandia National Laboratories hosts Education With Industry officer
Air Force captain brings experience and determination to labs
Seeing the values behind the numbers
In a new book, “Data Action,” Associate Professor Sarah Williams issues a call for thinking ethically about data today.