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Study: Republicans and Democrats hate the other side more than they love their own side
‘When ideals and policies matter less than dominating foes, government becomes dysfunctional,’ researchers say
Take part an online symposium held by Tokyo Tech’s revolutionary research hub, the WRHI
The Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI) will hold an International Online Symposium to present the activities and achievements of its ambitious research program on Tuesday, November 10th, at 14:00 JST (UTC+9). The WRHI, which was founded as part…
Cancer anti-sickness drug offers hope for hallucinations in Parkinson’s
Monday 26 October 2020 – A world-first double-blind clinical trial, will investigate if a powerful drug used to treat nausea in chemotherapy patients, could alleviate hallucinations in people with Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s UK, the largest charitable funder of Parkinson’s research in…
The BrainHealth project could create a resilient economy
As part of a global collaboration, the Center for BrainHealth proposes a holistic economic reimagination that focuses on brain health to improve employees’ resilience
First companies picked for Sandia’s new Mentor-Protégé Program
Small-business protégés based in New Mexico, California and Missouri
Bentham Science taking a lead on Open Access management through Chronos Hub
Bentham Science takes its Open Access management to the forefront by becoming the first publisher to fully leverage Chronos Hub. The collaboration serves to improve the authors’ experience and guarantee compliance with their funders’ and institution’s publishing policies, as well…
Citizens themselves contribute to political mistrust
The study by the Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS shows that the growing trust crisis observed in many Western democracies in recent decades cannot merely be attributed to news criteria from the media and prioritisation of personal-interest stories.…
How initiatives empowering employees can backfire
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Strategies meant to motivate people in the workplace may have unintended consequences — depending on who’s in charge. Recent research from Michigan State University and Ohio State University shows that empowerment initiatives aren’t necessarily the answer…
Wiley’s Open Science Ambassador Program encourages scientific collaboration
Hoboken, N.J. and Beijing–October 20, 2020– John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), a leader in research and education, today introduced its Open Science Ambassador Program . The program acknowledges and supports Chinese thought leaders around the world who embrace…
Cranfield School of Management announces new Rowlands Chair in Transformational Strategy
Cranfield School of Management is set to launch a worldwide talent search for a newly created Rowlands Chair in Transformational Strategy. The position will be responsible for driving the management school’s thinking in ‘transformational strategy’ and pioneer its research and…
New APC-free Open Access agreements test alternative funding models
Jisc, the digital solutions provider for education and research in the UK, and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced two 3-year Open Access (OA) agreements that allow researchers to publish in PLOS journals without incurring article processing charges…
How psychological ownership can enhance stewardship for public goods
How can consumers be encouraged to take better care of public goods and resources? That’s the question posed in a new research paper co-authored by Collen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing at New York Institute of Technology, in…
First report on the impact of European incubators and accelerators
Webinar October 20th, 5 p.m. (CEST) In France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK there are a total of more than 1200 business incubators/accelerators, with an estimated number of 7165 employees. The most diffused services offered by these organizations are…
New medtech manufacturing capability launches in Brisbane
Brisbane, Australia: The Hon Karen Andrews, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology is opening the Translational Research Institute’s (TRI) new state-of-the-art clinical cleanroom manufacturing and training facility, T3 Cleanrooms, and the inaugural MTPCareers Symposium on Wednesday 14 October 2020. The…
Scientists are more specialized in larger and interdisciplinary teams
The roles of scientists change as research teams become more interdisciplinary and larger, finds new research from ESMT Berlin. Contemporary scientific challenges increasingly require large teams and interdisciplinary perspectives. However, it is not fully understood how these trends affect the…
Some employees more likely to adhere to information security policies than others
Information security policies (ISP) that are not grounded in the realities of an employee’s work responsibilities and priorities exposes organizations to higher risk for data breaches, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. The study’s…
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers and Editage partnership for editorial services
New Rochelle, NY, September 30, 2020–Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, a leading international, independent publisher of cutting-edge peer-reviewed journals, and Editage, the flagship brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a technology company accelerating scientific advancement, have announced a strategic editorial services…
Wiley partners with DeepGreen Project to enhance open access in Germany
Hoboken, N.J and Munich, Germany–September 29, 2020– John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) and the open access project DeepGreen signed a collaboration agreement to distribute research published under the Wiley/Projekt DEAL agreement to open access repositories throughout Germany. Starting…
NIH STTR grant to fast track new class of pain reliever without addiction or toxicity
New Orleans, LA – The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $1.9 million Fast-Track Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to South Rampart Pharma. The New Orleans life science…
Boys’ club barriers create issues for Australian boards
Pale, male and stale – it’s certainly stereotypical, but it’s a saying that still holds water when it comes to Australian boards, according to new research from the University of South Australia. Assessing the influence of gender diversity on Australian…
Study shows keeping gratitude journal reduces gossip, incivility in workplace
A few minutes a day writing about what you’re grateful for can make you less of a jerk
Center for Carbon Management in Energy Joins National CCUS Effort
UH research center will focus on commercialization in collaboration with Southern States Energy Board
American Society of Hematology and Elsevier announce new publishing partnership
Collaboration marks the beginning of a new era in the publication of Blood and Blood Advances, while maintaining the high standards for which these journals are widely recognized
Finding the best way to get COVID-19 test kits where they’re needed
Getting accurate, timely information on COVID-19 cases is one of the major challenges facing policymakers as they make decisions about public health and the economy. Researchers at North Carolina State University are embarking on a project aimed at ensuring test…
Phone calls create stronger bonds than text-based communications
AUSTIN, Texas — After months of social distancing mandates, people are leaning heavily on technology for a sense of social connection. But new research from The University of Texas at Austin suggests people too often opt to send email or…
BrainGate Inc, owner of brain-computer interface technologies, donated to Tufts University
Generous donation from Jeff Stibel, including FDA-approved Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technologies, will launch the Stibel Dennett Consortium, creating new center of gravity in brain and cognitive science
Health and Technology District partners with Halo Health’s angel investor physician group
Partnership to scale up and strengthen Canada’s health-tech innovation ecosystem
29 countries participate in the third International Economics Olympiad
This year’s International Economics Olympiad for high school students started on September 7 with an opening ceremony that celebrated the biggest and most diverse group of students yet to compete in the Olympiad, now in its third year. 29 teams…
CAPPA scholars honored by Texas Society of Architects
Bell and Holliday receive 2020 Honor Awards for their contributions to the profession
Political ads have little persuasive power
Every four years, U.S. presidential campaigns collectively spend billions of dollars flooding TV screens across the country with political ads. But a new study co-authored by Yale political scientist Alexander Coppock shows that, regardless of content, context, or audience, those…
Words matter: Revealing ‘how’ restaurateurs land investors online
Study identifies effective linguistic styles for restaurant crowdfunding
Being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead, research finds
Two 14-year longitudinal studies found that selfish, combative, manipulative people are not more likely to achieve power in the workplace than are nice people
How men and women network impacts their labor market performance
A new paper in The Economic Journal , published by Oxford University Press, develops a theory of how people’s social network structure impacts productivity and earnings. While large and loosely connected networks lead to better access to information, smaller and…
C19 Rapid Review Initiative expands to include 20 publishers and organizations
MIT Press, SpringerNature, and Cambridge University Press join the C19 Rapid Review Initiative endorsed by RoRI, SSRN, and AfricArxiv and OASPA, making it one of the largest cross-publisher collaborations in the scholarly publishing industry.
Announcing the 2020 ‘State of Journal Production and Access’ report from Scholastica
CHICAGO, IL (13 August 2020) — Scholastica , a peer review and publishing software and service provider for academic journals, announced today the release of ” The State of Journal Production and Access 2020 ” report. The report details the…
Coastal flooding study finds trust-building, power-sharing key for environmental justice
It took two years and $11 million, but eventually ranchers, politicians and scientists came to a consensus about how to prevent flooding in Tillamook, a coastal Oregon town. A recent study by Portland State University researchers examining the social factors…
Researchers show mathematically how to best reopen your business after lockdown
Reopening is only feasible if stringent safety measures are taken
Network of sounds: New research reveals the magic secret of human networks
Synchronization, in which a complex system operates as one body, is an important phenomenon that takes place in an enormous range of scales — from subatomic particles to galaxies. In biology, fish, birds, and even cells synchronize in order to…
Does high blood sugar worsen COVID-19 outcomes?
Preliminary observations of COVID-19 patients with diabetes inspired an algorithm for glucose monitoring that’s suspected to help combat the virus’ serious complications
Save black lives
A call for racially-responsive strageties and resources for the Black community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Elliott Fisher proposes “single system solution” for US healthcare system
Proposal addresses limitations of ACO model
Greater financial integration generally not associated with better healthcare quality
Findings underscore importance of enforcing antitrust guidelines
Partnership brings more than 20,000 COVID-19 tests to vulnerable populations in Detroit
DETROIT – A partnership among Altimetrik , a Southfield-based fast-growing global business transformation company, the 501(c)(3) Vattikuti Foundation , H enry Ford Health System and the City of Detroit has provided more than 20,000 onsite COVID-19 tests to residents in…
Narcissists don’t learn from their mistakes because they don’t think they make any
BEND, Ore. — When most people find that their actions have resulted in an undesirable outcome, they tend to rethink their decisions and ask, “What should I have done differently to avoid this outcome?” When narcissists face the same situation,…
How to get good at disagreeing
You may recognize yourself. You’re part of a group where everyone seems to agree more or less all the time. You may disagree, but you’d rather not speak up, and the others aren’t voicing any disagreement either. These meetings are…
UK’s Modern Slavery Act challenging for universities — new study
Management, procurement and supply chain issues need addressing
UK’s Modern Slavery Act challenging for universities — new study
Management, procurement and supply chain issues need addressing
Study links attraction to ‘tyrannical’ leaders to dysfunctional family dynamics
Ever wonder how some leaders in business or politics who appear selfish, manipulative and domineering still manage to amass a following?
The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 journal
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in COVID-19 research