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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…