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Human Voice Bank: New Technology Gives Chance To Those Who Can’t Speak
By Hannah Grace | Jan 25, 2017 08:20 AM ESTHuman voice bank is becoming popular, attracting 17,000 volunteers from 110 countries.
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Respect Matters More Than Money for Happiness in Life
By Staff Reporter | Jun 20, 2012 06:59 PM EDTNew research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.
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3-D Image Guided Brachytherapy Helps Avoid Hysterectomies for Cervical Cancer Patients
By Staff Reporter | May 12, 2012 08:33 PM EDTBarcelona, Spain: Delivering radiotherapy directly to cancer of the cervix using 3-D imaging techniques is effective at controlling the return and spread of the disease and, in most cases, avoids the need for hysterectomies, according to research presented at the World Congress of Brachytherapy [1 & 2] Thursday.
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Cooperation, Teamwork Makes Man Brainier
By Jennifer Lee | Apr 22, 2012 12:12 AM EDTScientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork.
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Babies Turn Off Women's Willingness to Take a Risk
By Jennifer Lee | Apr 17, 2012 10:40 PM EDTUnlike men, women restrain risk-taking behaviors when a baby is present, according to a new study.
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Financially Deprived Consumers, More Likely to Seek Scarce Products
By Mark Smith | Apr 16, 2012 09:05 PM EDTConsumers are suggested to be vigilant when shopping in a state of deprivation, specially under global financial crisis.
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Migrant Women Reveal Resilience in Coping with Recession
By Mark Smith | Apr 13, 2012 06:36 PM EDTUnexpectedly migrant women show resilience in their ability to control their environment through work.
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Obese or Diabetic Moms Are More Likely to Have a Child with Autism
By Mark Smith | Apr 13, 2012 01:46 AM EDTMothers who were obese were 1-2/3 times more likely to have a child with autism as normal-weight mothers without diabetes or hypertension, researchers discovered.
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Cultural Differences in Response to Racism
By Mark Smith | Apr 13, 2012 01:20 AM EDTRacial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are sources of diversity that may explain why different targets of racism behave the way they do.
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African Americans More Likely to Blog than Whites and Latinos
By Staff Reporter | Apr 10, 2012 05:56 PM EDTThe blogging community is more racially diverse than one might think. Internet-connected African Americans are more likely to blog than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Link Between Urge to Smoke and Ability to Quit
By Mark Smith | Apr 05, 2012 02:33 PM EDTThose who successfully quit smoking had a weaker association between their urge to smoke and their ability to quit, A new study found using mobile technology.
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Having No Other Option Leads to Leaving Organization
By Mark Smith | Apr 05, 2012 02:30 PM EDTWhen employees stay with their organization, feeling they have no other options, they are likely to leave the organization.
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Brain Stores Objects by Color, Too
By Staff Reporter | Apr 04, 2012 01:37 PM EDTHow do we know what a lemon is, or a baseball? “Theories that explain how our brains store knowledge say that similar knowledge is stored in similar places. So things that are related – in how they look, how they smell, and so on – should overlap in the brain,” says Eiling Yee of the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, & Language. In other words, the same part of your brain might store the information that both lemons and canaries are yellow.
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Jobless in Midlife? Old Brains Can Learn New Tricks
By Mark Miller | Apr 02, 2012 01:49 PM EDTThe Great Recession has left millions of midlife Americans up a creek without a paddle. Having lost jobs at the peak of their careers, they must find new work for the second half of their lives. Many will likely need to reinvent their careers -- and may consider themselves too old to embark on something new.
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Interrogational Torture: Effective or Purely Sadistic?
By Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2012 01:56 AM EDTWhile government officials have argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary to protect American citizens, the effectiveness of such techniques has been debated.
