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MIT Sloan study examines BlackBerry use
03-21-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)One might expect a doctoral student conducting research on BlackBerry usage to own one or more of the handheld devices. But Melissa Mazmanian, a fourth-year MIT Sloan doctoral student, doesn't own one, and she prefers it this way.
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- Study examines correlation between race and police force size
10-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Empirical studies have long shown that crime rate and budget alone do not account for the size of an area's police force. Police forces tend to be larger in areas where blacks comprise a larger percentage, and many sociologists have attributed this to racial attitudes, specifically the white population's perceptions of threat. A thought-provoking study is the first to empirically examine this premise.
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- Researchers use brain scans to predict when people will buy products
01-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
For the first time, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine what parts of the brain are active when people consider whether to purchase a product and to predict whether or not they ultimately choose to buy the product. The study appears in the journal Neuron and was co-authored by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- New study examines how rearing environment can alter navigation
08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study published in the July issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is the first attempt to examine whether early exposure to strong geometric cues influences navigational strategy.
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- Study examines ethnic differences in sleep quality and blood pressure
10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
In this month's issue of the American Journal of Hypertension, Dr. Joel Hughes, Kent State assistant professor of psychology, and colleagues examine the possibility that sleep quality may help account for ethnic differences in blood pressure dipping.
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- Study examines performance-based pay for teachers
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Teacher performance pay is a frequently discussed and controversial topic among kindergarten through 12th-grade educators. Recent findings by economics professors at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Vanderbilt University suggest that states and school districts in the United States begin developing programs that examine the effects of linking teacher pay to student achievement.
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- Political scientists examine voter confidence in electoral administration, make recommendations
11-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study by political scientists examines voter confidence in the local administration of US elections and finds the quality of voters' experience with the voting process is key to bolstering confidence in the election system -- along with the casting a ballot on Election Day and the use of voting machines with verifiable results.
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- MicroRNA 'sponges' could aid cancer studies
08-12-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT researchers have developed a new way to study the function of microRNA, the tiny strands of genetic material that help regulate a cell's genes. The work could shed light on microRNA's hypothesized role in tumor development.
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- Study finds flaws in cancer clinical trials
02-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Cancer research and drug development are yielding more sophisticated candidate therapies, but investigators' methods to test them haven't kept pace, according to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. That could explain why so many experimental drugs fail in the final large and costly phase of testing, they say.
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- Study examines video game play among adolescents
07-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
On school days, teen boys who play video games appear to spend less time reading and teen girls who play video games appear to spend less time doing homework than those who do not play video games, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Overall, video game players did not spend less time than non-video game players interacting with parents and friends.
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- New study examines how minorities are 'movin' on up' when they move to new neighborhoods
08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Minorities make equal or better economic gains than whites when moving to new neighborhoods, but white children still populate the most advantaged neighborhoods in the nation.
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