(PhysOrg.com) -- Republican claims of political corruption in North Carolina’s Democratic Party have made little impact on public opinion among potential voters in the state, according to new polling data analyzed by ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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Feather pecking among chickens can be reduced by half if their feathers are sprayed with a bitter substance. Unfortunately, pecking cannot be corrected, says Bas Rodenburg of the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre of Wageningen ...
Other
Oct 29, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Consumers tend to overeat large sizes of food labeled as small and feel that they have not eaten too much—even if they're aware of the actual portion size and nutrition content, says a University of ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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The change in the ice mass covering Antarctica is a critical factor in global climate events. Scientists at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have now found that the year by year mass variations in the western ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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Although he trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ion Moraru’s only patients now are computers, tasked to perform a host of incredibly sophisticated computing chores for a growing number of laboratories and departments at ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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Your cell phone rings during an important meeting. Heads turn, eyebrows are raised, and everything could have been prevented if you had silenced the phone’s ringer. Or soon, thanks to an international Ryerson collaborative ...
Software
Oct 29, 2010
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Genes ‘knocked out’ experimentally in metabolic networks of the model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana (Fig. 1), are compensated for by duplicate genes or alternative synthetic pathways, according to research ...
Biotechnology
Oct 29, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of molecular collisions, we often consider massive colliders, like the LHC, sending particles smashing into each other at very high energies. While this is interesting work, it’s not the ...
Over the past year, Illinois residents have heard troubling stories about a program providing men and women “early release” from state prisons. Reporters and commentators have written sensational accounts of a “secret” ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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What powers the most luminous sources in the universe? How is the plasma state altered by ultra-strong magnetic field? How do magnetic explosions work?
Plasma Physics
Oct 29, 2010
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