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Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to Yale and MIT researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change. http://phys.org/news247316254.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:57:44 EST news247316254 A smartphone app launched Wednesday in the Indian capital Delhi aims to fight a rise in sexual assault cases by enabling women to immediately alert friends or family if they feel at risk. http://phys.org/news243664585.html Technology Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:36:38 EST news243664585 China on Tuesday ordered local governments to reduce emissions of "major pollutants" by as much as 10 percent by 2015, amid growing public anxiety over the country's bad air. http://phys.org/news243597585.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:59:51 EST news243597585 Roses are one of the leading cut flowers in the global floriculture trade. In the last few years, cut flower consumption and the market for high-quality flowers has increased in Pakistan as a result of the country's rapid economic growth, improved living standards, enhanced access to electronic media, and increasing demand from the country's growing hospitality industry. http://phys.org/news242916584.html Biology Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:01 EST news242916584 Cities are wasting the potential of smart technologies by failing to realise the value of their hidden infrastructure and digital assets. http://phys.org/news242476051.html Technology Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:27:56 EST news242476051 India is set Wednesday to launch its long-awaited low-cost computer, a $45 tablet device designed to bring the information technology revolution to tens of millions of students. http://phys.org/news236968187.html Electronics Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:30:02 EST news236968187 Contrary to belief, older people in South Africa and Brazil become happier as they age. New research suggests that, with the right policies in place, a developing country can significantly improve the wellbeing of its older citizens. http://phys.org/news236830554.html Other Sciences Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:16:17 EST news236830554 Global crises and the slow burn of climate change are having a profound impact on the lives and livelihoods of poor people around the world, and bringing into question core ideas about what development is and how it happens, according to a new report. http://phys.org/news236426140.html Other Sciences Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:55:48 EST news236426140 In these tough economic times, universities are under pressure to use their knowledge and discoveries to drive economic growth, but an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) study reveals that not all universities are equal. Universities in the greater south-east of England seem to be better than those in less competitive regions at commercialising their research and innovation. http://phys.org/news234608828.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:07:15 EST news234608828 (AP) -- China's online population soared to 485 million as of the end of June as use of mobile phones to surf the Web spreads, an industry group reported Tuesday. http://phys.org/news230276767.html Technology Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:46:48 EST news230276767 (PhysOrg.com) -- When global food prices rose sharply starting in late 2010 and hit an all-time high in February, many leaders, including the presidents of the World Bank and of France, spoke about the increases and conflated them with issues of food price volatility. In a paper published online July 13 in the journal Foreign Affairs, Cornell economist Chris Barrett argues that international leaders should treat the spike in prices and food price volatility as separate problems. http://phys.org/news229923070.html Other Sciences Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:50:01 EST news229923070 Key players in the Internet world stressed that the "light touch" approach to regulation, along with a free flow of information remained vital to life on the web, the OECD said on Wednesday after a two-day meeting. http://phys.org/news228572120.html Technology Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:15:34 EST news228572120 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research by the University of Warwick and Humboldt University shows that the frequency of wars between states increased steadily from 1870 to 2001 by 2% a year on average. The research argues that conflict is being fed by economic growth and the proliferation of new borders. http://phys.org/news228479027.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:24:01 EST news228479027 Good governance is a condition of economic progress in developing countries. But when people in a corrupt country start earning more money, the result is not development but more corruption. These findings are outlined in a publication by Wageningen UR development economists Maarten Voors and Erwin Bulte in the Journal of African Economies. http://phys.org/news228132393.html Other Sciences Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:06:42 EST news228132393 High-tech training may trump tax breaks for creating more jobs and improving a state's economy, according to a team of economists. http://phys.org/news228047800.html Other Sciences Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:36:49 EST news228047800 (AP) -- When Nasir Khan cried out at night from the searing pain of kidney stones, the entire slum could hear him. http://phys.org/news226458357.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:10:35 EST news226458357 India's fraud-hit software outsourcer Mahindra Satyam on Monday swung to an unexpected quarterly loss from a profit the previous quarter, hit by the cost of a one-off US lawsuit. http://phys.org/news225342422.html Technology Mon, 23 May 2011 04:20:01 EST news225342422 (PhysOrg.com) -- Location, location, location. That's what UC Irvine economics professor David Neumark says is key to understanding how California's economy has managed to stay in line with or surpass the national growth average, despite the Golden State's less-than-favorable rankings in popular business climate indexes. http://phys.org/news225018979.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 May 2011 10:16:28 EST news225018979 Global consumption of natural resources could triple to 140 billion tons a year by 2050 unless consumer nations take drastic steps, the United Nations warned Thursday. http://phys.org/news224434170.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 May 2011 15:49:55 EST news224434170 A repeat of a corporate tax holiday that found little success in stimulating the economy in 2005 is still a long-shot to jump-start a stagnant U.S. economy, says a University of Illinois expert in corporate and international taxation. http://phys.org/news222437323.html Other Sciences Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:08:55 EST news222437323 In recent years reimbursement for surgical services has declined, failing to keep up with inflation and economic growth. Financial incentives aimed at re-distributing reimbursement from procedural specialties to primary care specialties have been ineffective thus far, and the financial returns of being a physician continue to decrease, according to new research published in the April 2011 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. http://phys.org/news220850468.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:21:21 EST news220850468 Most Indians are missing out on the "digital revolution" due to dismal Internet access for the poor with the nation lagging far behind its emerging market peers, a study found Wednesday. http://phys.org/news220675790.html Technology Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:10:01 EST news220675790 Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct investments in health and health-related programs. These are the conclusions of a large study by researchers at the Schools of Public Health at University of Michigan and Harvard University, that is published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://phys.org/news218827577.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:26:26 EST news218827577 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked up the Turkish technology industry Monday ahead of the world's largest IT fair in Germany, where Turkey is this year "partner country." http://phys.org/news218094243.html Technology Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:30:07 EST news218094243 The world needs fundamental changes to the global food system to feed the expanding population, according to a British government report out Monday on how to feed the planet until 2050. http://phys.org/news215115493.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:18:23 EST news215115493 (AP) -- China's online population rose to 457 million in 2010 as use of mobile phones to surf the Web spread rapidly, an industry group reported Wednesday. http://phys.org/news214634992.html Technology Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:50:05 EST news214634992 A new collaborative paper by economist Richard Easterlin — namesake of the "Easterlin Paradox" and founder of the field of happiness studies — offers the broadest range of evidence to date demonstrating that a higher rate of economic growth does not result in a greater increase of happiness. http://phys.org/news211477699.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:48:36 EST news211477699 President Barack Obama urged Monday a refocus on scientific research and teaching, as was triggered by the launch of the Soviet's 1957 Sputnik satellite, saying it was key to future US prosperity, http://phys.org/news210878853.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:27:53 EST news210878853 A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), using data provided by McMaster economist Mike Veall, suggests that Canada's richest continue to get richer at a much faster rate, taking home almost one third of all growth in incomes between 1997 and 2007. http://phys.org/news210522371.html Other Sciences Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:40:01 EST news210522371 The New England economic outlook remains precarious, with the regional economy struggling to continue its recovery if the U.S. economy remains weak. The looming federal and state fiscal crises will make a difficult road to recovery in the region even more difficult, according to Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire. http://phys.org/news209189460.html Other Sciences Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:40:01 EST news209189460