Search results for mental deficiency

Economics & Business Apr 5, 2024

Teaching university students how to learn matters for retaining them

It's acceptance letter season. High school students across the country are waiting, nervous for that "yes" or "no" from the colleges and universities where they've applied.

Social Sciences Mar 20, 2024

Bilingual children cannot 'turn off' their language knowledge, says researcher

Worldwide, there are more children who grow up learning multiple languages than children learning only one. And yet monolingualism is often taken as a starting point, for example in school. Research by linguist Elly Koutamanis ...

Ecology Dec 15, 2023

Climate change is further reducing fish stocks with worrisome implications for global food supplies

The health benefits of eating seafood are appreciated in many cultures which rely upon it to provide critical nutrients vital to our physical and mental development and health. Eating fish and shellfish provides significant ...

Social Sciences Nov 8, 2023

Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food

The share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency—sometimes or often not having enough food to eat—fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found in a new study published ...

Biotechnology Oct 10, 2023

Measuring nutrition in crops using satellites

With many people around the world suffering from various forms of malnutrition it's important that the absolute basics such as rice, soya and wheat are as nourishing as possible. Research shows that the Copernicus Sentinel-2 ...

Social Sciences Jul 20, 2023

Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, historian argues

Employment levels for people with learning disabilities in the UK are five to 10 times lower than they were a hundred years ago. And the experiences of workers from the 1910s–50s offer inspiration as well as lessons about ...

Social Sciences Nov 18, 2022

Can a universal basic income help address homelessness?

Homelessness is an increasing problem across the developed world, and existing policy responses are failing to make an impact. In Australia, for instance, homelessness has increased despite growing investment in (predominantly ...

Cell & Microbiology Oct 11, 2022

PC deficiency suppresses seipin: New insights into Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2

Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2 (BSCL2), the most severe form of lipodystrophy that leads to loss of nearly all subcutaneous fat tissue, is caused by mutations in the BSCL2/seipin gene. Seipin is an integral ...

Social Sciences Sep 14, 2022

Negative feedback is part of academia (and life). These six strategies can help you cope

Imagine you have years-worth of research and it is dismissed by a 15-word rejection letter from a journal editor. That has happened to us.

Social Sciences Aug 2, 2022

How have attitudes toward US immigration changed?

Hostility to immigrants isn't new to the United States. In 1896, Henry Cabot Lodge warned on the Senate floor that the "mental and moral qualities" of Americans would be endangered by the "wholesale infusion of races whose ...

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