Interruptions are an inevitable part of working life. Some last a short time—a phone call, an urgent task, or a colleague stopping by for a chat. While these can take a brief toll on productivity, extended interruptions ...
Social Sciences
May 25, 2023
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(Phys.org) —A handwritten letter dated April 27, 1792, signed by Joseph Bonaparte and referring to a skirmish in Corsica involving Napoleon, the writer's then 22-year-old brother, will be returned to its rightful owner, ...
Other
May 16, 2013
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Attention Restoration Theory (ART) suggests that directed attention is subject to fatigue, and the presence of nature and natural environments allows recovery from that fatigue, consequently improving cognitive function.
Education
Dec 9, 2021
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Sometimes there is a confluence of events in municipal politics that takes a serious problem, a collection of outsized personalities and potty humour and sloshes them around to create headline gold. Such was the Big Flush, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2023
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The prospect of dangerous winds, flooding and fire have been ominously looming over the Gulf Coast, but the level of destruction to the southern U.S. is not the only aftermath many Americans are awaiting from the storm dubbed ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2012
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The Kirby Institute has released a new report that highlights the need for policy and practice in Australia to be more responsive to justice-involved youth.
Social Sciences
Feb 20, 2020
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Somalia's internet has returned after an outage of more than three weeks cost the Horn of Africa nation about $10 million a day, authorities said Monday.
Telecom
Jul 17, 2017
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New Curtin University-led research has found that the introduction of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots and automation into the workforce could potentially benefit employees, rather than replace them, ...
Economics & Business
Feb 19, 2020
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Some 87 percent of UK secondary schools report making substantial changes to history teaching to address issues of diversity, according research by the universities of Oxford and Reading, based on an Historical Association ...
Education
Oct 25, 2021
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Men are less likely to seek careers in early education and some other fields traditionally associated with women because of male gender bias in those fields, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2022
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