News tagged with background
Women who exit welfare just as likely to marry as women never on welfare
A new study from a recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family shows that women who exit welfare (under TANF, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), are as likely to marry as women of similar socioeconomic backgr ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Jumping genes, gene loss and genome dark matter
In research published today by Nature, an international team describes the finest map of changes to the structure of human genomes and a resource they have developed for researchers worldwide to look at the ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Ethnic background may be associated with diabetes risk
Fat and muscle mass, as potentially determined by a person's ethnic background, may contribute to diabetes risk, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Twinkling Nanostars Improve Optical Imaging of Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Social background weighs heavily on teenage diet
Teenagers' attitudes to diet and weight are shaped by their social class, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Study: Younger black women more likely to have regular doctor, feel cared for
(PhysOrg.com) -- Younger black women are more likely to have a regular doctor -- and are more likely to feel cared for by that doctor -- than younger white women and women of other ethnic groups, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Education and reward genes interact to influence alcoholism among Mexican-Americans
Hispanics with alcohol-induced problems - especially male Mexican Americans - have significantly worse health and welfare than those with other ethnic backgrounds. This study examined the influence of gene/environment interaction ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Researcher investigates the origins of travel writing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Travel writing has become one of the most popular genres in recent years with bookshops dedicating sizeable sections to keep up with a growing demand from travelling readers. But how did the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Living together: The best way to divorce-proof a marriage?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Young adults see living together as the best way to protect against divorce, not as an alternative to marriage, a University of Michigan researcher says.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Listening for Gravitational Echoes of the Universe's Birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe.
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Scientists' strategic reading of research enhanced by digital tools
The revolution in scientific publishing that has been promised since the 1980s is finally about to take place, according to two University of Illinois experts in information science.
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Taking up music so you can hear
Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Planck Sees Light Billions of Years Old
The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.
Aug 14, 2009 |
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