(Phys.org) -- Low-income households in Australia are increasingly at risk of "energy poverty", a situation in which a household must spend more than 10 percent of its disposable income on energy bills, according to a paper ...
Economics & Business
Aug 20, 2012
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Neighbourhood income deprivation has a strong negative effect on altruistic behaviour when measured by a 'lost letter' experiment, according to new UCL research published today in PLOS ONE.
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In a recent paper, Aleksander Ellis of the University of Arizona Eller College of Management and a colleague demonstrate that lack of sleep can cause deviant behavior at work.
Economics & Business
Aug 8, 2012
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(Medical Xpress) -- Can lack of sleep make you behave unethically? Researchers think so.
Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2012
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The downturn in the housing market in the last three years has left the UK a nation of frustrated, unfulfilled house-movers, according to the latest data from Understanding Society, a study of 40,000 UK households funded ...
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2012
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Nearly a third of UK looters punished for taking part in the Manchester and Salford riots came from areas with high levels of social deprivation, an academic has found.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2012
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Many landscape trees are started in-ground, then sold as bare-root ''liners'' to producers who plant them in large containers to grow. To minimize wind damage and to facilitate transport from potting areas to growing beds, ...
Ecology
Nov 17, 2011
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New research at the University of York has found that nearly 50 per cent of secondary school pupils with reading difficulties are not on the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Register.
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A protein that helps the brain develop early in life can fight the mental fuzziness induced by sleep deprivation, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2011
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Russia on Friday declassified documents that shed light on Yuri Gagarin's mysterious death in a training flight in 1968, saying his jet likely manoeuvred sharply to avoid a weather balloon.
Space Exploration
Apr 8, 2011
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