News tagged with extended

Raising a child doesn't take a village, research shows

It doesn't take a village to raise a child after all, according to University of Michigan research.

Sep 09, 2011 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 2

IPhone insurance now available, but too expensive?

(AP) -- Absent-minded iPhone users can now insure their devices against loss or accidents. But with a $12 monthly fee and a $199 deductible for the latest model, it might make more sense to just learn to be ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Jun 29, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Extended service contracts: When and why do people buy them?

Consumer experts have long recommended against buying Extended Service Contracts (ESCs) with products, since they are rarely cost effective. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the reasons why so man ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Jun 15, 2009 | 2.2 / 5 (5) | 1

Will the economic crisis lead to major societal changes?

Why are former business executives and attorneys volunteering more time to help their communities? Why do the children of immigrants assume values very different from those of their parents? Why has the size of Japanese families ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

May 08, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 1

Samsung NC310 Netbook Claims 11 Hour Battery Life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most standard netbooks offer between two and five hours of battery life, the newly released Samsung NC310 goes beyond these limits and can achieve 11 hours of computing time on a single charge. ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 25, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 2

Scientists 'watch' as individual alpha-synuclein proteins change shape

In an Early Edition publication of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, the researchers demonstrate the "alpha-synuclein dance" - the switching back and forth of the protein between a ben ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Mar 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Prolonged nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV

Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Jan 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0