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Weight discrimination could contribute to the glass ceiling effect for women, study finds (w/Video)

Weight discrimination appears to add to the glass ceiling effect for women, finds a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University scholar.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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Android vs. iPhone: Which has the faster web browser? Two studies disagree

Android phones vs. iPhones - it's the smart phone equivalent of the Boston Red Sox vs. the New York Yankees.

Technology / Software

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Scientists sequence genomes from Africa, Europe, Asia

Small genetic differences between individuals help explain why some people have a higher risk than others for developing illnesses such as diabetes or cancer. Today in the journal Nature, the 1000 Genomes Projec ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Spain smashes global 'zombie' computer network: police

Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Oceanographers examine mercury levels of pelagic fish in Hawaii

In the open ocean, species of large predatory fish will swim and hunt for food at various depths, which leads to unique diets in these fish. Oceanographers and geologists in the School of Ocean and Earth Science ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier

At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD today introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 5

Computer interaction gets some humanity

Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer interaction, well, ‘similar’ to ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Lasting impression: Does the face of a CEO determine a successful company?

It certainly takes more than a pretty face to run a leading national corporation. But according to a recent Tufts University study, the performance levels of America’s top companies could be related to the first impressions ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fortune 1000 IT investments are riskier than capital investments, says management insights

A study of Fortune 1000 companies shows that investments in information technology carry higher risk than other capital investments, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the fl ...

Technology / Business

created Dec 28, 2007 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters

Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deduplication Means Efficiency

EMC brought deduplication to the attention of the IT world with its $165 million acquisition of startup Avamar Technologies in November 2006. Officials with the Hopkinton, Mass., company said this technology was one of the ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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