News tagged with households
Panasonic plans home-use storage cell
Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Neolithic humans lived a communal life: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds evidence that the previous assumption that stone and mud-brick buildings built nearly 12,000 years ago we ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 03, 2011 |
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Economists reveal factors that help poor people lift themselves out of poverty
What factors contribute to poor people in developing countries lifting themselves out of poverty?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2010 |
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US income distribution winners and losers
People all over the world have spent almost six months in front of universities, public parks, banks, and even Wall Street to publicly protest their dissatisfaction with economic inequality. But how much disparity really ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 28, 2012 |
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'My dishwasher is trying to kill me': New research finds harmful fungal pathogens living in dishwasher seals
A potentially pathogenic fungus has found a home living in extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances, researchers have found. A new paper published in the British Mycological Society journal, Fungal Bi ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Housewife Remedy for Scurvy Preceded Medical Discovery
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 100-page handwritten book by Mrs. Ebot Mitchell written in 1707 on household remedies contains among other things a recipe to treat scurvy. The recipe containing extracts from plants, orange ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Extreme poverty: 2.8 million children in the U.S. live on $2 per day
(PhysOrg.com) -- One in five households with children in poverty are surviving on the cash equivalent of a half gallon of milk per person per day in a given month.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Canada broadcaster seeks to revolutionize energy consumption
Imagine loading your dishwasher after supper and walking away, allowing radio-activated technology and your energy provider to figure out when it would be cheapest to wash your dishes.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 02, 2010 |
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Pay TV industry loses record number of subscribers
(AP) -- The weak economy is hitting Americans where they spend a lot of their free time: at the TV set.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Brains or beauty: New study confirms having both leads to higher pay
People looking for a good job at a good salary could find their intelligence may not be the only trait that puts them at the top of the pay scale, according to researchers. A new study finds attractiveness, along with confidence, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 14, 2009 |
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Financial impacts of 'cap and trade'
So-called "cap and trade" legislation has often been portrayed as a regressive policy -- one that would hit poor people the hardest. A new MIT study concluded that this is not the case.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Hunger atlas takes a new look at an old problem
World hunger is often seen as the result of overpopulation, bad geography or natural or human-made disasters. But a new book, "The Atlas of World Hunger," reveals that the contours and causes of hunger are ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Cell component involved in triggering cat allergy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A breakthrough by scientists at The University of Nottingham could provide hope for any allergy sufferers who have ever had to choose between their health and their household pet.
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Common household pesticides linked to childhood cancer cases in Washington area
A new study by researchers at the Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center finds a higher level of common household pesticides in the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer that develops ...
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs
Don't be surprised if one day your refrigerator nags you to lose weight, your phone blocks calls it figures you're too stressed to handle, and your wisecracking car entertains you with pun-filled one liners.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 09, 2010 |
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Household
The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family".
The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models. The term refers to all individuals who live in the same dwelling.
In economics, a household is a person or a group of people living in the same residence.
Most economic models do not address whether the members of a household are a family in the traditional sense. Government and policy discussions often treat the terms household and family as synonymous, especially in western societies where the nuclear family has become the most common family structure.[dubious – discuss] In reality, there is not always a one-to-one relationship between households and families.
For more information about Household, read the full article at
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