News tagged with inexperience

Brain-fitness companies applying neuroscience to make safer drivers

Young drivers cause accidents mainly through carelessness, distraction and inexperience. Older drivers face a challenge: brains that work at slower processing speeds -- a critical disadvantage when navigating the unpredictable ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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A 'genius' and his robots

It was lunch hour and hundreds of Dos Pueblos High School students surged onto the bleachers at the school's outdoor Greek Theater. The crowd was cheering, the music was thumping and a student-built robot named Penguinbot ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Female deer confirm bigger is not always better when choosing a mate

Female deer do not always choose the bigger and dominant males to mate with, scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and Hartpury College have found.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

63 percent under 30 admit driving while on phone

(AP) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation and Consumer Reports magazine have released a poll that illustrates how widespread distracted driving is among young people and a plan to help fight it.

Technology / Other

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China's Baidu expands as Google contracts

The name of the search engine "Baidu" means "hundreds of times", and comes from an ancient Chinese verse often cited today to refer to the continuous search for one's dreams.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students Test Dive Mechanical Dolphin Tails (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten University of Cincinnati design students recently tested prosthetic tails that hold promise in revolutionizing sea diving. That experience was part of an innovative UC studio course linking ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Robotic surgery: How safe is it?

When Mea Figueroa of St. Cloud was told that a robot would be performing a delicate operation to remove uterine fibroids that were causing her pain and abnormal bleeding, she hesitated slightly.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Guidance on cross-examination improves accuracy of witness testimony

The study, by researchers at the Universities of Liverpool and Leeds, showed that the construction and phrasing of 'lawyerese' questions can inhibit processes in the brain that impact on how a witness responds under cross-examination. ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New medics in death spike

Are new medical residents a threat to patients? According to Dr. David Phillips and Gwendolyn Barker from the University of California, San Diego in the US, fatal medication errors peak in July in teaching hospitals in particular, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Media memories help people with dementia to unlock the past

(PhysOrg.com) -- People with dementia are to be given help to unlock their memories, thanks to academic research by teams at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inexperience a key factor in youth crashes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Adelaide (Australia) study has found that young drivers are twice as likely to have an accident during their first few months of driving on a provisional licence than after ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2


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