News tagged with misinterpretation
ANU philosopher urges consensus on 50-year debate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Misinterpretation of a key scientific concept has led to decades of fierce debate according to an Australian National University philosopher.
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Enhancing medication safety with computerized alerts
Medication errors are responsible for a large number of adverse drug events in patients each year, and the use of medication-related abbreviations accounts for nearly five percent of these errors. Strategies to reduce the ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Face off: Misunderstood expressions facilitate adolescent aggression
Juvenile delinquency may be a result of misunderstood social cues. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health shows that male juvenile delinquents frequently misint ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Spurious switching points in traded stock dynamics
Physicists have rebuffed the existence of power laws governing the dynamics of traded stock volatility, volume and intertrade times at times of stock price extrema. They did this by demonstrating that what appeared as "switching ...
May 15, 2012 |
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New approach to 'spell checking' gene sequences
(Phys.org) -- A PhD student from CSIRO and the University of Queensland has found a better way to 'spell check' gene sequences and help biologists better understand the natural world.
May 10, 2012 |
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More companies quit blogging, go with Facebook instead
With the emergence of social media, more companies are replacing blogs with nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?
(AP) -- Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Texas vulture study upends forensics
(AP) -- For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours.
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Counting down to the Transit of Venus - our nearest exoplanet test-lab
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three months before the last transit of Venus this century, scientists are gathering at the Observatoire de Paris to finalise their observation plans in a workshop supported by the Europlanet ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Apple CEO hints company will part with some cash
(AP) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook believes the world's most valuable company has more money than it needs. His next challenge is to figure out whether Apple should break from the cash-hoarding ways of his predecessor, the late ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Swarm constellation heads north
(PhysOrg.com) -- The three satellites that make up ESA's Swarm magnetic field mission were presented to the media today. Following a demanding testing programme, the satellites were displayed in the cleanroom ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Identifying poverty levels requires accurate measurements
When food prices spiked in 2008, the number of households that moved into poverty was overestimated by about 60 percent, according to a recent University of Illinois study. In middle-income countries such as Mexico that have ...
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Feb 15, 2012 |
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The iPhone's Siri doesn't seem so smart in Scotland
D'ye want me tae spaek more clearly, Siri? Aye, ye would.
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Feb 02, 2012 |
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