News tagged with recommendations
Danish researchers finally solve the obesity riddle
Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, can now unveil the results of the world's largest diet study: If you want to lose weight, you should maintain a diet that is high ...
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions
A recommendation letter could be the chute in a woman's career ladder, according to ongoing research at Rice University. The comprehensive study shows that qualities mentioned in recommendation letters for women differ sharply ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Best diets to reduce heart disease investigated in new study
A new study at the University of Reading, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council, Cambridge, and three UK universities, has shed new light on dietary recommendations for good health.
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Google, MySpace, Facebook make music moves (Update 2)
(AP) -- Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Netflix awards $1M prize to improve movie picks
(AP) -- Netflix Inc. declared a seven-member group of researchers, scientists and engineers from around the world as winners Monday of its three-year, $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendation system by at least ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists (w/ Video)
Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius - the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes - against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Religion and medicine: Sometimes a healing prescription
Do pediatric oncologists feel that religion is a bridge or a barrier to their work? Or do they feel it can be either, depending on whether their patients are recovering or deteriorating? A novel Brandeis University study ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Physicians failing to follow recommended heart-failure treatment guidelines
Physicians are losing ground in prescribing the types of medications that have proven most effective in treating a condition known as congestive heart failure, according to a new study from the Stanford University School ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 09, 2010 |
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MySpace scoops up popular Facebook app iLike
(AP) -- Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Judge: Site must delay copying of broker reports
(AP) -- Settling a copyright dispute closely watched in the financial news industry, a judge on Thursday ordered a Web site to delay disseminating the stock recommendations of financial services firms long enough so that ...
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Wealthfront lets regular folks invest like the rich
Startup Wealthfront has revamped its online service to give middle- and lower-income people in the United States investment tools typically reserved for the rich to make profit on their money.
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Pandora tunes up for IPO, looks to raise $100M
(AP) -- Popular Internet radio service Pandora is tuning up for an IPO later this year.
Feb 12, 2011 |
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Improving recommendation system algorithms
Recommendation algorithms are a vital part of today’s Web, the basis of the targeted advertisements that account for most commercial sites’ revenues and of services such as Pandora, the Internet ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 08, 2011 |
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Engineers Try to Bring Down the House During Simulated Earthquake Tests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California at San Diego put a single-story house to the test on January 26 via a series of strong simulated earthquake shakes. The first jolt to the wood-stud ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Giving doctors the complete picture
During the course of a hospitalization, patients are seen by a variety of specialists in addition to the physician who has primary responsibility for their care. However, faulty communication, inappropriate timing, inadequate ...
Mar 06, 2009 |
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