News tagged with social burden

Casting light on social blame

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mothers whose children suffer from emotional and behavioral disabilities say they shoulder a tremendous social burden of responsibility to remedy their kids’ problems, says Linda Blum, associate ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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Google project's success is up to Kansas City

Kansas City, beware the story of Vilnius.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social welfare cuts ultimately come with heavy price, researchers say

(Phys.org) -- Slashing government funding for Medicaid, food stamps and other programs that serve the poor – while politically popular with some lawmakers and many conservatives – may do more harm ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 220

LIVE: Facebook goes public

(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Europe's courts under reform pressure: study

Protracted legal proceedings, increasingly complex legal cases and growing criticism of the administration of justice – the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg is overburdened. Research by the Hamburg-based ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Global warming: New research emphasizes the role of economic growth

It's a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we'll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world's economies work.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 133

Sales-tax collection likely in Amazon's future

When word emerged that Amazon.com Inc. was hunting for new warehouse sites, leaders in this business-friendly Southern state rolled out a welcome mat of tax breaks to lure the Internet retailer.

Technology / Business

created Apr 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 23

Study: Female students wary of the engineering workplace

Why don’t more women enter the male-dominated profession of engineering? Some observers have speculated it may be due to the difficulties of balancing a demanding career with family life. Others have ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

World scientists define united approach to tackling food insecurity

Nearly one billion people in the world are undernourished, while millions suffer from chronic disease due to excess food consumption. Global demand is growing for agricultural products and food prices are rising, yet roughly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

US regulators call for tighter online privacy rules

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called for Internet users to be given an easy-to-use "Do Not Track" feature in a report released on Monday backing tighter online privacy laws.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New distributed processing technology developed to efficiently collect desired data from big data streams

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the world's first successful development of a distributed processing technology that efficiently collects enormous volumes of real-world data in the cloud through ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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