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Can a formula predict the outcome of a soccer match?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soccer, like most sports, is a game full of surprises and lucky or unlucky breaks. After all, if it was easy to predict the winner of a soccer match, there wouldn’t be much reason to watch ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (21) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

New technology keeps evidence close to the vest

(PhysOrg.com) -- Each day, law enforcement officials are faced with the daunting task of investigating complex crime scenes without compromising evidence. Investigators know the slightest error could jeopardize a conviction, ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Don't be happy, be worried: Sports fans need dose of negative

For sports fans watching their favorite team play, the greatest enjoyment comes only with a strong dollop of fear and maybe even near-despair, a new study suggests.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers

Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams

Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Barriers hinder EMS workers from using best resuscitation practices

Local laws, insurance reimbursement and public misperceptions impede emergency medical services (EMS) workers from using best resuscitation practices, according to a study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality an ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Employee involvement programs key to workplace diversity

A new study by a University of Arizona professor shows employee involvement programs that executives adopt to increase efficiency also end up improving their record on diversity.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study: Lack of capital not a 'death sentence' for start-ups

A new study from North Carolina State University is turning the conventional wisdom about technology start-up companies on its head, showing that ventures with moderate levels of undercapitalization can still be successful ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New ancient Egypt temples discovered in Sinai

(AP) -- Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed four new temples amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city that could have been used to impress foreign ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Groups share information in workplace, but not the 'right' information

From the operating room to the executive board room, the benefits of working in teams have long been touted. But a new analysis of 22 years of applied psychological research shows that teams tend to discuss information they ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Odds are, seedings don't matter after Sweet 16, professor says

For budding "bracketologists" busily weighing picks for their annual March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois professor has some advice on how to pick winners: In the later rounds of the tournament, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Saving heart attack patients in the middle of the night

When Joyce Moss recently arrived at Loyola University Hospital with a life-threatening heart attack, it took just 42 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pervasive collaboration for modern business

(PhysOrg.com) -- Highly dispersed and mobile teams are the definition of modern business, but organising them is a hard problem. Now European researchers have developed a service bundle that could make virtual team organisation ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0