News tagged with welfare
Study: Parenthood makes moms more liberal, dads more conservative
Parenthood is pushing mothers and fathers in opposite directions on political issues associated with social welfare, from health care to education, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure
A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Scientists create vaccine against heroin high
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a highly successful vaccine against a heroin high and have proven its therapeutic potential in animal models.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Can you ask a pig if his glass is half full?
Babe may be the most famous sensitive pig in the world but new research from Newcastle University suggests he is by no means the only one.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Ig Nobel: Researchers named the cream of the crop
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle scientists Dr Catherine Douglas and Dr Peter Rowlinson have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Veterinary Medicine for their work looking at reducing stress levels in dairy cattle. In a paper published earlier this year, they described how giving a cow ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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China 'moon bear' agony persists, despite successes
One by one, 13 sick and traumatised Asian black bears squeezed into tiny cages are pulled from a truck, a lifetime of agonising torture now over.
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Slaughtering animals without prior stunning should be curbed, if not banned
The slaughter of animals for commercial meat supply without stunning them first should at the very least be curbed, if not banned, concludes a former president of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) in an opinion piece ...
May 05, 2012 |
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China's urbanization unlikely to lead to fast growth of middle class: UW geographer
The number of people living in China's cities, which last year for the first time surpassed 50 percent of the national population, is considered a boon for the consumer goods market. That is based on the assumption that there ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Energy poverty creating a respiratory disease 'epidemic' for almost half the world's population
Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Healthy piglets? Not with sulfonamides
Recent work from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna confirms that sulfonamides can be used to control coccidiosis in piglets, although not without considerable effort and expense. In contrast, the drug toltrazuril ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Friend and foe: Nitrogen pollution's little-known environmental and human health threats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Billions of people owe their lives to nitrogen fertilizers -- a pillar of the fabled Green Revolution in agriculture that averted global famine in the 20th century -- but few are aware that ...
Aug 29, 2011 |
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New research demonstrates damaging influence of media on public perceptions of chimpanzees
How influential are mass media portrayals of chimpanzees in television, movies, advertisements and greeting cards on public perceptions of this endangered species? That is what researchers based at Chicago's Lincoln Park ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Water lilies cause massive Philippines flooding
More than half a million people in the southern Philippines have been affected by flooding after water lilies clogged the country's second longest river, officials said Monday.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Indonesia to review dolphin release plan: official
Indonesia said Friday it would consider rehabilitating captive dolphins before releasing them into the wild, after animal welfare activists criticised a plan to dump them directly into the sea.
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Tough dogs not merely gang weapons
Youths in groups or gangs choose to own dogs primarily for socializing and companionship. Dogs are also used for protection and enhancing status, but to a lesser extent, contrary to popular perception. The research by Jennifer ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 16, 2011 |
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