Considering end-of-year bonuses for your employees? Supervisors be forewarned, a new study finds that while incentive rewards can help motivate and increase employee performance it can also lead to unethical behavior in the ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2018
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Max Mikel-Stites and Anne Staples were searching for a sequel.
Other
Dec 11, 2018
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Polymers—molecules of repeating chemicals—are the basis of many materials: plastic water bottles, rubber tires, even the keratin in your hair. When certain kinds of polymers are sensitive to changes in external stimuli ...
Polymers
Dec 7, 2018
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Fans of the Star Wars franchise will have to wait more than a year from now to get their fix of Jedi-laden telekinetic spectacles on the big screen. The as-of-yet-to-be-titled Episode IX, the last installment of the space ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 30, 2018
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When NASA's new InSight lander touches down on Mars on Nov. 26 to begin new explorations of the Red Planet's interior structure, Virginia Tech's Scott King will be anxiously awaiting the first feedback of data.
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2018
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Diseases have repeatedly spilled over from wildlife to humans, causing local to global epidemics, such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, and Nipah.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 19, 2018
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What do online conspiracy theorists discuss; what are the recurring elements in these conversations; and what do they tell us about the way people think?
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2018
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Sara Farthing, a first-year student in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, needed a mental picture.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 24, 2018
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Over the next decade, American manufacturers are facing an industrial skills gap with projections of 2 million manufacturing jobs going unfilled due to a lack of qualified and skilled applicants. A large portion of the current ...
Robotics
Oct 18, 2018
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Greater access to antibiotic drugs, together with their misuse and overuse, has accelerated the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria worldwide.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2018
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