Seeing a person's face as we are talking to them greatly improves our ability to understand their speech. While previous studies indicate that the timing of words-to-mouth movements across the senses is critical to this audio-visual ...
General Physics
Oct 26, 2021
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COVID-19 has changed the way we work.
Economics & Business
Oct 25, 2021
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Past studies have raised the possibility that performance pay—programs that give employees incentives to be productive by offering rewards for achieving performance objectives—may widen the gender earnings gap because ...
Economics & Business
Oct 14, 2021
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Prolonged working from home during the corona pandemic has led to less productivity and less happiness at work among employees who score high on the personality traits extroversion and conscientiousness. People who scored ...
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2021
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A new study published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists looks at the causal relationship between outdoor air pollution levels on nationwide university entry examination day and students' ...
Education
Oct 6, 2021
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For the first time, scientists have assembled a quantitative assessment for agriculture sustainability for countries around the world based not only on environmental impacts, but economic and social impacts, as well. The ...
Ecology
Sep 17, 2021
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A new paper in the Journal of the European Economic Association, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that we tend to listen to people who tell us things we'd like to believe and ignore people who tell us things ...
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2021
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The conversion of abundant biomass and their derivatives into high value-added fuels and chemicals is envisaged as a promising green avenue to reduce our reliance on conventional fossil resources. Among them, the pyrolysis ...
Materials Science
Sep 1, 2021
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Companies part or wholly owned by a family are better at looking after their staff than other firms, new research shows.
Economics & Business
Aug 31, 2021
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Smartphones can improve academic performance, when used appropriately, according to new research by the School of Business.
Education
Aug 31, 2021
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