Nearly every video game sold or downloaded comes with a rating that provides age-appropriate guidelines based on the game's content. Critics have questioned the effectiveness of ratings, but new research from Iowa State University ...
Economics & Business
Jan 25, 2017
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As online shopping continues to grow in popularity around the globe, shoppers increasingly depend upon consumer-based rating systems that vendors like Amazon.com and eBay use to rate products and sellers. But those rating ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 28, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. unemployment rate of about 8 percent masks a far greater problem: the precarious situation of working-age men with modest education and few job skills, new analysis from the La Follette School of ...
Economics & Business
Apr 4, 2012
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People in the United States could see tens of thousands of extra violent crimes every year—because of climate change alone.
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2020
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At least one of the "Big Three" credit ratings agencies exaggerated credit scores of private debt compared to public bonds during the last 30 years, according to a new study by researchers from Rice University, American University ...
Economics & Business
Sep 15, 2011
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An increasing number of men suffer from fertility problems, especially in western society. The general belief is that many problems may be related to stress but it is possible that some of them may arise because men simply ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2012
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The two key molecules that interact to drive fungal sepsis and meningitis are IP7—a molecule essential for fungal cell metabolism, and the protein Pho81—which regulates intake of the essential nutrient, phosphate.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 21, 2020
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Improving road safety in cities could result in a lower rate of violent crime, according to research from UCL.
Social Sciences
Feb 24, 2021
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(AP) -- Dan Glickman spent his Hollywood years aiming to improve the ratings system that tells Americans what to expect in a movie - and fighting pirates.
Business
Mar 16, 2010
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The Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative of the Brookings Institution, published a memo earlier this month that highlighted the economic costs of crime and incarceration in the United States.
Social Sciences
May 15, 2014
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