According to polls, the average European consumer regards gene technology, particularly for food production, as controversial. To help alleviate consumer concern, a European project has set up a website specifically to increase ...
Biotechnology
Sep 26, 2012
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The musician Paul Simon came to fame collaborating with his childhood friend Art Garfunkel, yet launched another chapter with his Graceland album, collaborating with musicians from Soweto. Ratan Tata made his name expanding ...
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2012
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(AP)—The United States' ability to compete on the global stage has fallen for the fourth year running as confidence in the country's politicians continues to decline, an annual survey from the World Economic Forum found ...
Business
Sep 5, 2012
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Consumers who trust their feelings are more likely to make choices based on what "feels right" even when feelings are irrelevant to their decision, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2012
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People who believe the world is a just place trust salespeople more than consumers who don't—but only after they've made a purchase, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2012
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College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2012
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Trust. The word gets bandied about a lot when talking about the Web today. We want people to trust our systems. Companies are supposedly building “trusted computing” and “designing for trust”.
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2012
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While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent ...
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2012
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An auction of India's Wipro shares by a trust controlled by its founder and chairman Azim Premji received bids for just under two-thirds of its offer size, stock exchange data showed late Wednesday.
Business
Mar 14, 2012
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Shares in India's leading IT outsourcer Wipro fell 2.2 percent at one point Tuesday after its chairman, Azim Premji, said he will sell a 1.4 percent stake in the firm to fund charitable causes.
Business
Mar 13, 2012
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