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May 22, 2013

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Unmanned vehicles bring in the data By Liza Lester, ESA communications officer Earlier this month, a couple of environmental scientists from NOAA and WWF turned up at a symposium on drones in company with journalists, law & order types, engineers, gearheads and think tank fellows. The scientists were on the pro-drone docket. Drones can [...]

May 20, 2013

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6:44 PM | Shaken or stirred: what’s your method of choice?

WHAT: We are looking for early career ecologists to participate in a survey of statistical approaches. We will provide you with a small data set and we ask that you spend no more than a few hours analysing the data … Continue reading →

May 05, 2013

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8:00 AM | Measuring climate consensus: crowd-sourced survey

Why not devote 15 minutes of your time to a good cause? John Cook of Skeptical Science, one of the regulars on The Climate Show, who just happens to be a research fellow in climate communication for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, is crowd-sourcing a survey of the climate literature to [...] [Get the full story at Hot Topic...]

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6:49 AM | The United Nations wants to hear from you.

The United Nations wants to hear from you.: I have just told them my priorities for creating a...

May 01, 2013

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12:30 PM | Are You Or Your Child Addicted to Online Games? An Online Assessment Tool

In an upcoming issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Papay and colleagues[1] provide psychometric evidence for the short-form Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (developed earlier and published in PLOS ONE[2]) using a national sample of 5,045 high school students. The short-form version is especially interesting because it has six dimensions over just twelve items. However, the [...] Related articles from NeoAcademic: Why Do People Play Online Social Games? In […]

Pápay, O., Urbán, R., Griffiths, M., Nagygyörgy, K., Farkas, J., Kökönyei, G., Felvinczi, K., Oláh, A., Elekes, Z. & Demetrovics, Z. & (2013). Psychometric Properties of the Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire Short-Form and Prevalence of Problematic Online Gaming in a National Sample of Adolescents, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2147483647. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2012.0484

Demetrovics, Z., Urbán, R., Nagygyörgy, K., Farkas, J., Griffiths, M., Pápay, O., Kökönyei, G., Felvinczi, K. & Oláh, A. (2012). The Development of the Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (POGQ), PLoS ONE, 7 (5) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036417

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April 24, 2013

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10:00 PM | Surveillance under pressure

There’s a great success story now published online in ICHE. The CDC, using National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) and National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) data, estimates that 100-200K central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) have been prevented since 1990 through implementation of evidence-based prevention practices. This accomplishment should be celebrated as a demonstration of the real progress that has been made in hospital infection prevention. As Mary […]

April 17, 2013

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5:00 AM | Spitzer osserva i ‘confini’ dell’Universo

Secondo il modello cosmologico standard, meno di un miliardo di anni dopo il Big Bang si formarono le prime galassie. Nessuno sa quando e come sia avvenuto questo processo. Per [...]

April 09, 2013

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5:00 PM | Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before

After nearly a decade of careful observations an international team of astronomers has measured the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, more accurately than ever before. This [...]

March 09, 2013

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5:00 AM | Dalle stelle ‘morenti’ probabili indizi sulla vita extraterrestre

È quanto emerge da uno studio recente in base al quale anche le stelle che si trovano nella fase finale della loro evoluzione potrebbero ancora ospitare dei pianeti sui quali [...]

February 21, 2013

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2:16 AM | Lifetime Prevalence of Eating Disorders Among Eating Disorder Professionals

How many professionals that treat eating disorders have a personal history of struggling with an eating disorder? It is a crucial question to ask (and answer) because there are important implications for patient treatment and for the health of the afflicted professionals. It is true that many (or most?) individuals who go into mental health do so because of personal experiences–whether due to their own personal history or the experiences of a loved one–so it is useful to ask, just […]

BARBARICH, N. (2002). Lifetime Prevalence of Eating Disorders Among Professionals in the Field, Eating Disorders, 10 (4) 305-312. DOI: 10.1080/10640260214505

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February 20, 2013

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5:14 PM | From the mouths of babes: An existential statistic [British]

The UK’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey includes a variable called “resbby — Whether respondent is baby“. The July-September 2011 survey reports that the value of this variable is YES for 228 of the 105488 respondents. Here is the pertinent detail from that report: Here is that same detail, this time including the full graph: A year later, [...]

February 17, 2013

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11:14 AM | Stroke TPA? Have your say!

Help Professor Daniel Fatovich collect data about attitudes to TPA in stroke by answering these 4 questions!The post Stroke TPA? Have your say! appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog.

February 01, 2013

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6:19 PM | Small doubling in groups

Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben Green, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our survey “Small doubling in groups“, for the proceedings of the upcoming Erdos Centennial. This is a short survey of the known results on classifying finite subsets of an (abelian) additive group or a (not necessarily abelian) multiplicative group that have small doubling [...]

January 25, 2013

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2:27 PM | Got a moment to help update a classic STEM education study?

Elaine Seymour and Nancy Hewitt's book Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences is considered one of the seminal works in the literature about STEM education in higher ed. Even though it's 15 years old, it still wields a powerful influence over a lot of thought about university-level STEM education. Two researchers would like our help in updating parts of this survey.

January 17, 2013

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9:00 PM | What do Kiwis die of?

I have never really understood why some people are desperate for immortality. Like those crazy millionaires who have their heads frozen in liquid nitrogen. I am not afraid of dying, but I would like to die painlessly and without much fuss, and preferably with all my faculties intact*. But what am I likely to die [...]

January 15, 2013

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9:35 AM | What do you think Kiwis die of?

The inhabitants of NZ, that is, rather than our feathered and flightless friends! I’m trying to find out what people think those living in New Zealand die from. Will you tell me what you think? Please fill out this short survey and ask your friends and family to do the same. All will be revealed [...]

January 07, 2013

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8:49 PM | Survey: Physics 2nd Most Demanding Major

Anecdotally, science majors such as chemists and physicists tend to gripe about having the hardest majors throughout college. Although "hardest major" rankings may be fairly subjective, new survey data suggest physics majors have the 2nd most demanding major. According to a survey of hundreds of thousands of college students in the U.S. and Canada, 36 percent of physics seniors spend 21+ hours preparing for class every week. Only one other group out-studied the physics majors: engineering […]

December 31, 2012

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6:02 PM | Una lista di avvenimenti importanti del 2012

Quella che segue è una selezione di fatti e avvenimenti che hanno caratterizzato la ricerca nel campo della fisica e dell’astronomia durante il 2012. L’ordine non segue necessariamente la cronologia. Galassie nane e formazione stellare Le galassie nane vissute tra i 9 e 10 miliardi di anni fa hanno subito un violento incremento di formazione … Continua a leggere »

December 27, 2012

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8:56 PM | Ooey, Ooey, Ooey, Ooey Allergies

The Wiggles, Australia’s highest-grossing and soon to be retired musical act, played a farewell gig last week after an 18 month reunion of their original lineup. The make-up album brought a song about allergies that Sam, our two-year-old, likes with … Continue reading →

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4:08 AM | Fail: ‘Moms will change food-buying habits in 2013’

Girls play hockey, boys can cook and shop for food. Gender don’t matter much. But it does to Fleishman-Hillard, which sucks at public relations. I’ve had some dealings with the PR behemoth over the past 20 years and always left … Continue reading →

December 19, 2012

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1:47 AM | A Snapshot of the Religiously Unaffiliated

The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a report today showing a snapshot of the worldwide size and distribution of the world’s major religions as of the year 2010. What’s caught the attention of non-religious folks and secularists is the section of the report that details the demographics of the religiously-unaffiliated [...]

December 18, 2012

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6:16 PM | An apparently startling discovery: Young persons send text messages

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December 08, 2012

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1:12 PM | The TAIPAN Survey: Toward the Next Generation of Spectroscopic All-Sky Surveys

The TAIPAN Survey: Toward the Next Generation of Spectroscopic All-Sky Surveys - The workshop is designed to bring together experts and researchers to discuss the science prospects and goals of the proposed TAIPAN survey. TAIPAN (Transforming Astronomical Imaging surveys through Polychromatic Analysis of Nebulae) is a major new galaxy redshift survey planned for the UK Schmidt Telescope using … Continua a leggere »

November 27, 2012

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9:34 AM | A Business Model Crisis in Pharmaceutical Research

Wednesday’s OBR-Oxford event and its relevance to a member’s MBA research project Along with the other members of the Oxbridge Biotechnology Roundtable, no doubt, I am looking forward to the ...

November 22, 2012

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1:00 PM | Dalle stelle giovani nuovi indizi per la ricerca di esopianeti

La ricerca di mondi alieni attorno ad altre stelle sta mostrando come i pianeti extrasolari siano presenti numerosi nella Via Lattea e ciò permette agli astronomi di avere diverse indicazioni su come condurre le osservazioni per scoprire nuovi esopianeti . Evgenya Shkolnik, un astronomo presso l’osservatorio Lowell, e il suo gruppo di ricerca hanno pubblicato … Continua a leggere »

November 19, 2012

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1:00 PM | I quasar per lo studio dell’energia scura

Il progetto BOSS, che sta per Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, copre un enorme volume di spazio ed è stato concepito per misurare gli effetti dell’energia scura sull’evoluzione dell’Universo. Si tratta del più grande programma scientifico della terza survey denominata Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) che ha appena annunciato il primo risultato importante relativo ad una … Continua a leggere »

October 24, 2012

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11:38 PM | Looking at New Zealand’s IT professionals

Are you one of the many denizens of the industry that is ‘IT’? How did you become one? What do your loved ones think of it? What sort of hours do you work? Etc etc etc The Institute of IT… Read more › [Click on the hyperlinked headline for more of the goodness]

October 22, 2012

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2:24 AM | Open Access Scientific and Technical Information: Research and Monitoring

Open access scientific and technical resources represent a significant complementary collection: about 20% of scientific articles are available for free. Access to these scientific resources is an important issue, but how to make the best use of them is, as well. Between the numerous open archives (institutional, thematic and central) and open access scientific journals, it is not always easy for researchers to find their way around. The aim of this article is to show a few “tools” that […]

October 05, 2012

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7:54 PM | NextGen Voices 4 Results from Science

Just a quick brief note to announce that the results of the NextGen Voices 4 organized by Science, which I had mentioned a while back, are now declared. In a survey, Science asked young scientists to answer this question: What one big idea in your field do you wish that every non-scientist understood? Why? I had put my answer down in my blog-post also, in which I emphasized the importance of teaching of the Scientific Method to the general populace.... Read more

September 26, 2012

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5:52 AM | Survey – communicating earthquake-related science

Join a survey aiming to improve the science communication of natural disasters. What do believe is important when the science of earthquakes and ways of minimising earthquake-related disasters are being communicated? The survey is looking for adults of all ages and walks of life, from NZ or overseas so head on over and take part. Full details on the survey are [...]