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Newswise: Researchers overestimate their own honesty
Released: 26-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Researchers overestimate their own honesty
Linkoping University

The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice.

Released: 19-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Ethical burden, restricted resources and poor management cause home care workers to leave their jobs
University of Eastern Finland

Many of Finland’s newly established wellbeing services counties are looking to cut costs in eldercare services, especially in round-the-clock care and home care.

   
Newswise: Two University Hospitals Physician-Scientists to Receive 2024 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards from the Clinical Research Forum
Released: 19-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Two University Hospitals Physician-Scientists to Receive 2024 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards from the Clinical Research Forum
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Two University Hospitals physician-scientists will receive recognition for their profound contributions to advancing clinical research. UH is the only hospital system to have two honorees acknowledged this year by the Clinical Research Forum for the 10 most significant clinical advancements impacting the health and wellness of humanity.

Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Studies with more diverse teams of authors get more citations
University of Surrey

Diverse research is more impactful in the business management field, with female influence growing stronger in the past decade, finds a new study from the University of Surrey.

Released: 13-Feb-2024 10:30 AM EST
SLU Professor Shows Ethical Duality of Using Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in Fight Against Opioids
Saint Louis University Medical Center

Saint Louis University’s Liz Chiarello, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology recently published an article in the American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association. The article explores pharmacists’ use of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and the ethical and practical application of PDMPs in healthcare.

Released: 4-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Resurrection consent: New study on attitudes to digital cloning of the dead
De Gruyter

In 2017, the company Eternime aimed to create an avatar of a dead person using their digital footprint, but this “Skype for the dead” didn’t catch on. The machine-learning and AI algorithms just weren’t ready for it. Neither were we.

Released: 4-Jan-2024 2:00 PM EST
Starting a family with the help of science: The latest research in Fertility
Newswise

Find the latest research and features on fertility in the Fertility News Source on Newswise.

       
Released: 20-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Working with Big Data requires a lot of power! The latest research and features on Supercomputing
Newswise

With the rise in machine learning applications and artificial intelligence, it's no wonder that more and more scientists and researchers are turning to supercomputers. Supercomputers are commonly used for making predictions with advanced modeling and simulations. This can be applied to climate research, weather forecasting, genomic sequencing, space exploration, aviation engineering and more.

       
Newswise: Peering into Microscopic Ecosystems
Released: 18-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Peering into Microscopic Ecosystems
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, has an exceptionally large number of these powerful instruments. They have more than 200 different instruments available for researchers to use for free. To get access to these tools, a researcher submits a proposal for time on the equipment. Other scientists review this and other proposals and choose the strongest ones.

Released: 11-Dec-2023 1:30 PM EST
Urology treatment studies show increased reporting of harmful effects
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

In recent years, clinical trial reports in major urology journals have been more likely to include data on harmful effects of treatments, reports a study in the January issue of The Journal of Urology®, an Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Released: 8-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Biases in large image-text AI model favor wealthier, Western perspectives
University of Michigan

In a study evaluating the bias in OpenAI's CLIP, a model that pairs text and images and operates behind the scenes in the popular DALL-E image generator, University of Michigan researchers found that CLIP performs poorly on images that portray low-income and non-Western lifestyles.

Released: 29-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST
Workplace culture is very different these days. Find out how different by exploring the "In the Workplace" channel
Newswise

The latest articles on occupational medicine, workplace culture, and the labor market are in the "In the Workplace" channel on Newswise.

       
Newswise: LSU Health Shreveport chooses Digital Science to support research discovery and integrity
Released: 28-Nov-2023 10:00 AM EST
LSU Health Shreveport chooses Digital Science to support research discovery and integrity
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

Digital Science is pleased to announce that Louisiana State University Health Shreveport (LSUHS) has chosen Dimensions Analytics and Dimensions Research Security from Digital Science’s flagship products to advance its world-class research programs.

   
Released: 15-Nov-2023 11:20 AM EST
From Farm to Newsroom: The Latest Research and Features on Agriculture
Newswise

The world’s total population is expected to reach 9.9 billion by 2050. This rapid increase in population is boosting the demand for agriculture to cater for the increased demand. Below are some of the latest research and features on agriculture and farming in the Agriculture channel on Newswise.

Newswise: Reshaping Financial Content: Enhancing Consumer Appreciation in Australian Professional Practice
Released: 31-Oct-2023 7:05 AM EDT
Reshaping Financial Content: Enhancing Consumer Appreciation in Australian Professional Practice
Chinese Academy of Sciences

The by-product of financial advice, known as a Statement of Advice (SOA), serves as a written documentation of financial guidance provided to consumers. Its primary purpose is to ensure accountability for regulatory compliance and consumer protection, as outlined in the Corporations Act (2001) of Australia. However, due to the intricate nature of mandatory disclosure requirements, SOA documents tend to be extensive and pose challenges in both their creation and comprehension by consumers. Indeed, recent studies have indicated a decline in the recording of consumer relationships within the Australian financial practice.

Newswise: RUDN University Psychologists Created Scale for Students’ Attitudes Towards Digital Educational Technologies
Released: 30-Oct-2023 3:05 AM EDT
RUDN University Psychologists Created Scale for Students’ Attitudes Towards Digital Educational Technologies
Scientific Project Lomonosov

RUDN University psychologists have developed a questionnaire to determine how students feel about digital educational technologies. It is one of the first such scales in Russia.

Newswise: Scientists have discovered how extracellular structures affect the metastases of cancerous tumors
Released: 27-Oct-2023 5:05 AM EDT
Scientists have discovered how extracellular structures affect the metastases of cancerous tumors
Scientific Project Lomonosov

The dependence between biomechanical properties of extracellular matrix and the development of tumor cells inside it was proven by scientists. This will allow to create more realistic models for studying growth of cancer tumors and metastases.

Newswise: UWF teams take first and second place at HR Florida Conference Student Case Competition
Released: 25-Oct-2023 10:05 AM EDT
UWF teams take first and second place at HR Florida Conference Student Case Competition
University of West Florida

Congratulations to a #UWF graduate team for placing first and an undergraduate team for placing second at the HR Conference Student Case Competition that was held during the annual HR Florida Leadership Conference in Orlando.

Newswise: Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan Partners with Financial Times on Economic Poll Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election
Released: 24-Oct-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan Partners with Financial Times on Economic Poll Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election
University of Michigan Ross School of Business

The Financial Times and Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan are partnering on a new monthly poll to track how American voters perceive financial and economic issues in the lead up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Released: 19-Oct-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Research repository arXiv receives $10M for upgrades
Cornell University

Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles.

Released: 13-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Responsible AI Initiative seeks to solve societal problems
University of Utah

The University of Utah is launching a new research initiative focused on AI that aims to responsibly use advanced AI technology to tackle societal issues. President Taylor Randall announced a $100 million investment in the newly created Responsible AI Initiative that will advance AI, led by the U’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.

Newswise: Detection and Extraction of Similar Features in the Disease-Related Gene Groups
Released: 11-Oct-2023 4:35 PM EDT
Detection and Extraction of Similar Features in the Disease-Related Gene Groups
Chuo University

Multiomics3 analysis that integrates different layers of profiles altogether is challenging, since the number of variables in profile substantially differ from each other. For instance, gene expression profile and genomic DNA methylation profile are often analyzed together, however, there are only tens of thousands of genes, whereas the number of DNA methylation sites are as many as tens of millions.

Released: 26-Sep-2023 10:25 AM EDT
Association for Psychological Science (APS) Statement on Looming U.S. Government Shutdown
Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science calls on Congress to promptly fund the US government for the coming fiscal year to sustain important scientific programs and initiatives.

   
13-Sep-2023 1:20 PM EDT
Anesthesiology researcher pipeline lags behind other specialties
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

Anesthesiology researchers are responsible for some of medicine’s most significant advances, from the Apgar score that tests a newborn’s health to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). But the number of medical residents in the anesthesiology physician-scientist (researcher) pipeline trails other specialties, particularly among women, according to findings of the Anesthesia Research Council (ARC), published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Released: 6-Sep-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Biosecurity blanket
University of California, Irvine

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research on coronaviruses and other harmful pathogens has increased in laboratories across the world – and not just any labs.

Released: 1-Sep-2023 9:05 AM EDT
News Release Best Practices, Tips, and Strategies
Newswise

News release distribution and pitching to reporters best practices for news release creation and distribution.

       
Released: 25-Aug-2023 3:55 PM EDT
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities
University of Missouri, Columbia

Findings show how storytelling narratives of individuals’ experiences often leave out broader public health, socioeconomic and environmental contexts, which can be crucial for building empathy and influencing policy decisions.

   
Released: 24-Aug-2023 6:05 PM EDT
UCLA researchers say embedding study recruitment in pre-appointment check-in may significantly boost participation
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

This method produced enrollment rates many times higher than is typically seen for patient portal based recruitment – and unexpectedly increased racial and ethnic participation as well. So it could be a promising new tool to improve research recruitment and diversity in biomedical research.

Newswise: Public May Overestimate Pushback Against Controversial Research Findings 
Released: 18-Aug-2023 12:15 PM EDT
Public May Overestimate Pushback Against Controversial Research Findings 
Association for Psychological Science

Do researchers overestimate the risk that certain research findings will fuel public support for censorship, defunding, and other harmful actions? Findings from a pair of studies published in Psychological Science by authors Cory J. Clark (University of Pennsylvania), Maja Graso (University of Groningen), Ilana Redstone (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Philip E. Tetlock (University of Pennsylvania).

   
Newswise: New call for joint effort to bolster research integrity
Released: 17-Aug-2023 11:30 AM EDT
New call for joint effort to bolster research integrity
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

Who’s responsible for upholding research integrity, mitigating misinformation or disinformation and increasing trust in research? Everyone – even those reporting on research – says a new article published by leading research integrity experts.

Newswise:Video Embedded autonomous-discovery-defines-the-next-era-of-science
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Released: 16-Aug-2023 11:30 AM EDT
Autonomous Discovery Defines the Next Era of Science
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory is reimagining the lab spaces and scientific careers of the future by harnessing the power of robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the quest for new knowledge.

Released: 15-Aug-2023 1:55 PM EDT
A new way to evaluate the impact of medical research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Scientific journals and research papers are evaluated by a metric known as their “impact factor,” which is based on how many times a given paper is cited by other papers. However, a new study from MIT and other institutions suggests that this measure does not accurately capture the impact of medical papers on health outcomes for all patients, particularly those in low- or middle-income countries.

   
Released: 15-Aug-2023 1:05 PM EDT
During pandemic, proponents of ‘doing your own research’ believed more COVID misinformation
University of Wisconsin–Madison

As the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread around the planet, it brought along a new vocabulary. Unfamiliar phrases like “flatten the curve,” “COVID pod” and “essential worker” infected regular conversation. But another — “do your own research” —  was already well-known to Sedona Chinn, who studies misinformation and health communications.

   
Newswise: UTEP Launches New Research Partnerships with Chihuahua Universities
Released: 11-Aug-2023 12:25 PM EDT
UTEP Launches New Research Partnerships with Chihuahua Universities
University of Texas at El Paso

Created by The University of Texas at El Paso, the U.S.-Mexico Faculty Collaboration Fellowship program will support research projects with higher education institutions in the State of Chihuahua to spur studies on issues that impact the lives of people throughout the Paso del Norte region.

Released: 10-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
"Get back to where you once belonged!" Back-to-School stories for media
Newswise

It's that time of year again. For media working on stories about the seasonal return to school, here are the latest features and experts in the Back-To-School channel on Newswise.

     
Released: 9-Aug-2023 8:30 AM EDT
Unlocking the power of citizen science to monitor health and wellbeing targets
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

IIASA researchers and experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) have conducted a systematic review of health and wellbeing-related indicators, as well as citizen science initiatives, to explore the potential of citizen science for mobilizing action toward the achievement of health and wellbeing related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WHO’s Triple Billion Targets.

   
Released: 7-Aug-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Argonne researchers receive funding to build research capacity at historically underrepresented institutions
Argonne National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $37 million in funding for 52 projects to 44 institutions which include Argonne projects. The funding will help build research capacity, infrastructure and expertise at institutions historically underrepresented.

Released: 4-Aug-2023 12:55 PM EDT
Researchers prefer same-gender co-authors, study confirms
Cornell University

Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that cannot be simply explained by the varying gender representation across scientific disciplines and time, according to joint research from Cornell University and the University of Washington.

Newswise: Department of Energy User Facility Launches Platform for Analyzing Biological and Environmental Research Data
Released: 1-Aug-2023 9:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy User Facility Launches Platform for Analyzing Biological and Environmental Research Data
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

The Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) has launched the Data Transformations Integrated Research Platform to help researchers transform their scientific data into more manageable sets of information, improve data accessibility and reproducibility, and facilitate the creation of models and visualization tools that help tell a larger story from the data.

Newswise: Study explores challenges, opportunities of community participatory research
Released: 1-Aug-2023 10:25 AM EDT
Study explores challenges, opportunities of community participatory research
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach that connects academic researchers with community partners to inform project development. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators explores CBPR implementation in a project on criminal justice reform in Cincinnati.

Released: 31-Jul-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $13.1 Million for Environmental Systems Science
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $13.1 million in funding for 17 new projects to universities, academic institutions, federal research labs, and nonprofits, within the area of Environmental System Science (ESS) research. Awards focus on measurements, experiments, field data, modeling, and synthesis to provide improved understanding and representation of ecosystems and watersheds in ways that advance the sophistication and capabilities of models that span from individual environmental processes to Earth-system scales.

Released: 31-Jul-2023 11:20 AM EDT
Has Academia Become More Gender-Fair for Women? Findings From an Adversarial Analysis of Gender Bias 
Association for Psychological Science

Data from 2000 to 2020 indicate that women researchers are now equally likely as their male peers to be awarded grant funding, to have their journal articles accepted for publication, and to receive strong letters of recommendation. They are more likely than men to be hired for tenure-track positions. But the findings have caveats.

Newswise: Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) chooses Symplectic Grant Tracker to manage funding for innovative scientific research
Released: 27-Jul-2023 11:00 AM EDT
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) chooses Symplectic Grant Tracker to manage funding for innovative scientific research
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has chosen Symplectic Grant Tracker from Digital Science’s suite of flagship products to advance its aims of providing catalytic funding for innovative scientific research.

Newswise: Congratulations to Faculty Members and the Student from Chulalongkorn’s Faculty of Education for their International Recognition as Thai Inventors and Researchers
Released: 27-Jul-2023 8:55 AM EDT
Congratulations to Faculty Members and the Student from Chulalongkorn’s Faculty of Education for their International Recognition as Thai Inventors and Researchers
Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn University congratulates the faculty members and a student of the Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, for receiving certificates at the Internationally Outstanding Inventors Awards Ceremony organized by the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) on Monday, June 26, 2023, at Makawan Rangsan Room, 3rd floor, Royal Thai Army Club Vibhavadi.

Released: 26-Jul-2023 5:30 PM EDT
NIH spent $950M for basic or applied research leading to patents providing market exclusivity for drugs approved 2010-19
Bentley University

A new demonstrates that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $950 million on basic or applied research associated with patents that provided manufacturers with market exclusivity.

   
Newswise: SLU Researcher Examines Ethical Questions Raised During COVID-19 Pandemic
Released: 24-Jul-2023 3:15 PM EDT
SLU Researcher Examines Ethical Questions Raised During COVID-19 Pandemic
Saint Louis University Medical Center

Michael Rozier, S.J., Ph.D., professor and department chair for health management and policy at Saint Louis University, has authored a paper examining ethical questions raised during the COVID-19 pandemic and what can be done, to address similar ethical questions in the future.

Released: 21-Jul-2023 10:00 AM EDT
ASBMB expresses concerns on proposed NIH budget cuts
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

ASBMB publishes a statement expressing concerns for NIH budget cuts outlined by a House Labor HHS funding bill that could lead to lost jobs and halted research progress

   
Released: 20-Jul-2023 12:30 PM EDT
Tell us how you really feel -- keep up with the latest research in Psychology and Psychiatry
Newswise

The latest research in psychology and psychiatry on Newswise.

       
Newswise: New Community Partnership Model Boosts Inclusion of Participants into HIV Cure-Directed Research
Released: 19-Jul-2023 12:05 PM EDT
New Community Partnership Model Boosts Inclusion of Participants into HIV Cure-Directed Research
Wistar Institute

Scientists have long used community advisory boards to engage communities and provide feedback on studies, but this model has limitations. Now, Wistar Institute researchers are sharing how a more inclusive model for community engagement can lead to deeper insights and greater community participation in HIV research.

   


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