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An Indiana University physicist and neuroscientist who studies how physical movement can be used to detect autism in children and adults has received support from the National Science Foundation. The $750,000 NSF grant to IU scientist Jorge V. José and collaborators will be used to apply analytical methods pioneered at IU and Rutgers University toward diagnosing, and possibly treating, a wider range of learning disabilities.

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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame found evidence of varying ratios of boron isotopes in igneous rocks, known as carbonatites, of different ages.

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Television cooking shows are an important resource for home cooks, but if these shows fail to model recommended food safety measures, it may lead to poor practices among consumers. Therefore, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst devised a study to assess food safety on television food shows and determine whether they present positive or negative models for viewers.

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The microbiome and our health are intricately connected and research in the areas of the microbiome and probiotics is advancing at a rapid rate

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Several faculty experts at the University of Notre Dame are available to comment on issues including immigration, trade, security, international policy and more.

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Deloitte’s work to help automakers worldwide proactively detect and respond to vehicle quality and safety issues has been recognized with an Analytics Leadership Award from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Deloitte received the award for developing its solution, “Quality and Safety Analytics: Transforming Automotive Quality, Warranty, and Recall Management.”

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Had it not been for a long-term relationship and friendship with a Benedictine nun and their shared anti-war position regarding El Salvador decades ago, Georgianna Duarte may have ended up penning articles like this and never made it to Indiana State University.

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In presenting the Indiana University Kelley School of Business' annual economic forecast for 2017, faculty offered a somber view and even raised the possibility that their forecast could be wishful thinking. As in 2015 and this year, the IU Kelley School economists expect output growth nationally next year to average only slightly above 2 percent.

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A new documentary from the University of Notre Dame and the Religious Freedom Institute looks in-depth at how Christian communities around the world respond when their religious freedom is violated.

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While positive attitudes toward gay men and lesbians have increased over recent decades, a new study led by researchers at IU’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion shows attitudes toward bisexual men and women are relatively neutral, if not ambivalent.

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Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing researchers have received $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation to ensure that door locks, lightbulbs, cameras and other common household items, which are increasingly connected to the internet, remain secure.

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Annual forecast predicts what you’ll see in fitness next year

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Medical researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have found evidence for a link between prostate cancer, which affects millions of men aged 50 and older, and Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that affects children and young adults. The results of the study are reported in the journal Cell Reports.

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In the third and final presidential debate Oct. 19, Republican nominee Donald Trump suggested that he might not accept the results of the Nov. 8 presidential election after warning his supporters that the election could be “rigged.”This is a classic type of excuse-making called “self-handicapping” or making a preemptive excuse, according to J.

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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame found that protest events captured in the study were considerably smaller than those reported in newspapers, and the events were spread out over a far greater number of different cities.

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New research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business finds that those in high-stress jobs with little control over their workflow die younger or are less healthy than those who have more flexibility and discretion in their jobs and are able to set their own goals as part of their employment.

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University of Notre Dame professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences Clive Neal disagrees that Obama’s goal is achievable.

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Indiana University researchers have reported the first definitive evidence for a chemical bond between two negatively charged molecules of bisulfate, or HSO4, a new molecular structure with potential applications to the safe storage of nuclear waste and reduction of chemicals that contaminate water and trigger large fish kills. The study, led by Amar Flood, appears in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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Award recognizes leading health professional training programs that have developed new and innovative ways to provide nutrition, physical activity and obesity counseling education to their students.

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Feeding children can be a challenging process for many parents. A previous study found 46% of preschoolers were picky eaters and 40% of picky eaters remained picky for two or more years. Nutrition education and recommended feeding practices may help parents deal with feeding problems and shorten their duration. Books may be used as resources to help teach children to overcome poor eating habits. Thus, a content analysis was conducted to assess messages about dietary behaviors and feeding strategies in a set of picture books.

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The “no” vote was somewhat predictable given what we know of other peace agreement referendums and social media analysis, according to Jason Quinn, research assistant professor in the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) project at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

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--Innovation Summit Aimed to Move American Health Across the Spectrum of Physical Activity

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Indiana University sociologists Tim Hallett and Emily Meanwell look back to 2007 to understand how the No Child Left Behind Act aquired an alternative meaning: "NCLB means children left behind."

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A study that forecasts state and federal fuel tax revenues based on different fuel taxation policies found adoption of a vehicle mileage tax would best meet highway construction needs in the long run.

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Latest Research from ACSM

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Latest Research from ACSM

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Lastest Research from ACSM

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Latest Research Highlights from ACSM

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Dr. Mae C. Jemison, astronaut, engineer, entrepreneur, physician and educator, has been named a leader-in-residence at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, serving as its Poling Chair of Business and Government, for this academic year.

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A $1.9 million grant to Indiana University from the National Institutes of Health's National Eye Institute will advance basic research on the eye with applications to blindness caused by genetic disorders and aging.

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Construction will begin Sept. 21 on the seventh Habitat for Humanity home that will be built for a Bloomington family by Indiana University students, faculty and alumni on campus, with support from Whirlpool Corp.

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University of Notre Dame researchers study how organizations can quantify decision making in data science and present a solution to quantifying the value of data acquisition and modeling in a return on investment (ROI) framework.

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JNEB is soliciting manuscripts for a supplemental issue on breastfeeding and the WIC Program

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New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that businesses must place equal importance on ethical adherence and quality service in order to be successful.

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Research from Indiana University published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology has found that structured block-building games improve spatial abilities in children to a greater degree than board games.

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The many faces of bats — and their extraordinary diversity in flight, form and function — are the focus of the 10th Annual Indiana Bat Festival at Indiana State University and Dobbs Park Nature Center on Saturday, Sept. 24.

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New, first-of-its-kind research from the University of Notre Dame shows that corporate directors’ conservative or liberal leanings influence their decisions about CEO pay and the extent to which CEOs should be rewarded and penalized for firm performance.

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Indiana State University is once again among the national leaders when it comes to civic engagement, according to The Washington Monthly's 2016 rankings.

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The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior invites proposals for conference sessions and for pre- and post-meeting workshops and tours for the 2017 Annual Conference.

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Healthy Eating standards represent a means of increasing fruit, vegetable, whole grain, and water intake among adolescents by providing healthy snacks in conjunction with education on healthy eating. For these reasons, the YMCA of the US adopted these standards for all its after-school programs in November of 2011. However, a study of YMCAs in South Carolina found that none of the programs were meeting every aspect of the Healthy Eating standards and many were deficient in several areas.

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According to research from the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, dining environments can have serious consequences for eating behaviors.

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Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way’s halo, University of Notre Dame astronomers have produced the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed more than 13.5 billion years ago.

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New research from the University of Notre Dame suggests that Africa has gradually become wetter over the past 1.3 million years — instead of drier as was thought previously.

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The historic Colombia peace agreement announced on Aug. 24 gives the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies primary responsibility for technical verification and monitoring of implementation of the accord through the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) Barometer initiative.

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The breakthrough discovery establishes for the first time an answer to how a quantum dot evolves into a nanowire as its aspect ratio is made progressively larger.

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A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health has received a grant from the USAID to develop an insecticide to destroy Aedes aegypti larvae before the mosquitoes are able to hatch and transmit Zika.

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If you really want a drink right now, the source of your craving may be a pea-sized structure deep inside the right side of your brain, according to scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine.