Do you make the same mistakes in love over and over again? For example, do you always seem to pick the wrong partner or always experience the same negative romantic outcome? If so, you need to understand your developmental history of love and break the pattern.
Humans are among the few animals that step first on the heel when walking. A University of Utah study shows that compared with heel-first walking, it takes 53 percent more energy to walk on the balls of your feet, and 83 percent more energy to walk on your toes.
A two-volume biography that was 30 years in the making, by one of the foremost living authorities on Abraham Lincoln, has won the 2010 Lincoln Prize. Michael Burlingame will receive the $50,000 Lincoln Prize for his book, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” (Johns Hopkins University Press).
American University uses resilience, dedication, and ingenuity to ensure essential campus operations continue before, during and after historic snow storms.
The current economic climate is the focus of the third annual Southern California Business Film Festival (Feb. 16-21, 2010), sponsored by the USC Marshall School of Business and the Center for Investment Studies.
A new texting application called "My411," is helping high school students gather information about various colleges and universities. The students can use the free application to complete their “My411” profile once and then text it to colleges and universities of their choosing.
Breast cancer rates are declining, but some groups have seen a more significant decline than others, with race, ethnicity and economic background playing a part.
It pays to advertise. It especially pays to advertise in Spanish if you want Spanish speakers to use a telephone helpline to quit smoking.
Patients suffering from hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), an inherited vascular condition characterized by profuse nosebleeds, may find hope in a cancer-fighting drug called bevacizumab, also known as Avastin.
Workplace equality for women boils down to not only whether women are included in the workforce but on how they are included.
Baylor Law Professor Mark Osler has joined with the ACLU and other groups and individuals nationwide preparing a petition calling on the Obama Administration to commute the sentence of a grandmother serving her 17th year of a 27-year federal prison sentence for a first time, non-violent crack cocaine conspiracy offense.
In countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, heart disease is less common than in the United States. Researchers believe that foods common to Greece and southern Italy are a major reason for this difference.
Dr. Donald L. Trump, President and CEO of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), America’s first cancer center, will have his head shaved by a Roswell Park cancer patient on March 3, 2010 to honor the Institute’s 26,292 patients, and to encourage others to participate in the “Goin’ Bald for Bucks” program.
For women concerned about heart disease, routine testing of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is controversial, says Thomas Behrenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist.
Two of The Florida State University’s most accomplished scientists recently joined forces on a collaborative research project that has yielded groundbreaking results involving an unusual family of crystalline minerals. Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that can hold vast amounts of data and be strongly encrypted for security purposes.
Pelvic health concerns in women are common -- yet how the issues impact sexuality and childbearing is not often discussed, according to Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.
Patients undergoing knee or hip replacements recover more quickly when treated with targeted pain-blocking medications.
The Minerals Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has been commissioned by the Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) to lead a project consisting of a two-phased study into areas where new materials and processing breakthroughs can lead to transformational advances in energy efficiency, energy security, and reductions in carbon emissions.
The liver, the largest internal organ, is the body’s ultimate multitasker. The liver simultaneously plays a key role in the body’s metabolic, digestive and regulatory systems.
Over time, skin suffers from wear and tear, and wrinkles, spots and growths begin to appear. The February issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter covers some of these normal changes and possible treatment options.
"In the research on college students in particular, we're finding both men and women can be perpetrators," Sandra Stith said. "In our growing-up years, we teach boys not hit their sister, but we don't teach girls not to hit their brother."
A chemical compound found normally in the blood shows promise in treating and preventing an intractable form of heart failure in a mouse model of the disease.
A pilot program for employment in sustainable agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture Scholars (SAS) Program, is used to expand on routine undergraduate lab work. The program includes hands on and experiential learning opporunties, designed to increase excitement, interest and understand of careers in sustainable agriculture.
Eating chocolate may lower your risk of having a stroke, according to an analysis of available research that will be released today and presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17, 2010. Another study found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of death after suffering a stroke.
Parents of young children with asthma often recognize signs that their child is about to have an asthma attack but delay home treatment until the attack occurs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report.
A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future electronic devices. The doping technique can also be used to increase conductivity in graphene nanoribbons used for interconnects.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank will appear at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Tuesday, Feb. 16 to discuss his 30-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, and to sign copies of his biography “Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman,” published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
A campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of “herd” immunity and protecting patients from possible infection transmitted by health care workers, according to results of a survey at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Expanding its research horizons in the fight against cancer, New Jersey’s only NCI-Comprehensive Cancer Center has formally welcomed Princeton University as a scientific collaborator. The new relationship will allow for the sharing of resources and the strengthening of quality research programs at both institutions.
An international panel of scientists is urging dramatically changed ideas about sustainable agriculture to prevent a major starvation catastrophe by the end of this century among more than 3 billion people who live in the tropics.
Sports management professor Stephen Dittmore, who was a staff member for the 1996 and 2002 Olympics, comments on changes in the Olympics, including the need for the International Olympic Committee to consider the impact of increasing professionalism.
Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests.
Guilbert Hentschke and William G. Tierney, two professors with the USC Rossier School of Education, have been studying the expansion of for-profit colleges - such as the University of Phoenix and Capella University - amid questions about educational quality and student loan default rates. They have a new book out about the topic.
Using state-of-the-art flow measurements, engineering professor Timothy Wei and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., are employing science and technology to help the U.S. skeleton team trim track times and gain an edge over other sliders.
A new national survey of adults found that the Internet is now second to only friends in the way people first meet. Two Iowa State University sociologists are conducting related research on newlywed couples who first met online.
A leading immunology research institute has validated the long-held and controversial hypothesis that antibodies – usually the “good guys” in the body’s fight against viruses – instead contribute to severe dengue virus-induced disease, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology announced today. The finding has major implications for the development of a first-ever vaccine against dengue virus, a growing public health threat which annually infects 50 to 100 million people worldwide, causing a half million cases of the severest form.
"If men and women have the expectation that it's OK for a spouse to earn more, it's not going to affect their relationship like it would if they go into the marriage with the expectation that the husband will have the job that pays more," said Kristy Archuleta.
Few treatments are available to help obese adolescents who are unable to lose weight and are already suffering from obesity-related health problems. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), an option for adults in the United States since 2001, is showing promise for teens. The Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery, which opened at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in 2006, recently performed its 100th LAGB procedure.
Dr. David A. Smith, senior lecturer in history at Baylor University, is a scholar with expertise about topics ranging from George Washington’s perceived aloofness to personality quirks and fisticuffs of macho Teddy Roosevelt to reasons why Presidents seems to take on more than the “job description” spelled out in the Constitution.
Consumers are feeling a little bit better about the amount of money they owe to creditors, a new survey suggests. The Consumer Debt Stress Index (DSI) dropped by slightly more than 2 percent in January, from 119.8 to 117.4.
For the “Snowmageddon” event of 2010 or the Blizzard of ’96 – which was a double-whammy snowstorm, too – the memories of digging out won’t easily melt away. Cornell expert Art DeGaetano, an expert on snow loads and climatology, explains.
Toyota's recall problems may cause government and the public to steer away from more effective safety-improvement strategies, says auto safety expert John Graham at Indiana University.
Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH, founder of the academic discipline of international health and a man of spiritual conviction who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world's marginalized people, passed away February 4 from prostate cancer. He was 93.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the three winning entries in the 2009 Science Communication Awards today.
Specific chemical modifications to proteins called histones, which are found in the nucleus of cells and act as spools around which DNA is wound, can be used to predict prognosis and response to treatment in subsets patients with pancreatic cancer, a study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found.
Two UofU faculty members offer their insights into the behavioral and operational questions involved in product recalls like that underway at Toyota.
USC Marshall experts are available to discuss consumer decision-making, impulse buying and Valentine’s Day.
Annual keynote event of the Los Angeles Chapter of the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Association includes three panels covering Social Entrepreneurship, Branding and Finance.
The video “Painting the Past Alive” follows University of Arkansas art professor John Newman as he paints a mural depicting African American slaves who crossed the river to the Underground Railroad stop in Quindaro, Kan.
New research by University of Arkansas economists decodes the mystery of what transforms a network of interconnections among firms into a single organism that functions as an economic powerhouse. By examining the relationship between product-clusters in international trade and their connection to accelerated economic growth at the country level, researchers found that the way in which a country’s exported products are connected to each other and to other products in the global-trade network – rather than mere participation in global trade – determines whether or how much a country will achieve accelerated economic growth.
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