Corporate due diligence regulations can be a success for human rights, labour standards, as well as for environmental and climate goals – if they are designed with clear objectives in mind.
A diario, el cuerpo hace algunas cosas bastante extrañas e inusuales. A continuación, se incluyen algunas preguntas y respuestas que ofrecen la explicación científica de por qué suceden.
Todos os dias, nossos organismos reagem de formas peculiares e incomuns. Aqui estão algumas perguntas e respostas que explicam a base científica desses eventos.
PCOM South Georgia members of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) worked with members of the Boys & Girls Club of Moultrie-Colquitt County to grow a vegetable garden this spring and fall. In addition to learning how to grow the plants, Club members also learned about health and nutrition from the student doctors.
The Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) e-Newsletter records the activities undertaken at the HKIAS, features firsthand accounts of research and questions posed by HKIAS senior fellows, scientists and scholars, reports on breakthroughs and fields of study, and shares news of the Institute community.
Pode ser uma surpresa para você, mas nem todo estresse é ruim. Níveis saudáveis de estresse ajudam a desenvolver resiliência, diz a cirurgiã Safia Debar, especialista em manejo do estresse na Mayo Clinic Healthcare em Londres.
Puede resultar sorprendente, pero desde el punto de vista médico, no todo el estrés es malo. Los niveles saludables de estrés ayudan a desarrollar la resiliencia, dice la licenciada en Medicina y Cirugía Safia Debar, experta en el manejo del estrés de Mayo Clinic Healthcare en Londres. En esta alerta para los expertos, la Dra. Debar explica la diferencia entre el estrés bueno y el estrés malo y cómo saber cuando está en peligro de sufrir una sobrecarga.
Emergency medicine resident physicians and faculty members presented the results of their research at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Research Forum, held in Philadelphia recently.
Undergraduates are invited to apply for a six-month fellowship sponsored by the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
It's the moooost wonderful time...of the year! Are you looking for new story ideas that are focused on the winter holiday season? Perhaps you're working on a story on on managing stress and anxiety? Perhaps you're working on a story on seasonal affective disorder? Or perhaps your editor asked you to write a story on tracking Santa? Look no further. Check out the Winter Holidays channel.
Simone Peinkofer, associate professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University, takes a look inside the black box of product returns.
Michigan State University experts can explain the elements of a great holiday movie, how brands tap into the popularity and nostalgia of these films and why we keep watching them.
Soham Saha, a Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, discusses his work to develop small, adjustable X-ray sources.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Caterpillar Inc. have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, to investigate using methanol as an alternative fuel source for four-stroke internal combustion marine engines. The collaboration supports efforts to decarbonize the marine industry, a hard-to-electrify transportation sector.
ChatGPT may do an impressive job at correctly answering complex questions, but a new study suggests it may be absurdly easy to convince the AI chatbot that it’s in the wrong.
Cornell University researchers have released a new, open-source platform called Cascade that can run artificial intelligence models in a way that slashes expenses and energy costs while dramatically improving performance.
Peter Kobos, an economist and manager at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a senior fellow of the United States Association for Energy Economics.
Risk management expert Clifford Rossi gives context, with risk-response insights, on commercial real estate’s perceived demise.
What can you do about that ache in your throat when you have a cold? A Penn State Heath family physician offers five remedies.
Memorial Hermann Health System President & CEO, Dr. David Callender, was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare.
It’s a fact that the kitchen is the most dangerous room in the house, especially during the holidays with its greater-than-normal use. In addition to burns, knife and broken glass accidents affecting the hand and fingers are among the most common kitchen injuries.
By the time cancer survivor Sydnee Meth found an effective treatment for the pain she had coped with for years, her right arm was so swollen and heavy that she could not lift it past her shoulder.
Information security experts France Bélanger and Donna Wertalik, professors in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech and co-hosts of Voices of Privacy, provide tips for parents considering holiday gifts of smart toys for their children.
Computational neuroscientist probes how the brain learns, remembers, and decides
The holiday season is often an overwhelming experience for many individuals. The combination of gift shopping, travel arrangements, and the expected anxiety of family and friends can create very stressful situations. Virginia Tech psychologist Rosanna Breaux shares her most effective tips for navigating seasonal stress. “Planning and prioritizing what activities are the most important is a better strategy than exhaustingly trying to do everything and ending up not enjoying it,” says Breaux, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech.
A six-month agreement with the University of Miami challenges experts to create a master plan for a technologically modern area that is a model of sustainability, resilience and health care.
Being pregnant during the holidays brings its own set of challenges whether you’re traveling to visit family and friends or just looking to get away.
Keloids are a type of raised scar that can occur after an injury, and over time they can grow much larger than the wound itself. Although keloids are not dangerous to a person’s health, they can be painful and itchy, impact a person’s self-esteem and restrict movement in that area of the body.
A Rutgers dental expert offers advice for healthy white teeth during the holiday season – and beyond
Researchers at the FLEXLAB® facility, a unique buildings testbed at Berkeley Lab, are helping the buildings and utilities sectors and U.S. policymakers develop new technologies for a zero-low-emissions grid.
The holiday season should be a time for families to come together, even when illness lands a loved one in the hospital.
To reduce marine debris, which causes serious environmental pollution in the sea, researchers at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) have developed a technology for reducing floating debris in rivers.
James Boland, an acoustician for SLR Consulting, employed insights from the field of sensory criminology to better understand the unique acoustic needs inside prison environments. By focusing on speech intelligibility, strategic reduction of noise levels, and the incorporation of privacy considerations, acoustic design can significantly improve the overall prison environment. Creating distinct zones within the prison and balancing moments of quiet with activity are essential to fostering a more comfortable and secure space.
The 12-month Teaching Kitchen Multi-site Trial combines evidence-based nutrition education with culinary learning to support behavior change. The study will assess the feasibility of the novel teaching kitchen program on health outcomes and well-being.
A greenhouse gas far more potent than CO2, methane emissions are blamed for at least a quarter of the climate change underway on Earth. Researchers are exploring way to put microbes to work removing enough of that methane from the atmosphere to dampen global warming.
Durante la celebración de las fiestas, la comida ocupa un lugar central en las reuniones con amigos y familias. Andrea Delgado, una dietista de Mayo Clinic de Rochester, Minnesota, afirma que si presta atención a la cantidad de comida que come y la frecuencia, puede tomar decisiones de alimentación saludable durante las fiestas.
Hertz Fellow Sarah Hooper is developing solutions to reduce diagnostic imaging costs and address shortages and delays in radiology.
One of Cornell University’s most popular elective courses, the iconic “Introduction to Wines” has helped generations of Cornellians refine their palates – and knowledge – about the many varieties of wine. Cornell’s first wines course – and the first accredited wines course offered at any American university – launched in 1953 for students in what is now the Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.
With the approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) has established a Department of Neurosurgery.
The holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times. High-energy celebrations, the emphasis on good tidings of joy, and reunions with families and friends can bring happiness and comfort, but they can have the opposite effect on people feeling isolated and alone, especially older adults.
The Department of Radiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is hosting its inaugural hybrid Climate Action and Sustainability Summit on Dec. 7 to spotlight initiatives and research about the disparate impact of climate change on health as well as projects designed to reduce the carbon footprint of health care.
The survey, conducted in collaboration with leading fitness professionals and organizations, delves into key aspects of compensation trends, shedding light on crucial factors shaping the industry's workforce dynamics.
Cleveland Clinic News Service produces daily health stories featuring physicians and other medical experts.
The ongoing mental health crisis is causing significant challenges for many psychologists as they grapple with demand fueled by patients presenting with increasingly severe symptoms year after year, according to APA’s 2023 Practitioner Pulse Survey.
As humans age, our eyes adjust based on how we use them, growing or shortening to focus where needed, and we now know that blurred input to the eye while the eye is growing causes myopia.
Aboriginal community housing in Australia’s remote APY Lands will be retrofitted in an innovative pilot project to improve energy efficiency, living conditions and health in the harsh and variable desert climate.
عادةً ما يكون الطعام هو محور تجمعات العائلة والأصدقاء أثناء الاحتفال بالأعياد. تقول أندريا ديلجادو، اختصاصية النُّظم الغذائية في مايو كلينك في روتشستر، مينيسوتا، أنه من خلال الانتباه إلى مقدار الطعام الذي تتناوله، ومعدل تناوله، يمكنك اتخاذ خيارات غذائية صحية أثناء موسم العطلات.
Decades before ChatGPT, Tesla autopilot and Siri, there was Julian Feldman and a monstrous mainframe. It was 1968, and UCI’s interdisciplinary program in information and communication science had just become a pioneering, standalone computer science department. At the helm was Feldman, who had co-edited a groundbreaking anthology of AI research a few years earlier.
Michael Berkowitz, who heads up the University of Miami’s Climate Resilience Academy, is in Dubai for the United Nation’s 28th Conference of the Parties, the climate summit commonly referred to as COP28. Here’s what’s important to him.
La luz intracúmulo, es decir el resplandor colectivo de innumerables estrellas despojadas de sus galaxias de origen y abandonadas a su suerte vagando por el inmenso espacio que hay entre las galaxias, es extremadamente tenue y difícil de detectar. Sin embargo, la próxima Investigación del Espacio Tiempo como Legado para la Posteridad (LSST) será el primer estudio astronómico en proveer a los científicos los datos necesarios para detectar luz intracúmulo en miles de cúmulos galácticos, revelando las claves acerca de la historia evolutiva del Universo a gran escala.
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