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Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled |
 ...who developed the study is Douglas Gentile. He works as a psychology professor at the Iowa State University. Mr. Gentile says that it was a surprise for him to find out that there was such a strong influence of video games on surgical skills.
Apart from surgery, the study showed that video games contribute to improving motor skills, eye-hand coordination, visual attention as well as depth perception and computer comp... |
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Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says |
 ...A recent study on human happiness reveals that our adaptation to major life events is not the only factor to influence our well-being. Those who will have their life run in a more balanced way are predominantly inclined to feel happy long before the fortunate occurrence in their life.
Latest psychological studies have found that the feeling of happiness is not related to outside circumstances or turning points of one's l... |
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Possible Aggressive Approach from the U.S. towards China |
 ... and as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, one could say that the legislators should count with what the professor says.
The professor mentioned that it was unlikely for this bill to influence on a large scale the problems the legislators are trying to avoid, such as the U.S. trade deficit and instabilities of the Chinese economy. He added that this measure could also have an international impact, by brinin... |
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Career growth: Look from inside |
 ...it of little importance for their career growth.
A very important fact that the questioned women mentioned was sexual discrimination on their jobs. Women have emphasized that this fact had a great influence on their career achievements and growth.
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Russia's Internet Award Was Given Away |
 ...ature Site of the year;Best Music Site of the year;Best Cinema Site of the year;Art Site of the year;Best Humor Page;Corporate Page of the Year;Archive of the year;Best E-library;Best Personal Page;Influence on the Offline Life;Disappointment of the Year.
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Men look at face, women look down there |
 ...ore attention to sexual acts and men focus on faces.
Women and men were tested on visual response to erotic photographs that depicted sexual act to make clear the nature of sexual urges and its influence on health. The tests were made using eye-tracking technology that show the visual focus on various body parts. It was supposed that typical response to sexual stimuli would be women looking at faces and men looking at... |
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USA Workers Allowed to Use Marijuana? |
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The issue is rarely aroused in court, however more and more employers feel concerned about a worker smoking marijuana during his working hours. Many companies believe that marijuana use influences employee performance and increases the possibility of accidents at workplace. So they conduct special tests to reveal the drug users. If a worker tests positive for the drug, he gets fired, even in case marijuana smo... |
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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
 ...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist.
According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu... |
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Toilet Flushes Cuts in Prison |
 ...New restrictions in Queensland prisons do not allow the inmates to use showers more that three minutes and limit the number of toilet flushes to six a day.
A new state government restrictions introduced into state's prisons regulations are meant to save water. Water wastage in prisons is a big problem in Brisbane and Queensland, Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence said.
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Bird Flu - Back to Europe |
| ...Today reports came that there were cases of H5N1 type of avian influenza detected in Germany. This was reported by the German Ministry of Consumer Right Protection, Food Supplies and Agriculture. The H5N1 type of bird flu is the most dangerous type of this virus to people.
Tests in German laboratories for microbiology have proven that three swans were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain in a lake near Nürnberg,... |
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Doctors Found Fly Larvae Inside Man's Skull |
| ...is trip in Belize, Central America.
Dr. Kimball Spence mentioned that on Mr. Dallas' head there was an open pit and he was able to see some activity, which was not necessarily the larvae, it was a fluctuation of the fluid inside the pit.
Doctors were able to remove the parasites, living in the pit that had a width of 2mm to 3mm. Now Aaron Dallas' wife teases him about the ordeal.
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Microsoft Wants to Make The Web More Secure |
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According to Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy officer, this action from Microsoft is an answer to the public concern about a recent consolidation of online ad industry. The step was also influenced by the government's regulations concerning online privacy.
Microsoft has also mentioned that any users' queries on the Internet made on Microsoft's Live Search will become anonymous after 18 months. However, if a us... |
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Computers of the Future to be Made from Pencil Trace |
| ...uctive properties. For a long time, the researchers were running robust computer simulations and finally managed to demonstrate for the first time that graphene's conductive properties are directly influenced by its length and width.
During the experiments graphene proved to possess unique electrical properties with either semi-conducting or metallic behavior. The researchers discovered that graphene's length could be... |
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Disney's Heroes Don't Smoke |
 ...dependent movie-maker "Weinstein" has already accepted this strategy of avoiding smoking scenes in family movies.
Congressman Edward Markey was one of those politicians reviewing last month the influence of movie action figures on children. The conclusion of this comission that the impact is very big, thus the congressman suggested that all movie-making companies did the same as Walt Disney.
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Men prefer relationships to career |
 ...In spite of the common belief men are more oriented towards personal relationships than women, a new study says.
Scientists from Duke Medical Center and the University of Albany studied the influence of personal traits on the life objectives and analyzed how significant are personal relationships and life achievements among undergraduate students. As much as 237 volunteers ages 16 to 25 took part in a study to explor... |
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