Participatory action research

	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...etal could have a great potential in treating individuals infected with cystic fibrosis or other similar infections. The experiments have shown that gallium effectively fought microbes. Moreover its action became stronger in environments with low level of iron (such conditions are often met in human bodies). The April cover of the Journal of Clinical Investigation will cover this joint project, which will be also suppo...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
... spoke of it again... and probably never will. MSN has also tried to reward people for using the Live Search, so they have launched a promotional site MSN Search and Win (the name says it all). This action lasted almost 5 months. According to Mr. Sohn, it was rather successful, as it drove many millions of searches and Microsoft didn't pay much for that, relatively much. Experts think that the major mistake Microsoft m...
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	Russia's Internet Award Was Given Away
...ear;Web-Producer of the year;Web-Man of the year;Web-Editor of the year;Web-Event of the year - taken by the web-conference of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin;Informational site of the year;Web-Researcher of the year - taken by three men, who analyzed the Russian blogosphere;Web-Design of the year;IT and Communication Site of the year;Internet Service of the year (as a matter of fact - Google's Gmail);Blog of the ye...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...nd about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in the list; - ninth position was taken by the discovery of diffraction of Roentgen rays in 1912 by Max von Laue; - the last, but not the least, was named Henry Bessemer's iron processing technology, invented in 1856. It should be mentioned that the entire list contained about 50 most ...
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	Men look at face, women look down there
...In spite of the common believe erotic photographs evoke different reactions for men and women , Center of Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) study says. Women show more interest and pay more 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 usi...
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	Difficult child-good marriage conquers all
...aby who were examined for the extended period of time. Couples were questioned and videotaped before and after the child birth on the quality of their marital relationships and later on on their interaction with the child, when he or she was 3,5 months old. Researchers focused on couple's cooperation with each other, their activity with the child and how they managed to cope with the disturbing and fussy behavior of the c...
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	Inborn Empathy - In Other's Shoes Completely
... According to the psychological tests they show higher scores on emotional reactivity scale in comparison with people who do not have this ability. Usually, people learn empathy by doing the same actions, at least mentally. Studying people with mirror synesthesia emphasizes that empathy is a result of being able to put oneself in other people's shoes. The new findings can be helpful for understanding and better tr...
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	Yawning Saves Your Brain From Overheating
...of yawning. They disproved the theory that yawning results from the lack of oxygen. As experiments showed, the alterations in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood didn't affect the yawning reaction. In fact, yawning was found to serve as a brain-cooling mechanism. In the course of the day, our brain heats up as it burns as much as third of all the calories we consume. In order to function more efficiently, th...
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	New Indoor Climate-Control System to Adjust to Your Own Environmental Preferences Via the Web
...A new indoor climate control system is able to make 'smart decisions' according to changing conditions in an office or building. The technology is based upon interaction with people present in the office. The users will be able to regulate the system to match their own environment preferences through the web. The system has been developed by Syracuse, N.Y.-based company CollabWorx Inc. The users of the Open Web Service...
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	What Keeps Us from Making the Same Mistake All Over Again
...Scientists found that your brain immediately alerts you of avoiding the same mistake thus making you learn faster from incorrect actions. Researchers from the University of Exeter found that when we make a mistake our brain reacts in just 0,1 seconds in the same situation preventing us from the wrong action again. Earlier several studies proved that we learn better from our mistakes than from the right predictions. It...
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	The Less Online Content - The Better, Study Says
...ied participants' heart rates to define orienting response while they were looking at the pictures. Scientists noticed that when a person was interested, his or her heart rate slowed down. This reaction was seen in respondents who had to select the picture from six thumbnails but none was noticed for those who had to choose from 24 pictures. Besides, when the participants were asked to remember the pictures, almost...
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	A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning
... from burns. As specialists concluded, the electrical charge of the lightning passed along the earplugs that conducted it into and through the man's head. The electric current caused the muscle contraction that resulted in all the fractures in his lower jaw. The survived man is presently treated by the doctors. The jogger says he will not go jogging in a thunderstorm again, especially wearing any earplugs. This inci...
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	Disney's Heroes Don't Smoke
...The Walt Disney Company declared on Wednesday that all family movies, coming under "Touchstone" and "Miramax" trademarks, will not depict their action figures smoking. In the future the movie-maker intends to place an anti-smoking warning ad on the cover of those movies, where it was not possible skipping the smoking scene. An independent movie-maker "Weinstein" has already accepted this strategy of avoiding smoking sc...
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	Hands-Free Phones - More Dangerous for Drivers than Alcoholic Drinks
... phones, including hands-free phones, are more dangerous than drink-drivers. Those chatting at the wheel, even using hands-free devices, are four times more likely to get into a car crash and their reaction is on average 30 per cent slower than the reaction of drinkers at the legal limit and 50 per cent slower than the reaction of sober drivers. According to the experts, the distraction is caused not by the holding of th...
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