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Over-Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Disability Payments -- A Link?
May 19, 2010 — A new study finds patients who were "over-diagnosed" with bipolar disorder were more likely to have received disability payments and for a longer period of time. The researchers propose a link ... > full story -
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Academic Probation Hits College Guys Harder
May 13, 2010 — Male college students, especially those who had done well in their high-school classes, are much more likely than females to drop out when placed on academic probation after their first year in ... > full story -
New Forensics Research Will Help Identify Remains of Children
May 13, 2010 — New research is now giving forensic scientists a tool that can be used to help identify the remains of children, and may contribute to resolving missing-persons cases, among other uses. Identifying ... > full story -
Game Theoretic Machine Learning Methods Can Help Explain Long Periods of Conflict
May 13, 2010 — Researchers have developed new machine learning methods to study conflict. The new method, which they call Inductive Game Theory, has been applied to a time series of fights gathered from detailed ... > full story -
Sum of Digits of Prime Numbers Is Evenly Distributed: New Mathematical Proof of Hypothesis
May 12, 2010 — On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd. This hypothesis, first made in 1968, has recently been proven by ... > full story -
Computer Analysis of Twitter Sentiments Yields Results Similar to Public Opinion Polls
May 11, 2010 — Computer analysis of sentiments expressed in a billion Twitter messages during 2008-2009 yielded measures of consumer confidence and of presidential job approval similar to those of well-established ... > full story -
Seamounts Identified as Significant, Unexplored Territory
April 30, 2010 — Scientists were astounded to find that seamounts, mountains that rise from the seafloor, rank as some of the most common ocean habitats in the world. Their findings reverse previous beliefs about the ... > full story -
Is Patient Coding Making Hospitals Appear Better Than They Are?
April 26, 2010 — A new article investigates how the way that patients are allocated diagnostic codes by a hospital can have a big effect on a hospital's ... > full story -
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Computer Model Better Than Clinical Judgment for Diagnosing Fever in Young Children
April 20, 2010 — A computerized diagnostic model outperforms clinical judgment for the diagnosis of fever in young children, and may improve early treatment, a new study ... > full story -
Researchers Seeking Better Use of Aircraft, Personnel and Fuel
April 19, 2010 — Researchers are trying to solve computationally difficult problems related to logistics planning, vehicle routing, resource allocation, circuit design, wireless frequency assignment and ... > full story
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