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  How to Spot Liars in Official Interviews

  April 30, 2013 — A way to improve detection rates in police interviews has been discovered by researchers following a mock terrorism scenario where suspects plotted to blow up a ... > full story
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  Personalized Leadership Key for Keeping Globally Distributed Teams on Task

  April 29, 2013 — Companies with employees located around the globe can mitigate their isolation by taking a relationship-based approach in the form of a "leader-member exchange," professor ... > full story
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  Modeling Disease Spread, Including Flu

  April 29, 2013 — A collaborative research network that formed nearly 10 years ago has pioneered the use of computational and mathematical models to prepare for, detect and respond to influenza, pertussis, West Nile ... > full story
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  Leadership Emerges Spontaneously During Games

  April 29, 2013 — Video game and augmented-reality game players can spontaneously build virtual teams and leadership structures without special tools or guidance, according to ... > full story
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  Weight Loss Programs Via Virtual Reality

  April 26, 2013 — There are many barriers that can interfere with weight loss. For those attending face-to-face weight loss programs, barriers can include travel, conflict with work and home, need for childcare, and ... > full story
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  High-Volume Bitcoin Exchanges Less Likely to Fail, but More Likely Breached, Says Study

  April 24, 2013 — Online exchanges that trade hard currency for the cyber money Bitcoin have a 45 percent chance of failing -- often taking customer money with them. A new empirical study into the closure of Bitcoin ... > full story
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  Virtual, Squishy Creatures Evolve to Run Using Evolutionary Algorithms

  April 23, 2013 — Scientists have created a computer algorithm that can be used to witness virtual creatures evolving their squishy, muscle-like features in order to teach themselves to ... > full story
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  Hologram-Like 3-D Brain Helps Researchers Decode Migraine Pain

  April 18, 2013 — Wielding a joystick and wearing special glasses, a pain researcher rotates and slices apart a large, colorful, 3-D brain floating in space before ... > full story
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  Discovery Paves the Way for Ultrafast High-Resolution Imaging in Real Time

  April 18, 2013 — Ultrafast high-resolution imaging in real time could be a reality thanks to a new discovery. Researchers have demonstrated that ultra short durations of electron bunches generated from laser-cooled ... > full story
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  'Big Data’ Algorithm Used to Customize Video Game Difficulty

  April 18, 2013 — Researchers have developed a computational model that can predict video game players’ in-game performance and provide a corresponding challenge they can beat, leading to quicker mastery of new ... > full story

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