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Online Social Networking at Work Can Improve Morale and Reduce Employee Turnover
January 29, 2013 By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site, a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a new ... > full story -
Working to Identify Early Warning Signs in Juvenile Offenders
January 29, 2013 Red flags are easy to recognize in the days following a tragic event like a mass shooting. That’s why a group of researchers is working to identify those early warning signs in juvenile ... > full story -
Test for Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Gets Global Seal of Approval
January 29, 2013 A test for hormone-disrupting pollutants has been approved as an international standard by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development as well as by the U.S. ... > full story -
'Moral Realism' May Lead to Better Moral Behavior
January 29, 2013 People who are primed with "moral realism" may be motivated to better moral behavior. Researchers assess the impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making in a new ... > full story -
Lessons of the 1953 East Coast of England Flood Disaster
January 29, 2013 Sixty years ago, on 31 January and 1 February 1953, over 300 people died in flooding on the East Coast of England. Recent research has found that the Cabinet partly funded the response to avoid blame ... > full story -
Studying Possible Ways of Solving the Crisis in the Care Function
January 28, 2013 In today’s society, there is a significant imbalance in the function of the care of the elderly. While the population ages more and more, the social mechanisms set up to perform the care ... > full story -
Smart Organizations Should Also Be Stupid, According to New Theory
January 28, 2013 Critical reflection and shrewdness can help companies to avoid crises, but sometimes good old-fashioned stupidity can serve an important function in raising the efficiency of an organization, in a ... > full story -
How to Predict the Future of Technology
January 25, 2013 Forget Moore's Law. Researchers define new ways to evaluate new technologies. The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting the ... > full story -
War a Money-Spinner for Rank-and-File Soldiers in Late Middle Ages
January 24, 2013 Not just a King's ransom: war was a money-spinner for the rank-and-file soldier in the Late Middle Ages. A historian has found that the practice of ransom was widespread among all soldiers during the ... > full story -
Novel Approaches Needed to End Growing Scourge of 'Superbugs'
January 23, 2013 With the rising awareness of the so-called "superbugs," bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts have called for novel approaches based on a ... > full story
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