Science Education & Policy

Study: Global Business Performance Significantly Improved Through Project Management

WARSAW, Poland, July 14 /PRNewswire/-- Preliminary findings from a landmark independent, academic study on the value of project management, released today at the Project Management Institute's biennial research conference, clearly demonstrate that bu ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 14 2008 - 2:32pm

89 Percent Of Kid's Food Products Are Nutritionally Lousy (But 62 Percent Lie About It Anyway)

Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content – because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium- according to a detailed study of 367 products published in the July issue of the UK-based journal Obesity Re ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 6:14pm

New Carbon Sequestration Location- Undersea Volcanoes

A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other source ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 10:16pm

Tata Interactive Systems' Story-based Learning Wins The Emerald Literati Award.

MUMBAI, India, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Former Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Director Receives Commendation for Outstanding Paper on Rediscovering the joy of Learning Through Stories. Jon Revelos, former Director- Story-based Learning at TIS has been hono ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 12:32am

First International Cancer Film Festival Announces Finalists

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Global Line-up Drawn From Over 250 Entries The finalists for Reel Lives: The Cancer Chronicles, the first ever international documentary film competition on cancer, are announced today in a line-up that include ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 1:31am

Agendia And Ferrer Announce Exclusive Agreement For Sales Of Cancer Diagnostic Services In Four Major European Markets

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and BARCELONA, Spain, July 15 /PRNewswire/-- Agendia BV and Ferrer inCode today announced an agreement that will give Ferrer exclusive rights to sell two of Agendia's signature cancer diagnostic services-- MammaPrint(R), a prog ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 3:31am

Kenya Ministry Of Education To Use EPals To Connect Kenyan Schools Worldwide

BOSTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- ePals to provide Kenyan classrooms with the largest social network for meaningful learning The Kenyan Ministry of Education will provide the opportunity for their students and educators to safely connect with schools around ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 8:32am

NitroSecurity Acquires RippleTech Adding Database Monitoring And Log Management To Network Security Product Suite

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Companies' Joint Technologies Further Unify Information Security From Edge-to-Core Battling Data Breaches; Meets Stringent Compliance Requirements NitroSecurity, Inc. (http://www.nitrosecurity.com), ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 8:32am

Physicians Practice And Nevada Cancer Institute Partner To Improve Patient Care

BALTIMORE, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Partnership will help Nevada Cancer Institute Funnel Cancer Research to Physicians Physicians and patients of community-based medical practices in Nevada and SW Utah will benefit from a new partnership between Physicians ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 11:31am

The Other Hand………….The Sunk-Cost Fallacy Continued

Of course the flip side, meaning the benefits of the sunk-cost fallacy, need to be addressed. One example can be found in a January 12, 2007 article in the “Freakonomics” section of the New York Times titled “What does Barack Obama Know about Behavioral Ec ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 15 2008 - 7:31pm