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Even minor traffic noise has negative impact on work performance: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers from Chalmers' Division of Applied Acoustics conducted a laboratory experiment in which test subjects were subjected to concentration tests while hearing background traffic noise. Before rating their perceived workload, participants were asked to stare at a computer screen and re
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Moving from troubled areas to better surroundings may aid kids with asthma
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A new study discovered that children who moved from troubled areas to better ones had better asthma control.
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Dementia study suggests how harmful proteins spread through brain
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study suggests that fresh insights into the spread of toxic proteins that collect in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may hold the key to slowing the disease's progression.
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Blood samples may predict kidney disease in type 2 diabetes patients: Stud
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A conceptual framework has been created by researchers to predict if a person with type 2 diabetes may develop renal damage.
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Remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring lowers hospitalisations for he
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In patients with chronic heart failure, remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring improves the quality of life and lowers the number of heart failure hospitalisations, according to the first investigator-initiated study on the topic. The research was released in The Lancet and was presente
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Uncontrolled hunger in teenagers living with obesity can have several cons
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Dublin, Ireland (17-20 May) reveals that teenagers who are obese and who claim that hunger is preventing them from losing weight (hunger-barrier ALwO) have a more negative perception of their weight and worry about it
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Foreign tourism bounces back in Jerusalem
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research's 37th Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem presents a comprehensive picture of the city's situation.
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MoEI drives strategic partnerships in clean energy with German, Dutch ener
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The tour started at the German city of Freiburg. Al Olama visited the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), the largest solar research institute in Europe, where he joined a distinguished line-up of attendees from the government, business sector, and academia for the Freiburg
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Placenta plays an important role in genetic risk of schizophrenia: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study headed by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development found that more than 100 genes linked to the risk of schizophrenia appear to induce disease owing to their activity in the placenta rather than the developing brain.
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Study: Heat-temperature marine bacteria help detoxify asbestos
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
For the first time, University of Pennsylvania researchers have demonstrated that extremophilic bacteria from high-temperature marine settings may be employed to lessen the toxicity of asbestos. The study was published in the American Society for Microbiology journal Applied and Environmenta
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Research shows stress hormones during pregnancy increase early language de
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
High levels of the stress hormone cortisol during the third trimester of pregnancy may boost speech and language abilities in the first three years of a child's life, according to research presented at the 25th European Congress of Endocrinology in Istanbul. The findings help us understand h
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Kids gut bacteria predict whether they will be overweight at 5 years old:
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The composition and amount of gut bacteria in kids at 3.5 years old predict body mass index (BMI) at age 5, regardless of whether they were born prematurely or not, according to new research.
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