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Panel discussion on 'Opportunities for India's Participation in Global Val
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Asia Foundation partnered with, CII and BRIEF to convene a discussion on 'Opportunities for India's Participation in Global Value Chains' on March 24 in New Delhi. The convening brought together industry experts, policymakers, and academia to d
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Being fit helps to mitigate negative effects of high blood pressure: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a 29-year study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, an ESC journal, high fitness levels may reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in men with high blood pressure
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Study finds visually impaired sense their heartbeats better than sighted
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Thirty-six blind and as many sighted individuals were asked to count their own heartbeats without checking their pulse or touching their body. At the same time, the researchers recorded the participants' actual heartbeats with a pulse oximeter. Then, they compared the reported with the recor
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Poor children have poorer health, educational outcomes in adolescence
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new investigation conducted by UCL academics indicates that Generation Z youngsters born into the lowest fifth of families in the UK are 12 times more likely to experience a slew of bad health and educational outcomes by the age of 17 than their more affluent classmates.
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Housing plays important role in disaster preparedness: Research
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Researchers are particularly interested in how natural catastrophes such as hurricanes and floods influence people's dwellings in the United States.
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Cervical cancer risk twice as high in women with mental disorder: Study
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Women suffering from mental illness, neuropsychiatric disability, or substance addiction are less likely to undergo gynaecological screening tests for cervical cancer and are more than twice as likely to develop the disease.
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Tiny nanoparticle may have huge impact on patients receiving corneal trans
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Corneal transplants may be the final step in restoring clear vision to many people with eye disorders. Each year, over 80,000 corneal transplants are performed in the United States, with over 184,000 corneal transplant surgeries conducted worldwide.
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Road noise could make blood pressures high: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"We were a little surprised that the association between road traffic noise and hypertension was robust even after adjustment for air pollution," said Jing Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at Peking
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How moms and dads view each other as co-parents affect kids
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers found that, in a sample of low-income couples, children have the best outcomes when both parents saw their co-parenting relationship as highly positive and worst when both parents viewed their relationship as poor.
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After Adani, Hindenburg now alleges Jack Dorsey's firm Block engaged in fr
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Hindenburg Research has put out a report against Jack Dorsey-backed payments firm Block Inc., formerly known as Square Inc, saying a two-year investigation into the company concluded that it has "systematically taken advantage" of the demographics it claims to be helping.
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Govt has taken several steps for building research infrastructure in acade
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today, Jitendra Singh said that a significant enabling policy framework has been put in place for promoting research in the country. Some of the targeted Programmes include: Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (FIST) in University de
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Artificial Intelligence can predict genetics of cancerous brain tumors: St
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have developed an AI-based diagnostic screening system that uses rapid imaging to analyze tumor specimens taken during an operation and detect genetic mutations more rapidly
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