Most of these simply moulder: Mark Bauerlein of Emory University points out that, of the 16 research papers produced in 2004 by the University of Vermont's literature department, a fairly representative institution, 11 have since received between zero and two citations.
In research performed at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to interpret real vs. fake smiles, while holding a pencil in their mouths to repress the muscles that help us smile.
New "investable" indexes, forthcoming early next year from the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago, or CRSP, could reduce compulsory trading for any index funds that adopt them as a benchmark.
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Shimri Tzameret, an Israeli activist who studied in the UK and worked in a research initiative called Building Global Democracy at Warwick University, was involved in the British campaign and can be credited with importing the concept to his native land.
Dr Dermot Ryan, a GP in Loughborough and clinical research fellow in primary care respiratory medicine at the University of Aberdeen, said the data on chest infections backed up previous research which had shown cuts in antibiotic use had driven up rates of pneumonia.
Wahaha in August signed a research cooperation agreement with the University of Nottingham in the UK in areas ranging from bioenergy technology to animal feed, robotics, electrical motors and food technologies.
The research, conducted at Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom, was presented Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Developed by the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern in Switzerland and Swiss software company, Texetera, the Jungfrau Climate Guide is an interactive guide to glaciers and climate change.
In the '90s, most of the growth in the Hispanic population was due to in-migration, but today births are the driving force, said David Drozd, research coordinator at the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.
The research by University of Idaho and Washington State University scientists in cooperation with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Christine Hitchcock, who works at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulatory Research at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, worries that there is not enough research to show the long-term effects of the extended use of oral contraceptives on the breast.
The team is lead by Professor Atta Badii of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory at the University of Reading in the UK and has 19 specialists working on Hector.
It is an offshoot of the parent organisation, in the US, which emerged in 1986 from a research project at the University of San Francisco.
The study was conducted in a clinical room used for research at the University of Utah School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology.
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"People who exercise more have better brain health, " said Alan Gow, one of the study's researchers and a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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Springer is Head of Research at Buckinghamshire New University in the U.K. Carson is founder of Delightful Communications.
Models of the so-called "Morph" phone are kept in a foam-padded case, along with a single white glove, deep in the heart of Nokia's research laboratory in Cambridge University, England.
When I was doing doctoral research in the late 1980s, the University of Jordan housed a massive collection of books in what was then called the "forbidden room" of the school's library.
The findings are "pretty good evidence" that violent video games do indeed cause aggressive behavior, says Dr. L. Rowell Huesmann, director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said Obama's struggles with smoking show the power of tobacco.
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The research, published in Nature Photonics and led by the University of St Andrews, is limited to moving microscopic particles.
The research was done at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where scientists tested a variety of statements whose truthfulness would be uncertain for most subjects.
The new study's lead researcher Dr Tomas Cizmar, research fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews, said while the technique is very new, it had huge potential.
Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.
Finally, I talked to Yosuke Morishima, a post-doctoral student in micro economics and experimental economic research at the University of Zurich, who told me about a classic behavioral economics study conducted in the mid 1980s.
Kerry Black, a researcher at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand, and his colleagues have been finding out what makes good waves on other coasts.
In 2014 it will open the first American-style research university campus in China.
The research by the University of Liverpool found that the seabirds fed in nine areas earmarked for tidal, wind or wave power developments.
Together with the San Jose Department of Transportation, the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS), and two start-up apps, Waze and Roadify, they discovered technology is integral to the future of commuting.
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This event was hosted by the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) Scotland Committee in partnership with the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning ( CRADALL) at Glasgow University, Stirling University, the Communities Teams in Learning Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Government Directorate for Lifelong Learning.
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