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- Salt claims ruled out; In association with the NHS
- A LOW-SALT diet does not appear to help asthmatics control their condition, a study says. Research by academics at the University of Nottingham has found that, contrary to previous reports, a salt-free or low-salt diet does not alleviate the symptoms of asthma. According to Asthma UK, the country has 5.2m...
- Research articles 2008-07-21
- GO GREEN: BIGGER FOOTPRINT; sponsored by Environment Agency
- OUR growing consumer society has seen our carbon emissions rise by a fifth, academics have found. Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute at York University looked at the carbon footprint of all the goods and services consumed by British residents, including those imported from other countries. They found the...
- Research articles 2008-07-08
- You Say You Want An Evolution?
- His resume is loaded: lawyer, economist, presidential speechwriter—and beloved monotone teacher. Now Ben Stein (“Bueller? Bueller?”) is taking on the role of moral crusader. In “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” a documentary that opens April 18, Stein dissects Darwinism and what he calls its monopoly on American classrooms. He spoke with...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Archaeologists dig deep to find origins of Stonehenge
- LONDON AFP — A major excavation at Britain's prehistoric Stonehenge standing stones started Monday as archaeologists try to work out exactly when and why the first boulders were placed at the site. Experts are focusing on the Double Bluestone Circle, which is located inside the iconic giant pillars on...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination
- Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination. Sally Ledger. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00 (US$90.00). xiii + 295 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-84577-9. This book sets out to reveal the debts Dickens owed to the populist radical tradition of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, to the political satire of Thomas Spence,...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Developing purchasing's foundation
- Historians like to pronounce that an understanding of the future depends on an understanding of the past or that our past is our window to our future. Why should supply management be exempt from such a prevalent perspective? In this article an attempt has been made to document the development...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Czech academics call for pardon for atom bomb artists
- PRAGUE AFP — Academics have urged Czech President Vaclav Klaus to pardon the artists who pirated a public television broadcast and superimposed an image of a nuclear mushroom cloud over mountain scenery. The "Ztohoven" group won international fame and a national art prize for the images aired on the...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- France wants its cuisine registered as world heritage
- PARIS AFP — France is about to ask for its cuisine to be officially registered by UNESCO as part of the world's cultural heritage, a group of chefs and academics lobbying for French gastronomical recognition said Thursday. The request for French cooking to be added to UNESCO's list of...
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- Turkish lawmakers set to approve headscarf reform
- ANKARA AFP — Turkish lawmakers met Saturday to approve the scrapping of a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, as crowds gathered for a mass rally expected to show the depth of public opposition to the move. The constitutional reform package was tabled by the ruling Justice and Development...
- Research articles 2008-02-09
- Turkish parliament debates divisive headscarf reform
- ANKARA AFP — Turkish MPs held a heated debate Wednesday on a proposal to allow women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a move that has pitted the Islamist-rooted government against secularist forces. The proposal was tabled by the ruling Justice and Development Party AKP, which argues that an...
- Research articles 2008-02-06
- Israel hails end of British academics' boycott threat
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israel welcomed on Saturday a decision by Britain's main academics' trade union to end a threatened boycott of Israeli universities following legal advice that it would be unlawful. "It's a positive decision that shows that extremists who want to impose an anti-Israeli agenda will fail when...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- Iran frees fourth US-Iranian
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran has freed a US-Iranian businessman and peace activist detained since May on suspicion of harming national security, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday. "Ali Shakeri was released on a one-billion-rial bail (107,000 dollars) yesterday," the source said, adding that "he has to make a...
- Research articles 2007-09-25
- Gulf Hypoxic Zone
- The Conservation Technology Information Center CTIC recently held a special seminar with agribusiness leaders, academics and government officials to update the ag industry on the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone. The event, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, was held immediately following the 2007 InfoAg. Shown here are William...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Coaching and Mentoring in Higher Education: A learning-centred approach
- Coaching and Mentoring in Higher Education: A learning-centred approach Eileen Carnell, Jacqui MacDonald and Susan Askew Institute of Education, University of London ISBN 0-85743-752-9 Paperback 15.00 [pounds sterling] There has been a great deal written about coaching and mentoring: anyone involved in management training has probably read most of...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Iran cleric says detainees' interview exposed US plot
- TEHRAN AFP — A top Iranian cleric said on Friday that televised interviews of jailed US-Iranian academics Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh had exposed a US plot to topple the Islamic republic. Iranian state television ran a controversial documentary, which has outraged Washington, showing the two scholars jailed in...
- Research articles 2007-07-20
- US Congress berates British academics' Israel boycott
- WASHINGTON AFP — US lawmakers Wednesday slammed a boycott of Israeli universities promoted by pro-Palestinian British academics as an anti-Semitic step that would undermine Middle East peace efforts. In a unanimous voice vote, the House of Representatives passed a resolution attacking the boycott call from the leadership of the...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- Research Center Name Change Reflects Evolving Digital Business Environment
- UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The eBusiness Research Center at Penn State's Smeal College of Business is changing its name today to the Center for Digital Transformation to more accurately reflect its focus on the continually evolving impact of information and communications technologies on global business. The function of the...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Experts tackle world's horrors
- Disaster experts from Tyneside are travelling to the Far East for a seminar in how to best prepare for catastrophes. Northumbria University's Disaster and Development Centre is joining forces with partners at Kyoto University in Japan in a move which will lead to an unprecedented working relationship involving academics,...
- Research articles 2007-01-13
- Go8 gets edge in age stakes.
- Byline: Bernard Lane Jan 09, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A new demographic profile of Australian academics has raised questions on recruit and retirement. The profile produced by Professor Ian Dobson of Monash University has shown that education academics are...
- Research articles 2007-01-09
- Iran academics warn on 'wrong' agriculture policies
- TEHRAN AFP — A group of more than 50 Iranian academics have written an open letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, criticizing farm policies for ignoring long-term interests and promoting inflation. The university professors said the agriculture ministry had ignored key aims outlined by state development plans such as "food security,...
- Research articles 2006-12-24
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