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• College rankings go under the microscope
• A call to US educators: Learn from Canada
• The Influence of College Experiences on Career Outcomes
• Study reveals cause of poorer outcomes for African-American patients with breast cancer
• Kids with ADHD must squirm to learn, study says
• Researchers make key malarial drug-resistence finding
• Understanding thermo-mechanical properties of a new class of materials
• New research shows how to tackle obesity
• Devices or divisive: Mobile technology in the classroom
• 'Real-time' feedback, 'pay for performance' improve physician practice, hospital safety
• Seafood samples had no elevated contaminant levels from oil spill, study shows
• Impacts of Gulf oil spill on marine organisms on Gulf coast
• Forming school networks to educate 'the new mainstream'
• Cancer and chemobrain: Cancer diagnosis affects cognitive function
• Applied physics helps decipher causes of sudden death

College rankings go under the microscope Posted: 18 Apr 2015 04:36 PM PDT While parents, students and admissions officials annually comb through college and university rankings, education researchers have largely ignored the controversial yet influential listings. That's about to change, according to an expert in educational measurement.

A call to US educators: Learn from Canada Posted: 18 Apr 2015 04:36 PM PDT In contrast to the contentious debates over education reform in the US, the Canadian province Ontario has taken a cooperative route to improving schools that often rank among the top performers on international assessments, according to a Boston College expert on educational change.

The Influence of College Experiences on Career Outcomes Posted: 18 Apr 2015 04:35 PM PDT Meaningful college experiences, including internships and studying abroad, may not matter as much as your major and what school you attend when it comes to job satisfaction and earnings, according to new research.

Study reveals cause of poorer outcomes for African-American patients with breast cancer Posted: 18 Apr 2015 06:28 AM PDT Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival mechanism within the cancer cells, according to a study.

Kids with ADHD must squirm to learn, study says Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:00 PM PDT Excessive movement common among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is actually vital to how they remember information and work out complex cognitive tasks, a new study shows. The findings show the longtime prevailing methods for helping children with ADHD may be misguided.

Researchers make key malarial drug-resistence finding Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:00 PM PDT A molecular mechanism responsible for making malaria parasites resistant to artemisinins, the leading class of antimalarial drugs, has been discovered by researchers. Artemisinins are powerful drugs that have the most rapid action of all current drugs against the parasite species that causes the most dangerous form of malaria. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are now standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria. Unfortunately, resistance to artemisinin has been detected in five countries across Southeast Asia.

Understanding thermo-mechanical properties of a new class of materials Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:59 PM PDT Scientists describe how an accurate statistical description of heterogeneous particulate materials, which is used within statistical micromechanics theories, governs the overall thermo-mechanical properties.

New research shows how to tackle obesity Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:59 PM PDT One size does not fit all when it comes to tackling obesity, according to a new study. Researchers looking at how to tackle England's country's obesity issue and found that currently individuals are often treated the same regardless of how healthy they are, where they live or their behavioral characteristics.

Devices or divisive: Mobile technology in the classroom Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:59 PM PDT Little is known about what teachers think about how mobile technology in the classroom will affect the development of students' non-cognitive skills, such as empathy, self-control, problem solving, and teamwork.

'Real-time' feedback, 'pay for performance' improve physician practice, hospital safety Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:59 PM PDT Hospitals may reach higher safety and quality levels with programs that give physicians real-time feedback about evidence-based care and financial incentives for providing it, research shows.

Seafood samples had no elevated contaminant levels from oil spill, study shows Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:59 PM PDT Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, many people were concerned that seafood was contaminated by either the oil or dispersants used to keep the oil from washing ashore. A new study found that all seafood tested so far has shown "remarkably low contaminant levels," based on FDA standards.

Impacts of Gulf oil spill on marine organisms on Gulf coast Posted: 17 Apr 2015 11:50 AM PDT Researchers have determined the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on marine organisms such as oysters, conch, shrimp, corals as well as marine plankton (microalgae or phytoplankton, rotifers or zooplankton), which provide the basis of coastal and oceanic food webs.

Forming school networks to educate 'the new mainstream' Posted: 17 Apr 2015 07:35 AM PDT While responding to shifting student demographics, new support networks form among teachers and between schools, according to a new study of a group of schools moving from monolingual to bilingual instruction to serve increasingly diverse student populations.

Cancer and chemobrain: Cancer diagnosis affects cognitive function Posted: 17 Apr 2015 05:52 AM PDT Breast cancer patients often display mild cognitive defects even before the initiation of chemotherapy. A new study now attributes the syndrome to post-traumatic stress induced by diagnosis of the disease.

Applied physics helps decipher causes of sudden death Posted: 17 Apr 2015 05:52 AM PDT Sudden cardiac death accounts for approximately 10% of natural deaths, most of which are due to ventricular fibrillation. Each year it causes 300,000 deaths in the United States. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the transition to calcium alternans, an arrhythmia associated with increased risk of sudden death, has common features with the magnetic ordering of metals. This new finding improves our understanding of the physical causes of sudden death and will advance the design of drugs to prevent it.

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