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| Making sure workers have a 'good' day gives companies a competitive advantage Posted: 19 May 2022 08:53 AM PDT Researchers have identified five types of daily workplace experiences that influence employees' creative performance. |
| Cooperation rewards water utilities Posted: 19 May 2022 07:38 AM PDT Inter-utility water agreements can help mitigate risks, in research that used supercomputer simulations of water supply in the North Carolina Research Triangle. Findings are generalizable to any place where water providers face financial and supply challenges in allocating regional water. |
| Are people swapping their cats and goldfish for praying mantises? Posted: 19 May 2022 05:11 AM PDT Praying mantises have gained recent popularity as pets, sold at animal fairs and pet markets, but also collected in the wild by a fast-growing community of hobbyists and professional marketers. An overview of this market's dynamics reports on both problems and opportunities of the pet mantis market, like the absence of regulations, but also the potential of a stronger collaboration between hobbyists and scientists for biodiversity conservation. |
| Industry lobbying on WHO overshadowing public health policy, researchers suggest Posted: 18 May 2022 02:15 PM PDT A new article looks at how producers of such products as commercial milk formulas, processed foods, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals and electronic gaming software have been ramping up efforts to influence United States policy toward the WHO. |
| Childhood circumstances and personality traits are associated with loneliness in older age Posted: 18 May 2022 11:07 AM PDT Life circumstances during childhood -- including having fewer friends and siblings, low-quality relationships with parents, bad health and growing up in a poorer household -- are all correlated with a higher rate of loneliness in older age, according to a new study. |
| Four-year college students drink more, use marijuana less than community college peers, study finds Posted: 18 May 2022 10:07 AM PDT Students at four-year colleges and universities drink nearly twice as much alcohol as their peers in two-year colleges, according to a survey of college students in the Seattle area. On the other hand, students in community colleges and other two-year institutions use marijuana nearly twice as often as four-year students. |
| United States' ocean conservation efforts have major gaps, analysis shows Posted: 18 May 2022 05:06 AM PDT More than 98 percent of U.S. waters outside the central Pacific Ocean are not part of a marine protected area, and the ones that are tend toward 'lightly' or 'minimally' protected from damaging human activity, research shows. |
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