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Environment - Economics - 18.10.2022
WWF reports alarming downward trends in biodiversity but also outlines promising paths to recovery
The Living Planet Report published by WWF on 13 October shows well-documented evidence that humanity has far exceeded our planet's safe limits. The second part of the report offers the prospect of solutions. "We need to change the root causes of environmental degradation," state Francisco Alpizar and Jeanne Nel of Wageningen University & Research in their contribution to the report.

Environment - Economics - 18.10.2022
Researchers about alarming WWF report: ’We must act now’
The Living Planet Report published by WWF on 13 October shows well-documented evidence that humanity has far exceeded our planet's safe limits. The second part of the report offers the prospect of solutions. "We need to change the root causes of environmental degradation," state Francisco Alpizar and Jeanne Nel of Wageningen University & Research in their contribution to the report.

Economics - 18.10.2022
Returns in online retail: what they cost and how they can be avoided
Returns in online retail: what they cost and how they can be avoided
Returns are an integral part of online retailing. Up to 60 percent of the goods ordered are returned in individual online stores. This causes high costs, as the online retailer survey by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts reveals. An HSLU research team asked online stores how returns can be avoided.

Economics - 12.10.2022
Daily movie theatre ticket sales can predict stock market returns
Daily movie theatre ticket sales can predict stock market returns
Box office earnings create upward pressure on stock prices for at least five days Daily box office earnings can accurately predict stock market returns, according to a new study. Traditionally quarterly and monthly consumption data is used to predict stock market performance. But using box office earnings - a measure that captures consumption on a more frequent basis - offers more timely and relevant data for decision-makers in the financial markets.

Economics - 12.10.2022
Holograms and video projections boost grocery store sales but the simpler, the better
Study of -mixed reality- techniques on endcap shelves revealed consumers spend over 60 percent more than regular endcap displays. Retailers should incorporate mixed reality promotions to increase sales, and keep it simple for the best results, according to new consumer research from the University of Bath.

Economics - 05.10.2022
First Nations estate can boost Australian agriculture
A landmark report calls for serious leadership and investment in the agricultural potential of the First Nations estate, especially if governments are serious about closing the gap and unlocking north Australia's development potential.

Innovation - Economics - 05.10.2022
Lightweight, ultra-connected seaborne containers
Lightweight, ultra-connected seaborne containers
The composite containers developed by AELER, an EPFL startup, deliver better performance across the board: they're stronger, have a bigger payload, are better insulated, allow for enhanced tracking and can help cut carbon emissions.

Economics - 04.10.2022
Real Estate agents' intentions to discriminate made measurable
Real Estate agents’ intentions to discriminate made measurable
VUB/UGent researchers use a new method to assess discrimination in housing market more precisely and find 10% of brokers are willing to select tenants based on ethnicity Tuesday, October 4, 2022 — Doctoral students in sociology Abel Ghekiere (VUB) and Louis Lippens (UGent) have developed a new method to examine real estate agents' underlying reasons for discriminating against potential tenants.

Economics - Innovation - 03.10.2022
Explanatory factors of regional development and poverty risk in European regions.
A study by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) shows that improvements in technology, institutional quality and geographic endowment improve regional economic development and reduce the risk of poverty and social exclusion in Europe.

Economics - 28.09.2022
How giving pledges encourage effective donations
Each, year people donate more than $500 Billion - equivalent to 2.5% of the US GDP. The sheer size of this amount shows that charitable giving has the potential to play a prominent role in the transition towards a more equal and sustainable society. Many examples how highly effective interventions contributed to a more resilient society exist: eradicating smallpox, almost eradicating polio, and spectacularly decreasing malaria.

Economics - 23.09.2022
Greed putting food couriers at risk, researchers warn
Greed putting food couriers at risk, researchers warn
The recent deaths of several food delivery couriers in Australia have highlighted a lack of regulation in the industry where companies are putting profits ahead of people. Food delivery companies are willing to let vulnerable drivers die and are resisting safety regulations to maintain profits, researchers warn in a major new study from The Australian National University (ANU).

Career - Economics - 20.09.2022
Small-scale self-employed score worst for well-being
When it comes to well-being at work, self-employed people are often overlooked. In her doctoral study, occupational sociologist Jessie Gevaert investigated working conditions and mental well-being among those working for themselves. She concludes that precarious working conditions among self-employed workers can have serious consequences for their mental well-being.

Economics - 20.09.2022
Home ownership leads to less happiness than expected
Home ownership leads to less happiness than expected
We aren't very good at predicting what will make us happy. That is one finding from a study by Basel economists.

Economics - 08.09.2022
Female directors improve corporate social responsibility
Female directors improve corporate social responsibility
Companies are more likely to take corporate social responsibility seriously if they have more women on their board of directors, new University of Sydney Business School research reveals. As Australia gradually approaches equal gender representation on boards, our neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region are also seeing the benefits of smashing the glass ceiling.

Economics - Life Sciences - 06.09.2022
Making jackfruit jump off the shelves
Making jackfruit jump off the shelves
When ripe, its sweet fruit segments are akin to the tropical tastes of banana, mango and pineapple and when unripe, its stringy texture is known to be a healthy meat substitute increasingly popular in western cuisine. And yet, jackfruit remains an underutilised food source in Australia perhaps due to its spiky exterior, rock hard rind and cumbersome size; a jackfruit can weigh up to 50 kilos and is the world's largest tree-grown fruit.

Economics - 05.09.2022
Information is as valuable to us as objects.
Information is as valuable to us as objects.
Through technical progress, it is now possible to store an almost unlimited amount of information and data. We all make active use of this. In a study published in the journal PNAS, economists and psychologists from the University of Innsbruck and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) show that we are just as attached to information as we are to physical objects.

Economics - Agronomy / Food Science - 05.09.2022
Fair Trade Premiums: How Much Reaches the Farmers?
Many of us have purchased fair trade products and paid a premium in hopes of improving the lives of farmers in developing countries.

Economics - 24.08.2022
The popular classes of the Roman Empire either did not make funerary meals or they made them with everyday food
The popular classes of the Roman Empire either did not make funerary meals or they made them with everyday food
Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV), the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the University of Vic - Catalonia Central University (UVic-UCC) have reconstructed the composition of funeral meals in a necropolis in the western part of the Roman Empire (Plaza de la Villa de Madrid, Barcelona).

Economics - 18.08.2022
Speculation taxes are not an effective tool in curbing house prices
Speculation taxes are not an effective tool in curbing house prices
Speculation taxes rarely dissuades large-scale investors from purchasing property and leaving it vacant. As the Ontario housing market enters a potentially volatile phase, new research from the University of Waterloo shows how tax policy has proven ineffective in controlling prices. The report specifically looked at market behaviour of the nine largest Ontario population centres between 2011 and 2021 - a time of significant price increases across the province.

Innovation - Economics - 16.08.2022
Despite Fears, 3D Printing Has Positive Effects on Global Trade
Research from UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy finds the technology is a boon to trade, allowing participating countries to provide higher income and more opportunities to their people 3D printing technology enables economies to produce goods locally, so conventional wisdom has been that it would dramatically reduce international trade; however, new University of California San Diego and World Bank research presents robust evidence that 3D printing expanded trade.