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University of Washington All parents want what's best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior problems: substance use, delinquency, school dropout, pregnancy and violence. These problems can affect children for the rest of their lives.

(Clockwise from top left) Paleontologist and Dino 101 professor Philip Currie with his prized baby; alumni impact; the IceCube Laboratory at the South Pole; the late Chancellor Emeritus Lou Hyndman;

Social media is the virtual playground where people create, share and communicate instantaneously, and evolving digital technologies are making sense of all the updates, tweets, check-ins, photos and video uploads, according to a Cornell NYC Tech professor.

Hee Oh joined Yale's math department this year from Brown. Here she talks about absolute abstraction, the joy of walking - and missing math during her years as a social activist.

In trying to predict mass shootings, there is no reliable psychological profile or set of warning signs that can help to identify shooters, according to " Gun Violence: Prediction, Prevention and Policy ," a comprehensive report issued today by the American Psychological Association.

Sussex researchers part of project about improving life with dementia How can people with dementia be supported to live well?

12. Uhr, Unipark, Erzapt-Klotz-Str. Hörsaal E.001: Österreich-Premiere des Dokumentarfilm "Banana Land: Blood, Bullets and Poison".

By now, social scientists once predicted, the gender gap in wages should have been as thin as a Roosevelt dime.

The leader of a University of Alberta partnership devoted to strengthening the rights of First Nations children has received acclaim from the Nobel Women's Initiative.

Stanford brought together educators and entrepreneurs at the first-ever Compassion and Technology Conference to discuss how to uplift humanity in a gadget-driven society full of distractions.

Alia Gurtov was part of a team of archaeologists chosen for their small size and high skills to retrieve a trove of fossilized bones from a tight space in a South African cave.

How do people make sense of Tuner Prize nominee Tino Sehgal's These Associations' And what can cognitive scientists learn from the way they do it?

New research by Cardiff University has revealed how pre-teen boys and girls feel about growing up in an increasingly sexist society.

05 Dec 2013 Whereas 'pants'-wearing Northerners enjoy a 'bap', 'bun' or 'barm' for their 'tea', Southerners in 'trousers' are more likely to tuck into a 'roll' for their 'dinner', find language researchers at The University of Manchester.

Microsoft and the University of Melbourne are partnering with the State Government of Victoria to open a major research centre dedicated to new social interactive technologies Australia will play a m

Almost 600 under-16s take up smoking every day in the UK, suggests research published online in Thorax. The calculations indicate that in London alone, the daily tally is 67 - more than two classrooms-full. The researchers say the figures reinforce the importance of introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes, which the government is considering, and other measures to reduce smoking uptake in children.

Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards. The inflatables, called "scary dancers" or "air dancers," are upward of 15 feet tall, move randomly with arms flailing, come in multiple colors and reflective tape, and have noisy fans - all attributes that scare birds away.

University of Washington How will we of the early 21th century be remembered? By our technological innovations, social movements and many wars, to be sure.

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The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity will become part of the university's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale's premier center for the study and shaping of public policy and training of future policy leaders, it was announced.

Am 5. Dezember 2013 um 18:00 findet im HS 101 der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät ein Vortrag von Sahayraj Stanley SJ zum Thema "Corporate Greed and the Dying Indian Agriculture" statt.

Ten years after delivering the inaugural Australian National University Reconciliation Lecture, Professor Patrick Dodson returned to celebrate the anniversary of his address on 25 November 2013.

The Wales Migration Partnership (WMP) and Cardiff University today (November 28 th ) launched a new report at the Senedd investigating violence against women and girls from asylum-seeker, refugee and migrant communities in Wales.

Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise was awarded the prestigious Social Enterprise Mark at a ceremony held at Plymouth University during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

According to the International Transport Forum Malaysia has one of the highest death rates from road traffic accidents in the world. While the number of road deaths continues to rise in Malaysia the number in the United Kingdom is much lower and experiencing a downward trend. For the first time a team of experts have been looking at the cross-cultural effect on drivers' hazard perception and their research has shown that compared to British drivers, Malaysian motorists are less likely to identify situations as dangerous and also react to them later.

28 Nov 2013 Mental health service providers looking after patients at risk of suicide need to reduce absconding on in-patient wards and boost specialist community services like crisis resolution to reduce deaths, a report by The University of Manchester out today (28 November) shows. Improved treatments are also needed for patients who have mental health illness and drug or alcohol misuse (dual diagnosis) as well as for those with depression.

Homelessness across the United States continues to decline, according to a new report co-authored by University of Pennsylvania researchers.

As shoppers across the nation embark on winter holiday gift-buying, researchers at UC Berkeley are looking at what happens to commerce when there's no set price tag.

Researchers designed a software program to better predict how users might assign privacy levels to new content to different groups of people in their networks. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Creating a computer program to find relationships in networks, such as Google Plus and Facebook, may help users more easily set up and maintain privacy settings, according to researchers.

Our lives are bound up with objects. Museums are evidence of our deep preoccupation with the things that surround us, whether natural or the product of human endeavour.

New results published in The Lancet as part of the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) survey reveal how sexual behaviour and attitudes in Britain have changed in recent decades.

New results from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), published in The Lancet , provide a picture of sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence and testing, uptake of sexual health interventions and service use, and risk behaviours in Britain. In the decade since the last Natsal survey, of several strategies aimed at improving sexual health in Britain, three have been STI-specific interventions: the English National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP); the UK HPV immunisation programme; and increasing HIV testing in target groups .

One in six pregnancies among women in Britain are unplanned, and one in 60 women (1.5%) experience an unplanned pregnancy in a year, according to new results from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), published in The Lancet . The findings come from the first study to provide population prevalence estimates of unplanned pregnancy in Britain since 1989, and the first ever using a validated multi-component measure (the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy).

Around half (51%) of women and four out of ten (42%) men report having had a recent sexual problem, but only one in ten say they are worried or distressed about their sex life, according to new results from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), published in The Lancet .

One in ten women (9.8%) and roughly one in seventy men (1.4%), when asked "Has anyone actually made you have sex with them, against your will?" said yes, according to new results published as part of the third Natsal survey, published in The Lancet . Of those who reported having had sex against their will (non-volitional sex), fewer than half (42.2% of women and 32.6% of men) had told anyone about it, and fewer still had reported it to the police (12.9 % of women and 8% of men).

A large-scale study, led by Oxford University, has identified that government grants in Southern Africa can reduce major HIV risks for teenage girls. The findings are published in the journal The Lancet Global Health . The researchers say that half of all new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are among young people, and girls are two to three times more likely to be infected than boys.

Researchers Reino Maki and Ben Crane, with "Dictionary of American Regional English" founder Fred Cassidy (at right), traveled the country in campers called Word Wagons to document the way Americans speak.

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and McGill University released today results of a national opinion poll on human rights and dignity conducted by the Environics Institute, in conjunction with the 10 th Annual Trudeau Foundation Conference, taking place November 21-23, in Montreal.

Highlighting the integrating role of cultural evolution across the social sciences and the humanities, similar to that of organic evolution in biology, the Department of Psychology's Morten H.

The Board of Trustees of NORC at the University of Chicago has announced the appointment of Dan Gaylin as president and chief executive officer of the independent research organization.