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A free smartphone app that allows people to explore the relationships between words in text via an intuitive interface was launched by academics at UCL this week. Designed by a team from UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) and the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), the app allows the visualisation of any text from politicians' speeches, to academic papers and newspaper articles, enabling people to unearth the themes and hidden uses of language within text through the generation of graphics and statistics.

In gateway areas defined by a large foreign-born population, only about one-fourth of these neighborhoods are still mixed as of 2010.

Help us improve U of'T News! Your feedback is important to us. Fill out our 5 minute survey and tell us what features or content you like most. Your responses will help us improve the University of Toronto's news site. University of Toronto research shows that even when people support the goals of environmentalism or feminism, they don't want to be associated with the activists promoting the cause.

Because of a weak labor market and California's notoriously expensive housing, 22 percent of all Californians are in poverty, says a Stanford professor who participated in the development of a new measure of poverty in the state. The sky-high cost of housing in California is pushing many families into poverty, according to new research by Stanford's Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Public Policy Institute of California.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Agricultural extension educators should take a flexible approach in teaching farmers about the changing landscape of food safety regulations, according to Penn State researchers.

The number of people in Britain who are using the internet has risen, reaching 78% of the population aged 14 years and over as compared with 59% in 2003.

Today we commence a month-long focus on research on sustainability and the environment.

Children with autistic spectrum disorders have poorer sleep quality than their peers right up to their teens, reveals research conducted by an international team including researchers from Bristol. The findings, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood , show total sleep duration is shorter and punctuated by more frequent waking at night and this poor-quality sleep may affect daytime learning and behaviour.

The future health and wellbeing of society will be debated at the University of Melbourne from today as the Festival of Ideas commences for 2013.

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For almost nine years, Stanford's Hoover Institution has had on deposit archival material relating to the diaries and papers of both Chiang Kai-shek, who ruled mainland China for 22 years and then Taiwan for an additional 26 years; and his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, who ruled Taiwan for 16 years.

An Oxford University study argues that the Chinese government is currently in a phase of giving pandas built on 'guanxi'.

25 September 2013 Stuttering is going undiagnosed in Australian classrooms, causing a raft of lifelong social anxiety problems, warns a world-leading University of Sydney expert.

ANN ARBOR-Caregiving is always tough, but it's that much tougher when caregivers have to rely on family ties that are ambiguous, strained or virtually nonexistent, suggests a University of Michigan study.

Reducing the number of adult smokers in America may require intervening earlier in life and school than previously thought - probably between the ages of 12 and 17 - according to new research. The links between educational attainment and smoking are well documented. The more formal schooling individuals have, the less likely they are to be smokers; the less schooling, the more likely.

Sociologist Tomás Jiménez discusses his latest research on how Americans are adjusting to immigration and shares his findings from a study out of Cupertino, where a large presence of high-skilled Asian immigrants has redefined achievement norms and changed what "white" represents.

Over 190 world experts met at The University of Nottingham recently, to discuss ways of finding innovative solutions the failures of dams, tunnels, bridges and buildings as a result of fatigue, geo-hazards and other causes.

In the five years since the China Energy Group of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released its last edition of the China Energy Databook , China has ac

Hate crime is still a daily reality for many people in Wales, according to a new study by the University and Race Equality First. The findings from the biggest hate crime study ever carried out in Wales and England will be publicly launched at the Senedd today (23 September 2013) by Jeff Cuthbert, Communities Minister.

A £1.7million award from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) is set to enable people to trace the records of Londoners sentenced to either imprisonment or transportation from 1787 up to the 1920s, when the last convict died.

The development of a new Conservation Research Institute will be the latest addition to a flourishing conservation community in Cambridge. The Conservation Research Institute offers an unparalleled opportunity to establish a globally influential programme of research on biodiversity conservation and its impacts.

ANN ARBOR-Representatives of 25 organizations that archive scientific data have released a Call for Action urging the creation of sustainable funding streams for domain repositories-data archives with close ties to scientific communities.

The University of Nottingham is offering a free course on sustainability as part of a new venture in social online learning.

Concerned that social and behavioral sciences research will be targeted for cuts in federal funding, the Association of American Universities (AAU), comprising 62 research universities in the United States and Canada, including Cornell, released a statement Sept. 17 to member institutions on the importance of the federal investment in such research.

Academics at the University of Glasgow have received £2 million from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Translating Cultures programme.

AUSTIN, Texas -  Four-year-olds in the nation's largest preschool program fare worse with 3-year-olds in their classrooms, according to new research that shows a common practice in most Head Start programs may stunt children's learning. Three-fourths of Head Start classes teach 3- and 4-year-old children together, but a new study, led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, found that older children make smaller academic gains on average when taught with younger preschoolers.

Researchers are suggesting that the 2008 global economic crisis could be to blame for the increase in suicide rates in European and American countries, particularly among males and in countries with higher levels of job losses. The findings , led by researchers at the universities of Bristol , Oxford and Hong Kong, are published today on bmj.com.

Faculty Research Directors work together through membership of the University Research Committee to deliver the University's vision for research and enterprise, each one providing leadership to their faculty.

Summer camp is often about archery, swimming and singing around the fire. But this past summer, Natasha Herrick '15, Leticia Vasquez '15 and Meredith Moser '15 were in for a different kind of camp adventure - their first academic research study.

Shy birds stick together and gain courage through numbers, whereas bold birds go it alone according to new research. Within species of birds, such as the British great tit ( Parus major ), there is a variety of personalities and scientists have been studying how the range of traits persists through generations and structures societies.

ANN ARBOR-A University of Michigan study published online in JAMA Pediatrics finds that 10 percent of high school seniors have engaged in extreme binge drinking, drinking 10 or more alcoholic drinks in a single sitting. The study is based on data from a nationally representative sample of more than 16,000 high school seniors, surveyed between 2005 and 2011 as part of the annual Monitoring the Future Study conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research.

The Imperial Fringe went on tour for the first time last night, asking the question 'What makes me me?' at the Imperial West campus.

The important role played by independent social workers (ISWs) in care proceedings should be safeguarded, concludes a new report which is based on the views of senior judges. A senior Oxford University researcher and her team ed 23 senior judges sitting in 20 of 43 county courts across England and Wales and found that ISWs were highly valued - they are regarded as practitioners at the 'top of their field', able to provide high-quality assessments in care proceedings in tight timescales.

The brown, smog-filled skies that engulf Beijing have earned China a poor reputation for environmental stewardship.

The face of American diplomacy is changing - and the results could have an enormous impact on people in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific region.

11 Sep 2013 A University of Manchester researcher has revealed harrowing details of how Pinochet's torturers used music to torment their victims, exactly 40 years today after the dictator came to power. Dr Katia Chornik is the first to investigate music in Pinochet's notorious torture houses, concentration camps and prisons.

Through a study of the changing definitions of rape, Stanford professor Estelle Freedman finds that political power and social privilege create complex perceptions of sexual violence.

Diane Squires 0432 754 232 8344 6937 dsquires [a] unimelb.edu (p) au   The University of Melbourne has climbed five places in the QS 2013 world university rankings to 31st in the world, from 36th last year.

09 Sep 2013 The Royal Town Planning Institute North West has awarded Dr. Joanne Tippett a commendation for positive community engagement for her work with Ketso, the innovative product she created to support collaboration and creative group work.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Children with autism could miss out on non-verbal cues to social interaction Children with autism might be missing "crucial" non-verbal gestures because they typically look away more than others when listening to parents, teachers and other professionals.

The numbers of rusty crayfish, an invasive species blamed for decimating fish, insect and plant communities in Sparkling Lake, have dropped dramatically since a UW-Madison experiment concluded.