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Addressing on the challenges that accompany transitions between health care settings could be a key strategy for improving clinical outcomes for people living with HIV, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The 'horrifying genius' of Soviet totalitarianism and its ability to control and quell protest will be examined tonight by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum.

AUSTIN, Texas — Although a large majority of Texans support background checks for all gun purchases, they are not eager to change existing gun laws in Texas, according to a University of Texas at Austin/Texas Tribune poll.

ANN ARBOR-Corporate fraud dominates financial news, yet few studies have looked at whether chief executive officers who appoint their own top lieutenants are more inclined to act illegally, according to University of Michigan researchers. U-M business E. Han Kim and law school Vikramaditya Khanna found that the more top executives the CEO appointed, the higher the probability of fraud.

Women who receive strong social support from their families during pregnancy appear to be protected from sharp increases in a particular stress hormone, making them less likely to experience depression after giving birth, a new study by UCLA life scientists indicates.

The social sciences have a critical role in sustainability research, asserted Kim Weeden, the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences, Feb.

The EU needs to strengthen its commitment, and its strategic toolkit, to prevent mass atrocities, such as those perpetrated in Syria, according to a new report by the Task Force on the EU Prevention of Mass Atrocities, co-chaired by Christoph Meyer, released today.

ANN ARBOR-An increasing number of Americans indicate that there is evidence of global warming, with 67 percent now expressing a belief that the planet has warmed over the past four decades, according to a University of Michigan survey.

Can digital games help reshape urban adolescents' health decisions? How might economic models be challenged by rigorous economic analysis of historical societies? What new insights can we gain about

ANN ARBOR-Although she lives alone, the Japanese woman keeps a large pair of men's shoes near her front door-part of her strategy to scare away stalkers.

MEDIA ADVISORY ANN ARBOR-China's top leaders will gather in Beijing on Tuesday for the National People's Congress.

Stanford Report, March 4, 2013 Users of the new research application EmailValet grew comfortable with sharing their inbox with remote assistants, who perused the emails to create to-do lists.

Designed by researchers at Cardiff University, the Web Wellbeing Experience study will assess the impact of Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) and light physical exercise on the health of participants from a range of backgrounds and abilities.

Canadians are under pressure on the job - especially those with higher status, challenging work or in positions of authority. And having more control in the workplace can have negative consequences for individuals but it depends on the form of job control, say researchers from the University of Toronto.

ANN ARBOR-Latina women in a diabetes-prevention program show fewer signs of depression during pregnancy and in early postpartum, a University of Michigan study indicates. Untreated depression can negatively affect both mothers and children. Research indicates that sometimes minority women-when compared to their white counterparts-don't seek help for their depression.

Stanford Report, February 25, 2013 Study reveals scale of nitrogen's effect on people and ecosystems. It's no secret that China is faced with some of the world's worst pollution. Until now, however, information on the magnitude, scope and impacts of a major contributor to that pollution - human-caused nitrogen emissions - was lacking.

Paul Mitchell's deep interest in anthropology and in exploring human evolution and variation was sparked by his first course in the fall of 2009 during his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania.

Their analysis also revealed that victims with disability were twice as likely to experience emotional difficulties following violence than non-disabled victims. Across England and Wales in 2009, approximately 224,000 people with disabilities experienced violence, resulting in an excess economic burden of £1.51 billion.

Although immigration to the United States from Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, has captured much public attention, immigrants who move between countries in Latin America have more difficulty than those moving to the United States.

People with disabilities are at a greater risk of being the victims of violence and of suffering mental ill health when victimised, according to research published today in the open access journal PLOS ONE . The research, led by Hind Khalifeh (UCL Brain Sciences) with colleagues from UCL and King's College London, is the first to assess the extent to which people with disabilities experience different kinds of violence and the associated health and economic costs.

Richard Sennett argues that learning how to live in cities made up from disparate groups represents the biggest challenge facing society today.

News Release Minnesota's statistics mirror the nation Media Note: The authors will be in New York for the release of this research on Friday, Feb.

They went all the way from China to Lund seeking wisdom – but they also found love! In 2009 something magical happened in the queue for the International Housing Office.

The influence of one of Shakespeare's principal actors on many of the bard's plays has been revealed by an Oxford University academic.

—Dr Barak Kushner Barack Obama's resolution to kick off foreign policy for his second term with a tour of the Asia-Pacific region, at the end of 2012, was testimony not only to that area's growing economic importance, but also to the  increasing significance of its politics.

As billions of people across the globe prepare to celebrate Chinese New Year, Plymouth University's Associate Professor in International Relations Jamie Gaskarth asks what the nation’s emergence as a

The city of Chicago will provide an additional $2 million to expand a violence reduction program that has been shown to be effective in research by the University of Chicago Crime Lab , Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Feb.

I did not understand what was going on. I was crying. I just wanted to be able to tell them everything - I wanted them to listen and understand." —Victim of sex trafficking Most foreign national women trafficked into the UK and forced to commit offences are given custodial sentences without help or support if arrested - despite being victims of often horrifying crime and abuse themselves, says a Cambridge-led report.

ANN ARBOR-The proportion of working Americans with pensions of any kind has steadily decreased since 2001, according to a University of Michigan analysis that suggests trouble ahead for U.S. seniors.

One of the world's most celebrated foreign correspondents slammed the press for its failings, weaknesses and clichés—especially in its coverage of the Middle East—during his presentation Jan.

Stanford Report, February 1, 2013 Stanford experts in politics, law, sociology, entrepreneurship and security answer questions about the latest proposals for immigration reform.

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ANN ARBOR-Young adults in Generation X are as likely to connect with friends, family and co-workers online as they are in person, according to a University of Michigan study. In a typical month, adults in their late 30s report that they engaged in about 75 face-to-face or conversations, compared to about 74 electronic contracts through personal emails or social media.

Researchers at The University of Manchester say commentators should not use numbers of people born abroad to measure the needs of immigrants trying to integrate into the communities they choose to settle.

History has long denied the political genius of the Black Panther Party. At worst, its members have been cast as unconscionable criminals.

Fisman, the Business School 's Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, and Tim Sullivan, editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press, look at why organizations are central to human achievement.

ANN ARBOR-"That's so gay" is a popular expression on campuses nationwide among heterosexual students, especially young men. But why do they say it? A new University of Michigan study sheds light on this question. "That's so gay," although not necessarily said to harm lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) students, can create a hostile environment, say U-M researchers.

There are more than 580 missing or murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada, with 93 cases in Alberta alone, most of them unsolved murder cases.

Martin Jacques says the global power shift from west to east is inevitable, but it need not be a threat if westerners can learn to understand and appreciate the culture that is driving it.

That a new pandemic will arrive, sooner or later, is probably the only thing about pandemic influenza upon which scientists agree.

It's been five years since Sherry Ortner stepped from the academic world into the inner circle of independent filmmakers and producers gathered in Park City, Utah, to participate in the nation's largest and most well-known celebration of the indie film movement, Sundance , going on this week.

ANN ARBOR-African-American and Hispanic students are less likely than whites to work part-time in high school, according to a University of Michigan study.

Stanford Report, January 23, 2013 Whites who perceive anti-white bias draw from different communities in different parts of the country: evangelical churches in the South, and the Republican Party elsewhere. With the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas before the Supreme Court, "reverse discrimination" is back in the public eye.