Context Is Everything: New Research Uncovers Key To Consumer Preferences

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ScienceDaily (July 17, 2008) When consumers shop for televisions or cereal, what makes them prefer one option to another? Which brand will they purchase again and tell their friends about? New research in the Journal of Consumer Research reveals that a products attractiveness can shift depending on the other choices that are available at the time. Submitted by: denise1624 | Visited 5 times | Comments 0

♦ Context is everything: New research uncovers key to consumer preferences

1 vote	When consumers shop for televisions or cereal, what makes them prefer one option to another? Which brand will they purchase again and tell their friends about? New research in the Journal of Consumer Research reveals that a product's attractiveness can shift depending on the other choices that are available at the time. Submitted by: campolar - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Key West's famous pink taxis get a green makeover

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A new hybrid taxi rolls past the Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Fla. KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) Key West's hot-pink taxis are going green. Five Sixes Taxi has acquired 10 environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles as the first step to convert its entire fleet. Company officials project the new fuel-efficient vehicles, that are still painted pink, will get about 38 miles per gallon in the city... Submitted by: richos - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Students' device allows ICU patients to get back on their feet

1 vote	(American Association for Cancer Research) New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Submitted by: tonyc - Visited 10 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Clay Felker, founding editor of 'New York' magazine, dies

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Clay Felker, founding editor of New York magazine, in 1996. NEW YORK — Clay Felker, the magazine mogul who revolutionized the city magazine genre as founding editor of New York, died Tuesday. He was 82. Felker died Tuesday morning at his New York City home after a battle with throat cancer, a magazine spokeswoman said. New York magazine, filled with gossip on the city's social scene... Submitted by: nevalex - Visited 23 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ New Facebook profile page

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Justin Smith at Inside Facebook has the scoop on Facebook's new profile page design, which will give users more granular controls and application developers some new tricks. In late May developers will get access to the new code, and users the new interface a few weeks later. The new Facebook profile will have five tabs: Feed, Info, Wall, Photo, and Boxes. Submitted by: myp - Visited 45 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Computer Predicts Anti-cancer Molecules

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ScienceDaily (Jun. 16, 2008) — A new computer-based method of analyzing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. New research published in Molecular Cancer describes 'CoMet' -a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell and predicts those components that will have an effect on cancer. Jeffrey Skolnick... Submitted by: lurkster - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Key Mechanism Of DDT Resistance Found In Malarial Mosquitoes

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ScienceDaily (Jun. 16, 2008) — University of Illinois researchers have identified a key detoxifying protein in Anopheles mosquitoes that metabolizes DDT, a synthetic insecticide used since World War II to control the mosquitoes that spread malaria. The new findings, described the week of June 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... Submitted by: Daemon23 - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Being Overweight Does Not Result In Decreased Sperm Production, Study Shows

1 vote	ScienceDaily (Jun. 16, 2008) — Overweight men are not more likely to be infertile, as past research has shown to be true in obese women, according to a new study. Findings of the study, performed in New York in nearly 300 very overweight men, were unexpected, said coauthor Nanette Santoro, MD... Submitted by: hyjlmc - Visited 138 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ WiiWare: downloadable indie games come to the Nintendo Wii

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In February of 2006, former Nintendo of America marketing vice president Perrin Kaplan laid out Nintendo's forthcoming console generation with a strategy the company had dubbed "blue ocean." The blue ocean strategy, according to Nintendo, was an effort to create a gaming market where there previously wasn't one, with new methods, new approaches, and new platforms. This plan... Submitted by: GmacOr - Visited 26 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Natural Plant Materials To Regulate Starch Digestion

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ScienceDaily (Jun. 16, 2008) — Researchers in Switzerland are reporting discovery of natural plant materials that may regulate starch digestion -slowing down the body's conversion of potatoes, rice, and other carbohydrate-rich foods into sugar. The findings could lead to new functional foods that fight diabetes, they say in a new report. In the new study... Submitted by: mypoint - Visited 36 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Parental Involvement Strongly Impacts Student Achievement

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ScienceDaily (May 28, 2008) — New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that students do much better in school when their parents are actively involved in their education. Researchers Karen Smith Conway, professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, and her colleague Andrew Houtenville, senior research associate at New Editions Consulting... Submitted by: Tyler Banfield - Visited 14 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Find an Herbal Supplement Store in New York, NY, USA

1 vote	Herbal-supplements-usa.com’s New York, New York section provides the numbers and names plus other contact details for Herbal supplement stores in New York, NY, USA. There is amap to each shop in New York, New York. Including those that random natural weight loss products . Submitted by: annlewis - Visited 33 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Dehydrated Tomatoes Show Promise For Preventing Prostate Cancer

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ScienceDaily (May 29, 2008) — New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "Processing of many edible plants through heating, grinding... Submitted by: vanshake - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ New book by NJIT architecture professor focuses on urbanism

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The University of Chicago Press has published Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal by Gabrielle Esperdy, an associate professor in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT. Esperdy's research and teaching focuses on urbanism--the study of the urban environment, its buildings, infrastructures, institutions, and all things that support and shape them. Submitted by: Jon1771 - Visited 0 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ New tour code for England players

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The Rugby Football Union has agreed a new set of standards after four members of the England squad were accused of a serious sexual assault in New Zealand. The four players have denied the allegation in the "strongest terms". The new code of conduct will come into force from 1 July when players will sign their new elite rugby contracts. Submitted by: visionary02 - Visited 25 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ New grant encourages protected research time for medical fellows

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(WASHINGTON, July 8, 2008) The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is proud to announce the first recipients of the ASH Research Training Award for Fellows, a new program that encourages junior researchers to pursue careers in academic hematology by supporting protected time to conduct research during their fellowship training. A report on the state of U.S. Submitted by: Seo Service1 - Visited 8 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Revolutionary chefs? Not likely, shows physics research

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However much the likes of Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on, shows new research, published today, Thursday, 10 July, 2008, in the Institute of Physics (IOP)'s New Journal of Physics (NJP). The research, 'The non-equilibrium nature of culinary evolution'... Submitted by: zytex - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ New Bt cotton variety developed in Andhra

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The New Delhi-based Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur and University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) in Dharwad have jointly developed the cotton variety. The National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB) at IARI had worked for over 10 years towards the development of the biotech gene on the popular Bikaneri variety cotton... Submitted by: Masterful - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Name game: New Kids, others have been around that block

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Had the members of New Kids on the Block realized they'd still be recording 20 years after You Got It (The Right Stuff) , they might have chosen a different name. With this week's release of Summertime , the group's first single since 1994, the reunited New Kids (aka NKOTB) are no longer new or kids. Demographically speaking, they might more accurately be called New Dads in the Gated Community. Submitted by: smub - Visited 21 - Comments 0 - Write first comment