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Over-Confident CEOs Can Put Companies at Risk, MU Study Finds

By Guest PostJuly 13, 2013Economyarlington, brazil, decision making skills, france, georgia tech university, Germany, Japan, long term orientation, Mexico, narayanan jayaraman, over confident ceos, sanjiv sabherwal, stephen ferris, united kingdom, university of missouri, university of texas

COLUMBIA, Mo. — CEOs need to demonstrate strong leadership and good decision-making skills, but CEOs with over-confidence can involve their companies in riskier ventures and put investors’ funds at risk, according to a new study from the University of Missouri, Georgia Tech University and the University of Texas-Arlington.

“Over-confident CEOs feel they have superior decision-making abilities and are more capable than their peers,” said Stephen Ferris, professor of finance in the MU Trulaske College of Business. “Unfortunately, they tend to make decisions about mergers or acquisitions that can be viewed as risky. For example, CEOs who are over-confident tend to target companies that do not focus on their core line of business. Generally speaking, mergers that diversify companies don’t work.” (more…)

More women pick computer science if media nix outdated ‘nerd’ stereotype

By Guest PostJuly 13, 2013Technologycomputer scientists, gender stereotype, stereotype, stereotypical view, women

Parents and teachers like to tell children they can be whatever they want to be when they grow up. But are there inaccurate stereotypes in the media that nudge them away from certain careers? (more…)

Prostate cancer: moving beyond ‘watchful waiting’

By Guest PostJuly 12, 2013Healthabnormal digital exam, benign hyperplasia, cancer death, fusion biopsy, prostate cancer, prostate enlargement, prostate specific antigen, psa result

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men: the American Cancer Society expects the disease will claim nearly 30,000 lives in 2013. The disease mainly affects older men—the median age of diagnosis is 67—and it’s a slow-growing cancer, so most men diagnosed with the disease are likely to die of other causes. (more…)

UA Study: Evolution Too Slow to Keep Up With Climate Change

By Guest PostJuly 11, 2013Environment, Natureclimatic niche, evolutionary trees, phylogenies, rapid climate change, rates of evolution, terrestrial vertebrates, warmer climate

A study led by a UA ecologist has found that many species evolve too slowly to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years.

Many vertebrate species would have to evolve about 10,000 times faster than they have in the past to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a study led by a University of Arizona ecologist has found.
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Cosmochemist discovers potential solution to meteorite mystery

By Guest PostJuly 11, 2013Sciencealexei fedkin, british mineralogist, carnegie institution, chondrules, cosmochemist, crystal structures, discover, early solar system, forming jupiter, fred ciesla, gaseous magnesium, henry sorby, high pressure collisions, iron oxide, jay melosh, lawrence grossman, magnesium silicates, meteorite mystery, mystery in cosmochemistry, olivine, oxide bearing olivine, planets, potential solution, primordial gas cloud, silicates, solar nebula, steven simon, sun, university of chicago, Washington

Chondrules may have formed from high-pressure collisions in early solar system

A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. “I’m a fairly sober guy. People didn’t know what to think all of a sudden,” said Lawrence Grossman, professor in geophysical sciences.

At issue is how numerous small, glassy spherules had become embedded within specimens of the largest class of meteorites—the chondrites. British mineralogist Henry Sorby first described these spherules, called chondrules, in 1877. Sorby suggested that they might be “droplets of fiery rain” which somehow condensed out of the cloud of gas and dust that formed the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. (more…)

Exercise reorganizes the brain to be more resilient to stress

By Guest PostJuly 10, 2013Healthbrain, brain cell, brain region, brian hsueh, elizabeth gould, exercise, fight, flight, gaba, gamma aminobutyric acid, human anxiety disorders, immediate early genes, mechanism, neurons, neurotransmitter, normal brain function, pedro pieruzzini, pedro rada, physical activity, princeton university, reaction, regulate anxiety, resilient to stress, sedentary mice, stanford university, timothy schoenfeld, university of los andes, Venezuela, ventral hippocampus

Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University.

The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor — exposure to cold water — their brains exhibited a spike in the activity of neurons that shut off excitement in the ventral hippocampus, a brain region shown to regulate anxiety. (more…)

Further destabilisation in the Middle East possible according to new report

By Guest PostJuly 10, 2013Politicsaleppo, arab gulf states, assad, China, crisis in egypt, damascus, destabilization, east west stand, Environment, ex cathedra manner, gareth stansfield, geopolitical flux, hizbullah, homs, interests of israel, iranian nuclear targets, Iraq, jordan, lebanon, levantine neighbours, michael clarke, middle east, neo imperialist, proximity to europe, proxy, proxy war, region wide war, revolutionary guard, rusi, russia, saudi arabia, sectarian hatreds, security council, security institute, south lebanon, strategy, sunni islamist militants, syrian civil war, turkey, un, university of exeter, western capitals

The crisis in Egypt is already having a negative effect on the Syrian civil war and contributing to further destabilisation of the wider Middle East according to a major new report.

Professor Gareth Stansfield from the University of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies wrote the report, for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an independent think-tank for defence and security which advises governments and the wider policy community.

‘The Remaking of Syria, Iraq and the Wider Middle East’ report suggests that important as events in Cairo are, they distract Western attention from the much bigger game being played out in Syria which significantly risks changing the Levant after a century of relative territorial stability. Professor Stansfield who is also an RUSI’s senior associate fellow analysed the impact the Syrian civil war could have on the future of the Middle East state system across the Levant. (more…)

Partner opportunity: Small and mid-size companies seeking an edge

By Guest PostJuly 9, 2013Technologydanish consultancy abakion, erp provider, information age, kenneth kryger gram, mbs, microsoft business solutions, microsoft dynamics platform, mid size companies, neil holloway, office 365, partner opportunity, roi for customers, saskia van ham, small, smbs, windows azure

Flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics platform allows for a spectrum of custom solutions across a range of industries.

HOUSTON — July 9, 2013 — In the information-age economy, technology can be a huge competitive advantage — particularly for smaller companies. As small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) gain a foothold in today’s markets, Microsoft continues to invest in ways to help them compete.

“Today, the Microsoft Dynamics platform can provide the flexibility and power to serve a multitude of business needs,” says Neil Holloway, corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Sales and Operations. “Windows Azure and cloud services are increasingly making it possible for smaller companies to have the same computing muscle as their larger competitors.” (more…)

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