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‘Chinese Households Save More than American Households’

By Guest PostAugust 12, 2011Economy2008 survey of chinese consumer finance and investor education, american 2007 survey of consumer finances, american households, China, chinese and american households, chinese culture, chinese households, global economy, global households, households, recent chinese economic reforms, rui yao, saving money, savings habits of households, two countries, united states, university of missouri, world most powerful economies

*Saving motives a major factor in increased household savings*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – With the global economy in a state of unrest, saving money seems to be an obvious strategy for households to protect themselves. But are global households saving enough? Researchers at the University of Missouri have compared savings habits of households from two of the world’s most powerful economies: China and the United States. Rui Yao, an assistant professor in the personal financial planning department in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri, found that urban Chinese households, on average, save much more than American households. She says the difference stems from saving motives.

“Saving is one of the critical tools that households utilize to achieve financial goals and to improve financial well-being,” Yao said. “By looking at saving motives for households in each country, we hope to explain the difference in saving rates across these two countries.” (more…)

Sea Lampreys Fear the Smell of Death

By Guest PostAugust 12, 2011Environmentcanadian journal of fisheries and aquatic sciences, environmentally sensitive areas, great lakes fishery commission, invasive species in the great lakes, michael wagner, michigan state university, potential game changer, repellant, robert lambe, sea lampreys, sea lampreys in the great lakes

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A repellant for sea lampreys could be the key to better controlling one of the most destructive invasive species in the Great Lakes, says a Michigan State University researcher.

Scientists have seen the effect alarm cues have on lampreys. When scents from dead sea lampreys are poured into a tank of live ones, the lampreys’ efforts to escape are dramatic. In the past, these reactions were simply dismissed as novel. But Michael Wagner, MSU assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife, sees this reaction as a potential game changer. (more…)

Researchers Look for New Ways to Get Teens to Take Their Medicine

By Guest PostAugust 11, 2011Healthbeth foster, canada, chronic conditions, chronic diseases, doses of medicine, health systems, high tech pillbox, kidney transplant, kidney transplant patients, medminder, non adherence, organ rejection in patients, period, teenagers, united states, vikas dharnidharka

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Skipping doses of medicine or taking it at the wrong times can worsen a patient’s condition and lead to costly complications — even organ rejection in patients who have undergone a kidney transplant.

A consortium of researchers in the United States and Canada, including at the University of Florida, has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test techniques that may increase medication adherence in perhaps the most challenging population of patients:teenagers. (more…)

Colombian Online Travel Sector Grows 25 Percent in the Past Year

By Guest PostAugust 11, 2011Technologyalejandro fosk, avianca, Colombia, Comscore, copaair, despegar decolar sites, expedia inc, latin america, online travel agent, online travel market in colombia, online travel sector, travel websites

*Despegar-Decolar Sites Ranks as Top Online Travel Destination*

Bogotá, Colombia, August 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the latest results from a study on the online travel market in Colombia. The study found that in the past year visitation to the Travel category increased 25 percent to reach 3.2 million unique visitors in Colombia, as more online users utilized the web to research and purchase travel. Despegar-Decolar Sites led as the top travel destination in Colombia reaching 453,000 unique visitors in June, followed by Expedia Inc. and Avianca.com.

“Nearly 1 in 4 online users in Colombia visited a travel site in June,” said Alejandro Fosk, comScore senior vice president for Latin America. “Travel sites have witnessed rapid visitor growth in the past year as more consumers embrace the online channel for their travel needs while brands continue to improve the user experience by upgrading site features. Given that more mature online markets around the globe see upwards of half of their online population frequenting travel sites, there is much potential for continued growth in Colombia’s online travel sector.” (more…)

New Anticensorship Scheme Could Make it Impossible to Block Individual Sites

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2011Technologyalex halderman, Beijing, brainchild of computer science researchers, canada, censoring government, cryptographic protocol, cryptographic technique, https website, individual sites, internet, internet censorship, internet service providers, isps, proxy server, public key steganography, san francisco, steganography, telex, telex stations, university of michigan, university of waterloo, usenix security symposium, web, youtube videos

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.

The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo in Canada. They will present it Aug. 12 at the USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco. (more…)

Meteorites: Tool Kits for Creating Life on Earth

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2011Sciencecarbonaceous chondrites, chemical composition, extraterrestrial origin, life on earth, meteorites, nucleobase analogs, organic rich meteorite

Washington, D.C.— Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth. Since the 1960s, scientists have been trying to find proof that nucleobases, the building blocks of our genetic material, came to Earth on meteorites. New research, published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that certain nucleobases do reach the Earth from extraterrestrial sources, by way of certain meteorites, and in greater diversity and quantity than previously thought. (more…)

So You’re Planning a Trip to…..Paris

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2011Holidays 'n Travelsarc de triomphe, au revoir, autumn, bonjour, champs elysées, city of lights, eiffel tower, english, europe most romantic city, french phrases, good bye, hello, louvre, merci, musée d´orsay, notre dame, Paris, paris travel guide, parisians, planning a trip, please, s'il vous plait, sacré coeur, thank you

So you’re planning a trip to the ‘city of lights’, Europe’s most romantic city! Although the prospect of seeing famous sights such as the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Sacré Coeur is an exciting one, here are a few tips to keep in mind both before setting off and during your stay in Paris. (more…)

NASA Mars Rover Approaches Long-Term Goal

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2011Sciencecalifornia institute of technology, cape york, endeavour crater, environments on mars, mars, mars rover opportunity, microbial life, NASA, opportunity, pasadena, rovers, spirit point, victoria crater

The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gained a view of Endeavour crater from barely more than a football-field’s distance away from the rim. The rim of Endeavour has been the mission’s long-term goal since mid-2008.

Endeavour offers the setting for plenty of productive work by Opportunity. The crater is 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter — more than 25 times wider than Victoria crater, an earlier stop that Opportunity examined for two years. Observations by orbiting spacecraft indicate that the ridges along Endeavour’s western rim expose rock outcrops older than any Opportunity has seen so far. The selected location for arrival at the rim, “Spirit Point,” is at the southern tip of one of those ridges, “Cape York,” on the western side of Endeavour. (more…)

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