A low-cost intervention aimed at fostering a growth mindset in students gave the students more confidence in their entrepreneurship abilities and helped them persist when challenges arose. (more…)
Forscher der Universitäten Stanford, Tübingen und Bayreuth gehen von Rückgang der Ernte um bis zu 40 Prozent bis zum Jahr 2100 aus
Durch die Klimaerwärmung könnte die Reisernte weltweit deutlich geringer ausfallen als bisher angenommen. Der Reis könnte zudem deutlich über die heutigen EU-Grenzwerte hinaus mit dem giftigen Halbmetall Arsen belastet sein. (more…)
Italian Renaissance frescos of the gods and goddesses of air, water, fire and earth enliven the ceiling and four walls of the Room of the Elements in Florence’s famed Palazzo Vecchio, but without structural engineers’ work to preserve such historic buildings, the world could eventually lose these masterpieces. (more…)
In der Strahlentherapie werden verschiedene Moleküle erprobt, um die Wirkung der Strahlung auf Krebszellen zu verbessern. Forscher um Stephan Denifl beobachteten nun, dass langsame Elektronen von Nimorazol-Molekülen äußerst effektiv eingefangen werden. Dieses Ergebnis kann eine Erklärung für die selektive Wirkung dieses in der Strahlentherapie bereits eingesetzten Wirkstoffs liefern. (more…)
Interrupt testing is a procedure where user purposefully disturb the application by some predefine techniques or methods. It is used to validate if mobile application performs as expected after the interruption or during interruption provided by user. (more…)
In new book, alum Cecelia Watson examines history of punctuation’s polarizing mark
“The semicolon is a place where our anxieties and our aspirations about language, class and education are concentrated, so that in this small mark big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink,” writes Cecelia Watson, AM’05, PhD’11. (more…)
While I was going through music industry’s youngest streaming platform ‘VIBBIDI’ and having some talks with colleagues Kaz and Cameron, I was overwhelmed every bit I learnt on how it evolved, and (now) flourishing faster in currently very chaotic and only money-making Music world. Kazuhiro Naya and colleagues are changing it radically. (more…)
A new study led by scientists at the UA has uncovered a potential new way to treat patients with ALS, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease.
Increased glucose, transformed into energy, could give people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, improved mobility and a longer life, according to new findings by a University of Arizona-led research team. (more…)
