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Women and lower-education users more likely to tweet personal information
(Penn State) When it comes to what users share on Twitter, women and users who never attended college voluntarily disclose more personal information than users from other socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds -- potentially making these populations more susceptible to online privacy threats, according to a recent study led by the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Stevens and Rensselaer to establish the first-ever NSF-backed FinTech Research Center
(Stevens Institute of Technology) Stevens Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced today that they have been awarded the first-ever National Science Foundation grant to create an industry-university cooperative research center devoted specifically to financial technology and science. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Study: How a large cat deity helps people to share space with leopards in India
(Wildlife Conservation Society) A new study led by WCS-India documents how a big cat deity worshipped by Indigenous Peoples facilitates coexistence between humans and leopards. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Obscuring the truth can promote cooperation
(University of Pennsylvania) Obscuring the truth can promote cooperation, according to new research by theoretical biologists from the University of Pennsylvania. Inspired by the example of the file-sharing platform Napster, they show that overstating the level of cooperation in a community can push the community to cooperate more overall. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Tooth loss associated with increased cognitive impairment, dementia
(New York University) Tooth loss is a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia--and with each tooth lost, the risk of cognitive decline grows, according to a new analysis led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and published in JAMDA: The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

How experiencing diverse emotions impacts students
(Wiley) Experiencing a variety of positive emotions--or emodiversity--may benefit high school students, according to a study published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Wage inequality negatively impacts customer satisfaction and does not improve long-term firm performance
(American Marketing Association) Wage inequality between top managers and employees boosts the short-term, but not long-term, profitability of a firm while persistently harming customer satisfaction by motivating opportunism against customers and weakening its customer-oriented culture. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Open-source software to help cities plant in pursuit of clean air
(University of Birmingham) Software to help towns and cities use street-planting to reduce citizens' exposure to air pollution has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Not only humans got talent, dogs got it too!
(E ö tv ö s Lor á nd University (ELTE), Faculty of Science) Some exceptionally gifted people have marked human history and culture. Leonardo, Mozart, and Einstein are some famous examples of this phenomenon.Is talent in a given field a uniquely human phenomenon? We do not know whether gifted bees or elephants exist, just to name a few species, but now there is evidence that talent in a specific field exists, in at least one non-human species: the dog. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

PSU to do internal deep dive to identify systemic inequalities among STEM faculty
(Portland State University) Results from a 2018 workplace climate survey point to serious and entrenched equity issues for women faculty and faculty of color in STEM at PSU, but a group of faculty say a more nuanced understanding of systemic inequalities is needed to help drive institutional change. Now they have the funding to take that closer look. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

David A. Sinclair to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
(Deep Longevity Ltd) David A. Sinclair to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery conference (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Studies explore links between stress, choline deficiency, preterm births, and mental health
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In two recent articles published in Schizophrenia Bulletin, Sharon Hunter, PhD, an associate professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, and M. Camille Hoffman, MD, MSc, an associate professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, have uncovered a potential link between choline deficiency in Black pregnant women in the United States and increased risk of developmental issues that can evolve into mental illness later in children's lives. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Researchers clarify reasons for low rate of employment among people with disabilities
(Kessler Foundation) Researchers analyzed responses to an open-ended question about employment in the 2015 Kessler Foundation National Employment and Disability Survey, focusing on 1,254 respondents with disabilities who self-identified as unemployed. The most common reasons related to their perceptions about their medical conditions, functional limitations, or disability, which contributed to concerns about being able to work. Countering negative perceptions, which are often associated with diverse demographic and sociodemographic characteristics, is essential to developing successful return-to-work interventions. (Source...
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Mucus and mucins may become the medicine of the future
(University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The body is filled with mucus that keeps track of the bacteria. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen present the first method for producing artificial mucus. They hope that the artificial mucus, which consists of sugary molecules, may help to develop completely new, medical treatments. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

For female vampire bats, an equal chance to rule the roost
(Ohio State University) Female vampire bats establish an egalitarian community within a roost rather than a society based on a clear hierarchy of dominance that is often seen in animal groups, a new study suggests. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news