New study finds employee incentives can lead to unethical behavior in the workplace
(Virginia Tech) Findings suggest that setting compensation goals can increase dishonesty when managers are also paid a bonus for hitting certain targets. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - December 11, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
National concussion study to examine gender effects -- NCAA-DOD grant
(Virginia Tech) The Virginia Tech team has been awarded over $1 million for research that will expand their ongoing concussion work into new sports not previously studied heavily for concussions, and to investigate how gender affects injury response. Factors studied will include how different genders are affected by injury, if there is a way to reliably identify when someone has experienced a concussion, why some respond to the same impact differently than others, among other variables. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 30, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Predicting oil spill and wild fire damage -- NSF grant
(Virginia Tech) Two Virginia Tech professors have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to research how computational fluid mechanics -- the use of computers to study movement of fluid -- can improve forecasts of contaminant spread in the ocean, floodwaters, and atmosphere. Complicated simulations determine best methods for oil spill containment, but often take valuable time to render. This research aspires to make this and other contamination simulations faster -- potentially saving money, lives, and the environment. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 30, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news
This town is like thousands that are vulnerable to contaminated water, with no fix in sight
Virginia Tech engineering Professor Marc Edwards watched as water flowed from a garden hose in Enterprise, Louisiana. As he moved a jar to catch a sample, the color changed from clear to brown. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers find more recently diagnosed cancer survivors likely to drink, smoke
(Virginia Tech) Recently diagnosed cancer survivors are more likely to drink alcohol, use tobacco, and frequent tanning beds than people in later stages of recovery, according to a research team from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 26, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
This Is the Best Way to Prevent HIV, Expert Group Says
While there is no vaccine yet to protect against HIV, doctors have an effective drug to prevent HIV infection. After impressive studies overseas and in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada, a combination of anti-HIV drugs, in 2012 as the first medication that can prevent healthy people from getting infected with HIV by up to 90%.
Now, for the first time, a group of independent experts convened by the government, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), is recommending that people at high risk of acquiring HIV infection be prescribed the drug, also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Th...
Source: TIME: Health - November 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized hiv-aids Source Type: news
Shelter dogs need weekends too -- researchers awarded $1.7M grant
(Virginia Tech) This large-scale fostering study builds on previous research showing that just one night away from a shelter decreased dogs' stress levels. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Effects of early education intervention on behavior persist for 4 decades
(Virginia Tech) Adults who had received early life, intensive childhood educational intervention display high levels of fairness in social interactions more than 40 years later, even when being fair comes at a high personal cost, according to a new study by Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Shelter dogs need weekends too -- researchers awarded $1.7 million grant
(Virginia Tech) This large-scale fostering study builds on previous research showing that just one night away from a shelter decreased dogs' stress levels. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New drug discovery could halt spread of brain cancer
(Virginia Tech) A team of researchers at Virginia Tech may have found a solution to stopping the spread of glioblastoma with a new drug and cancer treatment method. This work is part of a five-year research grant project across multiple universities, examining the role of interstitial fluid flow in spreading glioma cells through the brain. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Researchers discover how 'cryptic' connections in disease transmission influence epidemics
(Virginia Tech) A new study by researchers of disease transmission in bats has broad implications for understanding hidden connections that can spread diseases between species and lead to large-scale outbreaks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 19, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
NSF funds research predicting gene mutations via computational algorithms
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech and Colorado State University researchers have been awarded a $1.52 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop new algorithms and mathematical models with the goal of predicting the effects of novel combinations of gene mutations in living cells. They will apply this computational framework to models of cell growth and division in budding yeast. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 16, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Scientists solve century-old neuroscience mystery; answers may lead to epilepsy treatment
(Virginia Tech) Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have solved a 125-year-old mystery of the brain, and, in the process, uncovered a potential treatment for acquired epilepsy. Perineuronal nets modulate electrical impulses in the brain, and, should the nets dissolve, brain seizures can occur. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Flood dynamics increase population vulnerability to waterborne disease and climate
(Virginia Tech) They discovered that increases in diarrheal disease cases were closely tied to periods of rainfall, flood recession, and changes in surface water quality, with a 1 meter drop in river height in the dry season associated with a staggering 16.7 percent increase in diarrheal disease in children under 5. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Water experts to study emerging threat of antibiotic resistance
(Virginia Tech) The CDC recently awarded two contracts to study antibiotic resistance in recycled water and in plumbing to Amy Pruden and Marc Edwards, both professors in the Charles Edward Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 6, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
