WASHINGTON - Airport security agents using a new conversation-based screening method caught mock airline passengers with deceptive cover stories more than 20 times as often as agents who used the traditional method of examining body language for suspicious signs, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Short-term certificate programs at community colleges offer limited labor-market returns, on average, in most fields of study, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. The results of the study are in line with recent research in other states that found only small economic returns from short-term programs.
In honor of Veterans Day, the peer-reviewed journal Women's Health Issues (WHI) today released a new Special Collection on women veterans’ health, with a focus on mental health. The special collection also highlights recent studies addressing healthcare services, reproductive health and cardiovascular health of women veterans.
Students in some schools form more cliquish, hierarchical, and segregated social structures than in others. What accounts for the variation?
Gluten proteins in wheat products might not be the only ones involved in celiac disease.
Only a few days remain to register for the Endocrine Society’s media event exploring the latest science on the dangers of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, distinguished professor and director of the Institute for the Family in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, has been elected 2016 president of the American Psychological Association. She will serve as APA's president-elect in 2015.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, home to one of the first emergency medical services degree programs in the nation, has been awarded a $1,308,422 Continuing Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A Malaria in the Americas Forum featuring videos, presentations and discussions on effective efforts to eliminate malaria in the Americas, to mark Malaria Day in the Americas, Nov. 6. Sponsored by The Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the PAHO Foundation, Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, and the Center for Communication Programs at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
El Día de los Muertos es una oportunidad para conmemorar y honrar las vidas de aquellos quienes han fallecido, con tradiciones que incluyen fiestas, música, vigilias y ofrendas temporales como esta. La ofrenda tradicionalmente incluye fotos y objetos que conmemoran a los seres queridos para así honrarlos y recordarlos.
The Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a holiday to commemorate and honor the lives of dead loved ones, with traditions that include feasts, music, vigils and creating temporary ofrendas or altars, such as this one. The ofrenda is composed of mementos, photographs and objects of loved ones who have died and is intended to honor and remember their lives.
Often overlooked, earthworms actually play a key role in Mother Nature’s carbon sequestration process, according to findings in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
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