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The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works – how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs – is solved this week in the journal Nature by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Psychologists have known for decades about the so-called "cocktail party effect," a name that evokes the Mad Men era in which it was coined. It is the remarkable human ability to focus on a single speaker in virtually any...

At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, Dartmouth scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans may be able to predict weight gain. In a study published April 18, 2012, in The Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers demonstrated a connection between fMRI brain responses to appetite-driven cues and future behavior. "This is one of the first studies in brain imaging that uses the responses observed in the scanner to predict...

LONDON, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest IPA Bellwether survey published today (Thursday 19th April 2012) reveals that marketing budgets were revised up in Q1 for a third successive quarter in response to new product launches, expectations of better economic conditions and higher rates of return on investment. With 22% of companies reporting an upward revision compared to 21% that reported a reduction, the upward revision was marginal with a resultant net balance* of...

BOSTON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson today launched Propero, a higher education service designed to increase affordable access to higher education, and announced that Ivy Tech Community College will be using Propero to expand its degree completion options. "Higher education institutions are challenged by fewer resources at their disposal. At the same time, demand for a college education remains high. We created Propero to help colleges increase access to their general...

2011 NCLEX-RN 99 percent first-time pass rate makes Becker 1st among Mass. associate's degree nursing programs WORCESTER, Mass., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Becker College announced a new four-year nursing program that leads to a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree. Successful completion of this program provides a student eligibility to take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Applications for the program are...

KINGSTON, N.Y., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- In 1988, musicians Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis, with audio engineer Albert Swanson, descended underground into a 14-ft. deep cistern in the Pacific Northwest and created "Deep Listening," an iconic recording released by New Albion (1989) that developed an underground following. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120418/CG90171) The Fort Worden Cistern, since renamed the Dan Harpole Cistern, is a...

New research suggests that the way dinosaurs reproduced could have led to their demise. According to research from the Zoological Society of London, dinosaurs became at risk when they began to lay eggs. Working together with colleagues, Daryl Codron and Marcus Clauss from the University of Zurich conducted this research into the possible beginning stages of the dinosaurs extinction. Their work has been published in the journal Biology Letters. The trouble could have been the sheer size of...

In this week's issue of JAMA, Johns Hopkins University bioethicists argue forcefully for streamlining federal restrictions on at least some low-risk clinical comparative effectiveness research In an opinion article published in this week's theme edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association focusing on comparative effectiveness research, a team of Johns Hopkins University bioethicists argues forcefully for streamlining federal restrictions on at least some low-risk clinical...

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CHICAGO, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks Equity Research highlights: T. Rowe Price Group (Nasdaq: TROW) as the Bull of the Day and United Continental (NYSE: UAL) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Full analysis of all these stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678. Here is a synopsis of all five...