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- Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'
- Free term paper? Income inequality and distrust foster academic dishonesty
- 62% of men and 37% of women over the age of 65 are sexually active, Spanish study shows
- Older subjects who regularly practise Tai Chi found to have better arterial compliance and greater muscle strength
- Yoga shows psychological benefits for high-school students
- Text messaging in class may affect college students' learning
| Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules' Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:43 AM PDT Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downloading ads.  |
| Free term paper? Income inequality and distrust foster academic dishonesty Posted: 04 Apr 2012 11:43 AM PDT College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these young people cheating? A new study suggests one reason: income inequality, which decreases the general trust people have toward each other.  |
| 62% of men and 37% of women over the age of 65 are sexually active, Spanish study shows Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:22 AM PDT A study involving nearly 2000 people describes the sexual practices of senior citizens in Spain.  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:21 AM PDT Older subjects who regularly practise Tai Chi found to have better arterial compliance and greater muscle strength than non-practitioners. Exercise which can achieve both cardiovascular function and muscle strength "would be a preferred mode of training for older persons", say investigators. Experienced practitioners of Tai Chi, the traditional Chinese mind-body exercise now enjoyed worldwide, have been shown in a study of older subjects to have improved expansion and contraction of arteries according to cardiac pulsation (arterial compliance) and improved knee muscle strength.  |
| Yoga shows psychological benefits for high-school students Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:18 AM PDT Yoga classes have positive psychological effects for high-school students, according to a pilot study.  |
| Text messaging in class may affect college students' learning Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:18 AM PDT College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, new research shows. Because it is difficult to demonstrate that texting alone can have a direct impact on students' cognitive learning, researchers used path model analysis to describe the relationships between texting, as a "mediator" or intervening variable, and cognitive learning.  |
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