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Implications Of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated

by mokosam on November 12, 2009

When managers issue a forecast of their firm`s earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.
Weihong Xu, assistant professor of accounting in the University at Buffalo School of Management, analyzed more than 11,000 firm-quarter observations. She found [...]

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Heart Attacks Become More Common But Less Often Fatal In Women

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

Heart attacks appear to have become more common in middle-aged women over the past two decades, but all women and especially those younger than 55 have recently experienced a greater increase than men in their chances of survival following such a heart event, according to two reports in the October 26 issue of Archives of [...]

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Alzheimer’s Disease: Women Affected More Often Than Men

by mokosam on December 23, 2008

Nearly 4.5 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in our country, and more than half of them are women, according to the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. As the general population continues to age, this number is expected to increase significantly over the next few decades.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form [...]

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Modified Gene Targets Cancer Cells One Thousand Times More Often Than Healthy Cells

by mokosam on December 22, 2008

Researchers at the University of Rochester have designed a gene that produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells.
The findings may help address the prime challenge in anti-cancer therapy: improving treatments` ability to specifically and effectively target cancer cells. Using this new approach, scientists should be able to insert "self-destruct" [...]

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Biomarkers In Blood Could Aid Diagnosis Of Crippling, Often Fatal Forms Of Malaria

by mokosam on December 18, 2008

Canadian researchers have identified protein biomarkers that shed new light on the development of two severe and debilitating forms of malaria.
The findings may let doctors detect earlier two crippling malaria variations – one that develops in the placenta of pregnant women affecting countless unborn children, the other, cerebral malaria, that develops in the brain`s blood [...]

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How Often Will You Use That Treadmill?

by mokosam on November 19, 2008

Why not buy that treadmill? You`ll be exercising every day, right? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines why our expectations of our behavior so often don`t match reality.
Authors Robin J. Tanner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Kurt A. Carlson (Duke University) uncovered a specific process that they believe contributes to unrealistic optimism. [...]

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Inland Ants Often Prefer Salt Over Sugar, Implying Salt May Be A Limitation On Their Activity

by mokosam on November 2, 2008

Ants prefer salty snacks to sugary ones, at least in inland areas that tend to be salt-poor, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ecologists from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the University of Oklahoma tested [...]

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