In the era of information age, as a student, sometimes we need to create on-line surveys to learn about a particular aspect. SurveyMonkey.com has created very interesting intelligent survey software and you can use the basic version of the software for free. The basic version allows you to create a survey with maximum 10 questions with [...]
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Happily married people have lower blood pressure than unhappy married people or singles, a Brigham Young University study says.
On the other hand, even having a supportive social network did not translate into a blood pressure benefit for singles or unhappy married people, according to the study.
“There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage. [...]
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A traditional Haft Sin table celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is seen set Wednesday, March 19, 2008, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Nowruz is, in Persian and some other cultures, including Kurdish culture, a family-oriented holiday celebrating the New Year and the coming of spring. The Haft Sin table has [...]
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As a global issue, road traffic injuries have been largely ignored by the international community. Even in most low and middle income countries with a huge burden of problem, this problem is ignored by policy makers and societies for a variety of reasons. Corruption is one of those reasons. Poor governance and corruption [...]
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The sixth in a series, the March 2008 poll was designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation. A nationally representative random sample of 1,770 adults who say they are registered to vote was interviewed by telephone February 7-16, 2008. This poll finds that health care plays a role [...]
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A finding by a team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health may account for why the flu virus is more infectious in cold winter temperatures than during the warmer months.
At winter temperatures, the virus’s outer covering, or envelope, hardens to a rubbery gel that could shield the virus as it passes from person [...]
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Every trip on this vital mountain road through the Andes is a hair-raising roller coaster ride. A video by the National Geographic Channel:
If you can’t see the video click here
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The new site at UN Data allows anyone to access the United Nations Data Access System. This online, easy-to-use database was created by the UN in order to provide current, relevant, and reliable statistics to the whole world, for free. Using UN Data, you can access statistical information on populations, demographics, trade, commodities, agriculture, [...]
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Roughly a billion people live on less than $1 a day. And 3 billion – fully half the people on Earth – survive on $2 a day or less. Among that first billion, the poorest of the poor, 70 percent are women. For them, each day is a struggle. They simply do not earn enough [...]
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In academia, usually we love to add some new pages to the human knowledge; we are looking for increasing the current knowledge most of the time. Therefore, usually we forget that we already have a lot of existing knowledge and data and we rarely take advantage of using these data. Our goal is to make [...]
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The first time that I wrote a paper in the school of public health I arranged all of my references by hand using index cards, it means at that time, I didn’t know that I can at least use the Insert/ References tool at Microsoft Word. So simply I marked each piece of information with a [...]
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In some countries, people feed caws like this!
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