Mental health help is just a touch away with a new app being developed by a University of Houston researcher. The app is meant to address health disparities in racial and ethnic populations, where health inequality has been magnified during the pandemic.
With a global impetus toward utilizing more renewable energy sources, wind presents a promising, increasingly tapped resource. Despite the many technological advancements made in upgrading wind-powered systems, a systematic and reliable way to assess competing technologies has been a challenge. Researchers at Texas A&M University, in collaboration with international energy industry partners, have used advanced data science methods and ideas from the social sciences to compare the performance of different wind turbine designs.
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Researchers from University of Sydney, University of Florida, and Rutgers University published a new paper in the
Journal of Marketing that examines the role of serendipity in customer satisfaction and how marketers can provide it.
The study, forthcoming in the
Journal of Marketing, is titled Serendipity: Chance Encounters in the Marketplace Enhance Consumer Satisfaction and is authored by Aekyoung Kim, Felipe Affonso, Juliano Laran, and Kristina Durante.
Netflix knows you are tired of choice. The streaming service recently introduced what might be the perfect hack: a shuffle button that eliminates choice and plays a randomly selected program for the consumer. Under COVID-19 restrictions, the newly homebound were happy to have so many programming options, but this faded over time.
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The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University ( OIST ) and Beyond Next Ventures ( BNV ) announced on May 25 a new partnership to invest in deep-tech startups and develop the innovation ecosystem in Okinawa. Today is a happy day for OIST and me personally as we can announce that BNV, a venture capital firm whose core values are well aligned with ours, will invest in deep tech startups from OIST and enable entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to come to OIST to launch their companies, said
Dr. Peter Gruss, President & CEO of OIST. This provides the university with a sound financial basis to generate between 10-20 new companies in the next few years, and foster development in Okinawa through the creation of high-tech industry. This investment partnership is also a steppingstone for our aspiration to establish an even more ambitious fund that we hope will lay the basis for an innovation park next to the OIST campus.
Manchester innovation pioneers score world first for sustainable construction with carbon-busting graphene concrete. Experts at The University of Manchester and partner Nationwide Engineering will make history on Tuesday 25 May, as they complete the laying of the world s first graphene concrete slab engineered for sustainability in a commercial setting. Ironically, this building material of the future will be poured just a couple of miles from the ancient monument of Stonehenge.