Reports and Proceedings

6-May-2022

nTIDE April 2022 Jobs Report: Economic recovery for people with disabilities holds strong

Kessler Foundation
Reports and Proceedings

Three major factors outweigh the small declines in April’s numbers, according to John O’Neill, PhD, director of the Center for Employment and Disability Research at Kessler Foundation. 'First, employment remains steady in the face of economic uncertainty. Second, this month saw the seventh consecutive month where labor force participation was higher than the 2008 historic high. Finally, the employment-to-population ratio and labor force participation continue to exceed pre-pandemic levels. We have not seen such sustained good news since 2018, when people with disabilities emerged from the employment lows of the Great Recession.'

Funder: Kessler Foundation, National Institute on Disability Independent Living & Rehabilitation Research

6-May-2022

Biologists examine low-cost ways to improve urban streams

University of Cincinnati
Reports and Proceedings

University of Cincinnati biologists are examining whether water quality and wildlife habitat can be improved simply by adding a touch more of Mother Nature. With a team of volunteers, they placed fallen logs and branches in select parts of the upper Cooper Creek, a stream in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash that drains downstream into the larger Mill Creek and Ohio River. The addition of fallen timber could help slow periodic floodwaters, create more standing pools for fish during droughts and reduce nutrients that could make its way downstream, researchers said.

Meeting: Geological Society of America sectional conference

6-May-2022

Business intelligence acts as a precursor to strategy

University of Vaasa
Reports and Proceedings

Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics play a key role in strategy work. However, business intelligence is not just a data mass that supplements strategy or a self-evident prop, but, together with the predictions generated by new algorithms and computational models, it can even act as a driving force or "prime mover" in strategy formation, according to Yassine Talaoui's doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa.

6-May-2022

Overweight and obesity may exacerbate harmful effects of alcohol on cancer risk

European Association for the Study of Obesity
Reports and Proceedings

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that being overweight or having obesity amplifies the harmful effects of alcohol on the risk of developing alcohol-related cancer, particularly in people with a high body fat percentage.

Meeting: The European Congress on Obesity

6-May-2022

Research paper co-authored by City, University of London's Dr Martin Nyx Brain wins Best Tool Paper Award at the European Joint Conference on the Theory & Practice of Software (ETAPS)

City University London
Reports and Proceedings

A research paper co-authored by City, University of London's Dr Martin Nyx Brain has won the Best Tool Paper Award at the European Joint Conference on the Theory & Practice of Software (ETAPS). The paper describes cvc5, a software verification tool and automated theorem prover for mathematically proving that software does not crash and is bug free before testing.

5-May-2022

Secret of getting children to get their greens is revealed by Dutch researchers

European Association for the Study of Obesity
Reports and Proceedings

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands (4-7 May), has found that toddlers eat more vegetables if they are rewarded for trying them.

Meeting: The European Congress on Obesity

5-May-2022

UK study in a million adults suggests under 45s and women more likely to gain weight and jump a BMI category during lockdown

European Association for the Study of Obesity
Reports and Proceedings

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that most adults in the UK did not lose or gain enough weight following the first pandemic lockdown to change their body mass index (BMI) category, but indicates that young adults (aged 45 years or younger) and women were more likely to gain weight and move up at least one BMI category.

Meeting: The European Congress on Obesity

5-May-2022

Study suggests severe obesity blunts antibody response to COVID-19 vaccines

European Association for the Study of Obesity
Reports and Proceedings

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to COVID-19 vaccination compared to those with normal weight. The study is by Professor Volkan Demirhan Yumuk from Istanbul University in Turkey and colleagues.

Meeting: The European Congress on Obesity

5-May-2022

Three-quarters of influencers’ social media posts about food and drinks are for unhealthy products

European Association for the Study of Obesity
Reports and Proceedings

Most food and drink content posted by German influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube is so unhealthy it fails World Health Organisation (WHO) advertising standards for children, according to new research being presented by Dr Maria Wakolbinger and Dr Eva Winzer from the Medical University of Vienna at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May).

Meeting: The European Congress on Obesity

5-May-2022

Unpacking black-box models

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

MIT researchers created a mathematical framework to formally quantify and evaluate the understandability of explanations that seek to describe the behavior of a machine-learning model.

Funder: National Science Foundation

5-May-2022

Quantum network solutions, by ground and by air

Chicago Quantum Exchange
Reports and Proceedings

In an invited session at the American Physical Society’s March Meeting, two Chicago Quantum Exchange physicists took different approaches to address an obstacle central to the implementation of large-scale ground-based quantum networks: the distance between nodes is limited by how far a quantum signal can travel through optical fiber.

Meeting: APS March Meeting

5-May-2022

Research reveals new record year of loan origination for lenders across the UK

City University London
Reports and Proceedings

Lending activity has bounced back to pre-pandemic levels, according to findings from the latest UK Commercial Real Estate Lending report, authored by Dr Nicole Lux, Senior Research Fellow at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass).