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29-Oct-2025

Can Artificial Intelligence manage humans without dehumanizing them?

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Algorithms that threaten worker dignity, autonomy and discretion are quietly reshaping how people are managed at work, warns new research from the University of Surrey.

Journal: Annals of Tourism Research

29-Oct-2025

New study: Contrary to common belief, tipping is not an effective incentive for improving service

Tel-Aviv University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What is the rationale behind tipping? A new study focuses on two primary motives: genuine appreciation for the service rendered, and conformity with prevailing norms. However, those who truly appreciate the service tend to tip above the standard rate, while conformists usually align with them. As a result, in societies where tipping practices prevail, average tipping rates tend to rise over time.

Journal: Management Science

28-Oct-2025

Adjusted earnings don’t fool investors

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When companies massage earnings reports to make profits look larger, do investors buy it? In some cases, they don’t. That’s the lesson from new research by John McInnis, professor of accounting at Texas McCombs.

Journal: Journal of Accounting and Economics

28-Oct-2025

More scientific analysis needed on impacts of industrial decarbonization

Yale University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Yale economists call for deeper analysis of the economic spillover effects of the clean energy transition on jobs, trade, and supply chains.

Journal: Science

28-Oct-2025

New multisociety guidance strengthens infection prevention and control in nursing homes

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Society (PALTmed), and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), today released Multisociety Guidance for Infection Prevention and Control in Nursing Homes.

The new guidance updates earlier guidance, published as the SHEA/APIC guideline: infection prevention and control in the long-term care facility, July 2008. The updated guidance provides a framework to help nursing homes prevent and control infections while maintaining the social and rehabilitative goals of residential care.

Journal: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

28-Oct-2025

Study exposes how video game studios are violating children’s privacy rights

University of Ottawa
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers from uOttawa, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and McGill University found the highly opaque system of data collection in the highly lucrative video game market used by developers and third-party companies demonstrated malicious intent, as the major players override children's rights to collect personal data through game applications.

Funder: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

28-Oct-2025

Leading the way in targeted cancer treatment

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest for more targeted lung cancer treatments, a researcher at the University of Missouri thinks the solution may lie in tiny bubble-shaped packages that cells use to talk to each other.

Journal: Molecular Therapy Oncology