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Listening Behavior Surpasses Likes in Predicting Sales

This according to PhD candidate Hannes Datta. Listening behaviour also appears to be a better predictor of sales figures than the number of ‘likes’ an artist…

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Hope for Magazines: Thriving in the Digital Era

There is a ray of hope for magazines that do it right. While print media continue to suffer at the hands of their online counterparts, new research from the…

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Peer-Review Science Trends on Twitter: Who’s Participating?

She and her colleagues from the US, UK and Germany took 1.4 million articles held in the PubMed and Web of Science databases and determined how many times they…

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UMass Researcher Measures Video Ads’ Impact on Consumer Traffic

Online video is a “killer application” of the Internet, predicted to soon make up 86 percent of consumer traffic on the web, says computer science researcher…

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Telenovelas: Exploring Their Enduring Popularity and Impact

“Stories have the power to change people's behavior,” write authors Tom van Laer (ESCP Europe Business School), Ko de Ruyter (Maastricht University), Luca M….

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A step up in wavelength

Millimeter waves are a type of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 0.1 and 10 millimeters long. Because they are susceptible to…

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EU’s Digital.Me Project Unveils Open Source Code for Social Networks

The EU’s “digital.me” project brings Fraunhofer IAO together with seven research and industry partners to develop a system for user-controlled social networks…

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How Social Status Influences Perception of Statements

The actual standing of speakers within a society's power structure determines how their statements are perceived. This is the conclusion reached in a joint…

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Infectious Disease Research Gets a Boost from Websites, Blogs, and Social Media

Salathé will publish an article in the 1 July 2013 issue of th New England Journal of Medicine, with colleagues from the Harvard Medical School, describing the…

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'Temporal cloaking' could bring more secure optical communications

“More work has to be done before this approach finds practical application, but it does use technology that could integrate smoothly into the existing…

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Nocebo Effect: How Media Reports Influence Health Symptoms

Media reports about substances that are supposedly hazardous to health may cause suggestible people to develop symptoms of a disease even though there is no…

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Food Tech Innovation Portal Launches After 4 Years of Development

After 4 years of hard development work and compilation of a wide range of data, the Food Tech Innovation Portal (http://www.foodtech-portal.eu) will be…

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Instagram’s Impact: Beyond Selfies and Food Photos

In the media, the social media phenomenon is sometimes dismissed as trivial pastime. However, according to a fresh study at the University of Gothenburg,…

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With Fraunhofer IDMT’s spatial acoustics simulation, any room can be turned into a concert hall

Being among the world’s leading research institutes in the field of spatial acoustics, Fraunhofer IDMT has now added a new feature to its “SpatialSound Wave“…

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New Model Simplifies Ad Time Buying for Targeted Marketing

Now, a Michigan State University business scholar and colleagues have developed the most accurate model yet for targeting those fast-moving minnows. The…

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Older Readers Prefer Tablets Over Printed Books for Ease

Reading electronic books is no more effortful for the brain than reading traditional paper books. To the contrary: Older people actually benefit from reading…

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