A study by ESMT Berlin shows that startups often learn the wrong lessons when entering a market if they do not coordinate pricing, advertising and inventory decisions. The researchers show that ...

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...

A university cleaner in southwestern China has secured a place in a master’s programme after a year of self-study while raising two children. Li Jia, 33, from Chengdu in Sichuan province, works ...

Once upon a time, my father was suffering from dementia and during the winter, I took him out to Wimpy’s once a week. With his condition, he experienced the same restaurant for the first time every ...

Abstract: In this paper, an automatic lesson generation system is presented which is suitable in a learning-by-mimicking scenario where the learning objects can be represented as multiattribute time ...

Over the past five years, my colleague Jeremy Stevenson and I have read more than 100 self-help books, studied over 20 therapies, and extracted and categorized nearly 500 techniques from those sources ...

SINGAPORE – The quest to potentially tap the heat of the earth continues to sizzle, as Singapore will conduct a feasibility study on deploying geothermal energy systems here. This comes as the ...

Abstract: Surface mining inevitably impacts the ecological environment, especially in alpine and fragile mining areas. Thus, it is worth discussing the dynamic impact process of mining on regional ...

Riceville, Iowa, was the unlikely setting for a controversial classroom exercise created by Jane Elliott. She insists it strengthened their character. Critics say it abused their trust. Layne Kennedy ...

Since winning power in 2010, Mr Orban has steadily removed checks and balances, neutering the judiciary, stuffing the bureaucracy with stooges and gradually co-opting nearly every independent ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

A new study points to four best practices. by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Sonny Iqbal and Jörg Ritter It’s no secret that family businesses can struggle with governance, leadership transitions, and even ...