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Pumping up fitness app features may add muscle to workout commitment

12/6/18

Fitness apps are easy to download and can help motivate people to start workout routines, but that may not be enough to sustain those routines in the long run. However, Penn State researchers suggest there may be ways to tweak those apps to inspire a deeper commitment to a fitness routine and help users hit their fitness goals.

McCourtney Institute Mood of the Nation Poll Republican Voters

Mood of the Nation Poll examines empathy, or lack thereof, between parties

12/6/18

Results from the latest Penn State Mood of the Nation Poll, conducted by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, show that not only do people with opposing political beliefs fundamentally disagree, they find it difficult — if not impossible — to put themselves in the shoes of someone from the other side.

Kelly Rosinger

Rosinger awarded William T. Grant Foundation funding

12/5/18

Kelly Rosinger, assistant professor of education in the Department of Education Policy Studies, is a recipient of one of five research grants awarded by the William T. Grant Foundation for research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes.

Man demonstrating how to use a mobile phone application to capture pulse rate

The role of translational research in using video to capture health vitals

12/5/18

Conrad Tucker was giving a talk on the idea of using technology to capture students’ body posture to determine their attention level in the classroom. In the audience was a member of Parkinson’s disease researcher and clinician Xuemei Huang’s research team, who approached Tucker afterward about a connection between his talk and Huang’s research into using changes in a person’s walking gait to diagnose Parkinson’s earlier. The rest, as they say, is history.

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3D printing eliminates undesirable trait in conventional superalloys

12/5/18

An undesirable trait found in traditionally processed superalloys does not exist in a 3D-printed, nickel-based superalloy, according to a team of materials scientists who think this could lead to new manufacturing techniques that allow for alloys with tailored properties.

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A toxin that travels from stomach to brain may trigger Parkinsonism

12/5/18

Combining low doses of a toxic herbicide with sugar-binding proteins called lectins may trigger Parkinsonism — symptoms typical of Parkinson’s disease like body tremors and slowing of body motions — after the toxin travels from the stomach to the brain.

teddy bear with half on pants and sweater laying next to it.

Sexual risk assessment tool in the child welfare system developed

12/4/18

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Children in the welfare system are particularly vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) according to a 2013 U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means hearing, but few practical screening tools currently exist to identify victims and those at risk for sexual exploitation, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers.

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