Tag: Study

Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied

Cambridge researchers are to assess whether technology could end up destroying human civilisation. The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study...

Smoking ‘rots’ brain, says King’s College study

Smoking “rots” the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London. A study of 8,800 people over 50...

EU provides 1.2 m euros grant for climate study of Munda...

The European Union (EU) on Monday provided 1.2 million Euros as grant to conduct climate change impact assessment study in Swat basin for Munda...

Men, not women, are better multitaskers: Swedish study

Working mothers may have to juggle more tasks than their husbands, but the long-held belief that women are better than men at multitasking is...

The surprising reason why some kids are shorter: study

Depression doesn’t just hurt—it stunts growth, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. Mothers who suffer from depression the first year...

‘Let your children choose what they want to study’

A Pakistani student, Aleenah Masood has been selected for the “Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2012” by the European Union (EU). Aleenah had been studying...

Dramatic drop in middle-aged cancer deaths: study

British cancer researchers have reported a dramatic drop in the number of middle-aged people prematurely dying from different types of cancer. According to the statistics...

AIOU to conduct study on women empowerment

The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is going to conduct a nationwide research study on ‘Role of Open Distance Learning (ODL) in Women Empowerment...

No more ‘activities’… you’re at KU to study only

In a move to improve security within its premises, after a lecturer was manhandled by some students last Thursday, the University of Karachi (KU)...

Ongoing power crises

The ongoing power crisis, besides crippling routine life and damaging almost all the sectors in the country, has been badly affecting the academic activities....

EPA allocates funds to study impact of air pollution on schoolchildren

Instead of utilising given funds for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Pollution Monitoring System which is currently dysfunctional due to lack of funding since...

Studies affected by dengue prevention measures

Studies in educational institutes of the city are being ignored due to an extraordinary focus on dengue preventive measures, as heads of most government...

10 million illegal drug users have hepatitis C: study

Some 10 million people who inject illegal drugs have hepatitis C while 1.2 million have hepatitis B, according to the first global estimate of...

Livestock Department welcomes KIM delegate for study tour

The Livestock &Dairy Development Department has welcomed the delegate coming from the Kashmir Institute of Management (KIM), Muzaffarabad. An inland study tour of first...

IBM study reveals CIOs rely on analytics

A new global study of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) by IBM reveals that the top strategic technology investments over the next five years at...

Mobile phone use increased 14 folds since 2000: study

An MPhil seminar titled ‘A Study of Consumer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Markets in Pakistan: A Case Study of Sukkur and Khairpur Districts’ was...

Afghanistan worst place, Norway best to be a mom: study

Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. "Afghanistan has...