Online display ads can increase both online and offline retail sales, providing valuable insight for future marketing decisions, say researchers.Image credit: Flickr/Rawle C. Jackman According to a forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science online display ads can increase...
Following the recent high-profile fake honey scandal, new and independent research from Macquarie University in collaboration with the National Measurement Institute has unveiled, for the first time, the scale of the adulteration problem—almost one in five Australian honey samples...
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The IFL PiRo robot detects the objects desired and automatically puts them into shopping baskets. Credit: Laila Tkotz, KIT Today, the desired book, toy or household appliance can be purchased by a click only -- thanks to online mail order business...
The study of Tatsuya Sasaki suggests that the practice of avoiding moral assessments can be the best policy when assessing those who refuse to help wrongdoers. Copyright: University of Vienna/Barbara Mair A research team led by mathematician Tatsuya Sasaki...
Conservation funding works. Credit: © kate / Fotolia Governments and donors have spent billions of dollars since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit attempting to slow the pace of species extinctions around the world. Now, a new paper in Nature provides the...
Image Credit:Flickr/BMiz A new report to be published on IZA World of Labor finds that a rise in workers' happiness leads to an increase in productivity; and companies would profit from investment in their employees' well-being, following research by the...
Customers rarely post on a brand's page on their own and typically only see a fraction of a brand's Facebook content unless they are targeted with paid advertising. Image Credit: Flickr/Global Panorama Social media managers who think that simply building...
Academics at UCL have identified 18 reasons why megaprojects such as HS2 and Crossrail often fail, as well as 54 preventative solutions. For the first time, academics developed a systematic literature review of the causes and cures of poor megaproject...
A manager's support for fun actually mattered more than his or her support for learning, according to the researchers.Image: Flickr/franchichi eusebio All work and no play may dull on-the-job learning at workplaces, according to a team of researchers. In a study,...
This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a cross section of an object printed using cellulose. The inset shows the surface of the object. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world's...
This map shows the changing US CO2 footprint around the world between 1970 and 2008. Red hotspots illustrated where the US carbon footprint has increased, and in blue, decreased. The carbon footprint has gone down in some parts of...