Source: Libertad Digital. Depression in Ukraine. There is no other term to qualify the accounts record that has seen the former Soviet republic in early 2009. The monetary and financial collapse plaguing the emerging economies of Eastern Europe, as LD advancement, but is being in an unprecedented economic collapse. The GDP of the country has collapsed from 25 to 30 in January and February 2009 over the same period last year. Medicine: Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Alabama, for his study 'The impact of country music on suicide ", postulated that this kind of music is depressing and often address issues common in the suicidal indifference, alcoholism or failure of work. Some fans of this music sureno origin (southern U.S.) is so offended that began a campaign of insults against internet James Gundlach, who was, incidentally, the winner of the night and who collected the prize.
Physics: Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory, for his deep study and brainy 'modes of coordination in the multisegmental dynamics in the use of Hoole-Hoop'
Public Health: Jillian Clarke of the High School for Agricultural Sciences in Chicago, to investigate the scientific validity of the 'rule of five seconds', that says that what has been in the ground unless that time is not dirty you can eat. Demonstrated that bacteria pass into the food so quickly that override that rule ... If the soil is dirty. The biggest problems for experiments were due to cleanliness of the soil that had to be university artificially contaminated for research.
Chemistry: The Coca-Cola Company in United Kingdom, to use what they call a "highly sophisticated purification process based on NASA space technology" to transform the contaminated fluid in the Thames' water 'Dasani. In reality it is a purification system osmosis flow, as used in many homes, and water had to be withdrawn from the market by not fit for human consumption to contain a carcinogen, bromate.
Engineering: Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith (deceased), Orlando, Florida, for patenting the combover (U.S. Patent Number 4,022,227), which seeks bald hairstyle to disguise the obvious stretching as much as possible the remaining hair on the sides of the scalp. Picked up the award the children of Donald Smith, Scott and Heather.
Literature: The Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, to preserve the history of nudism in America and worldwide a comprehensive archive for public use. Picked up the prize, the daughter of the director of the ANRL, Helen Fisher.
Psychology: Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris at Harvard University, in experiments to demonstrate its essential work 'Gorillas in our midst', that people focus on one match lose his basketball alia environment ... like a man who suddenly falls hitting the chest and disguised as a gorilla. Increased the prize to Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris.
Economy: The Vatican, for its idea of outsourcing in India a prayer service. Americans who want a mass of dead or of thanksgiving, that order can now be carried out in the church of India. The service, which is much cheaper in the Asian country in the U.S., can be reserved via email or directly in the 'franchise' of vaticano enabled to do so.
Peace: Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, the organizers believe that an entirely new way of teaching people to tolerate others.
Biologia: Magnus Whalberg, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and of the National Fisheries Industry Sweden, Ben Wilson, University of British Columbia, Lawrence Dill of Simon Fraser University, Canada, Robert Batty of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, for his studies "Sounds produced by the emission of bubbles herring (Clupea harengus) and 'The Pacific herring and the Atlantic produce rhythmic sounds explosive,' to deduce that herrings apparently communicate through flatulence.
Get more:
- Measures of Soviet gross national product in 1982 prices : a study (SuDoc Y 4.Ec 7:So 8/20) by Laurie Rogers Kurtzweg (Unknown Binding - 1990)
- Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition by Preston G. Smith and Donald G. Reinertsen (Hardcover - Oct 10, 1997)
- The Fungal Colony by N. A. R. Gow, G. D. Robson, G. M. Gadd, and G.M. Gadd (Hardcover - Jun 28, 1999) - Illustrated
