Iran with having adequate investment could increase its oil production to 6 million barrels a day (bpd) and export 4.5 million bpd, a professor of economics at U.S. Northeastern University Kamran Dadkhah believes. Dadkhah told Trend that Iran could increase its oil production after the sanctions are lifted but the addition volumes cannot be substantial. […]

But accountants and financial planners say there’s plenty taxpayers can do to cut their tax bill, especially with a long timeline to strategize. “This is a good point to take a snapshot of what’s happened so far this year,” said Tim Gagnon, an assistant teaching professor of accounting at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. […]

Recent state standards that called for bans on sugary sodas, potato chips and other vending machine snacks in schools are working, says a study published Wednesday. The study looked at “competitive” food available in school — foods offered for sale beyond the standard school meals and typically found in school stores, vending machines or a la carte […]

Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that the American public is evidently unhappy with the progress made by the military campaign against the group over the course of the last 11 months and that such an effort should have produced more visible results. […]

In The Atlantic this month, Prof. David Desteno, of Northeastern University, describes research showing mindfulness training can encourage compassion for others: “Mindfulness’s most profound benefit may not be the one that’s most often touted–adapting to a stressful, competitive, even unkind 24/7 world. Instead, meditation might fundamentally alter how we treat those around us.” So truth, […]

Northeastern University associate professor Jessica Hoffman, the study’s lead author, said the findings are encouraging. “For decades competitive foods have not been regulated at the national level, so states have taken it upon themselves to do something,” Hoffman said in written statement. “These standards that were put in place in Massachusetts were really exciting because […]

Of the approximately 320 gallons of water that an average household uses every day, 15 percent goes to lawns and gardens, which adds up to about 9 billion gallons per day throughout the country, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Maintaining the lawn is “simply trying to sustain what we know isn’t sustainable,” says Matthias Ruth, professor […]

How do you cultivate compassion? How do you ensure that at the end of the day, it’s your kindness and generosity for which you’ll be remembered? It’s a good question, for as much as we all agree that compassion is a virtue to be admired, as a society, we don’t seem to be very effective […]

Who is this American boy we are hearing about whose father is from Siaya?” asked our elderly Kenyan host, Walter Gor in April of 2004, as we sat sipping tea in a small tin-roofed shack near the rocky shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. As American researchers conducting research on Kenyan colonial history, we […]

Future defenses against Windows malware may include changing the code of legitimate applications as they run, a security researcher explained at the Summercon 2015 hacker conference today (July 17). Collin Mulliner, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, said that he and a fellow researcher, Matthias Neugschwandtner of the Vienna University of Technology, devised a way […]

Next month, Japan may restart its first nuclear reactor in nearly two years. It would be the first time since the tsunami-triggered meltdowns four years ago that the government’s new regulatory agency, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), has authorized the restart of a reactor. The NRA was created to rebuild public trust in the wake […]

After the Charleston massacre, James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology atNortheastern University, wrote in a column for USA TODAY about the urge to finger-point and the frustration these sprees bring on. “Mass killers are determined, deliberate and dead set on murder,” he wrote. “They plan methodically to execute their victims, finding the means no […]