Prémios IgNobel 2008

The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes 2, Outubro 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
Ig NOBEL	Investigadores	Referência
NUTRIÇÃO	Massimiliano Zampini -Univ. Trento, Italy; Charles Spence - Univ. Oxford	"The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Staleness of Potato Chips," Journal of Sensory Studies, vol. 19, October 2004, pp. 347-63.
PAZ	Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) e Citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.	"The Dignity of Living Beings With Regard to Plants. Moral Consideration of Plants for Their Own Sake" (aqui)
ARQUEOLOGIA	Astolfo G. Mello Araujo e José Carlos Marcelino Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil	"The Role of Armadillos in the Movement of Archaeological Materials: An Experimental Approach" Geoarchaeology, vol. 18, no. 4, April 2003, pp. 433-60.
BIOLOGIA	Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, e Michel Franc da Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, FRANÇA	"A Comparison of Jump Performances of the Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835)".Veterinary Parasitology, vol. 92, no. 3, October 1, 2000, pp. 239-41.
MEDICINA	Dan Ariely of Duke University, USA	"Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy" Journal of the American Medical Association, March 5, 2008; 299: 1016-1017.
CIÊNCIA DO CONHECIMENTO	Toshiyuki Nakagaki - Univ.Hokkaido, Hiroyasu Yamada - Nagoya, Ryo Kobayashi of Univ. Hiroshima, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro Univ. Tohoku, JAPÃO e Ágotá Tóth Univ. of Szeged (HUNGRIA)	"Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism". Nature, vol. 407, September 2000, p. 470.
ECONOMIA	Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan - Univ. New Mexico, USA	"Ovulatory Cycle Effects on Tip Earnings by Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence for Human Estrus?" Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 28, 2007, pp. 375-81.
FÍSICA	Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA,	"Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 42, October 16, 2007, pp. 16432-7.
QUÍMICA	Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England, Deborah J. Anderson Univ. Boston; School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA), Chuang-Ye Hong - Taipei Medical University e C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (TAIWAN)	"Effect of 'Coke' on Sperm Motility" New England Journal of Medicine, 1985, vol. 313, no. 21, p. 1351. "The Spermicidal Potency of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola," C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang, Human Toxicology, vol. 6, no. 5, September 1987, pp. 395-6. Actula nome da revista: "Human & experimental toxicology"]
LITERATURA	David Sims - Cass Business School. London (UK)	"You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations," David Sims, Organization Studies, vol. 26, no. 11, 2005, pp. 1625-40.

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