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Research Shows an Incentive to Snitch Produces False Information
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Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The secondary confession - also known as snitching - is widely accepted as valid evidence in criminal prosecution. Yet, the first behavioral study to investigate whether people will provide false secondary ...
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Study reveals the paths of Ontario secondary students to their post-secondary destinations
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at Queen's University looking at the transitions young people make from secondary school to university, college, apprenticeship and the workplace found that over 60 percent of first-year college ...
Children 'increasingly unlikely' to learn a modern language
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are increasingly unlikely to leave school with even the most basic knowledge of modern languages despite Government claims to the contrary, an independent study has found.
Genetic variations indicate risk of recurrence, secondary cancer among head and neck cancer patients
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Eighteen single-point genetic variations indicate risk of recurrence for early-stage head and neck cancer patients and their likelihood of developing a second type of cancer, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...
A new mouse could help understand how some lung cancer cells evade drug treatment
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type. Many cases of lung adenocarcinoma are attributed to a mutation in a gene for the epidermal growth factor receptor ...
Study finds logging effects vary based on a forest's history, climate
Dec 02, 2009 |
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A Smoky Mountain forest's woodland herb population has shown that climate may play a role in how forest understories recover from logging, according to Purdue University research.
How adolescent girls manage stress
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Greater influence over everyday life, emotional support, and cultural and recreational activities help to enable teenage girls to withstand stress. Those were the results of a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University ...
New gene linked to muscular dystrophy
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Muscular dystrophy, a group of inherited diseases characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, can be caused by mutations in any one of a number of genes. Another gene can now be added to this list, as Yukiko Hayashi ...
Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data
Nov 20, 2009 |
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As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. ...
FDA sees no safety issues with Pfizer HIV drug
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says an HIV drug from Pfizer appears safe for expanded use in patients who have not taken other drugs to combat the virus.
Common food dye may hold promise in treating spinal cord injury
Jul 27, 2009 |
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A common food additive that gives M&Ms and Gatorade their blue tint may offer promise for preventing the additional - and serious - secondary damage that immediately follows a traumatic injury to the spinal cord. In an article ...
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