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No escape from the bullies
05-31-2007 · EurekAlert!It happens in school, at work, physically, verbally, even by e-mail and text. Now researchers at the University of Nottingham say there's no escape in the virtual world.
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05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Children with both autism and attention deficit or attention deficit hyperactivity disorders are four times more likely to bully than children in the general population, according to a study released today in the journal, Ambulatory Pediatrics. However, the researchers caution against labeling these children simply as bullies.
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- Female chimps keep the bullies at bay
03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Female chimpanzees may have found a fool-proof way to ensure they mate with only the highest ranking males, namely those with important social and physical characteristics that their offspring may inherit, according to a new study. Female chimpanzees do not synchronize their reproductive activities which reduces the opportunities for less-desirable males to coerce them into mating. The findings have just been published online in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
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- Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
07-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Virtual game helps children escape realities of burn unit
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- Rotten to the core: How workplace 'bad apples' spoil barrels of good employees
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- Positive results for airway bypass
10-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
This month's issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery features results on the airway bypass procedure for emphysema -- a COPD disease. Airway bypass uses stents to create new pathways for air to escape the lung.
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- Violent Past: Young sun withstood a supernova blast
05-26-2007 · Science News Online
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- Tangled web of the insect, plant and parasite arms race
10-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
New insights into the evolutionary relationship between plant-dwelling insects and their parasites are revealed in the online open-access journal BMC Biology. Researchers shed light on how sawflies evolved to escape their parasites and gain themselves an 'enemy-free space' for millions of years.
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