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07-11-2007 · EurekAlert!Counting Iraq, Syria and Israel amongst their neighbors, schoolchildren and students in Jordan have very different experiences of peace compared to their UK counterparts. Over the past 50 years, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Palestine and Iraq have sought shelter in the country. And it is exceptional among Middle Eastern countries in that, together with Egypt, it has signed a peace treaty with Israel.
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- Peace in our time? Look to the teachers...
07-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Counting Iraq, Syria and Israel amongst their neighbors, schoolchildren and students in Jordan have very different experiences of peace compared to their UK counterparts. Over the past 50 years, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Palestine and Iraq have sought shelter in the country. And it is exceptional among Middle Eastern countries in that, together with Egypt, it has signed a peace treaty with Israel.
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- Scientists get first look at how water 'lubricates' proteins
11-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists are one step closer to understanding how proteins move when they perform functions essential for supporting life. For the first time, scientists have directly observed how water lubricates the movements of protein molecules to enable different functions to happen.
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- Researchers find gene mutation that causes infertility in male mice
04-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
Cornell University researchers have identified a mutation in a gene that causes male infertility in mice. Because this is the first time that a dominant mutation that leads specifically to infertility in a mammal has been discovered, the researchers say they can now look for similar mutations in the DNA of infertile men.
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- Ecstasy can harm the brains of first-time users
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
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- Preschool teacher education alone unlikely to improve classroom quality or learning
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
An analysis of seven major studies of early childhood education has found that neither the level of teacher education nor teachers’ degree increased classroom quality or children’s learning. The findings suggest a need for a broad approach to improving classroom quality, rather than focusing only on teachers' educational attainment. These findings have implications for current policy efforts that aim to improve teacher quality in preschool classrooms.
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- Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning
10-30-2006 · EurekAlert!
A study that takes a rare look at the physiological, social and emotional dynamics of day-to-day experiences in real-life settings shows that when older adults go to bed lonely, sad or overwhelmed, they have elevated levels of cortisol shortly after waking the next morning. This cues the body on a day-to-day basis that it is time to rev up to deal with loneliness and other negative experiences, according to the Northwestern University researcher who led the study.
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- Exploiting space with low-cost satellites
01-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
At a time when European science budgets are increasingly under pressure UK academia and industry representatives met in London (Jan. 24, 2007) to look at opportunities for exploiting space using lowcost satellites.UK industry and academia has developed a unique partnership in designing and building compact and extremely cost effective satellites packed with innovative technology including miniaturised instrumentation, robotics, software and autonomous systems.
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- Swindon schools gain new teachers
07-04-2007 · University of Bath
Secondary schools in Swindon will this year employ their fiftieth new teacher trained through a scheme set up to improve teacher recruitment in the town.
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- What's going on in the body? Advanced time-of-flight PET takes a superior 'look'
06-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Moving from computer simulation to patient images, researchers are now demonstrating the benefits that time-of-flight/PET imaging can provide for cancer patients. The result? Superior images and shorter patient scan times for starters, according to a study released at the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, June 2-6 in Washington, D.C.
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- The closest look ever at native human tissue
12-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a long-standing goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have visualized proteins responsible for cell-cell contacts for the first time. In this week's issue of Nature they publish the first 3-D image of human skin at molecular resolution and reveal the molecular Velcro-like organization that interlinks cells.
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