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SNS completion highlights year of ORNL achievements
12-28-2006 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)Creation of the first neutrons at the Spallation Neutron Source was one of many high points in a year filled with milestone achievements at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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- Studies highlight advances in diagnosis, medical therapy
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Three studies being presented today at the American College of Cardiology’s Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit 2007 highlight the breadth of research propelling advances in clinical cardiology. One study explores the best medical and interventional treatment for patients with acute coronary syndromes, the second demonstrates the long-lasting promise of non-surgical approaches to the repair of heart valves, and the third highlights a new drug-exercise combination that improves image quality and reduces side effects.
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- Ben's athletic achievements recognised with award
05-17-2007 · University of Bath
Teenage sprinter Ben Rushgrove earned a Nationwide Achievement Award for his stunning performances at the Visa Paralympic World Cup. The 19-year-old University of Bath student was named winner of the Male Athletics award after sprinting to two gold medals and a world record at the Visa Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.
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- Men choose romance over success
08-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
Men may be more willing than women to sacrifice achievement goals for a romantic relationship, according to a new study by Catherine Mosher of Duke Medical Center and Sharon Danoff-Burg from the University of Albany. Their findings challenge our preconceptions that women are more likely to prioritize people and relationships while men are more focused on themselves and their achievements. Their paper will be published in the next issue of the Springer journal, Gender Issues.
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- Center-based care yields more behavior problems; in other types of care, problems short-lived
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
New data from a federally-funded longitudinal study show that that children who spent more time in center-based childcare exhibited more problem behavior through sixth grade. Quality of parenting was found to be a stronger and more consistent predictor of social functioning and achievement than early childcare experiences. Higher quality early childcare was also associated with better vocabularies through fifth grade. The study highlights some of the potential enduring effects of childcare and the implications.
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- Brookhaven Lab Honored with EPA Environmental Achievement Award
10-17-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory is being honored with a National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) Achievement Award for reducing both its mercury waste generation and its inventory of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The NPEP encourages public and private organizations to form voluntary partnerships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the use or release of any of 31 priority toxic chemicals and metals identified by the EPA.
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- School achievement, perceptions of ability, and interest change as children age
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study shows that children's academic interests increasingly match the subjects in which they get the best grades as they progress from elementary through high school. The study tracked approximately 1000 children from first grade through twelfth grade. Boys and girls were found to have differing patterns. This specialization might help children focus on a certain field, yet a more generalist approach could be beneficial for a labor market that requires flexibility.
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- Rutgers biomaterial debuts in clinical trials of new stent
10-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
A revolutionary, new biomaterial, developed at the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University, has moved from the lab bench to field testing in record time. This achievement, a product of a breakthrough methodology in biomaterials discovery, is the enabling technology behind a coronary stent undergoing its first-in-human clinical trial in Germany and in Brazil.
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- UT Southwestern leaders to receive national award for medical research accomplishments
03-20-2007 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
Two Nobel laureates from UT Southwestern Medical Center and their mentor, a distinguished chair of internal medicine at this institution, will receive Research!America's inaugural Builders of Science Award for their achievements in developing UT Southwestern into one of the world's premier research institutions.
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- AKARI's view of Large Magellanic Cloud – star formation at work
11-01-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
The infrared surveyor AKARI, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission with ESA participation, is nearing the completion of its first scan of the entire sky. During this phase of the mission, it has supplied the largest wavelength coverage of the Large Magellanic Cloud to date, and provided fascinating new images of this galaxy.
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- Program provides blueprint for recruiting minorities to science and engineering
09-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
The Model Institutions for Excellence Program funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed a body of work over the past 11 years demonstrating successful strategies for recruiting under-represented minority students to science and engineering fields and supporting their successful completion of science degrees.
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