Is The New WHO Classification System For Stillbirths Feasible In Low-Resource Settings?
Every year, an estimated 2.6 million stillbirths occur, which is over 7,000 deaths every day. The majority of these deaths (98%) occur in low- and…
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Quitting Smoking Means Gaining Weight, But Why?
If you quit smoking, you often gain weight. Researchers have now investigated in twins how big the difference is and whether this is also due…
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What Do They Get Out Of It? The Emotional Experience Of Providing Social Support
Students and faculty in Western Washington University’s Psychology Department examined the experience of giving social support in two countries (the US and Singapore) using an…
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Placebo: It’s All About Ethics!
Just imagine the following situation: You have an appointment with your family physician because of some recurring pains that have concerned you for some time…
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Why Do Tumors Leave A Specific Signature On Natural Killer Cells?
Natural killer (NK) cells are fast-acting innate immune cells that have the ability to recognize and kill a variety of cancers. For most healthy individuals…
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Rare Earths As A Pollution Tracer In China
Water pollution is a serious problem in China. Researchers used to not pay attention to surface water, but in recent years, a growing number of…
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Eavesdropping On “Classroom Talk” In Undergraduate STEM Classrooms
Understanding what instructors say and how they respond to students “in the moment” is as important as the activities and the learning environment they create…
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Tailoring Tomatoes To Match Individual Consumer Needs
The tomato fruit has a reservoir of healthy properties; it is low in calories and excellent for weight loss. It was popular in Aztec times…
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Temperature Has A Significant Influence On The Production Of SMP-Based Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (DON) During Biological Processes
Traditionally, activated sludge has been the most commonly used biological process for municipal wastewater treatment. Soluble microbial products (SMPs) formed by microorganisms constitute a wide…
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Gut Microbiota From Cradle To Grave: Does Age Or Lifestyle Matter More?
None of us need FaceApp to know the broad strokes of what will happen when we grow older: a few more wrinkles, a few more…
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Post-Resettlement Impacts On Landscape-Level Conservation In Human-Dominated Central India
Wildlife conservation and rural development have been pitted against each other for as long as the two fields have existed. But what happens if you…
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