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Lifestyle medicine and adverse childhood experiences

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Adverse childhood experiences, which can be identified in up to 20% of the population, can underpin a wide range of diseases in later life. Professor Garry Egger, from Southern Cross […]

Managing lymphoproliferative disorders in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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Lymphoproliferative disorders (LPDs) are characterised by the abnormal proliferation of lymphocytes – a white blood cell in the immune system. LPDs are a notable complication during the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis […]

Towards in-line detection of thermal polymer degradation

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Polymers are an indispensable part of modern society, found in almost every product we use, including machine and engine components. But polymers degrade, and they need close monitoring to make […]

The missing link? Sudden infant death syndrome and the diaphragm

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6994.1603

The cause of death in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is unknown. Scientists know that risk factors include the prone sleeping position, prematurity, low birth weight, and non-lethal infections. SIDS […]

Saving sweet oranges: Catching plant diseases before they act

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Dealing with pests and disease is often the bane of a farmer’s life. Anything that causes plant damage or death has huge economic implications and many plant diseases are highly […]

Investigating gravity waves and infrasound in the ionosphere

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The Earth’s ionosphere provides a crucial barrier between the lower atmosphere and outer space – yet relatively little is known about how the complex dynamics of this layer are influenced […]

Damaging masculine leadership

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Some might argue that the potential mismanagement of crises is simply part of the price citizens pay for their freedom within democracies; after all, in coercive autocracies, subjects have little […]

Nonoverlap proportion and the point-biserial association problem

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Stanley Luck has a general interest in mathematical problems and associated algorithms for cloud computing technology.

Dr Stanley Luck, a statistics consultant and founding member of Vector Analytics LLC, has developed a novel algorithm for cloud computing technology. Dr Luck demonstrates the use of his improved […]

The knowing child’s quest in contemporary American fiction

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A particular cultural icon is the theme of the adolescent, usually male, who sets out from the countryside to seek his fortune in the city.

The image of an adolescent growing up and making sense of the world is a familiar icon in many cultures around the world. Yuki Namiki from Tokyo Kasei University in […]

Adaptive thinking as a heuristic in evolutionary psychology

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Recently, in evolutionary psychology, many theorists have employed adaptive thinking as a heuristic as it generates hypotheses that can later be tested using the standard scientific procedure. A heuristic is […]