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Dementia spreads via connected brain networks

... San Francisco scientists used maps of brain connections to predict... growing evidence that the loss of brain cells associated with... results advance scientists knowledge of how neurodegeneration spreads...
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How preprocessing methods affect the conversion efficiency of biomass energy production

... usually focuses on the amount of energy generated. But it... process, a component that is often neglected, says Tony Grift, professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in the College...
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How preprocessing methods affect the conversion efficiency of biomass energy production

... usually focuses on the amount of energy generated. But it... process, a component that is often neglected, says Tony Grift, professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in the College...
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How preprocessing methods affect the conversion efficiency of biomass energy production

... usually focuses on the amount of energy generated. But it... process, a component that is often neglected, says Tony Grift, professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in the College...
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How preprocessing methods affect the conversion efficiency of biomass energy production

... usually focuses on the amount of energy generated. But it... process, a component that is often neglected, says Tony Grift, professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in the College...
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Under time pressure, people tell us what we want to hear

... an honest one, a set of experiments shows. advertisement The.. in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological... technique, said John Protzko, a University of California, Santa...
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How fast will seas rise? A dying Greenland glacier holds clues

This summer, as meltwater streamed off the Greenland Ice Sheet... are eroding Helheim Glacier, one of the ice sheet s... oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San...
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E-cigarettes, tobacco and cannabis products are littering high schools

... has found. advertisement The study of a dozen Bay Area high schools uncovered hundreds of waste items littering the... to reflecting the widespread use of these products among teens, ......
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Five patterns of gun ownership by motivation, practices, other features

A study of 429 firearm owners who answered the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey has identified five distinct types of firearm owners early... practices. advertisement More than...
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Viagra shows promise for use in bone marrow transplants

... marrow transplants using a combination of Viagra and a second... used mostly in the treatment of cancer, are life saving procedures... the bloodstream requires daily injections of the growth factor...
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Study finds public support for health care providers talking about gun safety

That s one of the main findings of a study by UC... found public support for health professionals talking with patients about... first to ask about appropriateness of these...
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Reef fish caring for their young are taken advantage of by other fish

... birds, for example, the practice of laying eggs in other... biologists studying an unusual kind of coral reef fish that... other fish are taking advantage of this to get...
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PET offers more precise screening method to select candidates for radionuclide therapy

.. study published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine evaluated the role of 68Ga DOTATATE positron emission tomography/computed... relevant for patients with lesions of less than two centimeters, ... Thomas A. Hope,...
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Mechanical engineer s simple running hack is fun and increases efficiency

... this topic while at Stanford University. His paper appears in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Running is... running track. It was kind of an interesting challenge because... Stanford, reasoned...
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Rice irrigation worsened landslides in deadliest earthquake of 2018

... Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in 2018, according... study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore NTU Singapore scientists... September 2018, taking the lives of over 4, 300 people,...
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Urban, home gardens could help curb food insecurity, health problems

... new study from the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, ... disadvantage. advertisement Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco partnered... organization in Santa Clara County, California, to...
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Genome-edited bull passes on hornless trait to calves

... two years, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been studying six offspring of a dairy bull, genome edited... Biotechnology. They report that none of the bull s offspring...
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Genome-edited bull passes hornless gene to calves

... trough. The scientists from the University of California, Davis, along with one colleague from the University of Mansoura, Egypt, have We... from the UC Davis department of animal science....
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A breath test for opioids

... engineers and physicians at the University of California, Davis. A breath test... this could impact society, said Professor Cristina Davis, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering......
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Honey fungus secrets fall to science

.. compared more than 5, 000 records of confirmed cases with a. study into susceptibility by the University of California. They found plants in... categories, based on their risk of the...