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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNor98-like atypical scrapie is a sporadic disease that affects the central nervous system of sheep and goats that, in contrast to classical scrapie, is not generally regarded as naturally transmissible. However,...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. To examine: (1) what elements of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are typically provided to low-income populations, (2) whether PCMHs improve health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes for low-income...
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From:Families, Systems & Health (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Underrecognition of trauma exposure and PTSD has a significant impact on psychiatric health, physical health, and health behaviors. The purpose of this study is to explore barriers and opportunities for...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 91, Issue 2)For the past quarter-century or so, the U.S. Navy has been training beluga whales (Del-phinapterus leucas), along with dolphins and sea lions, to carry out various military exercises. These animals' innate abilities to...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 95, Issue 1)Cruising along on the highway, you spot a traffic jam ahead and hit the brakes. In seconds, most of the kinetic energy of your car is transformed to heat on the brake pads and rotors, slowing you (thankfully), but at a...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 93, Issue 5)In June, Honda leased its first hydrogen-powered, fuel-cell car to ordinary consumers, the Spallino family of Redondo Beach, California. That transaction marks an incremental step toward the hydrogen-fueled...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 88, Issue 5)Since the advent of plate tectonic theory in the 1960s, geologists have recognized that that many parts of the earth's crust and mantle move horizontally. But most of that motion is exceedingly sluggish: usually less...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 96, Issue 2)HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE: Movies, Science and the End of the World. Sidney Perkowitz. Columbia University Press, $24.95. Physicist Sidney Perkowitz's latest book is a lighthearted survey of factual and fictional science in...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 95, Issue 5)FOODFIGHT: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill. Daniel Imhoff. Watershed Media, $16.95. You might think that government agricultural policy is something of interest only to farmers or politicians, but as...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 94, Issue 2)PATENTS: Ingenious Inventions: How They Work and How They Came to Be. Ben Ikenson. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, $19.95. A copy of Ben Ikenson's book Patents appears at first glance to have just come out of the...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 88, Issue 4)Does evolution have a direction? Does human history have meaning? These classic questions have troubled more than one wretched undergraduate who finds himself without a date on a Saturday night. Now in Nonzero: The...