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... Research Council (NSERC)of Canada, is to be spent over five years by a team of researchers that includesSFU kinesiologist and principal investigator Christine MacKenzie. She says thegoal of the research is to develop efficient intelligent tools that enablehumans to easily perform tasks and activities in ...Flu Shots Keep Health Workers On The Job
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Much statistical research over the past 40 years has found that higher deathrates go hand in hand with lower socioeconomic status: the lower the income andeducation level, the higher the mortality rate. But the "rule" didn't seem to apply to women as well as to men, so PeggyMcD...Novel Biological Interaction Found To Explain Blood Vessel Growth To Tumors
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