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10 UK Universities That Attract The Most Chinese Students
Oct 28, 2015The UK remains one of Chinese students' top three destinations for studying abroad, and the growing number going there in recent years has not gone unnoticed. In January, the UK's Higher Education Statistics Authority said more first-year ...
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Researchers Propose Replacing a Toxic Treatment Step in CdTe Solar Cell Production
Aug 20, 2014University of Liverpool researchers propose replacing a toxic treatment step in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell production with one that is benign, but apparently just as effective [J. D. Major et al, Nature, published online 25 June ...
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A University of Liverpool Researcher Says Sugar Is The New Tobacco
Jan 15, 2014A University of Liverpool researcher, part of Action on Sugar, which aims to reduce unnecessary amounts of sugar in the diet, says sugar is the new tobacco. Professor Simon Capewell of the university's Institute of Psychology, Health and ...
Tags: Sugar, Sugar in Food
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Certain Drugs Taken to Control Seizures Might Be Unsafe for Use by Pregnant Women
Jan 13, 2014There's long been concern that certain drugs taken to control seizures might be unsafe for use by pregnant women, due to potential effects on the fetus. Now, new British research suggests that the drug levetiracetam does not pose a major ...
Tags: Weighs Safety, Epilepsy Drugs, Safety of Epilepsy Drugs in Pregnancy
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Epilepsy Drug Appears Not to Be Associated with Thinking, Movement and Language Problems
Jan 10, 2014A new study finds that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam appears not to be associated with thinking, movement and language problems for preschool children born to mothers who took the drug during pregnancy, although the drug valproate was ...
Tags: epilepsy drug, levetiracetam, preschool children health, pregnancy
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Peer Pressure Might Play a Part in What You Eat and How Much You Eat, a New Review Suggest
Jan 3, 2014Peer pressure might play a part in what you eat and how much you eat, a new review suggests. British researchers said their findings could help shape public health policies, including campaigns to promote healthy eating. The review was ...
Tags: peer pressure, public health policies, healthy eating, food choices
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Critical Omega-3 Fats Help Maintain Memory, Spatial Learning and Cognitive Function.
Nov 21, 2013Medical nutrition scientists have written volumes that show how the nutrients from the foods we eat daily alter our genetic structure as well as the metabolism of every one of the trillions of cells in our body. Neurons in the brain are ...
Tags: fish oil fat, brain, junk food, diet
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Using Smartphone Application to Photograph Meals Is Useful Slimming Aid for The Overweight
May 14, 2013Using a simple smartphone application to photograph meals is a useful slimming aid for the overweight, doctors say. The app, designed by British doctors, aims at promoting "food memory" so people recall what they have eaten and are ...
Tags: Smartphone, App
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Meiji's Microscopes and Cameras Are Housed on New Laboratory Complex and Function
Jan 24, 2013Meiji's microscopes and cameras are housed on the second floor of the new Laboratory complex and function as the Environmental Sciences teaching laboratory. The laboratory has 170 individual workstations, each backed with video and online ...
Tags: Light Microscopes, Digital Cameras, teaching facilities
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Bull Information Systems Has Signed What It Calls a Strategic Alliance Deal
Jan 7, 2013For high performance computing(HPC)cluster Bull Information Systems has signed what it calls a strategic alliance deal,valued at around 800,000 pound,with the University of Liverpool. Under the terms of the deal,which incorporates a ...
Tags: HPC cluster, Bull Information Systems, University of Liverpool