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    Short-Term Food Deprivation Appears Linked To High-Calorie Food Options

    JAMA Internal Medicine Study Highlights A research letter by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Aner Tal, Ph.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., suggests that hungry grocery shoppers tend to buy higher-calorie products. The research included a laboratory study in which 68 paid participants were...
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    Case Western Reserve Researchers Create Short-Term Memories In-Vitro

    Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, have discovered how to store diverse forms of artificial short-term...
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    Swallowing Exercises Help Head And Neck Cancer Patients, Short-Term

    The April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery reports that patients who undergo chemoradiation therapy (CRT), who perform specific swallowing exercises after their CRT, experience a short-term improvement in swallowing. The study also reveals that after nine or twelve...
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    The Harmful Short-Term Effects Of Alcoholism On Memory Functioning

    Alcoholism can disrupt memory functioning well before incurring the profound amnesia of Korsakoff's syndrome. For example, associative memory - used in remembering face-name associations - can be impaired in alcoholics. A study of the cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying this deficit...
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    Which of the following is true concerning long-term interest rates and short-term...

    ...interest rates? Having troubles with this Macroeconomics question :( A. They usually move in lock-step with one another B. They always move closely together C. They don't always move closely together D. They are independent of one another
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    What Determines The Capacity Of Short-Term Memory?

    Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated, according to which capacity of short-term memory depends in a special way on two cycles of brain electric activity. Scientists from the Nencki Institute of Experimental...
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    Hip Fracture Linked With Increased Short-Term Death Rates For Some Older Women

    According to an investigation published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of JAMA/Archives journals, hip fracture is connected with an increase in short-term mortality (death within one year) for women between the ages of 65 to 79 years and for healthy women aged 80 years and...
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    Can I use vacation/sick time to supplement short-term disability for maternity leave?

    I have accrued vacation/sick time and will be shortly going out on maternity leave. My director is unsure if I can use accrued time while also receiving short-term disability. I checked the employee handbook and this is not addressed. I have done this at one previous employer in the same...
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    Given the implication for household incomes of low short-term interest rates?

    would you recommend that the fed raise short-term interest rates. why or why not? should the fed instead use open-market operations to lower long-term rates?
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    Cheaper Short-Term Radiation Therapy Successful On Breast Cancer

    An intense three-week course of radiation therapy is just as effective as the standard five-week regimen for women with early-stage breast cancer. Dr. Tim Whelan, a professor of oncology of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, led a team of researchers to find that...
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    Q&A: Are short-term weight fluctuations normal?

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    How can i overcome Short-term memory loss?

    i am 15 and i have recently been diagnosed :S Good ways to over come this?
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