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26067
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Psychologist J. Steven Reznick and his colleagues are trying to figure out when working memory develops, and whether it might be related to developmental disabilities. They measure a child’s development and cognitive abilities using a variety of technology and computer software tests.
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26077
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Bruce Winterhalder, an anthropologist and behavioral ecologist, researches motives of hunter-gatherers sharing food. One explanation he found is avoiding risk. Winterhalder also uses mathematical models to learn how foragers make decisions about which prey or plants to harvest.
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26078
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Work First is North Carolina’s welfare reform plan to help families go to work. UNC researchers are conducting case studies to determine how successful or unsuccessful the program has been. Work First seems to have helped people find jobs, but not move out of poverty.
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26088
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Julie Barroso, assistant professor of nursing, conducted a pilot study examining the relationship between physiological and psychological factors that accompany fatigue with HIV infection. She found a strong relationship between fatigue severity and both anxiety and depression. Now, Carolina researchers are trying to provide relief.
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26089
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According to UNC researchers, the first emotional and physical bond between parent and child is important because it breaks in the physiological system that regulates attachment. Development can also be shaped by sounds heard before we are born.
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Brian Billman, assistant professor of anthropology, stumbled upon a twelfth century Anasazi crime scene in the Mesa Verde floodplain of southwest Colorado. Billman and a team of archaeologists discovered human bones of an entire community killed by cannibals. They suspect the community was raided over territorial conflict.
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26093
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Jim Jorgensen, professor and chair of the chemistry department, developed the capillary electrophoresis technique to separate small-volume samples inside tiny capillary tubes. Jorgensen’s lab is using the technique to identify and map individual proteins.
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26099
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UNC is leading research in cell-signaling, the way a cell interprets information from its environment and genetic code. Scientists believe that untangling questions about cell signaling will be the next, necessary step toward treatments for cancer and many other diseases.
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26100
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Rye Barcott is completing his senior honors thesis on youth culture and ethnic conflict in Kibera, outside Nairobi, Kenya. From interviews with elders, he learned there was a low regard for nongovernmental organizations. He has since formed Carolina for Kibera organization, and hopes to fund a loan program, a sports association, and a nursery school.
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26105
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Treatment for extreme anxiety disorders can be difficult when a patient’s relatives are emotionally overinvolved. Dianne Chambless, professor of psychology, is studying how the patients’ household relationships influence whether the patients complete treatment. She hopes to develop an intervention that keeps family better informed and directly involved.
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Kluchevskoi is one of the largest active volcanoes in the world, and sits above two tectonic plates in Russia. Seismologist Jonathan Lees believes the plates are torn, allowing the underlying Earth mantle to erode the plate’s edges. The tear may explain the presence of adakites, bits of hardened lava containing plate material, in the region’s volcanism.
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26121
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Jordan Price is a behavioral ecologist finishing his doctoral degree at UNC. For his dissertation, he spent the last five years studying the stripe-backed wren, a small bird indigenous to South America, to see how these birds interact and communicate. He discovered that the birds are much more vocally oriented than humans.
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13.Star Bright, Cell Deep by Bryan, Julia; Zubritsky, Elizabeth Endeavors Vol. 15 Issue 1, Fall 1998
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26122
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Carolina researchers are working on gene therapy to treat cystic fibrosis and hemophilia B. Richard Boucher and Jude Samulski have been working on a virus to transfer genes and replace damaged DNA. Recently, they successfully repaired the genes of a hemophilic dog and are planning human trials within the next two years.
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26126
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Medicinal chemists at UNC want to extract plant compounds that can kill cancer cells, viruses, or bacteria. Most of the compounds are ingredients in traditional Chinese remedies. Researchers believe that modernizing and scientifically testing the remedies will help legitimize traditional Chinese medicine so it can benefit more people.
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26127
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In a smog-filled chamber, asthma volunteers help researchers at the Center for Environmental Medicine and Lung Biology learn what pollution can do to our lungs. Researchers are conducting experiments to test whether endotoxin is a trigger of asthma.
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