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1292
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Using statistics from the Consortium of Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN), researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are addressing the various threats, both medical and societal, to children's health.
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1293
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Sneed surveys the impact that social science research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has had on the state from the 1920s to the present.
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1301
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Dr. Kenneth Brinkhous, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research pathologist, has conducted research over the last five decades into the causes of and treatments for hemophilia.
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1377
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Stevens H. Clark, a criminal justice researcher at the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government, argues that the prison cap has had an inconsequential effect on crime in North Carolina, and that resources need to be focused on prevention.
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1378
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As school systems across North Carolina limit or drop physical education programs, children must be made aware of the necessity of a physically active lifestyle. Some children as young as three have conditions that may foreshadow later heart disease.
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Students and faculty of the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill are excavating a site between Graham Memorial and Franklin Street on the campus. The site was once home to the town's first business, a hotel-tavern built in the 1700s
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7.Stalking the Culprits Behind Birth Defects by Sneed, Christine Endeavors Vol. 11 Issue 2, May 1994
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1675
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In 1992 the UNC-Chapel Hill Birth Defects Center was created with a mission to disclose the factors that cause developmental abnormalities. Thomas Sadler, the center's director, and Kathleen Sulik play crucial roles in researching such defects.
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1676
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Researchers at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, led by Department of Health Policy and Administration Chair Kerry Kilpatrick, have devised a method of determining Medicaid reimbursable costs to give public health departments much needed funds
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1677
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John Lemasters, professor of cell biology and anatomy, and Ronald Thurman, professor of pharmacology, have created the Carolina Rinse Solution, a rinse that lessens the trauma a transplanted liver experiences as it begins functioning in a new body.
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1678
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Pamela Conover and Donald Searing, political science professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are researching the concept of citizenship as viewed by residents, and comparing the responses of American and British citizens.
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1679
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Alicia White, a doctoral student in the curriculum of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is researching the genetic defects that may commence a cell's progression to cancer.
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1680
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Frederic Pfaender, professor and researcher in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, is searching for ways to decrease soil pollution so that our drinking water will be safer and less contaminated.
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1681
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Catherine Lutz, an associate professor of anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill, has co-authored a book, \"Reading National Geographic,\" that examines the ways in which National Geographic photographs affect Americans' perceptions of non-Western peoples.
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2182
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Jennifer Bobo, an assistant professor of communication studies at UNC-CH, has an experimental audience of black women view or read black cultural works, including the film DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, then interviews them to determine their reactions.
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2252
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A joint experiment, the Hoechst Celanese Corporation & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research Partnership is applying total quality management principles to research projects that, it is hoped, will be mutually beneficial.
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