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Many women who exercise regularly want to continue to do so once they become pregnant. Margaret Gall, a master’s candidate in physical education, is researching whether aerobic exercise poses a threat to fetal development.
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Joan Packenham, a graduate researcher in pathology, is running experiments on the blood-clotting agent Von Willebrand Factor, or VWF. She is trying to determine what elements affect the production of VWF, and how it responds to physiological mediators such as estrogen.
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26229
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Ed Cox, a fourth-year medical student, is researching the hepatitis A virus. He is trying to figure out which amino acids on the outer shell or capsid of the virus are the targets for the human immune response.
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26230
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Ellen Tim and Vickie Byler, graduate students in the School of Nursing, are trying to improve methods used to feed critically ill patients. They are examining various factors that may cause small-bore feeding tubes to clog.
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26231
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Kurt Fletcher, a physics doctoral candidate, studies deuterons, the nuclei of a special type of hydrogen atom known as deuterium. Fletcher focuses his research on a quantum mechanics property known as spin, a nuclear force responsible for holding the nucleus of an atom together.
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Joanne Waghorne, an assistant professor of religious studies, and her husband Dick Waghorne, a professional photographer, documented ritual in modern Hinduism of India. According to sociologist Max Weber, emphasis on religious ritual fades as economic development grows. However, the Waghornes found that ritualism in South India is actually growing.
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26233
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For most migrant farmworkers in North Carolina, adequate health care seems unattainable. Migrant women, in particular, are challenged with raising children under harsh living conditions. To help improve their lives, researchers from the School of Public Health are working to make health care more accessible and effective.
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26234
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Stephen Walsh and his geography students use a Geographic Information System, or GIS, to organize descriptive data that can be related to maps. They are using GIS in drought evaluation, water quality modeling, and analysis of geomorphic effects of snow avalanches.
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26235
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UNC astronomer Bruce Carney and his colleagues have established that the Milky Way Galaxy is at least 18 billion years old. To arrive at their estimate, the group studied several nearby stars called RR Lyrae variable stars.
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26236
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Marine geologist Charles Paull discovered a community of organisms in the Gulf of Mexico that survives on chemical energy, not sunlight. The processes associated with the chemosynthetic food chain help explain deep-sea geological processes, and may lead to solutions to chemical pollution.
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26237
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Professors in the Department of Romance Languages study and teach the breadth of eight languages, all genres, and all periods of literature and criticism. Ultimately, their work focuses on the study of text and its relationship to the author, the reader, and its time and place in history.
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26238
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Sixteenth-century Italian madrigals of the High Renaissance is a form of poetry and music written for voices but not necessarily for instruments. James Haar, professor of music, studies the origins, characteristics, and development of this musical genre.
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26239
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Researchers in the UNC Health Services Research Center are conducting projects on health promotion among the elderly. They hope to determine whether coverage of selected preventive health services might reduce the cost of disease treatment, and if routine medical screening can reduce risk behavior and improve the quality of life for elderly participants in the program.
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26240
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UNC researcher Diane Davis is studying behavioral development patterns in premature infants. She is trying to identify the premature infants who are at risk for developing long-term problems, so that better health interventions can be put into place.
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26241
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Dr. Laurel Archer Copp, Dean of the UNC School of Nursing, focuses her research on patients’ responses to pain. She characterized pain according to the patients’ perceptions, and has defined more than thirty pain coping strategies utilized by patients.
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