Word: construction
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...professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lisak researches the motives and behaviors of rapists to construct a psychological portrait of a rapist that diverges from stereotypes of the “nice guy” date rapist or the “ski mask” man crouching in the bushes...
...shell out $4.25 for thick coffee in the most relaxed atmosphere this side of the Atlantic to remind us of our own break in Istanbul.Fire & IceAlthough few students took advantage of the opportunity to time travel over Spring Break, for the select few who were resourceful enough to construct Deloreans while their peers were only buying airline tickets, Fire & Ice offers a remarkable replication of the pre-historic world they likely visited. Here, food only exists in chaotic piles of raw meat and vegetables freshly torn from the Earth; ordinarily civilized students morph into Cro Magnons with no opportunity...
They plan to construct a borehole with a hand pump to tap into clean water underground...
...results allow researchers to construct a better picture of how cigarette smoking affects the body, and how the active agents in cigarettes, including nicotine, alter the normal growth and development of cells in the lung. That could lead to improved and individualized smoking-cessation drugs and programs, which are currently successful only 25% of the time. "It could be that we need to tailor how we get people to quit," says Amos. For some, behavior modification may be sufficient; perhaps others will need targeted nicotine-blocking drugs that can fight any genetic bias toward addiction...
Here's how MIMIC works: Donors fork over a few white blood cells - specifically, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, or PBMCs, which include infection-fighting lymphocytes like T and B cells. The blood cells go into specially designed "tissue constructs," which are forged from collagen and endothelial cells and designed to act just like human skin (think a Barbie Dream House for white blood cells). Each construct is hunkered inside an individual well where the blood cells mingle with the faux tissue. As the blood cells get cozy, they flourish, and a teensy, homegrown, fully functioning human immune system is born...