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...base of the fan sucks in air and pushes it up into the ring. The air rushes out of tiny, millimeter-long slots that run along the circular frame and flows down a gently sloping ramp. As the air emerges from the ramp, it creates a circular low-pressure region that pulls in the air from behind - creating a fairly uniform flow of air through the ring. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...complete, published study results, which include three analyses of the data, suggest that the experimental vaccine may be far less effective than the authors had originally indicated. The vaccine appears to have been slightly more protective among low- or average-HIV-risk participants than among high-risk individuals, like sex workers or intravenous drug users, and its effect appears to wane after the first year. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access to Life...
...received all six vaccine or placebo injections and completed the trial and the "intent to treat" analysis, which included everyone except the previously HIV-infected participants - show that the results are not statistically significant. Both analyses found the vaccine to be just 26% effective - that figure is empirically low, but further, the analyses relegate the finding to statistical insignificance, meaning the results feasibly could have been due to pure chance. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...John J. DeGioia, would deny Harvard reaccreditation, the process allows students to voice criticism and praise of the University. Philipp W. Grimm ’11, one of the four undergraduates—the fifth student was in graduate school—who attended the meeting, suggested that the low turnout was indicative of the Harvard administration’s inability to communicate successfully with the student body...
...automatic thrower. In trap, shooters face a semicircular field and the pigeons are sent away from the shooter straight or angled toward the left or right. In skeet, shooters shift between seven positions on the semicircular field and targets are thrown to cross from a high house and a low house. Skeet is the more challenging...