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...Already, the process, called direct reprogramming, is changing the field - on several levels. Ian Wilmut, the pioneering biologist responsible for cloning the first mammal, Dolly, has announced that he will no longer use the cloning method that made him famous to generate stem cells. "Changing cells from a patient directly into stem cells has got so much more potential," he says...
...There are, Faraway Tree aside, two cases in which awareness campaigns are neither useless nor self-interested. For underreported incidents like rape, campaigns are a reasonable method to spur more reporting. Events like Take Back the Night, however smug or shrill, may in fact be serving a useful purpose. For crucial public health measures too—the shortage of Asian bone marrow donors comes to mind—such campaigns might also be helpful...
...Text-mining is increasingly becoming an legitimate research method,” Petersen said. “Vendors and academicians are going to have to come to some understanding about this use. Academicians need these texts to do this kind of research, but at the same time vendors need to protect their intellectual property...
...flaws that cripple the data they provide. The numbers issue is the biggest concern. Paper is inexpensive, easy to distribute, and can be returned fairly easily. Diaries rely on people to remember everything they have recently listened to, but the wide sample size of the paper survey method fills in the inevitable gaps in memory.Understandably for a recently developed device, PPM information is much costlier, and as a result, scarcer. PPMs may be able to provide more comprehensive and accurate data as far as an individual’s exposure to radio signals go, but it?...
...Coop has access to them.”UC president Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said that the HOLLIS catalog, the extensive database of the Harvard University Libraries, does not currently give students access to the ISBN numbers they need.“Using the HOLLIS search method doesn’t get us the exact same [editions],” Petersen said. “Most students want the same edition that the professor and students around them are using.”While the faculty members on the committee generally acknowledged that the current system...