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...merchants have improved their search function, 42.6% have added or enhanced product videos and 32.7% have included customer reviews to help shoppers make buying decisions, according to Shop.org's 2008 eHoliday Study, conducted by Shopzilla. Further, 8 in 10 retailers are offering some kind of free shipping option this season, often with a stipulation like a minimum purchase amount. Consumers are increasingly savvy about playing these options for maximum value. "They will bundle their purchases so they can combine shipping costs or go to sites that only offer free shipping," says Jeffrey Grau, senior analyst at eMarketer, which analyzes digital...
...addition, students in the former honors-only concentration will have the option of not writing a thesis...
...added that while the concentration has always held a special place in the University—as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities—its honors-only status scared away many people. The removal of the thesis requirement creates another option for students, and it also reflects the department’s commitment to enable students to adapt the concentration to their particular needs, professors said...
...restriction of any artificial heart is recharging the battery in it," says Carpentier, who says major advances in battery capacity are on the way. "But these prosthetic hearts are designed for people - some as young as 40 or 45 years old - who'd simply die without them. Considering the option, having to charge the battery once or twice a day is no huge trauma...
Olsen said that he still hopes to conduct clinical trials to confirm the benefits of anti-VEGF therapy in treating infantile hemangioma. But the team is also looking at other possible cures, including a way to induce pre-mature cell death in the endothelial cells. Another option would be to manipulate the mechanism by which the tumors naturally shrink, but that process is not yet understood...