Political disruptions generated economic collapses in post-communist states
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Stanford, California - Political fragmentation early on exacerbated the post-communist economic transitions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, new Stanford research shows.
Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Many years of research have shown that for students from lower-income families, standardized test scores and other measures of academic success tend to lag behind those of wealthier students.
Patents forecast technological change
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - How fast is online learning evolving? Are wind turbines a promising investment? And how long before a cheap hoverboard makes it to market?
New technique could slash energy used to produce many plastics
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Boulder, Colorado - A new material developed at the University of Colorado Boulder could radically reduce the energy needed to produce a wide variety of plastic products, from grocery bags and cling wrap to replacement hips and bulletproof vests.
Graphics in reverse
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Most recent advances in artificial intelligence - such as mobile apps that convert speech to text - are the result of machine learning, in which computers are turned loose on huge data sets to look for patterns.
CBP Special Operation Interrupts Smuggling Network of Illicit Agriculture Goods
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Cincinnati, Ohio - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialists (CBPAS) at the Port of Cincinnati recently conducted a special operation in a continued effort to interrupt an extensive network of purposely mislabeled and high-risk agriculture products coming from Hong Kong, China, India, and Saudi Arabia.
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