It is also involved in the International HapMap Project, a five-country initiative launched in October, to follow up the Human Genome Project with a large-scale study of human genetic variation and its relation to disease.
Scientists are ready to publish the fruit fly genome, which will help them study human disease.
Realizing he had bigger ambitions, he enrolled in a university to study human-computer interaction with the intention of becoming a researcher.
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The study of human physiology in space benefits more than just budding space tourists and astronauts though.
Professor Peck said scientists were attempting to duplicate the study using human cells.
Recently Cisco undertook a study of human behavior and the barriers to effective collaboration: how it affects productivity, workplace efficiency, and business results.
With performances like these, the result is not so much an issue movie as a study of human quiddity and stubbornness under siege.
Still, Dr Michel and his team hope that their approach will spur a more rigorous, quantitative approach to the study of human culture.
Once the genetic sequence of the zebrafish is known, scientists will be able to make changes to the animal's DNA to study how human inherited diseases might arise.
Fifteen percent of large corporations offer some form of backup day care, up from only 8% in 1993, according to a 1997 study by human resource consultants Hewitt Associates.
And the innovations that have come from the study of human genetics are actually starting to result in new drugs, more than a decade after the human genome project.
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But psychology, and the study of human history, shows us that as humans, we are unconsciously making future decisions based on instincts honed by, and visceral reactions to, our past experiences.
Ms Munnell and Mr Sass cite a study of human-resources professionals indicating that older employees were valued for their loyalty and reliability but less highly rated in terms of flexibility, showing initiative and understanding technology.
"Thus, E-4 appears as a risk factor for both heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, two major causes of mortality and morbidity at advanced ages, " Francois Schachter and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, a genetic-research center in Paris, conclude in a report.
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While the documents do little to answer questions about the alleged suspect's possible motive in the July 20 shooting during a showing of the Batman movie at the Century 16 multiplex, they offer new insight into Holmes as a student and his aspirations to study the human brain.
In the three countries in the study where human capital improved the fastest between the older and the younger generations (Belgium, Finland and Italy), growth in output per worker rose much faster than average between 1960 and 1995, while in those with least improvement in skills (New Zealand, Sweden and the United States), growth was slower.
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Indeed that, to a lesser extent, can be a problem for any study of a human network.
Until now, the study of the human genome has been the field of esoteric science and outsized egos.
One factor that the study quantifies is human-capital endowment, meaning the brainpower created by parents, formal education and training, and on-the-job learning.
The study points to human activity as the cause, because of the suddenness of the shift in temperature which appears to be out of whack with long-term trends.
Person praise may cause children to blame themselves for setbacks, while process praise instills a more realistic view, helping them attribute setbacks to normal human missteps, says the study, led by researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
According to a recent study by a human-resources consultancy, not only are German executives the best paid in Europe, but the component of their bonuses linked to short-term targets is higher even than that of their counterparts in America.
My main objection to the overall thrust of the article is that it ignores evidence that indicates that of all groups, white graduates find employment much sooner than any other group, according to a recent study by the Human Sciences Research Council.
Germany is among more than two dozen industrialized countries -- from Australia to Slovenia to Japan -- that require employers to offer four weeks or more of paid vacation to their workers, according to a 2009 study by the human resources consulting company Mercer.
Why we plan when it leads us to failure has deep roots in human nature and in the very study of business.
Research has shown that women tend to have friends of similar attractiveness, such as a 2010 study in the journal Human Nature.
Why is it that after all our ability to study world history and human behavior in the many schools of higher learning that we have that we are so ignorant of the most obvious?
Dr Blumberg became fascinated by polymorphism, the study of inherited variations in human beings.
Maybe it is human nature, not the failure to study history, which causes history to repeat itself.
And she could study the composition of the human body in the pathology unit at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital.
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