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| 09/18/2015 |
Business expectations, labor market fuel continued growth in NebraskaNebraska's leading economic indicator rose for the fifth consecutive month in August, increasing by 0.31 percent. The increase suggests that the Nebraska economy will expand through the first quarter of 2016. "The August increase resulted from p… |
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| 08/28/2012 |
By text-mining the classics, UNL professor unearths new literary insightsMark Twain once said that all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. Oscar Wilde put it more bluntly when he said that talents imitate, but geniuses steal. M… |
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| 12/9/2004 |
Chemistry technique could be milestone in drug developmentTechniques devised by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist David Hage will give pharmaceutical companies a powerful new tool for developing, testing and targeting dosages for drugs. Hage, with former doctoral student Jianzhong Chen, published the a… |
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| 08/29/2006 |
Chemists' work on peroxide bomb detectors shows promiseIn the fight against terrorism, one of the main goals of law-enforcement and security agencies is to stop terrorist attacks before they can happen. Early detection is essential, and work being done by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemists could giv… |
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| 11/23/2015 |
Children who take ADHD medicines have trouble sleeping, new study showsStimulant medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) cause sleep problems among the children who take them, a new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln concludes. The study addresses decades of conflicting opinions and e… |
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| 09/27/2013 |
City, UNL partner on Nebraska Innovation Campus renewable energy systemLincoln Mayor Chris Beutler and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced Friday a joint project to use reclaimed, non-drinkable water from the city’s Theresa Street Wastewater treatment plant to heat and cool facilities at… |
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| 10/9/2007 |
Climate research gives clues to human expansion out of tropical AfricaNew research that involves a University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist has shed light on an important, but previously little-understood period in Africa's climate history that has implications for understanding human evolution and the expansion of Hom… |
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| 04/16/2008 |
Cohen's Career Award to help make software more reliableMaybe this happens to you: Your boss purchases the latest version of software that the office has used for years. Your coworkers adjust effortlessly. You, on the other hand, can't finish the simplest task without the program misbehaving and doing thi… |
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| 02/14/2011 |
Collaboration leads to discovery, confirmation of unexpected form of iceWater is the most abundant liquid on Earth, but the more scientists study it, the more surprises they seem to find. That's nowhere more true than with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. A pioneer in the study… |
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| 08/23/2011 |
College students face challenges to social reinvention in age of FacebookGoing away to college -- whether across town or across the country -- used to offer students an opportunity to remake their social image. But in the age of Facebook that's not always the case anymore, according to a new study compiled by Un… |
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| 11/18/2015 |
Compared to whites, more minority youth expect to die youngMinority youth in the United States are more likely to doubt they will live to be 35 than their white counterparts, according to a new study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Tara Warner. Mexican immigrants and black youth, in partic… |
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| 11/23/2010 |
Confronting prejudice may be 'antidote' for workplace distressWomen who publicly confront instances of sexism in the workplace tend to feel more capable and competent in their jobs and about themselves in general, a new study shows. The research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln examined how both men and… |
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| 06/13/2013 |
Context is crucial when it comes to mutations in genetic evolutionWith mutations, it turns out that context can be everything in determining whether or not they are beneficial to their evolutionary fate. According to the traditional view among biologists, a central tenet o… |
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| 04/21/2015 |
Cooper Foundation provides $200,000 for NIC maker spaceThe Cooper Foundation of Lincoln has provided a grant of $200,000 to support the Nebraska Innovation Studio, a 16,000-square-foot maker space in the Innovation Commons Building at Nebraska Innovation Campus. "This charter investment in Nebraska Inno… |
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| 12/1/2011 |
Credit card use depends on what you know -- and what you think you knowTo manage credit cards efficiently, it goes without saying that it's important to have a firm understanding of finance. But equally important to good credit-card practices is what you think you know about finance, a national study … |
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