Bulimia - Binge Drinking Link
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A Deakin University psychologist says an unrecognised link between the eating disorder bulimia and binge drinking means that many women suffering from both disorders are not receiving effective treatment... More
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Does breast self-examination reduce mortality from breast cancer? Surprisingly, despite costly national publicity campaigns in Australia... More
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Self-Examination And Cancer
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Culture, Gender and Hepatitis C
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In the perilous age of HIV/AIDS and a host of sexually transmissible diseases, the prescription for a long life and good sexual health is safe sex... More
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Humans learn as much from failure as success - make enough mistakes, and you'll eventually learn the right way. But what is true in the university of life is not necessarily true in the classroom... More
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Artificial Intelligence System Helps Teachers Teach
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Copper And Menke's Disease
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Copper is a Jekyll-and-Hyde element in the human body - in small quantities it has an essential and benign role in normal development and metabolism, but in excess or deficiency, it can be a killer... More
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As you read, watch TV or mow the lawn, your brain is hard at work. Beneath the surface of conscious thought, billions of neurons are silently networking, analysing information, formulating ideas and exploring problems... More
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Parallel Computing
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Molecular Lego
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Research chemists have long dreamed of developing an artificial photosynthesis system that, like green plants, could capture and store the energy of sunlight in energy-rich molecules... More
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In little more than 15 years, new communications technology has profoundly changed distance education in Australia... More
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Education At A Distance
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No Quick-Fix For Child Abuse
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Would you be prepared to accuse a parent or guardian or even a colleague of abusing a child physically or sexually, after just two hours' training to recognise the symptoms?... More
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Before a marathon or a triathlon, or a long-distance swim, elite athletes usually "carbo-load" with huge plates of pasta, bread, fruit, a sugary drink and perhaps, at the starting line... More
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Diet, Exercise And Muscle
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Nutrition And Chronic Disease
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You're overweight and unfit, so you embark on diet of lettuce leaves and skim milk, and start running like a rabbit in the mornings... More
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In the last decade one of the more important developments in the history of warfare, both internationally and within Australia, has been the study of the memorialisation of war and the relationship between history and memory... More
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Memories Of War
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Emerging Civil Society
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Connections between Australia and the East Asia region through the organisations and processes of civil society are being examined by researchers in the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights... More
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It's not only the world's marine fisheries that are in decline - international stocks of freshwater eels are dwindling, creating a market opportunity for Australian eel farmers... More
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Export Opportunity For Eel Farmers
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Quest For The Right Stuff
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The face that gazes back at you from the mirror each morning is so familiar to you that it's easy to forget it's not really the one that your family and friends know, or that photographs capture... More
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The observant beachcomber on Phillip Island, in Victoria's Westernport Bay, will occasionally find a strange bivalved organism whose half-shells don't match - one half has... More
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Brachiopods Help Reunite Gondwana
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Research Results On The Factory Floor
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Streamlining the stamping process to improve the panels on the new model Falcons is the research driving Deakin University masters student Tim Hilditch... More
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In the eyes of the 1 to 2 million people who visit it every year - locals, tourists, artists and architects - Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church is the greatest work of architectural genius of the modern era... More
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Building A Masterpiece
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Questions For A Sea Monster
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It's big, ponderous and ugly, and dwells in the frigid, sunless depths between 300-400 metres on the margins of south-eastern Australia's continental shelf... More
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