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Stress Levels Revealed in Micro-Beads of Sweat

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And sometimes, a person is physically unable to create sufficient sweat volumes to analyze with existing technologies. Reading off a person's glucose and cortisol levels is the goal. The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S.

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Ford logs strongest-ever calendar year start for SUVs in US; sales bolstered by women and Millenials

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As a comparison, over the same periods, total Ford brand sales rose 8.6%, with sales of Ford cars rising 3.0% Explorer is the most preferred midsize SUV among women buyers, according to IHS personal registration data. were up 33% in February and 21% year-to-date; in Dallas, Escape was up 38% in February and 17% year-to-date.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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The task of vaccines is to present antigens that will trigger this immune response without making the person sick. Each row in a table represents a new virus sample from a flu-positive person, and each column represents antisera from infected ferrets. They are also sometimes tainted by the person having had more than one infection.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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