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Historical Assessment and Mapping of Human Plague, Kazakhstan, 1926–2003

Preventing Chronic Disease

Mapping of Human Plague, Kazakhstan, 1926–2003

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Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo floresiensis

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Dated to about 700,000 years old, the new findings shed light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis, the so-called 'Hobbits' of Flores whose remains were uncovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave in the island's west.

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Move Over Tiger Woods: Big Data Helps Discover The Perfect Golf Swing

Smart Data Collective

In 2003, the PGA created a ball-tracking system called ShotLink. Naturally, as 2003 was already so long ago, the technology for ShotLink has further evolved into something even more advanced. The term big data might still be relatively new, but data analytics has been in play with golf for years. But what about golf?

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Stricter toxic chemical rules reduce Californians’ exposures

Environmental Health News

Similarly, levels of the phthalate DEHP, which is used in vinyl and other plastic products, decreased in the bodies of Californians after it was listed under Prop 65 in 2003, but levels of a similar, unlisted phthalate called DiNP went up.

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Former Clarivate’s publisher analytics expert Ian Potter to head Business Intelligence at Frontiers

Frontiers

Following his Blackwell’s tenure, in 2003 he joined a US publishing technology company ScholarOne to work on one of the leading manuscript submission platforms for scholarly publishers, which is now widely used by Wiley, T&F, Sage, Emerald, ACS, IEEE, De Gruyter and many other leading publishers.

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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Bush administration in 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) renamed Medicare + Choice as Medicare Advantage. According to Public Citizen, in 2003, the pharmaceutical industry spent a record $109 million on federal lobbying and hired a record 824 lobbyists. Understanding the Policy Context. Originally enacted under the G.W.

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Human whistled languages may offer model for how to study dolphin communication

Frontiers

Meyer, Reiss and coauthor Dr Marcelo Magnasco, a biophysicist and professor at Rockefeller University, plan to apply this and other insights discussed in their paper to develop new techniques to analyze dolphin whistles.

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