That helps explain why "a lot of great ideas occur at transition times, " when people are waking up or falling asleep, bathing, showering or jogging, says Jennifer Wiley, a psychology professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and lead author of a 2012 research summary in Current Directions in Psychological Science.

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More scientific support for scrapping Florida's ban on adoption by homosexuals has recently come from the American Academy of Paediatrics, which in February issued a summary of research into whether parental homosexuality affects children.

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It was just a summary of much research, many statistics.

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According to a popular summary of the research that has greatly informed this very post, in 1966-67, of the approximately 1.4 million students who took the verbal portion of the S.A.T, 33, 000 achieved a score of 700 or more.

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His summary shows the U.K. boasts not only a larger share of research publications, but also a larger percentage of highly cited publications than would be expected from either its financial input or its researcher capacity.

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It is not merely providing summary data, but is sharing patient-level data, which will support a broader array of research and is a higher level of transparency.

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