A study in the Journal of Neuroscience finds that people with smaller fingers have more sensitive fingertips, probably due to a higher concentration of touch receptors in a given area.

《神经科学》杂志上的一项研究发现，那些手指较小的人们拥有更敏感的指尖，大概是因为在他们指尖集中的触觉感受器要多于常人。

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It turns out that people with smaller fingers have more sensitive fingertips, according to a study in the Journal of Neuroscience.

根据《神经科学》杂志上的一项研究，那些手指较小的人们拥有更为敏感的指尖。

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These calculations have been taken further than ever before by a new study that tallied both types of mass in smaller and more distant groups of galaxies than any previous projects.

由于一项新的研究，这些计算得到了一些以前不曾得到的结果，这项研究计算了在遥远小星系团中可见物质与暗物质的含量。

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That risk was based on smaller studies." A study on Avandia funded by GlaxoSmithKline published last year, found no increase in heart attacks.

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To sort out the confusion, Hashibe and her colleagues used statistical techniques to, in effect,make one big study out of the previous smaller studies.

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Aside from the aforementioned stomach safety study, called VIGOR, Merck also did a smaller study, called 090, which compared Vioxx to a placebo over six weeks.

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At the same conference Sugen was to present a smaller study indicating that SU5416 with chemo halted the growth of tumors in patients with advanced colon cancer for an average of at least nine months.

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It also confirms an earlier, smaller study, published as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine last July, which tracked 2, 566 patients with opioid dependence before and after the introduction of the new OxyContin.

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