The first grant came in 2011, robot design was improved and turned into a kit, and a photo licensing strategy was devised as a means of drawing income from the scanning activity.

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Second, their brain functions, as measured by electrical activity and high-tech scanning, are dissimilar.

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In one study in 2004 researchers at the University of Toronto used positron emission tomography scanning to track the brain activity of 14 depressed patients who had successfully been treated with CBT, comparing them with 13 patients who got better by taking only Paxil.

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At Facebook, the company's site-integrity team spends its days and nights scanning for spikes in what users report as spam, and other unusual activity, such as friend request rejections.

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The old horizon scanning function really has become a much more complex, dynamic, and rewarding activity in the current era.

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