The meta-analysis showed that people with allergies had a 24% reduced risk of developing head and neck cancers.
The research, reported in the online journal PLoS One, found that people with asthma, nasal allergies and other common allergic conditions had a significantly reduced risk of developing head and neck cancers.
Developing a head-turning innovation such as PlexTV is a Plextor tradition.
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But Dumisani Kumalo, the group's current (South African) head, insists that developing nations don't oppose necessary change.
That creates a dilemma for developing-country governments: they may want to head off inflation with higher interest rates but that would only encourage the speculators.
Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs had launched an unusual, public campaign for the job, criticizing the U.S. and pocketing endorsements from a number of developing countries by arguing that a development expert should head the bank.
Andrew Burns, head author of the report, said developing countries need to reduce their fiscal vulnerabilities by lowering short-term debt levels, reducing their budget deficits and returning to a more neutral monetary policy stance instead of constantly cutting rates to historic lows.
Matthias Mikshe, founder and head of Stardoll, said many firms were developing virtual worlds for children because young people were far more familiar with them than their parents.
"The easy thing is to withdraw, " says Viveka Risberg, the head of Swedwatch, a nonprofit group involved in developing countries.
Kids with autism tend to look more at people's mouths, while typically developing children look more at the eyes, Ami Klin, head of Emory University's and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Marcus Autism Center, and others have found.
It was his rival, Joel Engel, who was head of research at Bell Labs and also committed to developing the first mobile phone.
Firms are also developing apps that let employees unlock some of the data that are held in head-office enterprise systems more easily.
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D. from Northwestern University, Robertson was a professor and head of the marketing department at Wharton from 1971 to 1994 before developing international programs at Emory University and at the London Business School.
If all goes as planned, GM hopes that the coordinated global strategy will shave 30% to 50% off its engineering costs, which account for as much as half of the costs of developing a new vehicle, according to James Queen, GM's engineering head.
D. from Northwestern University, Robertson was a professor and head of the marketing department at Wharton from 1971 to 1994 before developing international programs at Emory University (where he was also dean of its Goizueta Business School) and at the London Business School.
But for the time being, Iceland is a world leader in developing new sources of geothermal energy, and the government is taking advantage of that head-start by inviting new power-hungry industries to its shores.
The campaign's head of scientific information, Dr Lesley Walker, said the outlook for those developing the disease was improving all the time.
The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.
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So after he was done beating the audience over the head with examples of entrepreneurs and nonprofits using technology to better lives in the developing world, he brought in Adam Levine of rock band Maroon 5 and Adam Duritz of Counting Crows to close the sale.
The head of the Iranian nuclear programme, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, has said that Iran is simply developing its ability to provide nuclear energy.
Prof Hector's feelings were echoed by Professor Jeremy Bagg, head of the dental school at the University of Glasgow, who has been involved in developing the Scottish Oral Health Research Strategy.
Instead of competing head-on with Shinko and Johnson Matthey, Endoh is trying to leapfrog them by developing packages precise enough to match up with tiny 0.25-micron and smaller circuits -- just the sizes Intel will be working in from now on.
There have been other attempts at a camera-based solution, but the new Cambridge company - InView Systems - says the solution it is developing with Jaguar Cars involves creating a virtual image in front of the driver, like a military "head up display".
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