But with virtually no financial aid from Jamaica's cash-starved Olympic movement, she had to work part-time, including modeling swimwear for Canadian sportswearmaker Louis Garneau.

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The scientists -- who bring varied skills to the table, including mathematical modeling and psychiatry -- believe they have cracked how long-term memories are made, stored and retrieved and how to replicate this process in brains that are damaged, particularly by stroke or localized injury.

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Additionally, women leaders are more likely than their male peers to demonstrate types of leadership behavior that improve corporate organizational performance, including participative decision-making, role modeling, inspiration, expectations and rewards, and mentoring (p. 7).

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The high-performance systems that Lockheed Martin develops require a range of technologies, including cloud computing, biometrics, information management, modeling and simulation, precision pointing, energy management and storage, optics and electro-optics, and nanotechnology.

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The study analyzes various allergenic plants being grown in climate chambers modeling future conditions, and researchers are incorporating factors including weather patterns and changes in precipitation and temperature.

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The USGS scientists, using tide gauge data and computer modeling, believe that a combination of factors, including the pressures of favorable ocean currents, has actually suppressed sea levels for a time, but that time ended two decades ago, and now the trend is headed upward, much faster than elsewhere.

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RiskMetrics sells its VAR modeling and other services to 3, 500 institutions, including the world's top ten investment banks and 70 of its 100 largest money managers.

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