The book and the documentary are products of the Vessels of Brazil Project, which has been conducting careful research work for over 10 years about artisanal boat-building traditional knowledge in Brazil.

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Drawing heavily on the latest research in neuroscience, Pirozzolo is working with Steven Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the co-author of "Freakonomics, " on a golf research project to determine which transfer techniques work and which don't.

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Robots that emerge from the research project could help in search and rescue missions or work on farms mechanically pollinating crops.

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Last weekend she told the Times that after the controversy erupted, she ordered her research assistants to stop work on her current book project to reexamine The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.

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The organization has done some quality work on retirement security and published an independent research project I wrote last year on structured products.

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Work on the project is so far confined to a research paper stemming from experiments with an iPhone, although it's easy to see this spreading to other platforms and real products before too long.

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NASA's work in robotic exoskeleton systems complements work done by other government agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation Program.

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At Iowa State he scored a research gig studying rare earth magnets at nearby Ames Laboratory, famed for its work on the Manhattan Project.

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The book describes the findings of a multi-year research project that my colleagues and I conducted to discover what makes people happy, motivated, creative and productive at work.

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