Transportation officials said they would also consider conducting more research on electronic control systems and review the placement and design of accelerator and brake pedals.

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The auto industry has intensified its research on how to link cruise control, steering, brakes and the cameras and sensors used for collision-avoidance systems into an integrated system able to guide a car safely.

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The Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center will focus on asthma, where rates are much higher among inner-city children, particularly blacks.

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"Parents are in a really tough position, " says Dr. Elissa Jelalian, a staff psychologist at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center who focuses on the development of intervention programs for children.

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Much research carried out by the farmers has concentrated on disease and pest control, and has enabled them to reduce their dependence on pesticides.

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The first task, which previous research has shown to deplete self-control, was tediously crossing out all the Es on a page from a statistics book.

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Mr. Biden also suggested he would try to reverse restrictions on government research on weapons injuries, which he suggested had been put in place as an effort to blunt gun-control measures.

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John Trostel uses his smart phone on Cingular's data network to monitor and control the servers he manages at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta.

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Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.

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