His specific areas of study include how our immune systems play a key role in our emotional lives and using compassion meditation to prevent depression in college students by reducing stress-related inflammatory activity.

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Some of the specific areas of focus include, strengthening the legal and constitutional footing of faith-based and government partnerships, scaling up partnerships to provide streamlined access to benefits, engaging faith-based and community groups in greening buildings and promoting inter-religious cooperation through service.

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Directed development projects begin with a specific end goal, rather than the aim to increase broad areas of knowledge, and generally include a defined time period and path forward.

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Other measures that could be ditched include arrangements to speed up sharing suspects' DNA profiles and fingerprints and joint working in specific areas such as terrorism, human trafficking or football hooliganism.

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