Her psychology PhD at the University of Portsmouth focused on whether dogs could detect deception in humans.

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But for now, Will Percival from the University of Portsmouth, a Dark Energy Survey collaborator, said DECam is an exciting prospect.

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Dr Juliane Kaminski, from the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, said the study was "incredible because it implies dogs understand the human can't see them, meaning they might understand the human perspective".

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Ford Hickson, a senior research fellow with the University of Portsmouth's Sigma Research unit, says HIV prevention over the past 20 years has taken a singular route - safe sex, and reducing exposure .

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Dr Marina Davila Ross, from the University of Portsmouth and Professor Elke Zimmermann at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover, Germany, studied the play behaviour of 25 orang-utans aged between two and 12 at four primate centres around the world.

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In a recent study, Paul Morris, a psychology professor at the University of Portsmouth in England, found that wearing high heels led to "higher attractiveness ratings" by both male and female observers, but the higher of those ratings were cast by women.

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Dr. Mitch Lomax and her team at the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth have determined that training of your inspiratory muscles the muscles responsible for breathing in can lead to significant improvements in athletic performance.

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The Portsmouth University researcher is part of the Euclid team and one of the few Europeans involved in drawing up the WFirst concept.

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