That is an important result, for it shows that adult brains are more plastic than conventional neurological wisdom had supposed.

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As a result, withdrawal rates from state adult literacy programmes were extremely high, estimated at 80-90 %, while the ability of graduates to read unfamiliar texts, even after two years of instruction, remained very low.

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The result is a glut of the young adult lobsters useful to commercial fishermen, which co-management probably helps to maintain, but which might prove unstable in the long run.

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