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(CNN) -- A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.

Awadh Bihari was a nationalist and freedom fighter. He was actively involved in revolutionary activities against the British rule. Awadh Bihari took the front in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab against the British rule.

The British National Bibliography (BNB) lists the books and new journal titles published or distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950. It also lists forthcoming book titles and hand-held electronic publications e.g. CD-ROMs, deposited with the Legal Deposit Office since 2003.

"The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and has been doing so since the 1950s. This has traditionally included printed works and has recently been extended to electronic publications. The dataset includes metadata about published books, already published and forthcoming, and serials i.e. journals, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, etc."

"Schon Kleinkinder bevorzugen Individuen, die ihnen möglichst ähnlich sind" Kiley Hamlin (University of British Columbia) et al.: Psychological Science, Online-Vorabveröffentlichung, doi: 10.1177/0956797612457785

""Dieses Ergebnis deutet darauf hin, dass Kaugummikauen uns dabei hilft, uns auf Aufgaben zu konzentrieren, die ständige Aufmerksamkeit über längere Zeit erfordern", sagt Morgan. Da auch das Kurzzeitgedächtnis für diese Aufgabe wichtig war, widerspreche der Befund denen der früheren Studie, bei denen sich Probanden Buchstaben merken mussten. Die Forscher räumen zwar ein, dass es methodische Unterschiede zur dieser Studie gab, dennoch ist ihrer Ansicht nach damit die These nicht haltbar, nach der Kaugummikauen generell einen negativen Einfluss auf das Kurzzeitgedächtnis hat. Wer also im Büro oder der Schule wegen seines Kaugummikauens kritisiert wird, hat künftig neben der Zahnpflege ein Argument mehr zur Verteidigung: Es erhält die Konzentration und fördert damit letztlich auch die geistige Leistung. Kate Morgan (University of Cardiff) et al., British Journal of Psychology, doi: 10.1111/bjop.12025"

The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. This work will be carried out in consultation with the format's formal partners -- Library and Archives Canada and the British Library -- and informal partners -- the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and other national libraries, the agencies that provide library services and products, the many MARC user institutions, and the MARC advisory committees such as the MARBI committee of ALA, the Canadian Committee on MARC, and the BIC Bibliographic Standards Group in the UK.

We hold 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper files ...

A new study in The Lancet rates the harmfulness of 20 psychoactive drugs according to 16 criteria and finds that alcohol comes out on top. Although that conclusion is generating headlines, it is not at all surprising, since alcohol is, by several important measures (including acute toxicity, impairment of driving ability, and the long-term health effects of heavy use), the most dangerous widely used intoxicant, and its abuse is also associated with violence, family breakdown, and social estrangement. A group of British drug experts gathered by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) rated alcohol higher than most or all of the other drugs for health damage, mortality, impairment of mental functioning, accidental injury, economic cost, loss of relationships, and negative impact on community. Over all, alcohol rated 72 points on a 100-point scale, compared to 55 for heroin, 54 for crack cocaine, and 33 for methamphetamine. Cannabis got a middling score of 20, while MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms were at the low end, with ratings of 9, 7, and 6, respectively.

A new strain of mosquitoes in which females cannot fly may help curb the transmission of dengue fever, according to UC Irvine and British scientists. Great idea or frankensketter?

A new strain of MRSA has been identified in cows' milk and in people, but don't stop drinking milk - the bug is killed off in pasteurisation. However, the strain evades detection by standard tests used by some hospitals to screen for MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), potentially putting people at risk. Laura Garcia Alvarez, then at the University of Cambridge, and colleagues were studying infections in British cows when they discovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria that they thought were MRSA. However, tests failed to identify the samples as any known strains of the superbug. Sequencing the mystery bacteria's genomes revealed a previously unknown strain of MRSA with a different version of a gene called MecA. The new strain was also identified in samples of human MRSA, and is now known to account for about 1 per cent of human MRSA cases.

"Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library's collections, with descriptions of their contents."

Theresa May will chair a Cobra emergency committee meeting following the seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on 19 July 2019. The Stena Impero vessel was surrounded by four Iranian vessels and a helicopter before being boarded then redirected from its passage to Jubail towards Iran.

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