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UCLA researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete

The production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, accounts for about about 5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. An even larger source of carbon dioxide emissions is flue gas emitted from smokestacks at power plants around the world. A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UCLA has developed a potential solution for this problem: a closed-loop process which captures carbon from power plant smokestacks and uses it to create a new building material- CO2NCRETE- fabricated using 3D printers.

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Hidden costs for the ‘hidden poor’

Hidden poor seniors said they felt depressed “some, most or all of the time” at a rate of 10.6 percent, compared to 3.4 percent of those above the Elder Index.
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Steven Wallace (department of Community Health Sciences at Fielding School of Public Health) is the lead author of a new fact sheet by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research reporting that in high-cost areas of California, people with incomes much higher than the federal poverty level struggle to maintain a basic quality of life and may experience feelings of depression.

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UCLA and Stanford researchers pinpoint origin of sighing reflex in the brain

Researchers now have a better understanding of how the brain triggers sighing, which is vital to lung function.
Researchers now have a better understanding of how the brain triggers sighing, which is vital to lung function.
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Scientists, including UCLA’s Jack Feldman (department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute), have pinpointed two tiny clusters of neurons that are responsible for transforming normal breaths into sighs, which could one day allow physicians to treat patients who cannot breathe deeply on their own.

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Anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps the students who need it the most

Programs meant to reduce bullying in primary and secondary schools are often ineffective. However, after studying more than 7,000 students in 77 elementary schools in Finland, Jaana Juvonen (department of Psychology) has found one that works very well and greatly benefited the mental health of sixth-graders who experienced the most bullying. This program has also significantly improved their self-esteem and reduced signs of depression.

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