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A researcher in UNIMAS has came with a 3-in-1 Flexi Jacket, an innovative design concept that allows a backpack to serve as a hooded waterproof jacket and later in the evening, as a tent to protect its user from the outdoor natural elements.

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Biodiversity: Ocean currents carried mammals to Madagascar, Synthetic biology: Making waves, Neuroscience: Grid power, Opinion: Two takes on building consensus about science, Materials: A mouldable, self-healing clay-based hydrogel, Materials science: Size matters in deformation twinning and Meteorites: Solving the colour conundrum

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Nature's News Feature's this week highlights uncertainties in four key areas of climate science: precipitation, regional climate predictions, palaeoclimate data and aerosols and takes a look at five of the technical challenges involved in blending the sciences of engineering and biology.

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In determining whether or not the contract with the renewal fee clause infringed the Consumer Contract Act, Article 10, the court continued to rule that it did not infringe and that it was valid up to the decision that was made by the Otsu District Court on March 27, 2009.

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For eleven years straight, from 1998 on, the suicide rate in Japan has exceeded 30,000 per year, and this year shows no signs of letting up. Young people do not make up a large number of these suicides by any means, but as youth is a period with a low mortality rate in general, suicide is becoming a leading cause of death among them.

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