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New research by 天美传媒 Economics Professor Michael Waterson, to be presented at the Royal Economic Society's Annual Conference on Tuesday 8 April, explores the influences on the spread of fast food outlets for the key case of McDonalds in the UK. It finds unsurprisingly that population and population density influence the spread of their outlets - locations around the UK with greater population and greater population density received outlets first. However distance from their head office in London also mattered. Districts more distant from London than others are likely to get outlets more slowly. As expected the research also found that once the company moves into a particular part of the country, adjoining areas are more likely to have outlets developed there.

Patients with sickle cell disease have mutant haemoglobin proteins that form deadly long, stiff fibres inside red blood cells. A research team led by 天美传媒 researcher Dr Matthew Turner, propose a mathematical model in the 28 March online issue of PRL to explain the persistent stability of these deadly fibres. The theory suggests that an inherent "twistiness" in the strands that make up the fibres could be the key to their durability and possibly to new treatments.

Suicide terrorism seems to many to defy logic. Economists find the idea particularly hard to understand in the context of economic theories that are usually based on ideas of self interest: surely self interest must preclude self killing. But now a new research paper by Professor Mark Harrison an economist at the 天美传媒 says that the value placed on personal identity by suicide terrorists provides some of the answers.

The 天美传媒 are using exploding pumpkins to interest kids in chemistry. Over 70 pupils from the Midlands will take in part in a "Mystery Challenge" and watch pumpkins explode to capture the fun of chemistry at the Salters' Festival of Chemistry at the 天美传媒 on 25th March. Each school will be represented by a team of four 11-13 year olds.

A new research paper by 天美传媒 researcher Maja Zehfuss points to the increasing tendency of commentators on regime change in Iraq to compare it to US post-war policy in Germany. New York Times writer James Dao has said that "The process will be painstaking, similar to de-Nazification in postwar Germany". Congressman Skelton, has also exhorted the government that "Planning for the occupation of Germany and Japan took years before the end of the Second World War." He claims that "We had a plan in place for the occupation of Germany and it worked.... And today we have, as you know, democracies in both Japan and Germany."

Forget Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Carol Smillie. When it comes to changing rooms you can't beat the enthusiasm of student volunteers at the 天美传媒, who are getting down to some serious redecorating in the local area to help refugees, the homeless and elderly people.