Scientists have discovered that patients without a functioning CCR5 gene show a significantly better recovery from stroke. They have connected this to an HIV treatment that blocks CCR5 in AIDS patients, which slows the progression of the disease. They hope that this might prove to be the first ever treatment to help stroke patients recover better.

This program presents the six-year term of Luis Echeverría, a lifetime bureaucrat who ascended to the presidency immediately following the Tlatelolco Massacre. Despite his efforts to enact populist economic and political reforms, he was blamed for the Tlatelolco massacre by those on the left, while he antagonized the business community and conservatives. Economic instability created tensions that erupted in protests repressed by the military.

After the disappearance of Tartessos, other Iberian locales rose to prominence and flourished-until their successes drew the unwanted attention of rival civilizations. This program tracks the history of Iberia during the era of Carthaginian and Roman expansion. Paintings, dramatizations, and maps reconstruct the course of the Punic Wars. In addition, the characteristics and cultures of these embattled regions are examined through re-creations of everyday...

This mental health training program depicts two workplace injuries where the physically injured party is blown away by the amount of attention heaped on her by her work colleagues and the exact opposite is happening to the mentally injured person. In fact, she is being told to “cheer up” and to “get over whatever it is that is bugging her”.By watching this video , your managers will learn about:• How creating a mentally healthy workplace...

A young engineer named Henry Ford devises the plan for a gas-powered car. McKinley is assassinated and his VP Theodore Roosevelt takes office and quickly passes a series of regulations increasing oversight of American business.

Designed to build confidence and enthusiasm for maths. Helps children get to grips with fractions: problem-solve with Fraction Man, share and partition in the 'Sports Stand' sequences and put fractions to work in dramatic situations. The programs tackle difficult mathematical concepts, demonstrate the fractions of wholes and sharing of amounts. Clearly demonstrate 'sharing' with shapes, objects and numbers, and makes links to multiplication and division...

This video will teach how to perform two different styles of faux hawk cuts on two different models. Includes analyzing hair and face types, cutting with scissors and clippers, and finishing touches such as lateral cuts and neck cuts. This video is one of a 14-part series that includes step by step explanations and procedures on how to perform hair brushing and cutting techniques covering a wide array of styles and cuts, from simple and commercial...

Nothing is more crucial to a nation's success-as well as its survival-than effective leadership. Broadcast from the United States Military Academy at West Point, this CNBC program assembles some of America's best experts on the subject. Their task: to examine the qualities needed most in those who will guide our nation and its economy forward. Management visionaries featured in the program include General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Commander;...

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.