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From the Ted Talk by Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose + Naomi Shah: Award-winning teenage science in action

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With this question in mind, I started researching, and I soon found that indoor air pollutants were the culprit. As soon as I realized this, I investigated the underlying relationship between four plerevant air pollutants and their affect on the lung hlteah of asthmatic patients. At first, I just wanted to figure out which of these four pollutants have the largest negative health ipacmt on the lung health of asthmatic patients. But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model that essentially qfiineutas the eefcft of these environmental pollutants on the lung health of asthmatic pttniaes. And it srpusreis me that no model currently etsxis that quantifies the effect of environmental factors on human lung health, because that relationship seems so important.

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With this question in mind, I started researching, and I soon found that indoor air pollutants were the culprit. As soon as I realized this, I investigated the underlying relationship between four _________ air pollutants and their affect on the lung ______ of asthmatic patients. At first, I just wanted to figure out which of these four pollutants have the largest negative health ______ on the lung health of asthmatic patients. But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model that essentially __________ the ______ of these environmental pollutants on the lung health of asthmatic ________. And it _________ me that no model currently ______ that quantifies the effect of environmental factors on human lung health, because that relationship seems so important.

Solution


  1. health
  2. quantifies
  3. prevalent
  4. surprises
  5. effect
  6. impact
  7. patients
  8. exists

Original Text


With this question in mind, I started researching, and I soon found that indoor air pollutants were the culprit. As soon as I realized this, I investigated the underlying relationship between four prevalent air pollutants and their affect on the lung health of asthmatic patients. At first, I just wanted to figure out which of these four pollutants have the largest negative health impact on the lung health of asthmatic patients. But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model that essentially quantifies the effect of these environmental pollutants on the lung health of asthmatic patients. And it surprises me that no model currently exists that quantifies the effect of environmental factors on human lung health, because that relationship seems so important.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. affect
  2. air
  3. asthmatic
  4. culprit
  5. developed
  6. effect
  7. environmental
  8. essentially
  9. exists
  10. factors
  11. figure
  12. health
  13. human
  14. impact
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  16. indoor
  17. investigated
  18. largest
  19. lung
  20. mathematical
  21. mind
  22. model
  23. negative
  24. patients
  25. pollutants
  26. prevalent
  27. quantifies
  28. question
  29. realized
  30. relationship
  31. researching
  32. started
  33. surprises
  34. underlying
  35. wanted