Those with the highest scores get first pick of their major course of study.
He enrolled at Cornell University, creating his own course of study, and began designing golf courses while still a student.
Although the course of study is not changing, say organizers, the partnership adds credibility and an extra incentive for the men to excel.
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Parents feared that Gymnasien, where the course of study had already been shortened from nine years to eight, would be crippled by the loss of two more.
As Pittinsky pointed out, that is quite a different approach from the current one, which assumes little about the knowledge of individual students, teaching the same syllabus to each person that is enrolled in a specific course of study.
My best guess is that absent a much more rigorous course of study, an end to our obsession with skills-focused education, and getting over our long-standing aversion to a content-rich curriculum, you will over time see a fadeout.
Immediate drug treatment reduced the likelihood of a repeat seizure in the short term, but over the course of the study both interventions resulted in similar rates of seizure recurrence.
Indeed, the researchers said that "changes in total fat were very small" during the course of the study among the participants in the control group.
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They say some of the badgers were known to be infected with TB and that both farms suffered bovive TB outbreaks during the course of the study.
Because of the this change, and because the data and safety monitoring board reviewed the data multiple times over the course of the study, the threshold for statistical significance was lowered to 0.036.
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In particular, the American Cancer Society study finds that women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day.
For example, a Brazilian study published last year in the journal Explore, examined 28 other studies, found that religious and spiritual people had an 18% lower mortality rate, which represented an 18% reduction in mortality over the course of the study.
While no definitive answer is possible, of course, an exhaustive study of the available data suggests that the number is zero.
During the course of conducting his study, Lyon found out about a second family with exactly the same disease, caused by the same mutation.
Much of that study, of course, was done by tobacco companies, and Targacept, one of the bioscience companies in the Piedmont Triad Research Park, is among the fruits of that labour.
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Marc Buelens, who teaches in the international MBA program at the Vlerick Management School, in Belgium, now devotes a large part of his leadership course to an extended case study of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Of course, this study does give us more reason to try to get these medicines to those patients.
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Of course, this study is subject to the caveats that it: (a) only involved one decision making task and (b) only involved undergraduate students.
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Exactly how that process happens is the subject of much debate and study and, of course, expensive consulting fees.
There is, of course, something unsettling about this new field of study.
Dr Plummer has monitored more than 1, 500 prostitutes during the course of his 12-year study.
This could even be true of course: but this study does not show it.
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They found that 7.7% of those without diabetes or kidney disease died over the course of the decade-long study.
Over the course of eight weeks, the study participants showed significant improvement in their balance, thus limiting their risk for falls.
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He says many American breast cancer patients are already taking letrozole after a five year course of tamoxifen because of the earlier study, but some aren't.
And we've put in place a very comprehensive study over the course of five years -we're about a year into it - to really try to pull this apart.
Of course, as with any medical study not performed on humans, there are some major caveats here.
It is, of course, possible to design a study that shows a connection between doctor fatigue and impaired performance.
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Significantly more patients in the niacin arm stopped their study treatment during the course of the trial (25.4% versus 16.6%).
Such a study is, of course, but a straw in the wind.
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