• "We tested our model in an independent set of centenarians and achieved an accuracy of 77%, " explained Professor Sebastiani.

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  • We pointed out that it was in everybody's interest, in CNN's interest, in Iraq's interest, and certainly in the interest of the world and of the American people to see what was going on in Baghdad and have an independent set of eyes and ears to report this.

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  • The BMJ compared policies to six standards produced by Public Concern at Work, an independent authority set up to encourage whistle-blowing.

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  • The West End Commission, an independent body set up by Westminster City Council in 2012, spent six months gathering recommendations for the area's future.

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  • However, the Information Commissioner's Office - the independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest - says that the act is working well in its current form.

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  • This achievement which owes much to the government's decision to make the Bank of England operationally independent to set interest rates in order to meet an inflation target was widely expected to deliver a more restrained housing market.

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  • Richer beneficiaries should pay more of their share of Medicare, while the generosity of the system should be kept in check by the independent panel set up under Mr Obama's health reform to monitor services and payments.

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  • It's no secret that Bluetooth devices that are in discoverable mode are... well, discoverable, so we figure it was just a matter of time before an independent organization set up a massive network of transceivers to track their every move.

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  • The Scottish coalition's harmony threatened to break down on June 27th when an independent commission set up by the administration to look at local-council reform recommended reducing the number of councillors and electing them by proportional representation, instead of by first-past-the-post.

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  • Allocating the extra cash thus made available to some pet anti-poverty projects, and leaving them to get on with the job, will not do, says a recent report from a largely independent group set up by President Hugo Banzer's government last year to advise on social investment.

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  • Government free schools are semi-independent and are set up by groups including parents and charities.

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  • Free schools are semi-independent state schools set up and run by parents, teachers and charities.

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  • Karzai's term is up in May, but an independent commission has set the election for August 20.

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  • An independent board will set payment rates for doctors and hospitals, as well as benefit packages for patients.

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  • An independent commission was set up to investigate the issue, chaired by future US Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

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  • The bureau in the Dodd bill has an independent ability to set clear rules of the road across the marketplace.

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  • Independent Insurance, set up by the mercurial Michael Bright in 1987, seemed to do well when its competitors did not.

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  • Determined to remain independent, Armani set out to expand his production capability.

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  • But the questions raised by Mr Kay's volte-face may only go away if an independent inquiry is set up to answer them.

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  • Unlike other independent makers of set-top boxes that have simply licensed security technology from Motorola or Scientific-Atlanta, Sony's box goes around the duopoly.

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  • The independent inquiry board set up to investigate the first explosive failure said the flight control system failed because of errors in computer software design.

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  • The independent commission was set up after winning the backing of Scotland's pro-union parties, Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, in a Scottish Parliamentary vote.

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  • An independent statistics agency set up by Mr Papaconstantinou will help, but it will take years before the markets and Greece's European Union partners trust its figures.

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  • Mr Hague has been waiting for the report of an independent inquiry he set up last year under Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former Tory Lord Chancellor.

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  • An independent monitoring agency set up by foreign donors says that a program distributing cheap rice to six million families is working, as are the scholarship and health programs.

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  • Last year an independent commission, set up in the wake of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, concluded that the UK's reserve forces were in need of "significant revitalisation".

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  • Independent commissions should set electoral boundaries.

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  • The answer to that question was laid out in damning detail in a 2003 report issued by the Defense Science Board, a panel of independent advisors that set up a task force to figure out why everything seemed to be going haywire in military space.

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  • But a decade ago, with the agreement of all the parties, Mexico set up independent electoral institutions.

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  • Lord Carter suggested a way of doing this, too: an independent commission that would set sentencing guidelines according to prison capacity.

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