Some universities may continue to ask those applying to study medicine, for example, to complete additional tests.

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Those figures point to a considerable fall in the number of pupils from Wales applying to university in 2013 - not pupils applying to universities in Wales but Welsh pupils applying to study at university.

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The build up of ice and strong winds in particular can also be issues and a host of academic institutions are applying hi-tech techniques to study the impact these conditions can have.

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To show Zylast works for hours, Innovative BioDefense funded a study done at Pace University in New York that tested the product by applying it to swatches of pig skin.

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