But in a third analysis of research in biology and medicine, though, China barely made a dent, with the United Kingdom coming in a distant second to the U.S.. SciVal says American researchers published 250, 000 scientific papers on biology or medicine, 29% of the global total, in 2009.

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Closer analysis found that a third of parents wanted more information about the potential risks or complications.

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That proportion is falling, but not quickly enough: Our analysis shows that about a third of all apps we have evaluated still have at least one serious shortcoming.

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Some offer their members a wide variety of third-party research and analysis and the transparency offered by the posting of real-time transaction data so that participants can make informed investment decisions.

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The third suffers from paralysis of analysis, in a futile search for certainty.

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Strikes in essential industries were running at less than a third their 1970s' level by the 1990s, according to an analysis by Stephen Dunn and David Metcalf, two industrial-relations academics, published on March 3rd by the Employment Policy Institute.

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When The New England Journal of Medicine published an analysis showing that Avandia increased the risk of heart attacks by more than a third, Congress held hearings, and sales of the drug dropped 20%.

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In fact, a UNICEF analysis illustrated that across 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa less than a third of children in the poorest 20 percent of the population receive appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, compared to almost half of children in the wealthiest 20 percent.

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GlaxoSmithKline's own analysis of its diabetes drug Avandia showed that the medicine increased the risk of heart attacks by a third.

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