Companies and academic researchers, though, are often reluctant to cede control of what they consider proprietary information.
Though academic cheating is a world-wide concern, high-profile scandals over unfairly earned or bogus qualifications are commonplace in South Korea.
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Though an academic himself -- associate professor of computer science at Yale -- Gelernter has no truck with prevailing intellectual attitudes.
Swartz took his own life after prosecutors threatened him with lengthy jail time for downloading academic papers, even though he neither sold nor distributed the content he downloaded and by all accounts hurt no one.
The second eternal truth: Success is not a zero-sum game, though most academic economists, pundits and politicians act as if it were--maybe because they vie for glory in zero-sum professions. (There can be only 1 U.S. President and 100 senators, for example.) The third eternal truth: The Golden Rule is more than a spiritual truth, it is a business truth.
Looking at the market through a political lens can be more academic than anything else, though.
Steve McIntyre, a retired Canadian mining consultant whose blog, Climate Audit, has been the source for much detailed critique of climate reconstructions, including those of CRU, might, though not an academic, be the sort of person Mr Stringer is thinking of.
Mostly though, merit aid is academic in nature and if you have the grade, you get the aid.
Though the report reads like an academic paper, the WEF wants it to provoke dialogue and action.
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U.S. citizens are not allowed to travel to Cuba for mere tourism, though they can obtain licenses for academic, religious, journalistic or cultural exchange trips.
At the Gottlieb Bienert middle school in Plauen, a suburb of Dresden, head teacher Gert Gorski explains that the higher up the school pupils proceed, the more they follow different paths, though they mingle for non-academic subjects.
Students who participate in the program for two years are eligible to apply for academic scholarships that are not based on grades, though there is a minimum GPA requirement.
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This suggests the Down to Earth article was itself a source for the IPCC, though Murari Lal, a retired Indian academic, now a consultant, who was one of the four co-ordinating lead authors of the chapter, says this was not the case.
Ms Cooper said the number of such visas has gone up by 30, 000 a year since the election even though applicants do not have to meet any academic requirements to be eligible and no checks are made on whether they study or overstay.
Academic credit for completed online work is a possibility at some stage, though, and The New York Times reported that the University of Washington will offer credit this autumn for its Coursera online courses.
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Though we have among the highest per-pupil expenditures, we have among the lowest academic performance levels.
The problem is not just Mr Davis (though he notably lacks the charisma of, say, Governor Pat Brown, who oversaw the academic and highway spending of the 1960s).
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