Ofsted says there have been improvements in standards of behaviour, and average attendance has improved by more than 10% this term.

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This dramatic shift in consumer behaviour has seen the average amount of data used by contract customers each month soar to 1.1 gigabytes (GB).

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Staff working in the NHS in Wales are subjected to an average of 22 cases of violent or aggressive behaviour every day, according to a study.

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Dr Bastian reports in Psychological Science that those who wrote about immoral behaviour exposed themselves to the ice for an average of 86.7 seconds whereas those who had written about everyday experiences exposed themselves for an average of only 64.4.

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Those who had written about immoral behaviour rated the ice-bucket experience at an average of 2.8 on the pain scale.

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The results, to be published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, show that the men and women collected on average about the same weight of mushrooms.

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This is broadly similar to the 1979-2000 average of 7.04 million sq km observed by modern satellites, and the number used to judge current behaviour in the Arctic.

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