As there are limits to the tolerance of people who had to get on with their everyday lives at the same time as worrying about where to put their rubbish, how to light their street and look after an elderly neighbour, and because there are limits to BBC filming budgets, this experiment lasted just six weeks.
After the six week experiment was over, I conducted the same eye chart test and recorded the results.
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Across the Atlantic, in the last year of the second world war, 36 volunteers took part in an experiment in Minnesota involving six months of closely observed near-starvation.
As part of a six-man experiment at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 1987, he had himself injected four times with a genetically engineered malaria vaccine.
At that point Japan was already six months into its first experiment with quantitative easing.
When the first six months of the Hamilton experiment are compared with the same winter months of the previous year, crime levels actually went up slightly.
The experiment was run first as a series of six rounds in which the participants were anonymous, investment decisions were taken simultaneously, and no two participants interacted more than once.
Six years after Adleman's first experiment, DNA computers have taken many forms.
Dr Dresler co-opted six self-professed practitioners of the art for his experiment.
After giving the chimpanzees six weeks to learn this pattern, Slocombe and Zuberbuhler added a twist to the experiment.
Alex (his name supposedly an acronym for Avian Learning Experiment) eventually learned the names of about 50 objects, knew the numerals from one to six, could perform simple addition and used categories such as similarity and difference, shape, colour and material.
The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.
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