Many universities base their offers of places to students on the results of AS-levels which are taken in the first year of sixth form study.
Some might see this as a disadvantage but on the whole because they know students from lower down the school they should be able to pick up any problems that occur with the difficult transition to sixth form study.
Those who are concerned about the deleterious effect of spiralling executive pay in the City are given ammunition in the form of a study by Obermatt, a consultancy, which shows there is no correlation between pay for senior executives and stock performance on the FTSE 100.
This bedrock free market principle was reaffirmed this month in the form of a new study from economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore examining state income tax rates.
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He'll study the racing form, looking at speeds and performances in past races.
More of than half of the 300 Londoners surveyed by the study wanted some form of a ban on strikes.
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Simply fill out their New Gifting Study 2012 sponsorship form.
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HeartWare said that the FDA was requiring the company to perform a post-approval study in the form of a registry consisting of 600 HeartWare patients and an additional 600 control patients.
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When figures are in electronic form, knowledge workers can study them, annotate them, look at them in any amount of detail or in any view they want and pass them around for collaboration.
In short, the GAO study revealed that one form of industry abuse alone, pension consultant conflicts, did indeed undermine pension investment performance.
But the new study uses a different form of stimulation, known as transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS), which applies randomly fluctuating currents (within certain parameters) to the head.
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The other study, focusing on walking form, comes from University of Utah biology professor David Carrier.
This is the second study in which a prescription form of niacin has failed to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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The FAA said Monday it will form a government-industry group to study current policies regarding safe use of the devices during flight.
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The study was published in book form in 2004, and also formed the basis of a 2010 book on liability in international humanitarian law.
It took two years to get a stable, crystalline form of the hepatitis C protease enzyme for study.
For the new study, Diligence Review examined the Form ADV filings for all 11, 622 advisers registered with the SEC to identify violations and potential conflicts as well as assets under management.
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The nutritional condition of all the children in the study was also assessed, in the form of their body-mass indices (BMI), a measure of how much fat their bodies contained.
The final study looked at whether patients with a particular form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma should have regular CT scans to detect relapses after they finish treatment.
It would also be refreshing to see Major League Baseball form a committee of draft experts and scholars to thoroughly study the current model of operations.
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In this case, two young scientists, Holger Willenbring and Xin Chen, were trying to study a deadly, and fairly common, form of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma.
Writing in Newsday, Pearson condemns Harvard's Du Bois Institute for housing a hip hop archive because its scholars deem the art form and culture on which it rests to be worthy of study.
Some 600, 000 Americans have a less severe version caused by one defective copy. (There would be more of the double-gene victims if they didn't die young.) To get its drug approved Isis will need to study 45 patients with the severe two-gene form and a few hundred with the single-gene disease.
Some 46% of girls agree marriage is the best form of relationship against 56% of boys, according to the study.
BBC: Marriage no longer a key goal for girls, survey suggests
Academics from Cambridge University are to help tutor sixth-form physics students across the UK to prepare them better for university study.
One institution that emphasized a religious, even mystical, form of Zionism was the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, a center of study in Jerusalem that revolved around the rabbinical legacy of Avraham Kook and his son Tzvi Yehuda Kook.
The study of a sustained release oral formulation of the synthetic form of prostacylin showed that patients treated for pulmonary arterial hypertension did not achieve a statistically significant improvement in how far they were able to walk within six minutes by week 16 of the trial.
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By 1997 drugs had overtaken talk therapy in treating depression: 75% of patients used drugs (up from 37% in 1987) versus an overlapping 60% who got some form of therapy (down from 71% in 1987), a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.
According to an IRS study, in 2000, taxpayers brave enough to tackle the AMT form without software spent 4.6 hours on it.
"The economic consequences of where these biotechnology clusters form and grow will likely be immense, " says Ross DeVol, the study's principal author.
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