Professor Barbara Zehnpfennig, whose newspaper article was allegedly used in the opening of the dissertation, told German news channel N24 that failing to credit another author "breaks all academic rules".

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At the time, I was in the midst of writing my dissertation at Columbia on what drives pre-IPO and post-IPO success in venture-backed firms.

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His application listed 26 books he said he'd read between August 1969 and January 1970 while writing his dissertation on educational systems in the Belgian Congo.

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Mark Hollier, prosecuting, said Li was awarded a 37% mark in his dissertation - three marks off the 40% needed to pass - and wanted to discuss his options.

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In the spring of 1956, Bose, a music enthusiast, procrastinating in writing his dissertation, decided to buy a hi-fi.

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When I was in grad school, I wrote my dissertation by going to the library and borrowing periodicals and books off the shelf.

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My 1979 dissertation was a model relating interannual and interseasonal variations in the shape of the atmosphere, as reflected by the surface barometric pressure field, to variations crop yields across the United States.

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Through this unofficial field work, I contemplated the relationship between fashion and our ability to gain power in public, and made it the subject of both my MA thesis and my doctoral dissertation.

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