The study included data on about half of all Andean glaciers and blamed the melting on an average temperature rise of 0.7C from 1950-1994.
Both studies missed their main goal, but the more recent one--a three-year, 124-patient study--shows that patients on the drug lived, on average, an extra four months.
Even Valdez, the pretty salmon-fishing town on Prince William Sound at the foot of the mountains, receives an average of eight feet of snow on its rooftops each winter.
The annualised return on the money was an impressive 94% on average.
Separate analysis found some trusts were charging much more than the national average (77p) for an hour's hospital parking, based on the average from a three-hour stay.
The lower cost of Google's mobile ads compared with those viewed on a desktop have contributed to an overall downturn in the average amount paid by advertisers every time someone clicks on an ad, the company has said.
Bank shares led a slump in European and Asian stock markets on Tuesday, though the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened slightly higher after an oil rally on Monday petered out.
Today, the average return in the United States on investment in company-wide information systems is 81% compared with an average of 6.3% for everything else, say researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
In addition, gross margin percentage on home sales improved over year-earlier levels on the back of an increase in average sales prices and lower valuation adjustments.
The newcomer to the field is Kevin Daly, an economist at Goldman Sachs, who calculates that on average the host nation of an Olympics wins 54% more medals than usual.
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It has returned 9.0% a year on average over the past decade, versus an average for world stock funds of 5.2%.
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The results were somewhat startling: For every hour of TV the kids watched on an average weeknight, their risk of criminal convictions increased by almost 30%.
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All told, Kaspersky Lab said that a total of 30, 749, 066 vulnerable programs and files were detected on computers using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), with an average of 8 different vulnerabilities detected on each affected computer.
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The scientist calculated his findings based on data revealing the average weight of an American had increased by 10 pounds in the 1990s.
The spread between the highest savings rates on the market and an average rate can be many times the return.
Writing in the pages of Corriere della Sera newspaper he went as far as to describe the crowding on an average visit as an "unimaginable disaster".
On average, the remodeled stores already are showing an average of 6% to 7% increases, according to Target execs.
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By helping people find cabs, Flywheel increases the usage of the cabs on it system by an average of 20%.
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At the start of this month, the average rate on an easy access savings account with no bonus was only 0.76%.
The economy, which grew with his hand on the tiller by an average 2.8% a year between 1997 and 2006, is likely to expand by less from now on.
The upward revision made to Chinese oil demand in 2010, on an average across the main forecasts, totaled some 600, 000 barrels per day since the start of last year.
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Time spent on the sale block has dropped dramatically too: nationally, homes sat an average of 62 days on market, or about a month less than they did a year ago.
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At the second location, the Rocket achieved an average download speed on the laptop of 6.15 mbps versus 1.58 mbps for Verizon's modem.
Researchers interviewed 2, 800 students and based the projection on an average course length of 3.4 years.
Suppose that the Bank of Japan set a target for the price level based on an average inflation rate of 1% since 1998.
The return on an average bank robbery is, frankly, rubbish.
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Police say the arrested traders, who mostly come from Bihar, said that 25 to 30 elephants were annually taken out of the state on an average over the past 15 to 20 years.
Even more significantly from the point of view of advertisers, each user is spending more time on the site - an average of six hours and 39 minutes a month in May 2011, compared to five hours and 56 minutes in May 2009.
They found the photos to be on par what "an average" point-and-shoot digital camera with the caveat that this is still a phone first, and then a camera.
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