Whenever I think there's a perfect pattern, further reading and study reveal an exception.

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The study also found a pattern of heavy trading around 14, 000 disclosure events that contained climate change-related information, including press releases and SEC filings.

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The study also found that the pattern of phoneme usage globally mirrors the pattern of human genetic diversity, which also declined as modern humans set up colonies elsewhere.

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Another study metric, called Visual Attention Pattern, also found the iPhone and iPad drawing more attention than rival Android devices.

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Osterholm's study suggests this has been a general pattern in American public health history with relation to the flu vaccine.

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Other California KIPP schools showed the same pattern in my research, confirmed and amplified by a study of the Bay Area KIPP schools by the research organization SRI International.

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He said a similar pattern would be expected in other countries which were not analysed in the study.

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Researchers recruited 48 adults for the study who were asked to learn and perform a specific finger pattern (pushing keys on a keyboard in a particular sequence as fast as possible in 30 seconds).

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The study - by the investigative arm of Congress - is intended to help understand the pattern of financial loss in New York so as to try to focus economic reconstruction efforts.

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The study, by Hasselt University in Belgium, comes after Scottish research in 2012 found a similar pattern.

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