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Of the 1, 300 questioned, 45 per cent said they feel a degree in computing is no longer valuable for securing a career in IT, and 71 per cent stated that self-taught developers are as skilled as those with formal training or education.
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In an operational per share basis, the self-professed global leader in copper production earned 74 cents, beating the consensus call by 4 cents.
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In later experiments, when they were allowed to push a stimulation lever on their own accord, they self-stimulated hundreds of times per hour.
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Forty-three per cent said pupils in their school had self-harmed due to the pressures they faced, 37% said students suffered from eating disorders and 13% knew of a pupil who had attempted suicide.
BBC: Pupils 'under greater pressure'
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"If you think even with a quarter of a million parishes that still means you've got four or five thousand self-identified Catholics on average per parish, and that's far more than you could fit in church over the course of a week, " says Voas.
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Getting chilled to the bone (accidental excessive cold) counts for 0.25 of an admission, intentional self-harm to 0.20 per cent of an admission.
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"One per cent of prisoners are responsible for 25% of all self-harm incidents in the prison estate, " he said.
BBC: Self-harm 'on the rise' in jails
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She plans to acquire electronic rights to backlists, sign up new authors (with fifty-per-cent profit-sharing), and form a self-publishing division.
NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish
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Six per cent had suffered multiple attacks on their emotional wellbeing and self-confidence, including living with frequent violence between parents.
BBC: Sex abuse risk for NI children
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We can argue about whether a change in body weight of a quarter of a pound per year is meaningful and how much faith we can put in these studies of self-reported diet.
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His logic was, at least to him, self-evident: the state, he claimed, was already spending ten per cent of its G.
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