Tabloid proprietors are less than thrilled about quality papers aping their size.

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But even ideological foes concede that the papers' quality improved.

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Digital revenues, while growing, aren't doing so at the rate required to replace losses from print, forcing most papers to cut staff and quality.

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Once the data was amassed, the correlation became clear: when coauthors were closer together, their papers tended to be of significantly higher quality.

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The Prime has enhanced sound quality and an integrated LED light for reading and grading papers.

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Foreign capital has enabled many papers to modernise their production processes, improving print quality and layout.

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Ms Quigley points to a review of 9, 000 research papers conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2007.

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For the past few months, Examiner.com has been exploring ways to improve the quality of its news, and today it issued the first in a series of white papers outlining how it intends to do that.

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