Any portfolio of 30 stocks randomly selected from the list of 1, 000 stocks is bound to include mostly smaller companies.

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At the University of Sheffield, where Mossman did his doctoral studies, he and his co-authors measured the heads, midpieces, and flagella of 30 sperm per man, from 103 men randomly selected from a pool of about 500 who were recruited for a larger fertility study.

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The Third International Mathematics and Science Study, which tested randomly selected students from 41 countries, found no correlation between whether a country has national standards and how well its students perform.

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In their yet-to-be-published article, the company randomly selected 100 portfolios containing 30 stocks from a 1, 000 stock universe.

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However, these people say the document, which has been provided to congressional investigators, also states the panel might have made different recommendations had it been allowed to look at either randomly selected images or all of the images from the study.

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The plaintiffs had asked to take samples from only five (5) randomly selected hard drives in order to determine whether the issue of scope was even worth contention based on what keywords they might have determined to be germane.

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They might be surprised then by a recent survey out of Brown University, which found a 12 percent increase in performance for a randomly selected group of 255 call center employees who volunteered to work from home.

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Researchers from the Stanford Prevention Research Center and Harvard Medical School selected the first 50 ingredients they found in randomly chosen cookbook recipes, including meats, fish, vegetables, dairy products, bread and spices.

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