The picture of an increasingly high-tech education was revealed in the 1999 Survey of Information and Communications Technology, which was published by the Government Statistical Service.

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Dr. S. Robert Lichter is Professor of Communications at George Mason University, where he also directs the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media, and the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), which works to improve the quality of statistical and scientific information in the news.

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Some service providers use a technique called statistical multiplexing , to get round this.

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The Russian Federal Service of State Statistics just released an extremely handy supplement to the 2011 Russian Statistical Yearbook.

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