Onboard course work will be augmented with shore-based study and field activities at each port of call.

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Research for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) had shown that children doing out-of-school activities and study support did better than expected in terms of their educational attainment, attitudes and attendance.

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Dr. Rao, who wasn't involved in the Scottish study, noted, however, that it looked at exercise and other activities at one point in time rather than over a lifetime.

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This latest study shows a stable picture - with 62% of recent graduates in employment, 9% unemployed, 14% staying on for further study and the remainder in a mixture of training while working and other activities.

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It also contains a case study about the first e-waste day in Cook Islands, and describes activities for the news room to carry out in order to increase the understanding of the issue and to explore different story ideas.

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About 100 volunteers are being sought for the study, half of which will be asked to take part in indoor activities and half outdoor exercise.

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The ACTIVE study also tested the time it took to do daily activities, like preparing a meal, and performance tests, such as reading price tables to pick the best telephone provider, Dr. Wolinsky said.

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Unknown to the participants, Dr Halevy and Dr Galinsky had conducted an independent test, using 58 people not involved in the main study, to rate how demeaning, humiliating, degrading, embarrassing and uncomfortable each of the ten possible activities actually was.

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Fields cookies is like saying: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that people who limit their athletic activities to curling and badminton are less likely to require knee operations than people who play contact sports.

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