For instance, in one study, college students studying for an exam in an important course were significantly more motivated to study after being told that they had 52% of the material left to cover, compared to being told that they had already completed 48%.
She also conceded she had written a case study at college discussing Napster, another service shut down because of illegal activity.
In one study, college seniors seated at a desktop Mac were randomly assigned to use either a generic keyboard and mouse or brand-name Apple accessories.
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Woodward, who comes from a suburb of Liverpool, said she came to the United States to work as a nanny in June 1996 so she could learn about the culture and because she was unsure of what she wanted to study in college.
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Masiyiwa also recently pledged to sponsor 10 South African students to study at Morehouse College.
About 15, 000 study at the college's campuses in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Ashford, Folkestone and Dover.
Students at Nashville State Community College study and conduct research at the John E.
Kiev native ame to Moscow to study, with college buddies Kuzmichev and Fridman started commodities trader, Alfa-Eco, in 1989.
It raises audit costs by 74%, according to a study by Baruch College professors Aloke Ghosh and Robert Pawlewicz.
In 1992 he took a year off from prestigious Moscow State University to study at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he perfected his English.
Among older Americans who pull up stakes, a "large majority" settle within 20 miles of their previous homes, according to a 2009 Boston College study.
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According to a study by the College Board in the early 1980s, a trait known as "follow-through" was one of the best predictors of success in college and beyond.
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He then went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge - when Lord Rab Butler, the former Conservative deputy prime minister and a relative of Welby, was head of the college.
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"Most people are really attached to their lifestyles, " says Esteban Calvo, co-author of the Boston College study that looked at home equity and now an associate professor at Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile.
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In one week-long study of 30 college students, Hancock observed that the phone was the weapon of choice, enabling 37% of all the lies, versus 27% during face-to-face exchanges, 21% using Instant Messaging and just 14% via email.
If you compare a private college with a public one based on tuition and post-graduate salaries, one study suggests that private college tuition pays itself back in a bit over six years.
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And he'd like to go to college to study nursing and hopes to play soccer.
The Imperial College London study in the Lancet Oncology compared patches and injections in 254 patients.
He wanted to move on to college to study applied math and computer science.
My parents encouraged me go to college and study to become a mechanical engineer.
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Julie moved to the United States from China in 1999 and plans to study biomedical engineering in college.
Another man, age 53, decided to change careers and go back to a local college to study computer science.
After moving to the U.S. to study at the Berklee College of Music, Klein came to New York in 1994.
Kate Vanorden said her son had two part-time jobs and was saving money to go to Onondaga County Community College to study auto mechanics.
That notion was a key factor in the Laura Spence affair, he said - when Oxford was accused by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, of being elitist after Laura, a comprehensive school pupil, failed to get a place to study medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford.
The study was financed by the College of American Pathologists and the American Clinical Laboratory Association.
Those are the second-lowest incomes in both cases in our study of the most lucrative college majors.
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