Dr. David Palat, a pulmonologist who works on sleep disorders, told me that a technician had scanned the data I had generated that night nowadays, of course, sleep data are recorded by computer, rather than on a ream of paper and had analyzed the information so that it could be presented in a series of tables.

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Goldman prefers investing in the software and services subsectors of the information-technology industry, which will benefit from the proliferation of smartphones, tables, cloud computing and increased e-commerce activity.

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The school performance tables are also being expanded to show a wider range of information.

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This press release, the financial tables, as well as other supplemental information including the reconciliations of certain non-GAAP measures to their nearest comparable GAAP measures, are also available on that site.

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Exam league tables are to be expanded to show more information about the spread of a schools results, showing how the most and least able pupils are performing.

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Great care has been given to providing information in a variety of forms (e.g. text, tables, diagrams, audio-files and linked Internet sites).

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There are many other qualifications, such as the Diploma in Digital Applications (Dida) taken in many schools in place of an information technology GCSE, which counts as equivalent to four GCSEs in the school league tables in England.

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