It had not piloted the A2 section - the second year of study - before the A-level was split into two parts in 2000.
Over the 20-year period of the study, there was net outperformance of 9 percent per year between the longs and the shorts.
The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project 2009 is at the start of a five-year study of the site which aims to define the history and development of Pavlopetri.
Overall credit card satisfaction is up for all issuers, and is at its highest level in the six-year history of the study.
The Mitchell finances one year of study at institutions in Ireland and Northern Ireland for up to 12 postgraduates each year, and the program is about more than simply academics.
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Part of the evidence for that theory comes from the Whitehall study, a giant 20-year study of British civil servants conducted by Sir Michael Marmot of University College, London.
Many universities base their offers of places to students on the results of AS-levels which are taken in the first year of sixth form study.
In the first year of our reputation study, Toyota ranked higher than any other automaker, placing 17 on the list and qualifying as a clear reputation leader.
In 1998, the year of FDA approval, a study at the Johns Hopkins Burn Center showed infection rates fell 70% when doctors switched from using uncoated latex catheters to Rochester's new device.
However, when the researchers went back to people a year after the start of the study, they found that these short-term boosts in activity levels had not been sustained.
The eight-year study explored the fundamental question of where disruptive innovations come from and what roles senior executives, managers, and employees play in the creation of highly innovative teams and organizations.
The hope was born last year, with the publication of a study by Ron Brakke, a Dallas-based animal-health consultant.
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This has certainly been an interesting year for the study of Neanderthals in science.
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The Pfizer study follows on the heels of similar study last year from researchers at Amgen.
The BBC spoke to two Dominican women in New York as well as the professors behind a 20-year study into the immigrant experiences of different generations.
But none of the U.S. CEOs has spent a year in China to study the market and ask questions of how they can bring value to local people.
The Obama administration just concluded a two-year study of how to regulate the commercial collection of consumer data online.
Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
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Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, recently introduced a bill calling for a two-year delay of interchange fee regulation, and a one-year study in that period of the effect of the proposed limits.
The European Space Agency and the Russian Institute of Biomedial Problems are scheduled to run a joint 520-day mock Mars expedition this year aimed to study the effects of extreme isolation and confinement on 12 volunteers.
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That represents about 23% of the 9.6 million cases of food-borne illness each year, a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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The power of this type of genetic analysis was demonstrated earlier this year when a study of 2, 000 breast cancers showed the cancer should be thought of as 10 completely separate diseases.
In 1972, UNESCO adopted a ten-year plan for the study of African oral traditions and the promotion of African Languages, the first Festival of the Arts of the Pacific was held in Fiji and two series of cultural studies on Latin America were launched.
All of the heart patients in the study had one of two bad gene variants discovered last year by DeCode that are believed to increase levels of inflammation in the arteries (see: " Attacking Heart Attacks").
Every year, the American Dialect Society, which is dedicated to the study of American English, votes on a word of the year.
Research by Queen's University and the University of Ulster, carried out as part of the Young Hearts Study, showed that among 12 and 15-year-olds the percentage of children overweight or obese has increased by more than a quarter in the past decade.
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The figures nationally are equally sobering: A study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that more than 13, 000 infants were affected across the U.S. in 2009.
While all four branches of the military generally met their numbers from 2000 until 2005, the Army and the Air Force missed retention goals in the first quarter of fiscal year 2005, according to a study conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
The move to scale back cost-of-living increases in Colorado gained momentum last year following a study that estimated the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association would be out of money in around 30 years, assuming its investments generated a 7% annual return.
Finding out more about the effects of gum disease on the heart would require a massive five- to 10-year-long study using tens of thousands of people, he said.
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