If that wasn't bad enough, AOL yesterday received a black eye when the University of Michigan released an annual study finding that AOL scored the lowest in the category of Web portals for customer satisfaction.
When Prince William opted to study at the University of St Andrews in 2001, finding a future queen may not have been at the front of his mind.
Alarm bells started to ring at the firm's headquarters when a Cadbury-financed study by the University of Sussex and the University of Accra found that the average production of a cocoa farmer had dropped to 40% of potential yield, and that the children of cocoa farmers did not want to work in the family business any more.
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This has allowed Michelle White, of the University of California at San Diego, to study what happens when bankruptcy rules remain the same, but the cost to the borrower changes.
The study began in 2003 when a team of researchers from Oregon State University entered what they called the Biscuit burn zone.
When hand sanitizers were placed in dorms at the University of Colorado, a study on infection control found that overall illness rate dropped by 20 percent and missed school days by 43 percent.
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Study leader Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis, from Oxford University, said when people were infected with something such as flu it was very easy to work out where it had come from, because people knew they were infected within days.
But a new study released by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project suggests, when it comes to public education, we still have a ways to go.
However, the second study, carried out by Dr Bugnyar when he was working at the University of Austria, and published last month in Animal Cognition, suggests that ravens may have mastered the art of deception too.
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The system is in addition to extra laws imposed last month, when the INS introduced new measures requiring any foreigner wishing to study at a US university to have an approved student visa before taking any courses.
In a study conducted by Georgetown University, it was discovered that women respond greatly when a celebrity supports a given cause, when a cause themes a month, and when a cause mixes with everyday social networking.
Unlike the University of Pennsylvania study, Genzyme uses adenovirus in very controlled situations, such as when it is confined to an individual muscle.
That's partly because the rate of study participants improving when they're taking a placebo has been rising, said New York University's Sussman.
Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.
But what happens when you really look at this study, as my colleague, Rebecca Goldin, Professor of Mathematics at George Mason University, did recently.
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