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, young members of the elite were allowed to express their preferences regarding enrolment in specific schools or branches of … towards schooling. While wealthier nobles tended to opt for state schools, especially the Noble Cadet Corps, the poorest … apply for state schools, preferring instead to enlist directly into regiments as privates. Despite numerous attempts, the …
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This article evaluates a program that constructed high quality “girl-friendly†primary schools in Burkina Faso …
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.com Analyzing the results of a survey among students in regular public schools, the study seeks to check for existence of a … socioeconomic status of families and differing from stratification patterns in foreign schools. The study compares how pro …, close friendship groups).As a result of two-stage stratified sampling, the schools involved in the study have been divided …
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Communication network is a personal or professional set of relationships between individuals or organizations. In other words, it is a pattern of contacts which are created due to the flow of information among the participating actors. The flow of information establishes various types of...
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-level regression approach on a sample of 7300 students from 104 public schools from St.Petersburg. Our findings show that: 1.) Socio …-economic differentiation of Russian schools does not lead to a polarization of pro-school/anti-school attitudes in different types of schools …
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We study by theoretical analysis and by direct numerical simulation the dynamics of a wide class of asynchronous stochastic systems composed of many autocatalytic degrees of freedom. We describe the generic emergence of truncated power laws in the size distribution of their individual elements....
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Background: Chronic osteoarthritis (OA) pain impacts health-related quality of life (HR-QOL). Objective: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate and compare HR-QOL outcomes following treatment with once-daily push-pull Osmotic controlled-Release Oral delivery System (OROS) hydromorphone...
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Background: Medical visits are initiated by patients in search of symptom relief. The extent to which obesity independently increases the risk of common symptoms is unknown. Objectives: To assess how obesity affects symptom burden among family medicine patients, after adjustment for severity of...
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DOI: 10.2165/1312067-200801030-00001
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Objective: To determine whether different utilities for prostate cancer screening outcomes for couples, and husbands and wives separately, lead to incongruent screening recommendations. Methods: We evaluated survey results of 168 married couples from three family practice centers in Texas, USA....
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