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We think that they may participate in brain repair because we find them in higher concentration close to brain lesions.
One study in the UK appeared to show that smokers had a higher survival rate than nonsmokers over a twenty-year time period.
The slightly higher overall sentencing rate for white defendants was due to the fact that cases with white victims were more likely to elicit a death sentence than cases where the victim was black, and most murders occurred between people of the same race.
What's needed really is a higher level of consciousness.
They did it by focusing on the things that matter to their business, like wasting less energy and water in their manufacturing processes; like making sure the CEO contracts had the CEOs incentivized for the long-term results of the company and the communities they served, not just quarterly results; or building a first class culture that would have higher employee loyalty, retention and productivity.
At the higher end are ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma rays.
That's because cytokines and prostaglandin can reach even higher structures in your brain, disrupting the activity of neurotransmitters, like glutamate, endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine.
In this case, as the total number of guests grows higher, the combinations get out of control.
Athletes, for instance, have a naturally higher BMI.
These higher temperatures are having an effect on animals, plants, people, ecosystems.
Right now we're seeing microbial diseases from the tropics spread to the higher latitudes; the transportation revolution has had a lot to do with this.
Ignoring the warnings of his father, he rose higher and higher.
Daedalus could only watch in horror as Icarus ascended higher and higher, powerless to change his son's dire fate.
Most herbivores supplement a leafy diet with higher energy foods like fruit and seeds.
The higher the IQ, the more likely they were to give up.
As a woman, she was barred from pursuing higher education, so in an act of defiance, Marie enrolled in the Floating University, a secret institution that provided clandestine education to Polish youth.
And the shouts of response to the call of the prayer went up higher even still.
But for the founders of the American Republic, there was no higher authority beyond the people themselves.
But we found a way to get up higher into the sky, and so get access to faster, more consistent winds, and so more energy without needing hundreds of tons of steel to get there.
The study created a leadership framework that said, in essence, that someone with potential, if given the opportunity to engage in strategically relevant experiences and given the ability to learn the lessons from those experiences, would have a higher likelihood of success in their career in a leadership capacity.
Now if you took that study framework and my $10,000 experiment and looked at it through the kaleidoscope, you would get a statement like this: if kids are given financially-relevant experiences in their life and someone is there to help them learn the lessons from those experiences, they have a higher likelihood of achieving financial success later in life, and in my humble opinion, they need to have them early, and they need to have them often.
I was 35 years old at the time, and I knew that that meant we had a higher risk of having a child with a birth defect.
And we don't set the bar much higher than stability when it comes to our emotional life.
In the absence of treatment, mom has a seven times higher chance that her next baby will die.
I went through the Forbes top 300 richest people in the world, and it's interesting to see the most undesirable two animals, the Goat and Tiger, are at the top of the chart, even higher than the Dragon.
For his generation, higher education was free or almost free, because it was thought of as a public good.
30 years ago, higher education tuition was affordable, reasonable, and what debts you accumulated, you paid off by graduation date.
Students like Kate have to take on a loan because the cost of higher education has become unaffordable for many if not most American families.
1.2 trillion dollars of debts for diplomas make it abundantly obvious that higher education is a consumer product you can buy.
With all that money to be made, are we surprised that some in the higher education business have begun to engage in false advertising, in bait and switch ... in exploiting the very ignorance that they pretend to educate?
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