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Last year, the Department for Children, Schools and Families introduced the Diploma qualification in England which combines theoretical study with practical experience.
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In 2005 and 2007, respectively, Systrom and Krieger were awarded Mayfield fellowships. (Only a dozen upperclassmen are chosen each year.) In an intense nine-month work-study program, fellows immerse themselves in the theoretical study of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership, and work during the summer in a Valley start-up.
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Karol Watson, MD, PhD, co-director of preventative cardiology at UCLA, said that the study is theoretical and needs more data to show the risk is real.
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While the bailout of Cyprus is a fascinating case study and raises interesting theoretical questions about moral hazard for policy wonks and talking heads, here is the reality: It is largely irrelevant to the global economy.
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For a more theoretical approach, there will also be a study of "aesthetics, semiotics and artistic appreciation" and "codes, symbols and rituals in luxury retailing".
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Instead, when working alone you can treat the assignment as a theoretical exercise, like a B-school case study to turn in to the professor.
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In Nicaragua I was taught to have respect for other cultures not by examining theoretical anthropological concepts of cultural relativism (which I did later study), but by having my behavior scrutinized and overtly criticized by the people whose homes had been opened to me as part of the trip.
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"When you have such a big mass in such a small space you have extremely high gravity, " said Charles Wang, a theoretical physicist at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, who wasn't involved in the study.
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"This is a fantastic example of how the response of cells changes due to a behavioral paradigm, " said theoretical neuroscientist Harel Shouval of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, who was not involved in the study but has worked previously with the researchers.
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