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1 Water absorption from rice based solutions in the secretory state was about 70% of that in the normal state compared with about 50% for all other ORS .
2 — Burnopfield Victory Club homing pigeon society has made £1,800 for three local charities from two squeaker sales .
3 Other intergovernmental contacts during the year included the visit to Spain of the then Polish Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , in September 1990 ; informal contacts between González and King Hassan of Morocco in Rabat on Aug. 19 ; the signing in Rabat on Nov. 15 by the Spanish and Moroccan Interior Ministers , Corcuero and Driss Basri respectively , of an agreement on flexible visa arrangements for Moroccan citizens wishing to visit Ceuta and Melilla ; an official visit to China on Nov. 22-24 by Fernandez Ordoñez , returned by his Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen , on Feb. 25-27 , 1991 , in which talks centred on bilateral trade and on the development of a new line of Spanish credit worth $450,000,000 for new mixed enterprises in China ; and the visit of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia to Venezuela and Costa Rica on April 14-21 .
4 He reckons that ‘ at times , some players coast , while at Test level , in a pressurised atmosphere , players pull out the stops 100% for all five days .
5 Originally due to lift off last April with £200m funding ( UX Nos 315 , 317 ) , OMI now gets a reported £40 for some 20 projects that span a 100m transistor chip to binary interfaces that will allow software to run across Sparc , MIPS R3000 , Inmos Transputer and Acorn ARM RISC architectures — much like the Open Software Foundation 's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology .
6 He pays £54 for two 50-minute sessions a week .
7 SIEBE PAYS £25M FOR TWO CONTINENTAL CONTROLS COMPANIES
8 However , I was not allowed to fly the aircraft because of the high cost and lack of availability of aircraft for mere civil servants when BOAC had their own pilots to train .
9 Hunt , a part-time preacher , had also been under investigation for using state-owned aircraft for profit-making preaching trips , but was understood not to have ben charged in relation to this .
10 Within minutes , a fully automated procedure passes the data through stringent quality-control procedures , and data derivatives , including a forecast of geomagnetic activity , are produced .
11 Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed up with Ellery Systems Inc and scientists from the US environmental community to exploit the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment to create a computer-based system designed to make it easier and less costly to collect data about global environmental issues such as ozone depletion , deforestation and climate change .
12 To this will be added data about local economic conditions .
13 Between 1975 and 1986 , teachers ' pay rose by 194% , on average , compared with an average rise of 259% for all non-manual earnings ( New Society Database , 1986 ) .
14 Vitrinite reflectance data for Upper Cretaceous sediments over the depth range 775–4018 m are provided by Durand and Espitalié ( 1976 ) ; these are shown on Fig. 4 .
15 Finally , data for two other groups of animals were obtained although these are not illustrated in the figure .
16 The Newcastle prescribing index and the current prescribing unit were used to adjust the data for all 46 practices in Newcastle and the 34 in Gateshead to the respective family health services authority average .
17 Data for all three wavelengths were scaled together using the program FBSCALE ; however , the high and low gain data were scaled separately .
18 Table I shows clinical data for all 23 patients .
19 ( 1983 ) investigated the speculative efficiency hypothesis using weekly data for six dollar-exchange rates ( pound , mark , lira , French franc , Canadian dollar and Swiss franc ) .
20 These collections indeed serve as ‘ a storehouse of knowledge ’ , providing the basic data for many biological studies , including the most fundamental of all — the description and classification of species .
21 Table 16–5 shows data for several advanced countries in 1983 .
22 Analyses of data for several developed countries confirm that maternal age and parity appear profoundly to affect mothers ' health before and after confinement .
23 Using data for concurrent five-minute periods , he found that for 14 , 15 , 16 and the morning of 19 October , there was a highly significant positive relationship between the volume of index arbitrage and the size of the mispricing .
24 From one analysis of data for 25 developing countries , it was determined that , if all children were born at least two years apart , about one in five infant deaths would be averted .
25 This computer programme comes with FINDPHONE and can be applied to the same data to select different types of data for different grammatical purposes , e.g. all words can be extracted and put in a separate file to add to your lexicon .
26 Using factor analysis of data for twenty-one liberal democracies ( with two data sets for France , representing the Fourth and Fifth Republics ) , Lijphart identified three groups on each dimension , giving nine in all : there was at least one liberal democracy in each of the cells ( figure 3.7 ) , indicating the very substantial differences between countries in their detailed operation of this basic political system .
27 In both the UK and the FRG , and in the pooled data for these two countries , there was a strong positive correlation ( 0·75 , p < 0·001 ) between productivity and expenditure per head in R&D , explaining 40 per cent of the variance .
28 We therefore interpret the isotope data for these two regions as indicating that the high U/Pb ratios of the lavas are also features of the source , with the age of U/Pb fractionation being comparable to the age of the lithosphere .
29 In EC data for ten constituent countries , the UK ranked seventh for gdp per capita in both adjusted and unadjusted data .
30 Remark The above working of the Euclidean Algorithm in the general case is easily seen to provide another proof of the existence of and the formula for the positive gcd of any two integers ( not both zero ) .
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