A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

But, according to a new study, we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year.

It started out warm and sunny, but when I went into the mountains and climbed higher, it started snowy.

Mothers' labour is of a higher value than it is realised.

Now that the chances of dying young are much lower, the chances of living long are much higher due to better diets and health care.

Scientists have responded by noting that hungry bears may be congregating聚集 around human settlements, leading to the illusion错觉 that populations are higher than they actually are.

She badly needed to set higher goals.

The higher the status, the beer.

The next day, we got a disappointing message that another buyer had offered a much higher price.

The results showed that those who chatted with their server reported significantly higher positive feelings and a better coffee shop experience.

There could be an even higher cost on your health.

They can purchase shade-grown coffee whenever possible, although at a higher cost.

This year, 25310 students who have accepted places in higher education institutions have put off their entry until next year, according to statistics on university entrance provided by the university and college admissions service ucas.

Tony higgins from UCAS said that the statistics are good news for everyone in higher education.

A number of studies have concluded that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight.

But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.

Dr simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.

During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate-varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, i

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their counterparts who inhaled something else.

In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

Indeed, grade forgiveness is just another way that universities are responding to consumers'expectations for higher education.

Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000from its year ago level.

Many first-generation students \struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education, learn the 'rules of the game, 'and take advantage of college resources,\ they write.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at las

Researchers measured people's cortisol, which is stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr. Menand, is to alter the way in which \the producers of knowledge are produced.\

Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher.

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals.

Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.

This allows the TSA to focus on travelers who are higher risk, saving time for everyone involved.

This has created \a paradox\ in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has \continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close\ an achievement gap based on social class, according to th