Excluding the scholar-officials in office, this elite social class consisted of exam candidates, examination degree-holders not yet assigned to an official post, local tutors, and retired officials.
Since official promotion was considered by examination degree as well as recommendation to office by a superior, a family that acquired a significant amount of sons-in-law of high rank in the bureaucracy ensured kinship protection and prestigious career options for its members.
All extract-treated wounds appeared to heal better than the controls based on gross examination, degree of wound healing, and histopathological evaluation.
He failed to win even the lowest of the classical-examination degrees but was to have the distinction of being the first Han Chinese to hold a viceroyalty and to become a grand councillor without any academic qualification.
However, since we utilized a more nuanced categorization scheme for defining insufficient sleep (VSS and SS), we were able to perform a more detailed examination of degrees of insufficient sleep that blacks and whites experienced habitually.
Universities were reconstituted and organized, and they undertook teaching instead of merely conducting examinations for degrees.
Today, these are paid by the student and the taxpayer and from outside sources (business, sales, franchise arrangements for examinations or degrees).
On physical examination, second-degree burns on the anterior aspect of both knees were observed.
The amount of flexion required for examination and degree of angulation that indicates a complete tear of the proper collateral ligament varies between authors (see Table 1).
The courses are intended to complement the teaching given by the mainland universities, and they form part of standard courses of study that lead to examinations and degrees at intermediate, advanced, and doctoral levels.
