Although we did not record the precise location of student contact, we estimate that over two thirds of the recruitment at ULU took place in the students' bar and nearly all of them were either having a drink or were queuing to buy one.
A system that takes the locations of students into account could be used to set rules that varied from place to place.
It is important to realize that a majority of the proximity links (both ambient and intimate) are due to the co-location of students attending the same classes, which explains the low correlations seen in the data.
The school is part of the Plano Independent School District, with admission based primarily on the locations of students' homes.
The effective questionnaires were subdivided into the severe disaster area and non-severe disaster area according to the locations of students when the earthquake happened, and the severe disaster areas declared by the government included Yingxiu, Beichuan and Qingchuan.
The type of work available was the factor most likely to influence the location preferences of students, with 51% of the sample saying this would strongly encourage them to work rurally and a further 23% reporting that it would slightly encourage them to do so.
For instance, practice characteristics (eg, medical discipline, geographic location) of medical students with science backgrounds could be compared with students with non-science backgrounds.
Remote videoconferencing creates liquidity in a mentor-student marketplace: If mentors aren't constrained to the geographic location of their students, it becomes much easier to connect the right mentor to the right student.
Laboratory experiments are fundamental for engineering courses, in order for the students to develop a "feel for engineering" [6]; however, this is not always possible, as access to equipment is limited by a great number of factors, such as the location of the students, the climatic conditions, as well as time and financial constraints.
With a vast national corps of retirees qualified to teach college level courses, location of the students and teachers is no longer a limitation.
