And that's the least of it: there are conferences, seminars, encounters with random academics.
All identified business (response rate = 36%) and government contacts (response rate = 48%) were approached while a simple random sample of academic contacts (response rate = 33%) through random sorting and selection was undertaken.
No mean task, but one luckily simplified lately by numerous self-styled "Africa experts", political spin artists, sound-bite junkies, arriviste journos, think-tankers, policy wonkers, random bankers, distant academics, market honchos, corporate suits, public relations acolytes, and self-proclaimed politicians.
The survey research method was employed using the simple random sampling technique where three academic libraries were selected from all academic libraries in Niger State.
But his co-existent worlds of predictive academics and random athletics have never been more antithetical than this school year, after four of his players died in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway on Aug. 20, setting off a season unlike any other.
To investigate the coverage of the prominent researchers by Wikipedia, we also analysed a random sample of 219 academics selected from the Thomson Reuters list of 1317 people 'behind the world's most influential research' [40].
But the debate over random versus planned can seem academic when you take in Oxford's autumn beauty.
You could call them nihilists, if only their subversions were more systematic; or postmodernists, if their fooling weren't so random that it shattered any academic category you could place it in.
The site boasts "academic experts" on random topics like James Bond, evil, early American history and mathematics in life and society.
This paper examines the effect of peer turnover on academic achievement using random variation in classroom composition induced by Tennessee's Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) experiment.
