Draco's mother, Narcissa Malfoy, is named after the vain Narcissus, the mythical youth who starved to death while gazing at his own reflection, whereas Professor McGonagall is named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.
"The World Health Organisation said that since 1990 1.3 billion people had gained improved drinking water and 500 million better sanitation," you report; whereas Professor Asit Biswas, president of the Third World Centre for Water Management, "said official figures showing that many cities and countries had met their targets were 'baloney'".
My high school classes had thirty students, whereas college professors have to juggle seventy or more, depending on the course.
A total of 33 experts were invited, and 19 accepted participation; nine of the panel members were Professors, and three were Associate Professors, whereas 10 were based in Australia, seven in New Zealand, one in Papua New Guinea, and one in the United States.
A Gey lecture provides all the essentials of a well-performed law school lecture, but whereas most law professors build the infrastructure of their lecture with all the grace of an elephant working on a high-rise, Gey's lectures are spritely, nimble, and adorned with the kind of detail that makes you laugh quickly and stop laughing just as quickly so that you don't miss the next insight.
Thirty-five percent (n = 723) discussed the article content with their colleagues and/or professors, whereas 25% (n = 341) evaluated the article's quality according to its number of references and 16% (n = 218) to the date of its latest revision.
The former was a universitas magistrorum, governed by professors organized in faculties, whereas the latter, as a universitas scholarium, received its corporate authority from the student body organized into "nations" that elected leaders to whom even the professors were subject.
"The full extent of his organization and its support for him is now indisputably apparent," Professor Cole said, "whereas before a lot of people in the Shiite establishment dismissed him as a snot-nosed kid with a small bunch of hooligans around him".
So, one way to look at it is: For professors, MOOCs can be another distribution channel, whereas a platform like CourseTalk can be an amplifier and a regulator.
Ms Boroditsky says that any Kuuk Thaayorre child knows which way is south-east at any given time, whereas a roomful of Stanford professors, if asked to point south-east quickly, do little better than chance.
Analysing each section separately has the disadvantage of only 3 or 4 professors per study, whereas the nested design had 10 professors.
