His most popular work, Il Bel Paese ( 1876 ), presents-by means of 32 didactical / scientific conversations in front of a fireplace-ideas and concepts of the natural sciences, with a language that was accessible to the average 19th-century reader, and particularly deals with geology and the beauties of the Italian landscape.

Somewhat uneven in interest for an average reader, eight or ten of these are among the finest of their kind in literature.

The average annual temperature is highest in the southwest along the coast, and lowest in the northeast among the highlands.

In 2005 – 2007, sales of homes began to slow, but average home prices, as of 2010, remain among the highest in the nation.

Polygyny, or men having multiple wives at once, is one of the most common marital arrangements represented in the Old Testament, yet scholars doubt that it was common among average Israelites because of the wealth needed to practice it.

According to Payscale, Dartmouth College alums have among the highest average starting salaries ($ 58, 200 ) in the United States, as well as the second highest average income ten years after graduation ($ 123, 000 ), placing after Harvey Mudd College and tying with Princeton University.

Running in Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) class G, it set several new records, among them 48 hours with average speed, 10, 000 km with an average speed of and 72 hours with an average speed of.

These regions are among the world's most densely populated, containing an average of over 3, 820 persons per square mile ( 1, 540 per km².

In 2006, the United States Department of Education released a report concluding that average test scores for reading and mathematics, when adjusted for student and school characteristics, tend to be very similar among public schools and private schools.

George Ville calculated an average age at death at 27 for gladiators ( based on headstone evidence ), with mortality " among all who entered the arena " around the 1st century CE at 19 / 100.

The people of Honduras are among the poorest in Latin America ; Gross national income per capita ( 2007 ) is $ US 1, 649 ; the average for Central America is $ US 6, 736.

After a major currency devaluation in 1990, average Honduran workers were among the most poorly paid workers in the Western Hemisphere.

Through 2010, he was first in career home runs and RBIs ( ahead of Shawn Green ) and batting average ( ahead of Ryan Braun ), and fourth in hits ( behind Lou Boudreau ), among all-time Jewish major league baseball players.

These showed that on average hypnotherapy achieved at least 64 % success compared to 37 % improvement among untreated control groups.

When all 133 studies deemed suitable in light of this consideration were re-analyzed, providing data for over 6, 000 patients, the findings suggest an average improvement in 27 % of untreated patients over the term of the studies compared with a 74 % success rate among those receiving hypnotherapy.

As of 2011 it no longer ranks in the top ten among publicly monitored IRC networks by average monthly user count.

Daniel B. Klein and Stewart Dompe conclude, on the basis of previous surveys, " the average level of support for the minimum wage is somewhat higher among labor economists than among AEA members.

The monthly prevalence of drugs other than cannabis among young people ( 15-24 ) was 4 % in 2004, that was above the average ( 3 %) of 15 compared countries in EU.

Though the average number of laureates per prize increased substantially during the 20th century, a prize may not be shared among more than three people.

In other words, the average gap between consecutive prime numbers among the first N integers is roughly ln ( N ).

Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges, with an average rank of 6. 7 out of 29 in the unofficial Tompkins Table.

In the United States there is concern among some collectors that the United States Postal Service has become a promotional agent for the media and entertainment industry, as it has frequently issued entire sets of stamps featuring movie stars and cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson Over the decades the annual average number of new postage stamp issued by the U. S. P. S.

As always, Hawks was an average student and college friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered him as spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying, although Hawks was also known to be a voracious reader of popular American and English novels in college.

Neurologists complete, on average, at least 10 – 13 years of college education and clinical training.

Today, the college is approximately 60 percent female and 40 percent male ; roughly equivalent to the national average.

Williams ' Red Sox teammate, Johnny Pesky, who went into the same aviation training program, said this about Williams: " He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads.

In 2006 it accepted a smaller proportion of students from state schools ( 39 %) than any other Cambridge college, and on a rolling three-year average it has admitted a smaller proportion of state school pupils ( 42 %) than any other college at either Cambridge or Oxford.

These general population schools offer college preparatory classes for advanced students, general education classes for average students, and remedial courses for those who are struggling.

Between 1995 and 2005, 90 % of YPAS students received college scholarships totaling an average of over one million dollars per year.

Additionally, Altamonte Springs boasts 10 percent more college graduates per capita than the Florida average, and is just a few miles away from the University of Central Florida and Rollins College.

Barrington High School reported that in 2011 its students scored a composite average of 25 on the ACT college entrance exam, which is the highest average in the school's history and roughly four points higher than the state and national averages.

The average composite score was a 1, 614 ; of these students 85. 8 % chose to attend a four year college education program.

The college has had an average 890 full-time students during the last five years.

Dansville has a higher graduation credit amount to progress to college 29 ( state average 23-25 )

San Juan College is a public two-year college with average enrollment of about 10, 000.

The following are many of the college-readiness indicators that are used: graduation rates, college acceptance rates, the number of International Baccalaureate ( IB ) and Advanced Placement ( AP ) tests taken per student, the average score on IB and AP tests ; student achievement levels ; SAT scores ; and State assessments.

The controlled study included only households with incomes greater than $ 200, 000, which virtually excluded only residents that are living in college dormitories and the staff of homeowners ( an income below $ 200, 000 would, after income taxes, barely cover the annual property taxes on the average Old Westbury property, much less the mortgages, upkeep and all other living expenses ).

The college generally offers accommodation to all first-year students ( freshers ) and the percentage of graduate students housed within college accommodation exceeds the university average.

In Torpids 2010 the boat club bettered this achievement and were the most successful college on the river, achieving the equal most bumps as a college in total, and the most bumps per boat on average.

ACT scores are above both the state and national averages, and over three quarters of students go on to attend college, which is far above the state average of 40 % although both are the lowest among the four high schools within the county.

Engineering graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology are reported receiving the highest average starting salaries in the school's history -- $550 a month.

The average time-to-degree ratio for Tech's graduates is 4. 7 years, the fastest in the UL System.

The 2010 National Association of Colleges and Employers survey showed petroleum engineers as the highest paid 2010 graduates at an average $ 125, 220 annual salary.

During the 1980s, school principals reported that, although secondary school admissions were proportional to the groups within the country and were made by competition within ethnic groups ( in accordance with quotas mandated by the Habyarimana government ), the students of Tutsi origin ( 14 % of intake ) comprised nearly 50 % of graduates, on average.

In addition, the average starting salary of graduates who have completed undergraduate degrees with LSE is significantly higher than the overall national average salary of £ 26, 200, at over £ 30, 000.

The average passage rate for the NCLEX is over 90 % for prelicensure graduates and all of the graduates from the nurse anesthesia program are nationally certified.

The average SAT score of their graduates is well above the national average.

96 % of graduates are employed or in professional school six months after graduation, and the acceptance rate to medical school is twice the national average — 80 %.

Based on a 2001-2007 6 year average, 79. 4 % of UC Davis Law graduates passed the California State Bar.

Based on a 2001-2007 6 year average, 93 % of UC Davis Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.

On average, the district graduates 100 seniors a year.

MUM graduates also gave their college experience a " higher than average satisfaction " rating as recorded in the " annual ACT alumni survey ".

In the Republic of Korea, the number of private tutors expanded roughly 7. 1 % annually on average from 2001 to 2006, and by 2009 the sector was the largest employer of graduates from the humanities and social sciences.

Within four months of graduation, an average of 97 percent of VMI graduates are either serving in the military, employed, or admitted to graduate or professional schools.

According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings and the PRESIDENT's article on 2006 / 10 / 16, graduates from Waseda have the 11th best employment rate in 400 major companies and the alumni average salary is the 7th best in Japan.

Based on a 2001-2007 six-year average, 98. 7 % of Stanford Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.

Before the 2005 revision of the SAT, Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of 1408 out of 1600 ( 685 verbal, 723 math ).

According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings and the PRESIDENT's article on 2006 / 10 / 16, graduates from Tokyo Tech have the 2nd best employment rate in 400 major companies, and the average graduate salary is the 9th best in Japan.

A student graduates " with honors " if a final average of 179 is attained, " with high honors " if a final average of 180. 5 is attained, and " with highest honors " if a final average of 182 is attained.