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The emergence of an English-educated middle class created a new form of stratification based on education, wealth, and occupation.
The apprenticeship system evolved into an elaborate progression of examinations leading to a stratification by educational accomplishment.
There has been an extreme stratification in the sport between the top few teams and the rest.

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Examples of stratification

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This analysis showed that this social role remains very important and appears to determine the current social stratification.
Then the velocity of the vertical jet is expected to become generally larger with increasing stratification.
Further investigations are necessary to characterize tropical rain-forest stratification isotopically.
For purposes of age stratification, the terms ' elderly ' and ' seniors ' will be distinguished here.
In their experiments, the top and bottom layers are homogeneous fluids with different densities, with an interfacial layer of approximately uniform stratification between them.
It induces a natural stratification of the branched translation surface in faces, edges and vertices.
Four schools were drawn at random from each of the nine cells formed by crossing the stratification factors.
However, unlike vernacular variants, mildly marked variants demonstrate little or no social stratification and hence are not stigmatized.
A significant correlation with progression-free survival was observed, whereas the stratification into two groups revealed no significance.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to quantitatively establish vertical stratification in calling heights in an ensiferan assemblage of an evergreen forest.
The stratification requirement is indicated in parentheses below the season in which it takes place.
It is natural to adapt to 2 the notion of stratification developed there.
Such altruism does not necessarily preclude a preoccupation with self-interested internal occupational stratification, but there is little evidence that this was a significant motive.
This strategy could be achieved by including only patients with similar disease severity or by a priori stratification of patients with mixed disease severities.
In order to visualize the main effects, we simulated the dynamics of the wave of stratification numerically.
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