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Counterexamples to the Transitivity of Better Than
... are better than fifty years of pleasure only slightly less ...Parfit admits, “[Perfectionism] conflicts with the preferences most of us would have about our own ...
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Are some forecasters really better than others?
... The importance of this debate about rational expectations probably accounts for the fact that most of the literature on the properties of individual-level forecasts has focused on testing for rationality and ...
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Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others?
... rather than a conscious policy decision by the firm to invest in that ...issue than endogeneity caused by reverse causality, which we have ...greater than 3 ...
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Techniques for Highly Multiobjective Optimisation: Some Nondominated Points are Better than Others
... the better a point is ranked, the more likely it is that selection of this point will lead to (via crossover and/or mutation operations) improvements in our current approximation to the Pareto ...a better ...
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Are some forecasters' probability assessments of macro variables better than those of others?
... could be dropped, although (Coibion and Gorodnichenko 2012, 2015) argue the macro-level evidence supports the baseline model. 2 (D’Agostino et al. 2012) conclude that there are no real differences between forecasters in ...
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If anyone harms (others), God will harm him, and if anyone shows hostility to others, God will show hostility to him. 2
... Instead, Islamic religious art has focused on the glorification of God's word, specifically by writing it beautifully, and accompanying the Arabic script with geometric and floral designs known as arabesques, in which ...
Tax Structure and Economic Growth in Cote dIvoire: Are Some Taxes Better Than Others?
... Testing for cointegration The methodology used to examine the long-run relationship between taxes and economic growth, is based on the ARDL bounds testing approach developed by Pesaran et al. (2001). This methodology has ...
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Why are migrant students better off in certain types of educational systems or schools than in others?
... Migrants in a comprehensive educational system have on average a higher performance level than migrants in a highly stratified system. The OECD report also indicated that in countries with early selection, the ...
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Why are migrant students better off in certain types of educational systems or schools than in others?
... fewer than 57 countries took part in PISA 2006, only the following 15 Western countries had this information available: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Liechtenstein, ...
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Why are pro-poor exemption policies in Tanzania better implemented in some districts than in others?
... the effectiveness of this process mainly depends on the seriousness of illness. If the person is seriously ill it is possible that this person will directly go to the facilities and pay to get treated instead of going ...
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Not all sugars are created equal: some mask aversive tastes better than others in an herbivorous insect
... We used repeated-measures ANOVAs to ascertain whether the instantaneous firing rate changed systematically with time. We confirmed equality of variance across treatment levels of a repeated- measures factor with ...
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Breaking Down the Compliance Issue : what makes some member states comply better than others
... 28 Government in 2015” and one of the key issues that will be spearheaded is “the eradication of absolute poverty by 2030.” Even more, on the website of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, employment ...
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Job growth and finance : are some financial institutions better suited to early stages of development than others?
... VII. Conclusions We have combined data from detailed firm surveys with indicators of financial development and structure that cover a broader set of countries than in earlier studies in order to study the ...
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Communication and leadership differences in virtual design teams: Why some teams do better than others
... While some teams perform quite well in virtual situations where no group interaction structure is given, other than providing the work assignment and a deadline, other teams seem to flounder under these ...
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Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others? A Study of the 1000 Largest US Firms
... a better predictor of financial performance than industry classifications and that some business models do, indeed, perform better than ...market than selling ownership of ...
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Do some electoral systems select better politicians than others? Single vs dual ballot elections
... In terms of unobservable characteristics, mayors elected in dual-ballot municipalities are more likely to attract discretionary transfers of capital to their municipalities, but only in election years when they are ...
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Big Gaps, Small Gaps: Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students
... Some institutions on these lists, such as the University of San Francisco and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, have drawn attention for their success with Hispanic students. 8 For example, the University ...
Better than Me?! How Adolescents with and without Migration Background in Germany Perceive Each Others’ Performance in Class
... One important limitation of our study is that gender as an additional factor was not included in the analyses. While gender has been included as an independent variable in more recent analyses, interactions as well as ...
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Something Better Than Punishment
... Maybe the mother should give the boy a piece of cake right away. Or, if the rule is important, it should be enforced. When parents make rules they don’t enforce, children get the idea that we are not serious about rules. ...
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Anthrax Better Than Testament
... anthrax better testament tour and then there are great sound for some of late ...higher than i can hear every now or group and a side? Auditor crazy expensive at the riffs, belladona and ...rhythms ...
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