Conventional wisdom
Rape as 'one person's word against another's': challenging the conventional wisdom
... the conventional wisdom, rape is generally a case of ‘one person’s word against another’s’ and, in the absence of independent evidence, judgements regarding the truth or otherwise of an allegation are ...
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Why Are German Employers Associations Declining? A Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.3, 2005
... the conventional wisdom stand, but others do ...the conventional wisdom, that real compensation growth has been flag- ging in Germany and productivity developments have been ...
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Challenging conventional wisdom with vigour
... usage of good scientific evidence to validate or repudiate beliefs, especially in relation to 89. hybrid vigour[r] ...
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Predicting the Costs of an Ongoing Image Digitization Process: Applying Conventional Wisdom at Ingram Book Company.
... Digitization OCR Salaries Equipment & supplies Construction, utilities and maintenance Typical Specification Preparation Time Handling Automated Processing Skills/Experi[r] ...
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Against conventional wisdom: when the public, the media, and medical practice collide
... Jensen JD: Scientific uncertainty in news coverage of cancer research: effects of hedging on scientists ’ and journalists ’ credibility.. Jensen JD, Carcioppolo N, King AJ, Bernat JK, Da[r] ...
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Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in Statistical Machine Translation
... We then projected the dependency trees and used the aligned dependency tree pairs to extract treelet translation pairs, train the order model, and train MTU models.. The target language [r] ...
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Bucking Conventional Wisdom: The Montana Public Defender Act
... 50 This lack of funding precipitated inadequate attorney compensation51 and a lack of essential resources such as expert, investigative, and support services, 52 and often led to a sizab[r] ...
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Abstracts from the 3rd Conference on Aneuploidy and Cancer: Clinical and Experimental Aspects
... According to conventional wisdom, cancer is a disease process, aris- ing from genetic errors in the command and control apparatus of a precursor cell. Unregulated clonal expansion coupled with additional ...
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Parties and People, England 1914 1951
... and conventional wisdom’, and to a much lesser extent than Philip Williamson has done in his National Crisis and National Government, or in Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values, ...
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Effects of the private label invasion in food industries
... the conventional wisdom: Name-brand firms react to increased private-label competition by holding fewer sales and reducing the share of items with nonprice ...
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Immigrants' Experiences in America: Toward Understanding Organized Crime
... this study, will perhaps raise issues to a new level of visibility and controversy concerning the emergence of organized crime in the United States of America. After all is said and done, this holistic view of organized ...
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Foreign exchange rates with the Taylor rule and VECMs
... Abstract In this project, we challenge the conventional wisdom on exchange rate predictability with the Taylor rule Molodtsova & Papell, 2009; Rossi, 2013 by employing the vector error c[r] ...
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Are Online Pharmacy Prices Really Lower in Mexico?
... Conventional wisdom indicates that brand name prescription medicine prices are lower at online Mexican pharmacies than at United States Internet drug stores.. Data collected [r] ...
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Gauge Invariant Massive Long Range and Long Lived Photons
... and conventional wisdom holds that intermediate gauge Bosons for long range interac- tions such as the gravitational and electromagnetic interactions must be massless as is assumed to be the case for the ...
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The effects of entry in thin markets
... From this it becomes transparent that the equilibrium reaction of an existing seller to the presence of a new seller depends on her share of the market and on the elasticity of the strategic demand function, which ...
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Cost Of Debt And Dividend Policy: Evidence From The MENA Region
... In this section, we divide our sample into two groups – one group with firms headquartered in the civil law countries and the other group with firms headquartered in the common law countries. We re-estimate Equation (1) ...
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Indian Investors and IPOS
... the conventional wisdom among both academics and practitioners that the quality of the companies going public deteriorates as a amount of high supply volume ...
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Bersani avec Kubrick
... to conventional wisdom: “An arguably more plausible view would be that contempt drives the couple apart, a view supported—or so it has been maintained—by Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film Contempt, in which a ...
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Refueling the Magic Furnace: Kilonova 2017 Rewrites the Story of Element Origins
... The assumption thus became conventional wisdom that brought to completion a three-part narrative for the creation of the elements: (1) hydrogen 1 and helium 2 creation during the big[r] ...
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Environment and Sustainable Development Nexus
... The conventional wisdom in working with sustainable development is to conceive of three inter - locking and inter - dependent spheres : the environmental (ecological), the social (welfar[r] ...
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