Is one reform better than the others?
Are some forecasters really better than others?
... and one produces a set of forecasts y t + ǫ 1t while the other produces a set of forecasts y t + ǫ 2t where both ǫ 1t and ǫ 2t are drawn from zero mean distributions, then both of these individuals are providing ...
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TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
... The best way to alleviate this difficulty is by ‗rotation‘ — having students change partners — once, twice, or more — during the activity. Doing this means that each of the conversations will have to be kept quite short ...
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Three Heads are Better than One
... Each time, the best possible cover for each part is recursively found, and the two scores are combined to give a score for the chart walk containing the two bes[r] ...
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Two Is Not Always Better Than One
... that one line seems to be longer than the ...probable than each condition sepa- rately find that the conjunction fits or resembles the portrayal of Linda better than just one of ...
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Two topologies are better than one
... We make one fundamental change to the partial metric axioms, by allowing the partial metric function to take negative values. This means that we have to recheck even the most fundamental results, and accounts for ...
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Are two investors better than one?
... The paper compares the optimal financial contracts of a firm which has private information over its expost revenues when the finance can be provided by a single or by two groups investors. Costly monitoring can be ...
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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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Preschool – two years are better than one
... The overarching goal for both 3 and 4-year-old preschool should be near-universal attendance at high-quality early education at the dosage, and for the duration, required to make a substantial and sustained difference in ...
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Are Two Tax Rates Better than One?
... Secondly, the existing research has focused on utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. The former does not favor income redistribution and is unlikely to justify progressive taxes. The latter is often viewed as the ...
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WHEN TWO QUESTIONS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
... why there was no substantive effect on the data. Given the choices, there was no basis for someone who worked in a place where smoking was not allowed to get into t[r] ...
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Trying and Dying: Are Some Wishes at the End of Life Better Than Others?
... The federal right-to-try law defines an eligible patient as one who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease or condition; 69 has exhausted approved treatment opt[r] ...
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Two Languages are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing)
... 6.4 Sensitivity to k Since our bitext parser currently operates as a reranker, the quality of the trees is limited by the quality of the k-best lists produced by the baseline parsers. To test this limitation, we ...
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EXPLANATORY NOTES FOR TWO PLANS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
... Page 8 C ASE S TUDY #4 This is your typical final average pay Defined Benefit Plan. Here while the owner gets a large contribution to fund his benefit there are larger than desired costs for the other older ...
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Normalizing SMS: are Two Metaphors Better than One ?
... systems, one draw- ing inspiration from the Machine Transla- tion task; the other using techniques that are commonly used in automatic speech recognition ...
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In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One
... swering agents to determine the final output of the ensem- ble. We developed two answer-level combination algo- rithms, both utilizing a simple confidence-based voting mechanism, based on the premise that answers ...
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Techniques for Highly Multiobjective Optimisation: Some Nondominated Points are Better than Others
... necessity. One route towards dealing effectively with such problems is to find ways to induce a preference ordering over nondominated points, such that this ordering is effective for selection ...
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Are some forecasters' probability assessments of macro variables better than those of others?
... are better than others? In recent years, there has been much work on expectations ...to others, this might have a bearing on some of the ingredients of the models of ...
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Chapter 2. Why is some hardware better than others for different programs?
... What is the CPI for each sequence? # of Instructions Example • A compiler designer is trying to decide between two code sequences for a particular machine. Based on the hardware implementation, there are three different ...
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Countries Than in Others?
... of others. This e¤ect arises since the demand for a bribe by one bureaucrat in exchange for his own governmental good imposes a pecuniary externality on other bureaucrats by reducing the demand for their ...
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Basic Income Reform in Germany: Better Gradualism than Cold Turkey
... As far as existing ALG II claimants are concerned – those who have previously been in employment for many years and who have slipped into long-term unemployment as a result of structural changes – fairness would dictate ...
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