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... Language would have started out in a primitive way but it is likely to have rapidly burgeoned and-within just a few n1illennia-achieved a sophis- tication comparable to[r] ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... rather than a conscious policy decision by the firm to invest in that ...issue than endogeneity caused by reverse causality, which we have ...To some extent, this issue could be addressed by ... See full document

... 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] ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... whether some forecasters are better than others? In recent years, there has been much work on expectations ...If some forecasters were superior to others, this might have a ... See full document

... of some benchmark before the floating-point enhancement is 10 seconds, what will the speedup be if half of the 10 seconds is spent executing floating-point ... See full document

... Hence, any inference drawn from these studies provides only a general understanding of how the variables are broadly related, and thus offers little guidance for policy formulation. This shortcoming has brought home the ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... v) We find that differences in initial conditions matter to subsequent progress in poverty reduction. There is a significant favorable effect of the initial irrigation rate [r] ... See full document

... Despite some examples of visible progress, social exclusion as a whole appears to have deepened in the 41 respondent states (OSCE, ...exert some influence pursuant to the Charter on Fundamental Rights and ... See full document

... *Author for correspondence (jglendinning@barnard.edu) Accepted 26 December 2011 SUMMARY Manduca sexta caterpillars are unusual because they exhibit strong peripheral gustatory responses to sugars, but nevertheless fail ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... 2.3. M ESSAGE C ONTENT Olson et al. [32] carried out a field study that analyzed ten traditional face-to-face design meetings from four projects in two organizations. These design teams were working on the early stage of ... See full document

... a better predictor of financial performance than industry classifications and that some business models do, indeed, perform better than ...market than selling ownership of ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... increasingly exploited as countries progress towards to the PPF. Thus, there should be objectively fewer entrepreneurial opportunities in advanced countries, and those opportunities that do exist are more likely to ... See full document

... are some entrepreneurs more innovative than others? This question surely belongs to the core of entrepreneurship research (Shane and Venkataraman ...rather than purely imitative busi- ness ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document