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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit
Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century. Scientific research on forecasting, conducted since the 1930s … population forecasts in light of these scientific principles. Much research has been published on forecasting polar bear … forecasts were the opinions of a single expert unaided by forecasting principles. Based on research to date, approaches based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836045
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Evaluation of medical teaching and research: a comparative analysis
Cavalieri, Marina; Mangano, Alfia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
methodological approaches which can be used to evaluate medical teaching and research. Some evaluation experiences of both Italian …In medical faculties, teaching and research are carried out together with patient health care. A large body of … and better quality of care. An appropriate definition and evaluation of the outputs provided by these institutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014964
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Nobel prize for Amartya Sen: a recognition to ethical dimensions of economics
Islahi, Abdul Azim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Nobel prize to Professor Amartya Sen is a recognition to value based orientation and ethical dimensions of economics, and it is this aspect that invites attention of all those who plead for the role of human values and ethics in economics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109861
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Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the H-Index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?
Farhadi, Hadi; Salehi, Hadi; Md Yunus, Melor; Arezoo, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
performance and the research impact studies based on the number of publications and citations of a scientist. It also is easily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112662
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The use of mathematics in economics and its effect on a scholar's academic career
Espinosa, Miguel; Rondon, Carlos; Romero, Mauricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
There has been so much debate on the increasing use of formal methods in Economics. Although there are some studies tackling these issues, those use either a little amount of papers, a small amount of scholars or a short period of time. We try to overcome these challenges constructing a database...
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Premio Nobel al microcredito
Reggiani, Tommaso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article proposes to analyze Grameen Bank operational system and its own evolution, illustrating the reasons for which to Professor Yunus's mission has been conferred an important award as Nobel Peace Prize 2006, evidencing the values that support this economics theory and the innovations...
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Does University Research Improve University Teaching?
James, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) generated a natural experiment in which … UK universities strove to achieve the best results they could for their research and teaching. A review of the two … exercises and a discussion of the relationship between university teaching and research appear in James (2005). This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502756
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On the Problem of Vague Terms: A Glossary of Clearly Stated Assumptions & Careful, Patient, Descriptions
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Coase 1930 endures through the decades as one of the most-cited papers in economics due to the fact that it highlights a fundamental and equally enduring problem: "Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260243
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On the Problem of Breathing, Eating, & Drinking Poison: An introduction to problem solving, nobility of purpose under adverse circumstances, and the search for truth with Sir Karl...
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper introduces Karl Popper's approach to problem solving in the social sciences. These methods fundamentally represent the scientific method of the natural sciences. Popper's problem solving technique is outlined in six steps, including an introductory treatment of his solution to Hume's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621798
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On the Travesty of the Tragedy of the Commons: Hardin's Nontrivial Error
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Garrett Hardin’s "Tragedy of the Commons" remains one of the most frequently cited works across the spectrum of science — indeed, a visit to the website of the influential journal which published this paper in 1968 reveals that this revolutionary communique remains amongst its ‘top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559018