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This perspective paper discusses challenges and risks of the information age, and the implications for the information and communication technologies that need to be built and operated. It addresses ethical and policy issues related with Big Data and how procedures for privacy-preserving data...
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This paper proposes a unifying theory of forecasting in the form of a Golden Rule of Forecasting. The Golden Rule is to be conservative. A conservative forecast is consistent with cumulative knowledge about the present and the past. To be conservative, forecasters must seek all knowledge...
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Union, began to resort to monetary pronatalism, but the birth rate incentives of the second half of 1980 resulted in only … short-term increase in the number of newborns. Since 2005, the monetary pronatalism became the dominant trend of population …
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We have not clearly acknowledged the abstraction from unpriceable “social goods” (derived from communities) which … economics has not been argued, much less established. Acknowledging communities would reinforce rather than undermine them, and …
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forms of tourism, a result of the advantages which it offers bouth tourists and host communities. Rural areas are rich in … ecological and rural diversity. For a long time in their existence, rural communities have relied on the abundance of natural … transformation in agriculture, as well as other industrial resources were renewerable, which has led rural communities to be …
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This article examines the communities involved in the distribution and sharing of videos on the internet. Firstly, we …
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Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are...
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TradeProd, the CEPII trade, production and bilateral protection database, provides an updated version of the worldwide … data used in Mayer and Zignago (2005), and available on CEPII's website. The database contains three groups of information … available. The second is an extension of industrial production figures from the Trade, Production and Protection database by …
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Measuring the contribution of services to the Indian economy is a challenging task because it presents problems not encountered in the primary and secondary sectors. The authors discuss problems found particularly in quantifying the contribution of the banking and software sectors and suggest...
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In this new version of the database we have included pilot social assistance programmes. A number of pilot cash … several of the pilots covered in the database, and many of those in the pipeline, represent instead a specific route to the … database, do not fit fully into this description. We have accumulated a large body of evidence and knowledge about the design …
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