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Does School Improve Equity? ABSTRACT Most school inequality research usually emphasize the role played by pupils' family social, cultural and economic condition, their parents' educational achievement, previous own school story and gender, among other factors. Despite also considering these same...
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as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple … sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others …
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delivered for documents. This would transform the quality and usability of economic data. The goal is a system which, by analogy … with Wikipedia can establish a world resource for reliable data. The paper discusses a process by which data providers and … users can evolve a new set os systems for exchanging, describing and interacting with data to bring this about. The proposal …
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facts is not very different. They freely use (sometimes without understanding) research methods, statistics and data that …
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Liberia. Data was collected from few selected cultural spots and analyzed statistically. It was concluded from study that …
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Programs that work very well in optimizing convex functions very often perform poorly when the problem has multiple local minima or maxima. They are often caught or trapped in the local minima/maxima. Several methods have been developed to escape from being caught in such local optima. The...
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This article shows some important aspects of a worldwide, historical phenomenon: the globalization of commerce and art which started in the second half of the sixteenth century and had the American, Asian and European territories of the Hispanic Monarchy as main protagonist during the Early...
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This set of three volumes argues that the mind – human consciousness – may be measured by considering mathematically the aggregate of that consciousness, i.e. social history. From this beginning theme of discussion three questions must arise. 1. How might this measurement be made? 2. Of what...
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course of many years to find the growth of the United States stated as a natural “14-year octave” within real GNP data (pp …
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The Great Famine of Ireland from 1845-51 ranks as one of the most lethal of all time, claiming approximately one eighth of the country’s population. Utilizing Famine Relief Commission reports to develop a micro-level dataset of blight severity, I find that in the short run, districts more...
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