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This paper describes the design and implementation of Bibster, a Peer-to-Peer system for exchanging bibliographic data among researchers. Bibster exploits ontologies in data-storage, query formulation, query-routing and answer presentation: When bibliographic entries are made available for use...
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This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on youngpeople´s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, thepaper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and theCurrent Population Survey in the United States...
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Homelessness is still an ever-present problem in many towns and citiesin the UK today. This paper is part of a more in-depth study ofhomelessness and social exclusion. It presents the results of a small-scalestudy which illustrates the range of problems experienced by homelessyoung women and...
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[...]Zu Beginn des Gutachtens wird das Verfahren, das zu einer Neuordnung vonAusbildungsordnungen führt, dargestellt und die Mitgestaltungsmöglichkeitenvon kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen in diesen Prozessen aufgezeigt. Anschließendwerden Hypothesen zur Handhabbarkeit modernisierter...
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This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from theperspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative newoperationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered bypopulation share of visible immigrants in...
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We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences inlife expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate anumber of duration of life...
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Der vorliegende Werkstattbericht „Umweltbildung“ basiert auf den Ergebnissen desForschungsprojekts „Umweltbildung Erneuerbare Energien für Kinder und Jugendliche“. DasVorhaben wurde in der Zeit von September 2003 bis Februar 2005 von iserundschmidt –Kreativagentur für PublicRelations...
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Economic decisions have been shown to depend on actual outcomes as well as perceived intentions. In this paper, we examine wether and how the relative importance of outcomes or intentions for economic decision develops with age. We report the resullt of ultimatum games with children, teens and...
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[...]The focus of my remarks is something else entirely. Mypurpose is threefold: first, to make the case that the study ofhistory is essential to understanding the present and future ofany urban area; second, to suggest that in terms of age, size,density, and demographic patterns, New York has...
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