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Klein, Valerie - 2007

A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...

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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation

Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011

The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …

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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises

Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999

Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...

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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom

Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009

groups that work with women-owned cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. By teaching nonviolence studies, this educator helps …

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Analysis of the implications of the USSR providing reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to other countries

2009

This brief analysis, which is based on unclassified sources, seeks to identify what some of the implications would be if the Soviets started to move actively to try to provide reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to the US and other countries. While information on Soviet intentions is...

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Navy mobility fuels forecasting system report: World petroleum trade forecasts for the year 2000

Das, S. - 2008

will import more petroleum. Much uncertainty remains about of the level future Soviet crude oil production. USSR net …

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Navy mobility fuels forecasting system report: World petroleum trade forecasts for the year 2000

Das, S. - 2008

will import more petroleum. Much uncertainty remains about of the level future Soviet crude oil production. USSR net …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437208

Das Volkskommissariat für Außenhandel und seine Nachfolgeorganisationen 1920- 1930

Heubaum, Regine - 2002

Die Dissertation untersucht am Beispiel des Volkskommissariates für Außenhandel die Entstehung der frühen Sowjetbürokratie und analysiert administrative und politische Prozesse, die der Herausbildung des Stalinismus vorangingen. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Probleme des staatlich...

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Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium: Summary

Simpson, R. David; Toman, Michael A.; Ayres, Robert U. - 2004

In their 1963 classic Scarcity and Growth Howard Barnett and Chandler Morse argued that resource scarcity did not threaten economic growth. A second investigation in the late 1970s, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, reached largely the same conclusion. The 25 years since that work was published...

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Innovation

Smith, KH - 2002

Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...

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