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This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to valueenvironmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...
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Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction …. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution … rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The interrelationship between wealth (GDPpc), equality of income and …
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Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1 …,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This … is the ‘Easterlin Paradox’ – the finding that self-reported happiness does not always appear to grow in tandem with …
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There is not much research on welfare-economics from the perspective of human wellbeing (happiness). The main reason is … that this is qualitative and subjective phenomena are not easily captured by measurement. In the present endeavour, the … authors tried to capture it (happiness) from the opposite side of the poverty index. We employed the modified ARDL technique …
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Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
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, however, performance measurement systems ofworld-class organisations are tailored to drive manufacturing and service … based on the premise that customersatisfaction, people (employee) satisfaction and impact on society are all achievedthrough …
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The relative index of inequality (RII) is a commonly used measure of the extent to which the occurrence of an outcome such as chronic illness or early death varies with socioeconomic status or some other background variable. The standard RII estimator applies only to linear variation in...
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The accurate fitting of a circle to noisy measurements of points on its circumference is an important and much-studied problem in statistics. Atherton & Kerbyson (Image and Vision Computing 17, 1999, 795-803) have proposed a complex convolutional circle parameter estimator. One of the estimators...
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This paper analyses the branding strategy of a leading French food producer in the fast growing Chinese market. The company, Danone Group (DG), has long been operating internationally with success. However, like several multinational enterprises, its initial entry into China was a failure....
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banking industry, and consequently establish a reliable and valid service quality measurement instrument for Cypriot banks … result of this analysis, a modified version of the perceptions’ side of SERVQUAL was constructed as a measurement scale of … consistency measurement. This analysis helped to prove the validity and reliability of the modified instrument used to measure …
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