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This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of income and its evolution over that past three to four decades. Our methodological approach is twofold. First, we formally test for the number of modes in a cross-sectional analysis where each country is...
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democracy variables. Since our analysis highlights that the distribution of democracy is bimodal, we approximate the modes using …
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conducting interviews online through communicators such as Skype or Facebook Messenger. …
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An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely it is that we will interact and converge. Models using these assumptions are called bounded...
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Symbol systems can provide topic-specific languages comprising multimodal grammars and vocabularies. Symbol systems can … research is reported, which involved the development of a multimodal symbol system for facilitating mutual innovation knowledge … are set-out with reference to relevant literature. Second, a practical example of a multimodal symbol system, which meets …
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Ergonomen wie Designer planen Mensch-Maschine-Systeme mit dem Ziel, den technischen Teil des Systems den menschlichen Eigengesetzlichkeiten anzupassen – Kompatibilität der Maschine mit dem Menschen herzustellen. Trotz des gemeinsamen Ziels gehen beide Disziplinen unterschiedlich mit dieser...
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with core obligations in new generation free trade agreements. In distribution, multimodal transport and logistics (DML …
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We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group …
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-to-two tutoring setting. Using a randomized field experiment with 161 students in 12 Swedish schools, we find large positive effects …
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We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that … tutoring increases the probability of being placed in a university when non-random selection is ignored. Moreover, among those … utilizing private tutoring, greater expenditure on tutoring is also positively associated with university placement. However, we …
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