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Distance education is growing at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Engineering graphics … course with a synchronous distance education engineering graphics course by identifying the impact of the teacher?s physical … engineering graphics course by means of synchronous distance education and face-to-face courses were found in students with a low …
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(trabajando menos días). ; The role of parenthood in the gender pay gap has been extensively discussed in the literature. Using … men’s remain unaffected. The gender gap is even larger ten years after the birth. Our ... …
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of the parametric bootstrap method and to compare the parametric and nonparametric bootstrap methods for estimating the standard error of equating (SEE) under the common-item nonequivalent groups (CINEG) design with the frequency...
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In the last five years, China's refrigerator market has grown rapidly, and now urban markets are showing signs of … the first half of 2007, when the draft standard was completed under the direction of the China National Institute of … of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency …
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and empirical findings from Chapters II and III to reframe the discourse of education finance policy and access for China … private resources to increase higher education access. Chapter IV finds that, although China’s dramatic economic growth has … higher education is too limited to mitigate the negative influence of income disparities in China. …
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enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational … attainment is an important and significant factor in the lay-off decision-the more education a worker has the better his/ her …
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to various demographic variables (age, gender, income group, and ethnic background); academic achievement variables …
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The industrial learning curve has been widely recognized as an important cost planning tool. Limited empirical work has been done on factors affecting the learning curve parameters, and no study has examined simultaneously the effects of standard difficulty and compensation method. These factors...
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This dissertation applies dynamic systems theory to conceptualizing an alternative approach to educational planning. Four decades of educational planning endeavors have spawned a plethora of literature critical of the results, intentions, and knowledge base of educational planning. Much of the...
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For the past forty years, alternative methods and techniques have been researched and developed in light of reducing the burgeoning knowledge and memory requirements of individual workers. One such method is reliance on print-based job aids designed to reduce the amount of complex information...
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