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and Deviance , this paper empirically explains why some households choose to copy others, while some choose deviance even … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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This paper considers the problem of modeling migraine severity assessments and their dependence on weather and time characteristics. Since ordinal severity measurements arise from a single patient dependencies among the measurements have to be accounted for. For this the autoregressive ordinal...
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This paper considers the problem of modeling migraine severity assessments and their dependence on weather and time characteristics. Since ordinal severity measurements arise from a single patient, dependencies among the measurements have to be accounted for. For this the autoregressive ordinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275914
and Deviance", this paper empirically explains why some households choose to copy others, while some choose deviance even … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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The use of electronic spreadsheets as the primary software tool for teaching management science modeling techniques and quantitative methods in economics and finance undoubtedly played a key role in the increasing impact of quantitative lectures given in graduate programs. Researchers suggest...
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Increasing oil security represents one of the most important policy actions, especially within IEA countries. Short and … of national storage systems, with the institution of public and private agency, a wider co-ordinated use of security … stocks, and an increase in the physical amount of oil stocks. Long term measures for enhancing oil supply security can be …
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Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored … and its significance (let alone its existence) may hardly be doubted. Security is a fundamental human need which is a … on how the term "security" itself should be defined and what specific aspects or issues it should include (and which ones …
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comprehension enhances the legitimacy of the EU's 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' (AFSJ) project. The paper argues that the … position of security as domination. Only by doing so, can we understand the capabilities of the EU for realizing justice and … freedom in a largely security driven site. In an attempt to marry these abstract claims with the reality of security …
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With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 African countries using updated data. We find that,...
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