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Neyse, Levent; Brañas-Garza, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

about how to make an accurate measurement in such a delicate task. Along this brief document we offer some concise guidance … of how to scan the hands using digital scanners and provide a comprehensive guideline to make a reliable measurement of … the 2D:4D. Furthermore, we point out the most common imaging and measurement errors. We also provide a number of hints …

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Job quality in Europe in the first decade of the 21st Century

Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article presents an analysis of the evolution of job quality from 2000 to 2010 in the European Union 15, using a newly developed composite measure of job quality that is applied to the European Working Conditions Survey. After a careful study of the evolution of job quality across the...

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When Category-based Indices Encounter Non-independent Categories: Solving the Taxonomy Issue in Resource-based Empirical Studies

Huo, Dong; Motohashi, Kazuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

may fail to produce a valid measurement, and this unmeasured relatedness can result in endogeneity in empirical analyses …

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How NGOs approach resilience programming:

Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - In: Resilience for food and nutrition security

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A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world:

Barrett, Christopher B.; Headey, Derek D. - In: Resilience for food and nutrition security

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An approach to consensus measurement of linguistic preference relations in multi-attribute group decision making and application

Sun, Bingzhen; Ma, Weimin - In: Omega 51 (2015) C, pp. 83-92

This paper studies the group decision making problem with linguistic preference relations. We first study the consensus measure between the individual preference relations and the collective (group) preference relation by defining the concept of degree of similarity between two linguistic values...

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Interpretations of «equal opportunity» in practice: Comparing the feasibility of divergent concepts

Robert, Kappius - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti (2013) 2, pp. 227-252

Within the notion «equality of opportunity» («EOp»), diverse conceptualizations competefor the privilege of interpretation. Although these concepts may adapt to various normative attitudes, theytacitly express divergent fundamental positions for interpreting «EOp». Which concept to choose?...

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A Review of the Study “Measurement and Analysis of Corruption Using Objective Data” by T. V. Natkhov and L. I. Polischuk

Aymaliev, Ivan - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 16 (2015) 1, pp. 110-114

The purchase of “beautiful” car registration plates from state authorities is legal in many developed democracies. However, in Russia this practice is strictly prohibited. Anecdotal evidences suggest that Russians circumvent the law by bribery or blat. Given the ambiguous nature of informal...

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Ségrégation et fragmentation socio-spatiale – L’épreuve de la mesure

Wachsberger, Jean-Michel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

This note is a reflection on the meaning and scope of segregation and socio-spatial fragmentation indicators and, beyond, on the role of statistics in sociological reasoning. It shows that if these indicators can be used to test theories of segregation or fragmentation, they must nevertheless...

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Quantum fluctuations as deviation from classical dynamics of ensemble of trajectories parameterized by unbiased hidden random variable

Budiyono, Agung - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 11, pp. 3102-3118

apply the method to develop quantum measurement without wave function collapse and external observer a la pilot-wave theory. …

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