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Sometimes a regulatory requirement or a quality-assurance procedure sets an allowed maximum on a confidence limit for a mean. If the sample mean of the measurements is below the allowed maximum, but the confidence limit is above it, a very widespread practice is to increase the sample size and...
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tool to calculate optimal sample size and optimal sample location based on user goals, risk tolerance, and variability in …
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, toleran-ce, technology, and territory both as a stand-alone metropolitan area and in comparison to similar industrial …
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We develop an economic theory of tolerance where lifestyles and traits are invested with symbolic value by people … which tolerance spontaneously arises. Policy may affect the evolution of tolerance in distinctive ways, and there may be … efficiency as well as equity reasons to promote tolerance. …
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We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … that embodies tolerance towards people who are different. We test this by applying the epidemiological method, using a … tolerance index based on two indicators from the World Values Survey - the share that thinks it important to teach children …
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"Intercultural Education" is a pedagogic approach aimed at fomenting a tolerant and sensitive attitude to ethnic, cultural and religious differences between individuals. This study examines how Intercultural Education is provided for in the classrooms of selected EU countries, including France,...
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Tolerance is a distinguishing feature of Western culture: There is a widespread attitude that people should be allowed … to say what they want even if one dislikes the message. Still, the degree of tolerance varies between and within … economic freedom (i.e., lower government expenditures, lower and more general taxes and more modest regulation) on tolerance in …
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The links between innovativeness as a driver of economic performance, and the determinants of innovativeness have been investigated by management scholars and economists for decades, focusing mostly on "hard factors" as investment in research and development, or education. Focusing on a...
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Tolerance has the potential to affect both economic growth and wellbeing. It is therefore important to discern its …-oriented is related to different measures of tolerance. Regression analysis of up to 65 countries reveals that economic freedom is … positively related to tolerance towards homosexuals, especially in the longer run, while tolerance towards people of a different …
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