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A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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Despite improved access to all educational levels, many countries around the world struggle with integrating young … analyze the world's most successful education systems. The objective is to compare the top-performing countries' instructional …
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The purpose of CEMETS' initial research project is to understand why the implementation of labor market-oriented education systems reforms succeed and fail. Findings should be generalizable to theory and to concrete situations so that we can inform both research and practice. We build and...
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This study assesses the quality of seven commercial project management systems to perform finite scheduling. We give a brief survey of the way commercial project management systems work and especially how they perform finite scheduling. Since the implemented methods are proprietary, we measure...
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Background: This paper contributes to the evidence-base on prices and alcohol use by presenting meta-analytic summaries of price and income elasticities for alcohol beverages. The analysis improves on previous meta-analyses by correcting for outliers and publication bias. Methods: Adjusting for...
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Das seit dem Herbst 2000 zunehmend schwächer gewordene weltwirtschaftliche Wachstum hatte zu starken Nachfrageeinbrüchen auf den Metallmärkten und bis zum Sommer 2001 zu einem Preisverfall teilweise unter den Stand vom Frühjahr 1999 geführt. Die Terroranschläge in den USA und ihre...
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Der Preis für Rohöl ist Ende vergangenen Jahres aufgrund der weltweit schwachen Konjunktur und der rückläufigen Ölnachfrage innerhalb von drei Monaten um etwa 10 US-Dollar auf 18 US-Dollar je Barrel gefallen. Verstärkt wurde dieser konjunkturelle Effekt durch den Einbruch des...
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