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Gathering The Student's Perception Of Teaching And Learning Environments: A Customisable Email Data Collection Tool, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills, Raymond Stace, Albert Ip
Gathering The Student's Perception Of Teaching And Learning Environments: A Customisable Email Data Collection Tool, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills, Raymond Stace, Albert Ip
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
Poverty Changes In Developing Countries, Gary S. Fields
Poverty Changes In Developing Countries, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] This chapter is concerned with measuring how the extent of poverty changes in a country over time. 'Poverty', as the term is used here, denotes the inability of an individual or a family to command sufficient resources to satisfy basic needs. The poverty line is a constant real amount below which people are said to be poor. The extent of poverty in a country is then based on variables such as the number who are poor and the extent of their resource shortfall. This chapter treats three topics: how poverty is defined, how much poverty there is, and how …
Public Policy Instruments In (Re)Building National Innovation Capabilities: Cases Of Nanotechnology Development In China, Russia And Brazil, Evgeny A. Klochikhin
Public Policy Instruments In (Re)Building National Innovation Capabilities: Cases Of Nanotechnology Development In China, Russia And Brazil, Evgeny A. Klochikhin
Evgeny A. Klochikhin
In 2001 Goldman Sachs named Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) the most rapidly-growing countries in the world capable of surpassing the United States, Japan and Europe as leading economies by 2050.
Nevertheless, for the last decade we have learned relatively little about the mechanisms of success and failure in these countries. All of them have huge territory and population as well as fast-growing economies that sometimes show two-digit rates of GDP growth per year and surprise the world by their increasing budgets and public spending. In the meantime, most of these countries are believed to be desperately struggling against …
Is Data To Knowledge As The Wasp Is To The Fig Tree? Reconsidering Licklider’S Intergalactic Network In The Days Of Data Deluge., Christine L. Borgman
Is Data To Knowledge As The Wasp Is To The Fig Tree? Reconsidering Licklider’S Intergalactic Network In The Days Of Data Deluge., Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
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Mining The Decennial Censuses For Louisiana Data, 1940-2000, Lora K. Amsberryaugier, Marilyn Hankel
Mining The Decennial Censuses For Louisiana Data, 1940-2000, Lora K. Amsberryaugier, Marilyn Hankel
Lora K. Amsberryaugier
Exploration of Louisiana demographic information and data available in the 1940 through 2000 decennial censuses. This article was created as a resource for librarians and other census researchers.