Some Ace and True Value stores are offering similar programs. The End of CFLs? For a time, CFLs presented a great alternative to incandescent bulbs. That is, until LED light bulbs came on the scene. LED bulbs are even more efficient than CFLs, and they don't contain mercury. In 2022,...
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Using this powerful method, it is not necessary to find a match to a contrast matrix provided by the family of functions in R starting with the prefix contr. Instead, it is possible to simply define the hypotheses that one wants to test, and to obtain the correct contrast matrix for ...
in which digital integration connects all value chain members, managers at leading multinational enterprises (MNEs) are scrambling to predict the associated changes in the market. This pioneering study advances our understanding by investigating the impact of an MNE’s Industry 4.0 orientation on the g...
2011). But could personality help find and automatically model other characteristics of tourists, such as their motivations, and travel-related preferences and concerns when traveling in leisure? Can it be used to mitigate conflicting preferences in groups of tourists? Motivation has long been studied...
By definition, a central property of social hierarchy is inequality. Both intergroup and intragroup hierarchies are characterized by differences between individuals on a dimension of value. The inequality inherent in hierarchies tends to persist because most hierarchies are characterized by policies, practi...
It’s a reminder that seemingly small differences have a major impact when it comes tocompound interest. In terms of annual return, the difference between investing in shares in the U.K. versus the U.S. doesn’t look like that much: ...
In this section, we also find Fǎjīng’s judgment on this type of scriptures (“Nowadays [these scriptures] should be hidden away, in order to save the world from troubles” 今宜祕寢,以救世患; T. 55, No. 2146, p. 139a11–12). It is indeed interesting that Fǎjīng lists the ...
48 But Li was not the only one of Liu Zhuo’s disciples to reject the “annual difference” in Liu’s name. In his preface to the Shangshu zhengyi 尚書正義, Kong Yingda describes himself as synthesizing the subcommentaries of Liu Zhuo and Liu Xuan to find an appropriate middle ground. ...
A country’s GDP represents the final market value of all the products and services that a country produces in a single year. Another way to measure GDP is as the sum of four factors: consumer spending, government spending, net exports, and total investment. ...