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Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Part 2B Paper Psy 4 for the academic year 2007-8 Current Topics in Social PsychologyGerard, Duveen
Simon Kuznets, in a 1967 paper, examined the question “to what extent does a high rate of population growth impede the growth of product per capita” (Kuznets 1967). A year later the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb” made the population explosion a world issue (...
The arrow shows the development process of SSRA policy. The question mark illustrates the core issue of our research. Full size image We adopt the World Economic Forum’s definition of economic competitiveness; that is: “the set of institutions, policies and factors that determine the level of ...
The current impetus towards open access, including via transitional Publish and Read agreements, raises the question of how libraries might adapt to a future in which this access model becomes universal. Attention to this scenario has been limited to date but is likely to grow. Finally, ...
In answer to the second question about prior and predictive distributions, let me start by correcting this statement of yours: “A Bayesian model consists of the likelihood in a conjunction with a prior distribution.” The more accurate way to put this is: A Bayesian model consists of a data...
An important question for these programs is whether temporary payments can lead to persistent behavioral changes. Over the past 20 years, the USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) has provided more than $250 million to farmers adopting no-till crop production. In contrast to ...
The central research question was: How do teachers’ knowledge and perceptions of their students vary between teachers and between students? To answer this question and map the variety of responses among both teachers and students, the following sub-questions were formulated: (a) How do the knowle...
However, whether modern narratives’ popularity serves cooperative functions is not a question that we focus on (see Apriasz et al., 2016). Our model does not entitle us to speculate about the functions of stories in modern settings that involve multiple and overlapping coordination assurance ...
This paper adopts a spatial perspective to analyse the influence of government transportation policy on a regional tourism system from a comprehensive view. Regional transportation policy is chosen as the main influencing factor (i.e., explanatory variable) on the operational efficiency of each tourist...