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COVID: how incorrect assumptions and poor foresight hampered the UK's pandemic preparedness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, has told the recently opened COVID-19 Inquiry that the UK's pandemic planning was "completely wrong". According to Hancock, the doctrine was "to plan for the consequences of a disaster" rather than stopping or ...
van der Meer, Robert
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Species abundance dynamics under neutral assumptions: a Bayesian approach to the controversy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
1. Hubbell's 'Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography' (UNTB) has generated much controversy about both the realism of its assumptions and how well it describes the species abundance dynamics in real communities. 2. We fit a discrete-time
O'hara, R. B.   +5 more
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exTREEmaTIME: a method for incorporating uncertainty into divergence time estimates

open access: yesBiology Open, 2022
We present a method of divergence time estimation (exTREEmaTIME) that aims to effectively account for uncertainty in divergence time estimates. The method requires a minimal set of assumptions, and, based on these assumptions, estimates the oldest ...
Tom Carruthers, Robert W. Scotland
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Environmental Regulation Can Arise Under Minimal Assumptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Models that demonstrate environmental regulation as a consequence of organism and environment coupling all require a number of core assumptions. Many previous models, such as Daisyworld, require that certain environment-altering traits have a selective ...
Harvey, I. R.   +7 more
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Cultura organizacional desde la teoría de Edgar Schein: Estudio fenomenológico

open access: yesCLIO América, 2015
The article presents the study of a phenomenon of corporate life from the description of the organizational culture in three organizations of educational character in Santa Marta-Colombia, whose objective was guided to describe the organizational ...
Lilibeth Pedraza-Álvarez   +3 more
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Using lineups to evaluate goodness of fit of animal movement models

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution
Movement models are frequently fit to animal location data to understand how individuals respond to and interact with local environmental features. Several open‐source software packages are available for analysing animal movements and can facilitate ...
John Fieberg   +2 more
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Necessary Assumptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
In their book EVALUATING CRITICAL THINKING Stephen Norris and Robert Ennis say: “Although it is tempting to think that certain [unstated] assumptions are logically necessary for an argument or position, they are not.
Plumer, Gilbert, Gilbert Plumer
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The Importance of Cultural Components in the Analysis of an Organization [PDF]

open access: yesOvidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2018
Organizational culture is a representative topic in the literature nowadays but also in the private environment, as managers are evaluating their companies not only with financial indicators, but also with non-financial ones.
Criveanu Maria Magdalena
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Are treatment effect assumptions in orthodontic studies overoptimistic?

open access: yes, 2021
BACKGROUND At the clinical trial design stage, assumptions regarding the treatment effects to be detected should be appropriate so that the required sample size can be calculated. There is evidence in the medical literature that sample size assumption
Seehra, Jadbinder   +4 more
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Accounting estimates in financial statements and their disclosure by some South African construction companies

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013
Accounting estimates form part of the preparation of financial statements and should not affect faithful representation. The use of accounting estimates does not yield exact amounts, but, rather, amounts based on assumptions.
Elsje Raubenheimer
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