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Feature Selection by Mutual Information
Mutual information (MI), a crucial component in statistical inference and an essential tool for data analysis, has been largely overlooked for seven decades in the statistical literature. Emerging from the analysis of data information within the realms of biological, engineering and physical sciences, essential working MI formulas have been involved ...
Philip E. Cheng +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on self‐worth theory, we explore whether fear of academic failure is higher in education systems with features that increase students' experiences of competition. To do this, we compare two very different education systems: England, where, for instance, national
Carolyn Jackson, Mieke Van Houtte
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Język współczesnej polskiej polityki
Stylistyka, 2008 The year 1989 was both in Poland and in many other European countries, which were in the sphere of the Soviet influences, the beginning of revolutionary changes: political, economie, social and cultural ones.
Kazimierz Ożóg
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The Thinker, 2020 Today, slums have become prominent features of urban inequalities in developing nations. The proportion of urban residents who live in slums around the world is as follows: over half in Africa as a whole, two-thirds in Sub-Saharan Africa (UN-Habitat ...
John M. Wambui
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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality ? measuring the impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular [PDF]
Seguro Popular was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers'incentives to operate in the informal sector ...
Aterido, Reyes +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
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The Role of Gender Inequalities in Explaining Income Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Latin American Countries [PDF]
This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators.
Elydia Silva, Fábio Vaz, Joana Costa
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher +3 more
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Informality: Sectoral Selection and Earnings in Uruguay [PDF]
In this paper we define informal workers as those who are not contributing to the social security system. We analyse the likelihood of being informal and we estimate the differentials in earnings between sectors using both the OLS estimation and a ...
Marisa Bucheli, Rodrigo Ceni
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Feature Discovery by Information Loss
Journal of Computers, 2009 In this paper, we propose a new approach called information loss to feature detection in competitive learning. The information loss is defined by the difference between a full network and a network without some elements. If this deletion significantly decreases the amount of information contained in a network, the elements are considered to be ...
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