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Test of values: an instrument for evaluation

open access: yesRevista Española de Pedagogía, 1995
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The demand for stored value payment instruments [PDF]

open access: possibleProceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005
Due to their functionality, stored value purses based on smart card technology are prominent candidates for being the dominant medium of exchange for micropayments. However, the overall prospects of these payment systems are yet ambiguous, both from the perspective of practice and monetary theory, because their potential to substitute for cash is still
Pippow Ingo, Schoder Detlef
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On intellectual and instrumental values in science

ACM SIGACT News, 2012
This opinionated essay discusses the role of intellectual and instrumental values in scientific fields, and the way these values evolve due to internal and external forces. It identifies two sources of the decline of intellectual values within a scientific field: (1) the direct intervention of outsiders in the dynamics of (successful) scientific fields,
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Truth and Instrumental Value

2023
Abstract This chapter begins a retail case against the idea that truth confers value on beliefs. It addresses the case of instrumental value. Does the truth of a proposition confer instrumental value on states of believing it? Instrumentally valuable beliefs help us to achieve our goals. The chapter argues that truth as such doesn’t make
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Instrumental Values and the Popularity of Instrumental Leaders

Social Forces, 1961
Varying degrees of overlap between instrumental and expressive hierarchies have been reported. All hypothesis which accounts for such disparity is that degree of correspondence between leader status and popularity is associated with the extent to which the instrumental activities of a group are dominant values for the group.
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Are relational values different in practice to instrumental values?

Ecosystem Services, 2020
Abstract Relational values have been proposed as a more inclusive alternative to instrumental and intrinsic values of nature. Although theoretically different, the empirical work to ascertain whether relational values are in practice different to instrumental values has been scarce.
Sin Ching See   +3 more
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