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On Measuring the Complexity of Urban Living [PDF]
This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure the dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses. Both the context in which these rankings are done and their nature have changed considerably
Lubna Hasan
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Evolution of the Institution of Rating in the Mechanism of Economic Transformations [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2018 Under conditions of the development of the modern market economic system, which is characterized by the accumulation of large volumes of information, an increase in its asymmetry, complication of processing and generalization, rankings play an important ...
Kolomiyets Ganna M. , Hlushach Yuliia S.
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American Law Schools in a Time of Transition [PDF]
, 2011 [Excerpt] I will argue that reports of law school unintentionally or intentionally misreporting a variety of types of data to USNWR should not be surprising; we have long seen similar problems occurring with respect to its rankings of undergraduate ...
Ehrenberg, Ronald G
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Modelling rankings in R: the PlackettLuce package [PDF]
, 2019 This paper presents the R package PlackettLuce, which implements a generalization of the Plackett-Luce model for rankings data. The generalization accommodates both ties (of arbitrary order) and partial rankings (complete rankings of subsets of items ...
Firth, David +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In this study, we found that human cervical‐derived adipocytes maintain intracellular iron level by regulating the expression of iron transport‐related proteins during adrenergic stimulation. Melanotransferrin is predicted to interact with transferrin receptor 1 based on in silico analysis.
Rahaf Alrifai +9 more
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A Local Health Department’s Use of CLAS to Advance Health Equity
Florida Public Health Review, 2014 Health Equity is the idea that everyone has the opportunity to achieve optimal health regardless of race/ethnicity, educational attainment, sexual orientation, income, religious affiliation, residence, or ability.
Ericka Burroughs, Yolanda G. Martinez
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Multimethod approach to measuring values in a school context: exploring the association between Congruence — Discrepancy Index (CO DI) and task commitment [PDF]
Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2013 There are considerable differences among the value hierarchies revealed by different methods of measurement. The quantitative measure of such a difference can be referred as the Congruence-Discrepancy Index (CODI).
Podolskiy, Dmitry A.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Combining PTEN protein assessment and transcriptomic profiling of prostate tumors, we uncovered a network enriched in senescence and extracellular matrix (ECM) programs associated with PTEN loss and conserved in a mouse model. We show that PTEN‐deficient cells trigger paracrine remodeling of the surrounding stroma and this information could help ...
Ivana Rondon‐Lorefice +16 more
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Ranking Regimes and the Production of Knowledge in Academia: (Re)shaping Faculty Work?
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014 In this integrated review of literature, we address a powerful movement among interrelated organizations that we call the “ranking regime.” We argue that the ostensive purpose of this regime is to identify “world class” universities, and thus to organize
Leslie D Gonzales, Anne-Marie Núñez
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Ekonomika Nauki, 2023 The paper is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding scientist and statesman, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valery Petrovich Chichkanov, who was a member of the Editorial Council of the journal Economics of Science and ...
O. S. Sukharev
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