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World Education Finance and Higher Education Access: Econometric Analyses of International Indicators and the Implications for China.

Yang, Lijing - 2011

indicators and examines the statistical relationship between education finance policies and higher education access among OECD … and empirical findings from Chapters II and III to reframe the discourse of education finance policy and access for China …’s higher education (Chapter IV).Chapter II concludes that scholarships/grants as a percentage of public tertiary expenditure …

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Growth of private medicine in Sweden: The new diversity and the new challenge

Rosenthal, Marilynn M. - 1992

The growth of private medical care in Sweden has occurred despite the lack of overt encouragement by the long-term Social Democrat government. This can be documented from official government statistics, private insurance sales, media sources, membership growth in the private doctors association,...

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A suboptimal estimator of the sampling jitter variance using the bispectrum

Sharfer, Ilan; Messer, Hagit - 1994

We consider the problem of estimating parameters of an irregular sampling process defined as a uniform sampling process in which the deviations from the nominal sampling times constitute a random IID process (jitter). Emphasis is placed on estimating the variance of the jitter, based on...

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Gaming: An Emergent Discipline

Duke, Richard - 1995

Experiential learning efforts in the 1950s mimicked the logistic operational gaming of World War II; the results were encouraging. Subsequently, funded research efforts over three decades focused on gaming phenomena. Computers permitted more elaborate games, creating the illusion that they might...

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Graphical user interfaces in an engineering educational environment

Depcik, Christopher; Assanis, Dennis N. - 2005

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are being increasingly used in the classroom to provide users of computer simulations with a friendly and visual approach to specifying all input parameters and increased configuration flexibility. In this study, the authors first describe a number of software...

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Design Strategy from the Population Perspective

Aldrich, Howard; McKelvey, Bill; Ulrich, Dave - 1984

The population perspective on organizational change downplays the consequences of managerial action and focuses on populations rather than on single organizations as evolving units. The population perspective is useful in suggesting broad classes of design strategies. Using this perspective, we...

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The emergence of market competition in the U.S. health care system : Its causes, likely structure, and implications

Feldstein, Paul J. - 1986

This paper addresses three issues. First, why did market competition emerge in the U.S. health care system? Second, once free of regulatory constraints, how is the structure of the medical care system likely to evolve? Three, what are the implications of market competition for the public as well...

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Improving and Assessing Propensity Score Based Causal Inferences in Multilevel and Nonlinear Settings.

Kelcey, Benjamin M. - 2009

both the policies and practices of education. A major challenge in aligning educational research with such standards has …

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Small World, Big Ideas, and Smart Companies - A Qualitative Study of Academic Spin-off Companies and Knowledge Creation.

Bacevice, Peter Anthony - 2010

body of scholarship on academic research commercialization and higher education. This dissertation draws from an … business development, and higher education policy. …

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The Impact of Cross-Border Flows on Markets for Labor, Higher Education, and Goods and Services.

Jackson, Osborne A. - 2010

relatively unskilled immigrant labor will raise the private return to higher education, while increases in immigrant students … significantly influences the share of high-skilled immigrants acquiring college education in the United States. Despite potential …

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