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... unlike the IMF’s, is linked to the date of the liberalization. Eichengreen forthcoming reviews thedataand methodological differences among most of these and other studies. (For discussions of the ... quickly and others do not. That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions. ... Models 3.1 and 3.3 report the base model results for PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 data, respectively. Models 3.2 and 3.4 add current account indicators to the models for PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 data, respectively....
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... readingcomprehension and listeningcomprehension was still evident at the end of Year 1 and at the end of Year 2. At the end of Year 1 the differences between the experimental and controlgroups ... on the Burt Word Test. Usingthe data on mean scores and standard deviations(adjusted for school effects) as reportedby Center et al, the differences in termsof effect sizes were .08 on the ... language'approach andthe other concentrates more on instruction in phonics.What works? This paper focuses on the theoretical assumptionsunderlying these two approaches to the teaching of literacy, and the studies...
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... training example and then used to generate a prediction for the left-out example. The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, and the true label ... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used. H-CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) between the relations predicted by O-CRF and R1-CRF and includes the result in the feature ... advance, and their number is massive. The relationship between standard RE systems and the new Open IE paradigm is analogous to the relationship between lexicalized and unlexicalizedparsers. Statistical...