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determinants of economic growth.
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general exclusion or trivialization ofthe role of knowledge, was ... limited
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land). For example, the fundamental theorem...
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coefficients on Africa, Asia and South/Central...
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investigated the effects of Li andthe anilinomaleimide, ... cell system we compared the
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thus the applicability ofthe theory. If a specimen is strained at too slow
a rate, little or no pore pressure will be generated and, the effect on the
determination of Coefficient of ... predicted value andthe measured value.
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training the ANN model, andthe others are used for the comparison
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video images. This would require a number of parameters ofthe order of
the number of pixels squared. Furthermore, unlike the noise-free ... R is diagonal does restrict the expressive power of the
model. This is easy to see for the case where the dimension ofthe state
space is small andthe dimension ofthe observation vector is large. ... yÞ;
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the parameters andthe second integral is over the posterior distribution of
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series tends to zero. This implies that the series always converges to the
true value ofthe function.
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gross rate of profit is the ratio of interest plus rent plus the profit of industrial and
commercial enterprises to invested capital. The net rate of profit is the ratio of industrial ... production and circulation.
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failure to comprehend the existence and significance ofthe theoretical articulation ofthe
laws and tendencies ofthe rate of profit deduced from the sphere of production...
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one hand, and to the world on the other, go far beyond the level of physical
description, and we grow to understand ... intention. The little ones
had assumed an identity between their experience of their own desire and
the likely experience ofthe other.
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of thoughts, feelings and desires in the infant’s mind, and in their own mind
in relation to the infant and his/her mental state, is the key mediator of the
transmission of...