why some donors are greener than others

... nation’s largest metropolitan areas have seen their populations stagnant or declining Others have seen rapid growth The question of why some areas are growing and others are shrinking is of major ... Growth in: TABLE (cont.) Low-Tax Metro Areas Grew Faster Than High-Tax Metro Areas Cato Journal Why Some Cities Are Growing FIGURE State and Local Taxes Are Negatively Correlated with Employment ... Metro Areas Had Lower Taxes Than Low-Growth Metro Areas Why Some Cities Are Growing 295 296 11.3% 9.8 12.5 10.2 9.6 12.6 9.5 10.1 10.5 9.5 10.6% 10.0 Ten Lowest-Population-Growth Large Metro Areas...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... to determine whether some models perform better than others We find that some business models are much more common than others, and that some do, indeed, perform better than others For example, ... show that business models are a better predictor of financial performance than industry classifications and that some business models do, indeed, perform better than others Specifically, selling ... Business Model Archetypes (BMAs) While all of the models are logically possible, some are quite rare, and two (Human Creator and Human Distributor) are illegal in most places today Definitions and examples...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... so compelling? Why some chemistry lessons work better than others? Why does virtually every society circulate a set of proverbs? Why some political ideas circulate widely while others fall short? ... Dunn—perhaps people commuting to jobs in Dunn are buying the paper; or (2) some households are buying more than one paper Maybe it's hard for some couples in Dunn to share What's the explanation for this ... about ten years asking why bad ideas sometimes won out in the social marketplace of ideas How could a false idea displace a true one? And what made some ideas more viral than others? As an entry...

Ngày tải lên: 01/03/2016, 22:10

... more than 80% of instances with some relationship are predicted to be coordinates, and most of the rest are predicted no relationship It seems that we are only distinguishing between no vs some ... changes, spacing changes X and Y have the same lemmas X and Y are related and X or Y is a URL X and Y are related in some other way X and Y are not related in any obvious way Example low cost; cheap ... for each class are shown in Table We seem to have regressed to predicting no vs some relationship Because these results are not as good as the human-labeled results, we believe that some of our...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... applies WHY GOVERNMENT BONDS ARE SOLD BY AUCTION AND CORPORATE BONDS BY POSTED-PRICE SELLING In most industrialized countries, government bonds are sold by auction whereas corporate bonds are sold ... market’ for shares As argued by Chari and Weber (1992) and Sundaresan (1992) and documented by Nyborg and Sundaresan (1996) for bonds, and by Aussenegg, Pichler, and Stomper (2002) for shares, such ... Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA Sorensen, E.H., 1982, On the seasoning process of new bonds: some are more seasoned than others, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 17, 195-208 Spatt, C and S...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

... and most productive talent Some rules are more easily adopted Some provide more value to one organization than to another Some require reallocating of resources; some are as simple as listening ... make a contribution; to be a part of something larger than themselves, something of significance Second, they want to something that is worthwhile and notable; something they can be proud of—attach ... focusing on them Although these are the last items covered in this chapter about why employees come to work and why they stay, trust and respect are no less important than the previously introduced...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:06

... accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can about it Now if you will excuse me I have to drive to Vermont and collect some mail from ... – thankfully, in my view Yet, the US has had significantly more GDP growth with somewhat lower inflation over the last thirty-two months than in the UK Why is that? It seems to me that there are ... US are sitting on historically unprecedented hoards of cash rather than investing that cash (or returning it to shareholders), although a little more so in the UK than in the US; and,  The share...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... cell Square foot Introduction – Why Fuel Cells? In today‘s marketplace, people are spending their green on green Companies making or selling environmentally-conscious products and services are finding ... power supply Fuel cells are also extremely durable, providing power in sites that are either hard to access or are subject to inclement weather With smaller siting requirements than conventional power ... cell life cycle costs are 12% and 18% less expensive o Traditional - natural gas, gasoline, diesel, propane, jet fuel o Renewable methanol, ethanol, landfill gas, biogas, methane, ammonia  Summary...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... There are known knowns T hese are things we know that we know There are known unknowns That is to say, there are things that we know we don 't know But there are also unknown unknowns There are ... operational as we probe new scales We simply don 'f know! For more than two thousand years, the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has been presented as a challenge to the proposition ... question of whether the very laws of nature are truly fundamental Each of these, in its own turn, now tends to make the question of why there is something rather than nothing appear less imposing, if...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:24

... Axel and Bob are being rewarded because they are offering something both scarce and highly valued • 20 • WHO PAYS FOR YOUR COFFEE? But high profits are not always earned so fairly; sometimes the ... The game is for high stakes: some of the people who worked to get that coffee in front of you made a lot of money, some of them made very little, and some of them are after the money in your pocket ... is huge and appalling The economist would share your sense of injustice—but he could also tell you why rich countries are rich and poor countries are poor, and what might be done about it Perhaps...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 02:14

... There are known knowns These are things we know that we know There are known unknowns That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know But there are also unknown unknowns There are things ... that these particles act as if they are moving faster than light! But, if they are moving faster than light, Einstein tells us they must be behaving as if they are moving backward in time! Feynman ... question of whether the very laws of nature are truly fundamental Each of these, in its own turn, now tends to make the question of why there is something rather than nothing appear less imposing, if...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:02

... their parents put in at work and more by the mood their parents are in when they come home Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who ... employee is someone’s son or someone’s daughter Like a parent, a leader of a company is responsible for their precious lives Every single employee is someone’s son or someone’s daughter Parents work ... long term, the clearer we can see what we are setting out to achieve, the more likely we are to achieve it It’s exciting, thanks to dopamine This is why the best visions offer us something that,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 20:23

... shared morality It is not a virus or a parasite, as some scientists (the “New Atheists”) have argued in recent years And I’ll use this perspective to explain why some people are conservative, others ... work it out.” This book is about why it’s so hard for us to get along We are indeed all stuck here for a while, so let’s at least what we can to understand why we are so easily divided into hostile ... Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haidt, Jonathan The righteous mind : why good people are divided by politics...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:00

... lunches are thought to be less able students than those not in the lunch program; ugly college students are believed less capable of piloting a private plane than pretty ones; welfare recipients are ... One reason why asking works is that we are flattered to be asked for advice or help—few things are more self-affirming and ego-enhancing than to have others, particularly talented others, seek ... to others needs and feelings Many of the people who seem to me to have the most difficulty putting themselves in the other’s place are people who are so smart they can’t understand why the others...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 13:50

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... were used Data are given as mean ± standard error of the mean, p values are two-sided and considered significant when

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... first, expected genotypes are computed for non-genotyped animals, then marker effects are estimated (using expected genotypes for nongenotyped animals), phenotypes are adjusted by known or expected ... covariances of Mj, and Mj’ for two different loci j ≠ j’ are on the form Cov(M j , M j’ ) = v j,j’ A where the v j,j’ s are unspecified since they are cancelling in the derivations that follow We split ... boars are mated with 1500 sows to produce 15000 offspring (half of them males) For the next generation, the 150 boars with the highest value of their own phenotype are selected, and 1500 sows are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... predictions are common and so are failed predictions But experts who agree that their predictions failed are rare As Paul Ehrlich did, they will often concede that they were off on some details ... experts “There’s quite a range Some experts are so out of touch with reality, they’re borderline delusional Other experts are only slightly out of touch And a few experts are surprisingly nuanced and ... cross-checking other factors in the data, Tetlock also found that hedgehogs who are ideologically extreme are worse forecasters than others of their kind He even found that when hedgehogs made predictions...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 14:24