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Progresses in Life Cycle Impact Assessment within the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
(Ecomed; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-11)
Opportunities and challenges of China’s inquiry-based education reform in middle and high schools: Perspectives of science teachers and teacher educators
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; National Science Council, Taiwan ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-01)
Consistent with international trends, an emergent interest in inquiry-based science teaching and learning in K-12 schools is also occurring in China. This study investigates the possibilities for and the barriers to enactment ...
Guiding explanation construction by children at the entry points of learning progressions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-02)
Policy documents in science education suggest that even at the earliest years of formal schooling, students are capable of constructing scientific explanations about focal content. Nonetheless, few research studies provide ...
Latent class metric conjoint analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-07)
A latent class methodology for conjoint analysis is proposed, which simultaneously estimates market segment membership and part-worth utilities for each derived market segment using mixtures of multivariate conditional ...
The Intersection of Law and Ethics – at 600 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA: Is it Ethical to Assert a Legal Technicality to Avoid Liability for a Debt Created by Fraud?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-01)
A considerable literature exists regard-ing the moral obligation to keep one's promises. Several authors have focused on the exceptional circumstances which may or should excuse this moral duty. Less frequently discussed ...
Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment - 26th LCA Swiss Discussion Forum
(Ecomed; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-11)
The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2006-03)
Virtuousness refers to the pursuit of the highest aspirations in the human condition. It is characterized by human impact, moral goodness, and unconditional societal betterment. Several writers have recently argued that ...
Ethics vs. economics: The issue of free trade with Mexico
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-04)
The authors, one an ethicist and the other an economist, look at the issue of free trade with Mexico and other low wage rate countries from the viewpoints of their disciplines. The conclusion of the paper is that these ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...