plagues Regan's MH principle. Whether inflicting an inferior degree of harm is sufficient or not should not be established by the perpetrator of the harm, nor by improbable mathematical calculations, but by those being harmed. Going back to the example of
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Who Governs in Deep Crises?
The Case of Germany
Wolfgang Merkel
France, Italy, Spain, and New York were to be avoided in Germany. There is also a third factor. German epidemiologists’ model-based calculations suggested for worse-case or even normal-case scenarios a bleak picture. The talk was not of thousands, but
Humanosphere Potentiality Index
Appraising Existing Indicators from a Long-term Perspective
Takahiro Sato, Mario Ivan López, Taizo Wada, Shiro Sato, Makoto Nishi, and Kazuo Watanabe
included, although efforts have been made through the calculation of genuine savings or net adjusted savings ( Hamilton and Clemens 1999 ; Hartwick 1990 ; Neumayer 2013 ). As such, GDP cannot be taken as a reliable gauge of individual and collective well
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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Ferenc Bódi, Jenő Zsolt Farkas, and Péter Róbert
along Micro-level Indicators V4 + S4 Countries V4 Countries S4 Countries F-value * Eta 2 F-value * Eta 2 F-value * Eta 2 Source: ESS (2012) (own calculation). Own situation 398.934 0.160 111.235 0.043 75.535 0.31 Ability to change 284.898 0
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Social Quality Measurement and Perceived Social Quality
The Case of Peshawar, Pakistan
Muhammad Yasir Ali and Ka Lin
.5 No other source 379 89.8 In the data calculation, we used a five-point Likert scale and calculated the index values of the five points from 1 (the most negative response) to 5 (the most positive response). The data extracted with the
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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’Tis but a Habit in an Unconsolidated Democracy
Habitual Voting, Political Alienation and Spectatorship
Anthony Lawrence A. Borja
. habit is produced, not through mere repetition but out of the alignment of an initial calculation and eventual behaviour with a consistent context – an alignment that will ease future calculations and facilitate the repetition of a behaviour. I note that
Leslie Paul Thiele and Marshall Young
the faculty of practical judgment wholly in the crucible of worldly experience is problematic. But if abstract principle cannot be translated into workable practice through calculation and cogitation alone, is there any choice but to hone the faculty
Distributional Concept Analysis
A Computational Model for History of Concepts
Peter De Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia, and John Regan
or lengths of the documents in which the lexical co-associations occur do not figure in the calculation. Like most computational linguists, we see this as an advantage: the measure is sensitive to the number of co-associations, and not to the number
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2019
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The Economics of Decolonisation
Institutions, Education and Elite Formation
Nicola Viegi
, available in Mitchell (1998) . Table 2 Number of Children in primary school as % of the total population (Source: Author’s calculations on Mitchell 1998 data) 1930 1950 Ghana 0.01892 0.07455 Sierra Leone 0.00848 0.01515 Nigeria 0.00971 0.03284 Average 0
Teppo Eskelinen
money for, say, seeds, assumes a financial risk for the duration of waiting repayment from the next crop. Further, an insurance company can sell the farmer (or the money lender) an insurance for a price determined on the basis of this calculation. In