Search Results - subject:"Modality"

The Application of Co-modality in Greece: a Critical Appraisal of Progress in the Development of Co-modal Freight Centres and Logistics Services

Giannopoulos, G. - In: Transition Studies Review 15 (2008) 2, pp. 289-301

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Convergence and Mobility: Personal Income Trends in U.S. Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Regions

Hammond, George W.; Thompson, Eric - In: International Regional Science Review 29 (2006) 1, pp. 35-63

The authors find evidence of income convergence across all substate labor markets in the lower forty-eight U.S. states during the 1969 to 1999 period. However, convergence is not expressed in a uniform way across metropolitan/nonmetropolitan regions, across time periods, or across census...

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Drifting Together or Falling Apart? The Empirics of Regional Economic Growth in Post-Unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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Mixtures of normal distributions: Modality and failure rate

Block, Henry W.; Li, Yulin; Savits, Thomas H. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 74 (2005) 3, pp. 253-264

. This paper investigates how the modality of mixtures of normals and the monotonicities of the failure rate of the mixture …

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Multisystemic therapy and neighborhood partnerships : reducing adolescent violence and substance abuse

Swenson, Cynthia Cupit - 2005

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A Constructive Representation of Univariate Skewed Distributions

Ferreira, Jose T.A.S.; Steel, Mark F.J. - EconWPA - 2004

{e.g.} modality, tail behaviour and the amount of skewness generated. In light of the constructive representation, we review a number …

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Modelling Directional Dispersion Through Hyperspherical Log- Splines

Ferreira, J.T.A.S.; Steel, M.F.J. - EconWPA - 2004

We introduce the directionally dispersed class of multivariate distributions, a generalisation of the elliptical class. By allowing dispersion of multivariate random variables to vary with direction it is possible to generate a very wide and flexible class of distributions. Directionally...

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Mobility and Modality Trends in US State Personal Income

Hammond, George; Thompson, Eric - In: Regional Studies 36 (2002) 4, pp. 375-387

We examine the mobility and modality trends in US state per capita personal income (and its components) during the 1929 …

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The Modal Adverbs mutlaka and kesinlikle in the Context of Directives and Deontic Modality in Turkish

SÂ¸kriye Ruhi - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 2 (2002) 1, pp. 19-38

The study of deontic modality has largely concentrated on the semantics of linguistic forms with little systematic … modality for the purpose of linking linguistic forms to pragmatic usage within a politenesstheoretic perspective. The model is … based on the idea that deontic modality may distinguish between deictic centres consisting of the speaker and the ëother …

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The Theory of Socially Embedded Games: The Mathematics of Social Relationships, Rule Complexes, and Action Modalities

Burns, Tom; Gomolińska, Anna - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 34 (2000) 4, pp. 379-406

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