Reconstruction of Islamic Economic Theory: From Revelation to Methodology by Bayu Taufiq Possumah, Abdul Ghafar Ismail

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Post-keynésiens et régulationnistes :Une alternative à la crise de l’économie standard ? by Robert Boyer

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Dilthey and Darwin Combined? 19th Century Geisteswissenschaft for 21st Century Cultural Science by Herrmann-Pillath Carsten

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Some methodological aspects of researches on informatization by Vilija Gudonienė

“…—are bound to technological deterministic explanations, and the aspects of the new electronic technology are amplified, with all problems being reduced to computerization. Using economic methodologies, the question of information value is considered. …”
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A cost-based comparison of quarantine strategies for new emerging diseases by Anuj Mubayi, Christopher Kribs Zaleta, Maia Martcheva, Carlos Castillo-Chávez

“…Taking the context of the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong as an example, we use a simple cost function to compare the total cost of each mixed (quarantine and isolation) control strategy from a public health resource allocation perspective.The goal is to extend existing epi-economics methodology by developing a theoretical framework of dynamic quarantine strategies aimed at emerging diseases, by drawing upon the large body of literature on the dynamics of infectious diseases.We find that the total cost decreases with increases in the quarantine rates past a critical value, regardless of the resource allocation strategy.In the case of a manageable outbreak resources must be used early to achieve the best results whereas in case of an unmanageable outbreak, a constant-effort strategy seems the best among our limited plausible sets.…”
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Trends in the use of information and communication technologies in the teaching of foreign languages and translator training by N. Kovalchuk

“…The analysis showed that there is a considerable lack of sufficient research in the first area, as well as contradictory results in the remaining three (discrepancies in the evaluation of the translation efficiency of different MT systems and of MT compared to humans; unavailability of an effective and economical methodology for the evaluation of texts produced with the use of MT; the absence of a rational methodology for the application of post-editing at different stages of training and under different conditions). …”
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