This work analizes the characters that Tacitus highlights as worthy of merit during the new political system of the Principate and that receive praise or approval by the historian in the first hexad of his Annals. The paper ...

School choice is a controversial issue in the public discussion of education. In Chile, the new School Admission System (SAE) was recently implemented to gradually reverse the country's high educational segregation. However, ...

In the presence of correlated and/or heteroscedastic noise, i.e., for measurement noise which is not independent and identically distributed (iid), new expressions are required to estimate multi-way calibration figures of ...

A new expression is developed which allows estimating the sensitivity for the whole family of multivariate calibration algorithms based on partial least-squares regression combined with residual multilinearization. The ...

In this chapter, the estimation of relevant analytical figures of merit is reviewed, from univariate to multivariate and multi-way calibration: sensitivity, limit of detection and other analytical parameters. After a brief ...

In the 1990s, one of the major concerns related to university performance in Argentina was how to encourage academics to increase knowledge production, the new central economic commodity in a global market. Therefore, in ...

In general, the challenge for compensation reform is that the theory makes intuitive sense–rewarding more effective teachers with additional compensation can retain those effective teachers, encourage others to become more ...

In general, the challenge for compensation reform is that the theory makes intuitive sense–rewarding more effective teachers with additional compensation can retain those effective teachers, encourage others to become more ...