A Summary of the Index of Dissimilarity The index of dissimilarity is a measurement of segregation between two racial groups in a neighborhood compared to the city as a whole. Specifically‚ this measurement determines the evenness‚ or the consistency of a complete‚ integrated spread of two racial groups across a specified area in a city. The formula for calculating the index of dissimilarity is as follows: index of dissimilarity= 1/2 ∑_(i=1)^N▒|x_i/X- y_i/Y| Here‚ “x_i” represents the number of
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THE FACE AS AN INDEX OF CHARACTER A man’s face‚ if we can read it alright‚ generally is an index to his character. We can tell what sort of man he is by the expression of his countenance‚ as we can tell the species of a shell-fish by its shell; for‚ as a shell-fish secrets is shell‚ so the soul secrets its physical face. It is we ourselves who make our faces. Character is simply the sum total of confirmed habits; and as habit is formed‚ it slowly writes its characteristics marks
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PEDIATRIC MINI REVIEW Body mass index in children and adolescents: considerations for population-based applications A Must1‚2 and SE Anderson2 1 2 Department of Public Health and Family Medicine‚ Tufts University School of Medicine‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA and The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy‚ Tufts University‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA International Journal of Obesity (2006) 30‚ 590–594. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803300 Keywords: review; body mass index; pediatrics; BMI z-score; overweight
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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Flexible Work Schedule Survey Kasey Taylor LeTourneau University BUSI 4623OL: Business Research Methods October 29‚ 2012 Abstract The purpose of this survey was to determine whether or not flexible work schedules would have a positive impact on productivity at Air System Components. The survey was given to all employees at the end of a training class and turned into the instructor to give to the human resource department. The written survey consisted of ten questions ranging from demographics
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sustainable manner. Human development therefore focuses on people and the satisfaction of their basic needs. Human Development Index The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is regularly publishing their global Human Development Reports (HDRs) since 1990 to measure the country’s in human development through Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in terms of three basic aspects of human development: longevity‚ knowledge
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What is HDI? HDI (Human Development index) is a way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension‚ called goalposts‚ and then shows where each country stands in relation to these goalposts‚ expressed as a value between 0 and 1. It is
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dimensions that can be used to assess each countries culture; power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ long-term orientation‚ individualism‚ and masculinity index. In our presentation‚ we chose a topic about the masculinity index. Therefore‚ an in depth analysis for this dimension will follow in the next part. IV. Masculinity Index: "Masculinity index refers
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Human development index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy‚ literacy‚ education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being‚ especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed‚ a developing or an underdeveloped country‚ and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian economist Amartya
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The consumer price index or CPI is a more direct measure than per capita GDP of the standard of living in a country. It is based on the overall cost of a fixed basket of goods and services bought by a typical consumer‚ relative to price of the same basket in some base year. By including a broad range of thousands of goods and services with the fixed basket‚ the CPI can obtain an accurate estimate of the cost of living. It is important to remember that the CPI is not a dollar value like GDP‚ but instead
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