“…Exposure to simple applied mathematics tasks is much less strongly associated with better performance. …”

“…Higher inequalities seem to be more detrimental for growth in large cities, while regions characterised by small cities and rural areas are less affected…”

“…Recent surveys of adult skills and educational performance suggest that younger cohorts are doing less well than their predecessors. Many immigrants struggle both in school and in the labour market partly because of low skills and language difficulties. …”

“…In the shorter span that separated ALL and PIAAC, numeracy proficiency clearly declined (except in Italy), while literacy moved less on average (except for the large increase registered in Italy and the large decline experienced by Norway). …”

“…The OECD has developed recommendations to remove or modify the provisions in order to be less restrictive for suppliers and consumers, while still achieving Greek policy makers’ initial objectives. …”

“…The experience of newly-industrialised countries suggests the need for an analysis in which the pattern of comparative advantage is not set in stone but is potentially flexible, and in which less developed countries can develop and converge in both income and economic structure to industrial economies. …”

“…While firm data are not fully available for non-OECD countries, early indications suggest that their share of global FDI increased slightly in 2001, owing to a less sharp decline in inflows. On current estimates, the total 2001 outflows from OECD countries amounted to USD 593 billion, with the OECD area acting as a net exporter of USD 27 billion worth of FDI in 2001 as compared with USD 12 billion in 2000. ..…”

“…It also covers a number of areas where recent changes have been relatively less substantial in terms of changes in model structure, but nonetheless influential in the evolution of model properties. …”

“…The book concludes with policy messages relevant not only to China but also to other countries striving to improve conditions for investment in their less-developed regions…”

“…Maintenance tends to be underfunded relative to investment because the smaller, less obvious nature of maintenance works relative to new infrastructure (Semmens 2006, Zeitlow 2006). …”

“…For continuous variables, available methodologies rely essentially on matrix masking and in particular on adding noise to the original values, using more or less refined procedures depending on the extent of information that one seeks to preserve. …”

“…Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary. …”

“…Each lesson is designed to take you less than an hour to complete. JavaScript: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development covers the basics, including variables, operators, arrays, objects, and values. …”

“…Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. …”

“…Professional action has already been the object of analysis in several studies, however, less often it seeks to investigate the real working conditions that the Social Worker encounters in his professional routine. …”

“…In NTVA, visual attention functions via two mechanisms: by dynamic remapping of receptive fields of cortical cells such that more cells are devoted to behaviorally important objects than to less important ones (filtering) and by multiplicative scaling of the level of activation in cells coding for particular features (pigeonholing). …”

“…One of the principles of sustainability is "Doing More with Less" which in other words, is also one of the goals of automation. …”

“…The secret to getting more checks on that to-do-list As companies and workers are being pressured to do more for less, new ways of becoming more time-productive are essential. …”

“…By contrast, people with high EI are more positive, less stressed, productive, open and positive. They are better able to identify, understand, use, and manage their emotions in a more productive, open and positive way. …”