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“…However, there is still a large gap in the average tax wedge with the OECD average and regional peers, notably driven by high social security contributions. …”

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“…Analysis of families can also help us gain knowledge about disease transmission and inheritance patterns. Although a family-based design has the advantage of being robust to false positives, novel and powerful methods to analyze families in genetic epidemiology continue to be needed, especially for the interaction between genetic and environmental factors associated with disease. …”

“…Damit wendet er sich nicht gegen die idealistische Interpretation von Platons Dialogen, der Platon seinen Ruhm als Philosoph verdankt, sondern will zeigen, daß es falsch wäre, den Platon, der im Sophistes Grundlegendes u. a. über Begriffsbildung und Sprache zu sagen hat, darüber zu vernachlässigen…”

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“…Cloud computing —large companies began managing reliable, scalable, cost-effective data centers; Amazon turned the concept into a business. Cluster schedulers —managing horizontal clusters was difficult before schedulers such as Apache Mesos appeared. …”

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