A Cross-Country Comparison of Attitudes toward Humanoid Robots in Germany, the US, and India

Phylogenetic trees are important tools for teaching and understanding evolution, yet students struggle to read and interpret them correctly. In this study, we extend a study conducted by Catley and Novick (2008) by investigating depictions of evolutionary trees in US textbooks. We investigated 1197 diagrams from 11 German and 11 United States university textbooks, conducting a cross-country comparison and comparing the results with data from the 2008 study. A coding manual was developed based on the 2008 study, with extensions focused on additional important aspects of evolutionary trees. The US and German books showed only a low number of significant differences, typically with very small impacts. In both samples, some characteristics that can render reading trees more difficult or foster misconceptions were found to be prevalent in various portions of the diagrams. Furthermore, US textbooks showed fewer problematic properties in our sample than in the 2008 sample. We conclude that evolutionary trees in US and German textbooks are represented comparably and that depictions in US textbooks have improved over the past 12 years. As students are confronted with comparable depictions of evolutionary relatedness, we argue that findings and materials from one country should easily be transferable to the other.

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Systemic country differences in the European innovation performance - Does institutional context matter?

Vezetéstudomány / Budapest Management Review ◽

10.14267/veztud.2014.11.01 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 2-10

Author(s):

Csaba Makó ◽

Miklós Illéssy ◽

Brian Mitchell

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Work Organization ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Sociology Of Work ◽

Country Comparison ◽

The Us ◽

Before And After ◽

Cross Country ◽

New Forms Of Work ◽

The Eu

The so-called "High Performance Working System" (HPWS) and the lean production are representing the theoretical and methodological foundations of this paper. In this relation it is worth making distinction between various theoretical streams of the HPWS. The first theoretical stream in the literature is focusing on the diffusion of the Japanese-style management and organizational practices both in the US and in the Europe. The second theoretical strand comprises the approach of sociology of work and dealing with the learning/innovation capabilities of the new forms of work organization. Finally, the third theoretical approach is addressing on the types of knowledge and learning process and their relations with the innovation capabilities of the firm. The authors’ analysis is based on the international comparison, both in regional and in cross country comparison. For regional comparison the share of ICT clusters in Europe, USA and the rest of the world was assessed. For the purpose of the cross-country comparison in the EU, the innovation performance measured by the index Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) was used in both the before and after the financial crisis.

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Better Strategies for Containing COVID-19 Epidemics–A Study of 25 Countries via an Extended SEIR Model

10.1101/2020.04.27.20081232 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jia Gu ◽

Han Yan ◽

Yaxuan Huang ◽

Yuru Zhu ◽

Haoxuan Sun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Control Strategies ◽

Control Measures ◽

The Other ◽

Seir Model ◽

Country Comparison ◽

Ample Opportunity ◽

Reproduction Numbers ◽

The Us ◽

Cross Country ◽

The Uk

We evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 control strategies of 25 countries which have endured more than four weeks of community infections. With an extended SEIR model that allows infections in both the exposed and infected states, the key epidemic parameters are estimated from each country’s data, which facilitate the evaluation and cross-country comparison. It is found quicker control measures significantly reduce the average reproduction numbers and shorten the time length to infection peaks. If the swift control measures of Korea and China were implemented, average reductions of 88% in the confirmed cases and 80% in deaths would had been attained for the other 23 countries from start to April 10. Effects of earlier or delayed interventions in the US and the UK are experimented which show at least 75% (29%) less infections and deaths can be attained for the US (the UK) under a Five-Day Earlier experiment. The impacts of two removal regimes (Korea and Italy) on the total infection and death tolls on the other countries are compared with the natural forecast ones, which suggest there are still ample opportunity for countries to reduce the final death numbers by improving the removal process.

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