One reason for this, she said, was a function of skills.
8 This is in contrast to models of skill-group-specific wages as a function of skill-group-specific immigration, which only identify what Ottaviano and Peri (2012) call the "direct partial effect" of immigration (Dustmann et al. 2016, make a similar point).
An unsympathetic historian might dismiss Ellis's mass appeal as the pandering of a popularizer; lay readers know that it's a function of literary skill.
We model wages as a function of cognitive skills (COG in the table), gender (SEX in the table), education level (EDU in the table) with three ordered levels (low = 1, medium = 2, high = 3), and other variables.
This capacity of the nervous system to regulate variability and plasticity in motor output as a function of learning or skill level enables new skills to be acquired and those already mastered to be stably expressed and maintained.
First, how much hockey really has changed in the past fifteen or so years and though the changes aren't entirely to my liking, their cause is: they're all a function of ever-increasing skill and broad-based excellence.
First, how much hockey really has changed in the past fifteen or so years — and though the changes aren't entirely to my liking, their cause is: they're all a function of ever-increasing skill and broad-based excellence.
A basketball player's ability to sink a shot during a high-pressure game, for example, is not only a function of natural athletic skill but also of habitus: the number of hours he has practiced, the encouragement from his coach, his psychological expectation of success.
Only a month ago I was led to believe, in a critique of "the backlash to the backlash to the backlash," that Tebow's early, and then sustained, success was not a mystery, or magic, but a function of his unusual skill set put to predictably effective use.
