But the idea that man is a social animal, more concerned with relative rank and status than with absolute well-being, sits awkwardly with economics.Even the rich winners in the experiment like to see others taken down a peg: they destroy the wealth of rich and poor alike.
This does not mean that taking risks that would bring it about that one's absolute well-being level is low is never or seldom rational.
Our comparative analysis indicated that gene expression levels quantified by RNA-seq and microarray well-correlated both at absolute as well as relative levels (Spearman correlation-coefficient, rs > 0.76).
Second, the effects of alpha were the most reliable, as they held for computations of absolute as well as relative power, and for the eyes-closed as well as the eyes-open condition.
The decline is absolute as well as relative.
In the United States, wages of unskilled workers are falling, in absolute as well as relative terms.
Sue123 by email Hedging their bets on absolute returns Well, my short-term memory might be going a bit, but wasn't this the sort of thing that truly shafted us all just over a year ago?
As such, intellect becomes the principle for absolute as well as contingent being.
Furthermore, the attenuation in heat transfer through the plate as a function of its thermophysical properties (absolute as well as relative to the sensor material) is evaluated.
Species composition of canopy fuels was consistent at low elevation (ponderosa pine) but shifted strongly toward mesic species at higher elevations, where ponderosa pine declined in absolute as well as relative terms.
As such, a firm's absolute as well as relative ability to absorb losses may determine its willingness to invest in risky, long-term projects such as novel drug development.
