A third way, followed notably by the United States in its Fair Labor Standards Act since 1938, has been to specify by statute the actual minimum wage applicable to wide categories of employment the amount set being such that only a relatively small number of workers, namely the lowest paid, are immediately affected.
One aim of this study is to examine influential factors on the SR fund investors' behavior, i.e., ascending categories of the amount invested in SR funds, which is of an ordinal nature.
By the score system, the responses were summarised into categories of healthy (high amount of fruit, vegetables, fish and low amount of saturated fat), reasonably healthy (median high intake of fruit, vegetables, fish and saturated fat) or unhealthy diet (low amount of fruit, vegetables, fish and high amount of saturated fat).
While experimental settings vary in each of the above cases, most notably in the number and type of classification categories, the amount of training data available and whether abstracts of full papers are used, the best performing algorithms were SVMs and CRFs.
We want to make sure that we have an easy way for people to optimize the pricing on the two most important categories of expenses — the amount they pay for a loan and their insurance.
Exposure to mass trauma was grouped into three categories of increasing severity (amount): (1) no exposure to mass trauma, (2) exposure to one type of mass trauma (Tsunami OR war), and (3) exposure to war AND Tsunami.
Influence on working day (yes/no) (" How great an influence do You normally have on the organization of Your day at work") with the answering categories: great amount of influence, some amount of influence, a little amount of influence and no influence.
Having established the consumption of foods containing vegetable oils and fats, it was then necessary to know the PUFA content of these food categories per amount of food eaten.
Land cover variables differed in their effects on the species richness of the three trend categories: the amount of grassland had the greatest positive effect on the number of declining species, whereas the amount of forest was the most important land cover variable for species richness of stable butterflies and arable land and field-forest mosaic for species richness of increasing butterflies.
In the preceding three-month period, sales to Saudi Arabia for the same category of munitions amounted to only £9m.
