If there is a mismatch between the prosperity of our material culture and the enrichment of our spiritual world, it would be easy for the upper social class to develop a highly materialistic consumer attitude that will weaken the whole society's developmental value.
The four scales showed high internal consistency reliability and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was found to be in accordance with the respective developmental values [ 11].
If genuinely involving 'country-ownership' in criteria definition [ 55] such measures can allow for a better assessment of aid effectiveness and avoid problems of fungibility, where donor funding allows diversion of public revenues into other forms of spending of less developmental value.
- Bhutan is reputed for pioneering a concept, known as Gross National Happiness, that places people (and not material wealth) at the center of its developmental values.
For genes where the RNA-Seq values were zero in some of the developmental stages, a value of 1 was added to all the RNA-Seq results of those genes to avoid dividing by zero [ 151].
For the developmental stage data, Affymetrix values were log10 transformed, heat maps generated and hierarchical clustering done using the MeV software package (Eisen et al. 1998).
The developmental change in the values of membrane potentials can be explained by a parallel developmental increase in the potassium conductance and by a decrease in the chloride permeability together with a decrease in the intracellular chloride concentration [63], [64], [65], [66].
For the developmental stage dataset, FPKM values were log2 transformed, before generating heat maps.
An increase in the amount of other traumas reports across the developmental periods with highest values in adulthood for all patient groups [F(12, 633) = 7.0, P < 0.001] was also revealed.
As stated before, initial values affect the developmental outcome, and we want to test whether differences in initial values show the same differences in outcome in the empirical and in the simulated trajectories.
