Privatization: Selling America To the Lowest Bidder

[Excerpt] Elected officials and citizens are now learning in hundreds of communities that privatization is not the way to improve the quality and efficiency of public services. Cities such as New York and Phoenix, where privatization proliferated in the early 1980s, are now bringing work back in-house. And in the federal government, despite a massive privatization campaign waged by the Reagan Administration, resistance by agency directors has resulted in a job loss of only 0.7% of all nondefense federal jobs. (The job loss rises to 2.1% if civilian defease department jobs are included.) A recent report by the U.S. Government Accounting Office concludes that privatization of federal employees\u27 jobs is neither cheaper nor better

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Tujuan penelitian ini adalah : Untuk menganalisis pengaruh antara tingkat pendapatan keluarga, tingkat harga, usia dan pendidikan konsumen terhadap keputusan pembelian susu merek Chil-Mil di kota Surakarta dan Untuk menganalisis variabel independen manakah yang paling berpengaruh terhadap keputusan pembelian susu merek Chil-Mil di kota Surakarta. Hipotesis ini adalah Diduga ada pengaruh antara tingkat pendapatan keluarga, tingkat harga, usia dan pendidikan konsumen terhadap keputusan pembelian susu merek Chil-Mil dan Diduga tingkat pendapatan keluarga yang paling berpengaruh terhadap keputusan pembelian susu merek Chil-Mil Berdasarkan hasil uji t diperoleh Tingkat pendapatan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian. Variabel harga berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian. Variabel Usia berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian. Dan variabel pendidikan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian. Berdasarkan hasil uji F diperoleh Fhitung > Ftabel (49,513 > 2,76), maka Ho ditolak berarti ada pengaruh yang significant antara tingkat pendapatan (X1), harga (X2), usia (X3) dan pendidikan (X4) secara bersama-sama terhadap keputusan pembelian (Y) atau karena F.sig (0,000) lebih kecil dari dari 0,05 (? ) maka tingkat pendapatan (X1), harga (X2), usia (X3) dan pendidikan (X4) secara bersama -sama berpengaruh signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian (Y). Hipotesis yang merupakan jawaban sementara telah terbukti kebenaranya

Minority oral tradition in China

Oral history relies on performativity for inheritance and representation, and the performance of oral history is the transformation of three-dimensional social memory. Such a medium has no gender bias; both men and women can perform and listen to it. Oral history rejects linguistic hegemony and can be performed in various languages, with its audience coming from either the noblity or the "untouchables."Not

SIFT and SURF based feature extraction for the anomaly detection

In this paper, we suggest a way, how to use SIFT and SURF algorithms to extract the image features for anomaly detection. We use those feature vectors to train various classifiers on a real-world dataset in the semi -supervised (with a small number of faulty samples) manner with a large number of classifiers and in the one-class (with no faulty samples) manner using the SVDD and SVM classifier. We prove, that the SIFT and SURF algorithms could be used as feature extractors, that they could be used to train a semi-supervised and one-class classifier with an accuracy around 89\% and that the performance of the one-class classifier could be comparable to the semi-supervised one. We also made our dataset and source code publicly available.Comment: 28th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2022, Brno University of Technolog