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First, each individual factor is presented with all other factors held constant at zero.
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In the case of cancer screening, the countervailing truth is that early detection is the single-most-important and durable factor in individual cancer survival.
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Again, size is one factor, since individual bourses are no match for the deeper pools of liquidity available to China.
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The Like Button was brilliant, in one smooth swipe adopting the Fax Machine Factor with each individual instance being more valuable as the aggregate network expanded exponentially.
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My co-researchers and I in our IBM Institute for Business Value study, Collective Intelligence: Capitalizing on the Crowd, we have pointed to intrinsic motivation as well as a strong factor to drive not just individual work but collective crowdsourcing.
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In 2004 he quit Pop Idol, effectively killing it, and launched The X Factor, an audition show featuring groups and individual singers with no age limit.
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He calls it the 9-9-9 Plan, which consists of a brand-new retail sales tax layered on top of a new-and-improved business transactions corporate tax (a substitute for the current corporate income and payroll taxes), in turn layered on top of a new-and-improved comprehensive factor income tax (a replacement for the current mishmash of individual income and payroll taxes).
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The only factor working against this strategy would be an early, untimely death, especially if the individual in question is not married.
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When it comes to individual bank decisions on mortgage rates - and deposit rates for savers - the Bank is much less of a factor today than in more normal times, precisely because the official base rate has been so low, for so long.
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While not the exclusive motivation for leaks, an individual???s belief that his or her concerns will be ignored or trampled is often the principal contributing factor to most leaks.
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