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labour

the human input to work activity. See JOB, CAPITAL.

labour

the contribution to productive activity made by the workforce both by hand (for example, the assembly of a car) and mentally (for example, devising a stock-control system). Labour is one of the three main FACTORS OF PRODUCTION, the others being NATURAL RESOURCES and CAPITAL. See alsoECONOMIC GROWTH, HUMAN CAPITAL.
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The disadvantage is the laboriousness and the slow process of measuring, if more sensors are not available, which could be fixed in place in advance.
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It is indispensable to remember the existence of values, principles and social proposals of a category higher than the economic and ecological, in particular moral, ethical, historical, philosophical, political, religious and spiritual elements; and of course, without rolling out the whole list, we present some examples: truth, mercy and beauty, the trilogy of Mokiti Okada, founder of messianic agriculture; justice, as pointed out in Nitiren's agricultural proposal; love and forgiveness, as stated by Jesus; compassion, if we follow the Buddha; the virtues of personal enlightenment, in the style of Lao Tse: austerity, laboriousness, humility, loyalty; liberty in relation with peace, democracy, the practice of one's own culture, the right to be .
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The complexity of the dwellings, their terraces, and the strategic location of their settlement for defense as well as daily sustenance are all evidence of the Quilmes' ingenuity and laboriousness.
Vestiges of a Lost Civilization: The complex and elaborate maze of ruins created by the Quilmes civilization is one of the most important archeological areas in Argentina
tuberculosis, among them, those for determining unusual drug resistance, serotyping, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (3), biochemical heterogeneity and phagus typing (4), being the latest one the standard method used until the late 1980's that presented however considerable disadvantages such as the low amount of identified phagotypes and its laboriousness.
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As expected, the assessment of the laboriousness of shelf classification correlated heavily with the users' experience in using it.
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In addition to the laboriousness of existing techniques, accuracy is compromised, with errors accumulating in proportion to the number of fragments to be read.
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Despite the absence of a computer program and the laboriousness of visual histogram comparing, we have obtained much information on the phenomena studied, which is based on the "control-experiment" comparisons.
Regular changes in the fine structure of histograms revealed in the experiments with collimators which isolate beams of alpha-particles flying at certain directions
Throughout much of the work, one can almost hear the laboriousness with which the 19th century German master composed.
Symphony puts right touch on classics
The value N = 10 000 was chosen with regard to the computation time and laboriousness of input ordering for 118 755 random realizations E Ao .
Fuzzy probability analysis of the fatigue resistance of steel structural members under bending/Fuzi tikimybine analize vertinant lenkiamu plieniniu elementu atspari nuovargiui
Perhaps this fracture, this laboriousness, and even exclusion can be felt in The Strand by Night (Fig.
The Waste Land: C.R.W. Nevinson & London in the 1920s: the artist C.R.W. Nevinson makes an appearance in the first draft of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, written in 1921. As Gul Inanc and Michael Walsh explain, his presence there was appropriate: Nevinson's postwar paintings of London depict a modern city heavy with memories of war, and apprehensive about the future
At the same time incisiveness is not the most obvious characteristic of all papers and some combine pomposity and laboriousness.
Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy (eds), Taking Public Universities Seriously
In contrast to virtually all of the advice and feedback Fitzgerald received on the play that targeted the infirmities of Act II, Esslin faults the awkward laboriousness of Acts I and III in trying naturalistically to frame the deliberate absurdism of the much stronger middle act.
Ragged edges: the curious case of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Vegetable

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