Sentences with phrase «absence of any additional value»

I'm strengthened in this supposition by the events following Microsoft's agreement with Barnes & Noble, or rather by the absence of any additional value gained by Microsoft other than a sort - of Barnes & Noble app on its not - popular Microsoft tablet.

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This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.