College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors (College Majors Handbook With Real Career Paths and Payoffs)

College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors (College Majors Handbook With Real Career Paths and Payoffs)
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College Majors Handbook

College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors (College Majors Handbook With Real Career Paths and Payoffs)
Neeta P. Fogg , Paul Harrington , and Thomas Harrington
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* Presents the actual jobs and earnings of college graduates in 60 majors!
* The ONLY book based on a U.S. Census Bureau study of 150,000 college graduates.

This terrific handbook offers the most accurate and helpful information available for making decisions on a college major—or what to do with a degree you have. Readers learn which majors are the best investment, the job and salary prospects for specific majors, the employment growth rates for particular majors, and how many graduates go on to additional education.

The new second edition includes substantial new information, including the important steps to take before college to ensure future career success, the rising earnings premiums related to a college education, and the misinformation that exists about college costs and the belief that the "sticker price" of college is the final price. Each chapter describes the major and the courses it requires; discusses jobs that graduates actually obtain; and gives information on employers, tasks, and salaries.

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College Majors Handbook.......2007-10-01

This handbook has not yet been updated; however, its principles are still
pertinent. The author urges us to understand and know our abilities
artistically, intellectually, spatially, in language, ability to lead,
numerical, organization skills, science, pursuasiveness and socially.

The texts shows sample earnings by knowledge acquired. i.e.
high school, college and graduate school
The difference in earnings can be significant between high school and
graduate school. i.e. well over $1MM dollars in lifetime earnings
Men tend toward business and engineering careers; whereas, women major
in education and the social sciences. Applied mathematicians are
employed by private industry circa 69%; whereas, 9% are self-employed.
Physical therapists are employed by the private sector circa 38% and
11% are self-employed.

This work would be helpful in planning a career over a long term
time horizon. It is worth the price charged for the significant value
of the information contained therein.

The College Majors Handbook: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors (College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths & Payoffs)

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The College Majors Handbook: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors (College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths & Payoffs)
Neeta P. Fogg , Paul E. Harrington , and Thomas F. Harrington
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Helpful book.......2005-04-28

I'm a college freshman, and this book has helped me tremendously in trying to decide my major. The guide starts with a chapter devoted entirely to assessing your abilities (interpersonal, spatial, clerical, leadership, etc.), interests (scientific, business, crafts...), and values (do you value independence, or variety, or prestige?) so that you can then compare them to the typical graduate's abilities, interests, and values in a certain major. (This information is given in paragraph form, though, not in a list, which makes it a bit tricky to quickly compare.) There are also job earnings based on age, and percentages of males and females that hold certain positions in major-related jobs.

Also, even though the book says there are only 60 majors discussed, there is usually more than one major/sub-major covered in each chapter of the book (e.g., biochemistry, biophysics, and microbiology are all covered in one chapter).

All in all, definitely a must read for anyone struggling with choosing a major.

The College Majors Handbook : The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and.......2000-04-25

Great info. Really helps you consider important aspects of a major. Highly recommend this for high school seniors and those in their first or second year of college.

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The first "how-to-do-it" book in English, it is written specifically for professionals in product engineering, manufacturing engineering, and value engineering; and the managers of these professionals, including plant managers, production managers, manufacturing executives, and research and development executives. It will also be useful to manufacturing, marketing, and management people concerned with product improvement, innovation, and improving their company's competitive position. Value analysis tear-down can be applied in many service and other industries, as well as in manufacturing; wherever there are physical components to be improved or invented.

New Developments in Productivity Analysis (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth)
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The productivity slowdown of the 1970s and 1980s and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990s have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric approaches to productivity measurement usefully address shortcomings of the dominant index number techniques while others maintain that current productivity statistics underreport damage to the environment. In this book, the contributors propose innovative approaches to these issues. The result is a state-of-the-art exposition of contemporary productivity analysis.

Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has been a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and is chair of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Michael Harper is chief of the Division of Productivity Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Edwin R. Dean, formerly associate commissioner for Productivity and Technology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is adjunct professor of economics at The George Washington University.

Technical change and productivity. (includes a related article on institutional change and productivity in Japan) (the impact of new information and communication ... An article from: Finance & Development

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Technical change and productivity. (includes a related article on institutional change and productivity in Japan) (the impact of new information and communication ... An article from: Finance & Development
Christopher Freeman
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From the supplier: The 1970s and 1980s saw a shift away from mass and flow production to a more flexible, information-intensive pattern of production, associated with computerized control and communication systems. The concurrent slowdown in measured rates of productivity is probably a reflection of structural and institutional adjustments to the new technoeconomic paradigm based on information and communication technology (ICT). The new technoeconomic paradigm brought about by ICT necessitates social and institutional changes in the areas of capital stock, skills, and management. Shortages of skills are the most critical bottleneck in the diffusion of ICT. The prolonged process of social and institutional change necessitated by the introduction, diffusion, and assimilation of ICT is likely to take decades.

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Title: Technical change and productivity. (includes a related article on institutional change and productivity in Japan) (the impact of new information and communication technologies)
Author: Christopher Freeman
Publication: Finance & Development (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1989
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Volume: v26 Issue: n3 Page: p46(3)

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NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT CO LTD.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series)

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This book is designed for human resources managers and directors of personnel who are concerned with labor productivity. It gives benchmarks and gap analyses used to gauge a company's performance vis--vis firms competing firms in the same sector, at the global level. In particular, this report covers CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., SAN JOSE, USA. With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's performance against other firms on a worldwide basis. Doing so, however, is not an obvious task. First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector. Second, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, one needs use comparable financial standards. This report overcomes these issues and gives full human resources benchmarks vis--vis worldwide competitors who are present in the same narrow industrial classification. Benchmarks cover labor-asset ratios, labor-liability ratios, and labor-income ratios. Since our reports are printed on demand, the figures available are for the latest quarter and are the most up to date available (4 updates are produced each year).

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS. National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 63

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS. National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 63
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New Developments in Productivity Measurement and Analysis

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS. A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report, Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 44.

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This book provides a lucid account of economic policy in West Germany from the late 1940s up to the present, including the new challenges presented by the unification of the two German states in 1990. The authors describe and evaluate the major policy controversies and decisions, and place particular emphasis on the characteristically German institutions of policy counseling and their role in policy formation.

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Book deals with German economic policy after WW2.......1998-12-02

This book covers excellent the german economic performance after worldwar 2. The economic system chosen and the implications of the policy chosen. It analyses the recovery and the outperformance after the war and shows the upcoming weaknesses of the German economy. Shortyly the reunification is mentioned and the economic implications of it. This book however is at this moment a bit dated as it doesn't tell the story of the last few years. Still the book shows what the structurual weaknesses (and strong points) are and it points forward towards the current bad economic performance. Recommended when interesting in an in depth analysis of the German economy.

The Fading Miracle: Four Decades of Market Economy in Germany. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal

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Alfred V. Guender
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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1253 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Fading Miracle: Four Decades of Market Economy in Germany. (book reviews)
Author: Alfred V. Guender
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1994
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v61 Issue: n1 Page: p228(2)

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The Cats Did It!.......2006-05-31

I am owned by three cats, and I am convinced they helped Ed Strnad write this book. Each time I laughed aloud (which was frequently), my cats kept smirking. This is a fun book filled with funny observations about feline-human interactions. Read it, and you might just discover that you're a cat person.

Bought this book as a gift but had to read it first myself.......2000-06-18

I came accross this book by accident and bought it on a whim as a gift for a friend and co-worker who is always talking about her cat. I read it before giving it to her and found it was very humorous as well as describing most cats I have had contact with. After I gave it to my friend she informed me that almost every line seemed to describe her own cat

I only gave it a 3 star rating because I am not a "Cat Person". Personally I perfer pets that are easier to get along with such as Mountain Gorillas and Kodiak Bears. For cat lovers and others that just want a little humor in their lives I recommend you read this book. As for me I`m going to order one of the other Ed Strnad books and keep it for myself.

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Good book for beginners.......2006-05-16

While not the most definitive music book available, this one is perfect for complete noobies to the industry. Everything is explained in a way that even the youngest aspiring stars will understand. But if you already know all the terminology and you're looking for a deeper view into the industry, I would suggest that you read "The Music Business: How YOU can make $500,000 "or more" a year in the music industry by Doing it Yourself!" by Ty Cohen.

Essential reading for those interested in independent music.......2002-12-27

Buy this book. Diane Sward Rapaport is a pioneer in the independent music advisory world. Once again, she and Jerome Headlands Press have provided indie players with essential guidelines, information, suggestions, ideas, and inspiration in a highly readable and exemplary illustrated and organized format. Any one in this line of business should have it on their bookshelf; for those starting out, for those who need a review, and those advanced practitioners who need to give reading to those who seek guidance.

A barcoding primer. (includes related article on popular barcode formats): An article from: Music Trades

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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Music Trades Corp. on February 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3188 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A barcoding primer. (includes related article on popular barcode formats)
Author: Michael Abbot
Publication: Music Trades (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1997
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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Music Trades Corp. on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2298 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A copyright primer: how print publishers negotiate a legal labyrinth to secure rights to the songs you want to sell. (Print music: the state of the market).
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A customer loyalty primer: how Lowrey Organ is using a rewards program to attract as well as retain customers.(FOREFRONT: NEWS * ANALYSIS * INFORMED OPINION): An article from: Music Trades
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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A customer loyalty primer: how Lowrey Organ is using a rewards program to attract as well as retain customers.(FOREFRONT: NEWS * ANALYSIS * INFORMED OPINION)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Music Trades (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
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Volume: 155 Issue: 4 Page: 46(2)

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How tone wheels work and what makes them unique: a primer on the first electronic music technology.: An article from: Music Trades

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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Music Trades Corp. on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1105 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How tone wheels work and what makes them unique: a primer on the first electronic music technology.
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Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Trades Corp.
Volume: 151 Issue: 6 Page: 126(3)

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A quick primer in how to lobby a politician. (lobbying for music education): An article from: Music Trades

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A quick primer in how to lobby a politician. (lobbying for music education): An article from: Music Trades
Bob Clement
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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Music Trades Corp. on February 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1194 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A quick primer in how to lobby a politician. (lobbying for music education)
Author: Bob Clement
Publication: Music Trades (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1992
Publisher: Music Trades Corp.
Volume: v140 Issue: n1 Page: p91(2)

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For better or worse, pornography and sexual representation suffuse American culture. This first comprehensive guide to the literature includes the history of pornography in the United States and discusses pornography in a vast range of media. It presents information regarding bibliographies and reference tools concerning pornography and reviews of references devoted to the histories of sexuality and its representations and on theoretical works on erotica and pornography. A chronology of important dates in the history of American Pornography and a discussion of child pornography outline issues and events throughout its history. Dramatic, visual, and electronic media are gathered and arranged by topic. Pornography in all of its forms is explored in this three volume reference. Slade includes many avenues upon which pornography and sexual representation have had an impact including research and policy in the medical and social sciences, the law in the United States, and the economics of pornography. An invaluable tool for further research, this guide to the literature of pornography and sexual representation will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, gender and women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also interest those in the field of American history and mass media.

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Essential reference work.......2005-06-14

These three volumes rank as an essential desk reference set right along with Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia. So much information on popular culture and background information on all kinds of things -- I am constantly going to my local university library to use it because I can't afford my own home copy. I wish I could!

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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling's classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of Hollywood's most famous leading men, including Warren Beatty, William Shatner, and Charles Bronson, got their starts in television. This complete reference work to the 96 half-hour episodes that ran for three seasons on ABC also offers a detailed history, extensive commentary and summaries of the critical reception of One Step Beyond as well as coverage of the sequel series produced in 1978 entitled The Next Step Beyond. Complete credits for both series are provided.

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An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond.......2002-06-03

To anyone who grew up in the late 50's/early 60's, tv was an important part of their culture. One of the best shows concerning the supernatural (and perhaps the first in its genre) was "One Step Beyond". An Analytical Guide to Televisions One Step Beyond gives the backround information and Mr. Newlands own personal observations of the show. This was just a few months prior to his death. It is chock full of useful information to the researcher of early television as well as any fan of this genre. The author obviously loved this show and spent a great deal of time and effort on this and it shows. While it is a little expensive, it is indespensible to anyone who needs information and backround to this delightful series and well worth the money spent. Brian Kenaga

An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961

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Patterns for Effective Use Cases (The Agile Software Development Series)
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The How, What and Why of Use Cases

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Patterns for Effective Use Cases (The Agile Software Development Series)
Paul Bramble , Alistair Cockburn , Andy Pols , and Steve Adolph
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Good advice but fails to address the real UC issues.......2003-07-29

This book attempts to take use cases to a higher level of science and in part succeed. Its plus points are discussions on management of use cases and the processes a team goes through in completing the creation / validation cycle. There's a lot of good sense here. Some of the patterns are useful. However, there's also a lot of regurgitation from various other texts and papers, some written by the authors themselves. And some key aspects are missing, aspects that are really important to industry and others that have concerned academia. Industry is not too worried about how to name use cases these days; that's easy. They want to be able to estimate how long it will take to build the system from use case points, for instance, or how to achieve forward traceability to the design and maintain traceability back to the requirements and business strategies (not the same thing exactly as the use case goal - which typically is not to stuff up and to make the principal actor happy). Academics are concerned too with effort estimation, with grammar and consistency checking, with dependencies and product lines, and non-functional requirements and whether use cases are at all to do with requirements in the first place and what they are no good for. Not whether we can build a little online booking web site - we can already do that. Though the book does not set out to answer these difficult questions, in its 200-odd pages, it ought to have, since this is what we really want to know about. So, though the book is excellent on what it does address, there's a lot of over kill in this. What's missing is what it does not address - all the hard problems we really need answers to.

The How, What and Why of Use Cases.......2002-12-22

Patterns for Effective Use cases is a must read if you need to develop for a software application. The authors describe what makes for a good use case, and make the points memorable with stories, and examples. If you have lots of experience writing use cases many of the patterns will cover things that you already know, but the way the patterns are presented make for an effective tool to help you teach others how to write a good use case. The pattern language format makes it clear that any single practice will not make for a good use case, you need to take a number together, otherwise you may have something that looks good at first glance, but just does not work.

I recommend this book for anyone who is learning to write use cases, or for experienced people who want a refesher course.

Deep Thought about Use Cases.......2002-11-25

The people who will be attracted to this book will be people who are really going to be involved in use case development, whether as actual writers, consulting engineers, subject matter experts, managers, or any other stakeholders in the process. Overall, I found the book to be well written, quite engaging, and, in the main portion where all the patterns are described, nicely organized to enable the reader to almost subconsciously understand how to navigate the pattern language. From a patterns perspective, the collection is more like a true pattern language than many other collections that make such claims and the interrelationships and movement through the language show that the authors did a great deal of work to make the language comprehensive while still keeping it lean. Although I am a veteran use case writer, in reading this text I learned many things that I wish I had known when I was in that practice. The authors have done a superb job at extracting what is the essence of good practice at all levels in developing use cases, and I think that the book could find a spot on many, many software professionals' shelves. Even more importantly, I think they would actually read it. In fact, I think they would study it. I know I did.

Overkill.......2002-11-16

The fact that this book describes a "pattern" named PreciseAndReadable should tell you what you need to know. If you need to be told that use cases should be precise and readable, or that you should name them with active verb phrases (VerbPhraseName), or that they should describe things of value to the business people (UserValuedTransactions), or that you should involve those people in the process of writing them (ParticipatingAudience), or that you should stop writing them when they make those people happy (QuittingTIme), you'll certainly get some value from this book, but it's clear evidence that your problems run considerably deeper than this book will be able to address.

This represents 25 pages of fundamentally simple content spread across 200 pages, and in a thoroughly pretentious manner to boot. Avoid.

A worthy companion to Cockburn's book.......2002-11-15

While Alistair Cockburn's "Writing Effective Use Cases" book is great for learning how to write use cases, this book takes it to the next level. It enables the reader to understand the issues that teams face when dealing with large numbers of use cases.

The authors cover the pragmatic issues that teams face, providing many real world examples and anecdotes. The pattern language is easy to read and apply on projects. The basic ideas of the pattern language are clearly expressed in the pattern names, for example, "Small Writing Team", "Participating Audience" and "Writers License". The summary on the inside cover provides a handy reminder for those times when you know you are making a mistake, but cannot quite remember the pitfall you are about to fall into.

A great book that I heartily recommend.

Patterns for Effective Use Cases
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