Why scientific integrity matters now more than ever This year, 49% of the world will go to the polls. Political support for science-informed policy is not a given. Maria Caffrey, a whistleblower who defended scientific integrity under the Trump administration, offers advice on media engagement...
Giving top priority to protecting job security, we will adjust policy intensity as the employment situation changes, so as to keep the workforce stable, improve the composition of employment, and increase its overall quality. We will increase support for businesses in keeping their payrolls stable,...
Although the visible role of state structures in the PRC is well known (i.e., that they have historically tended toward centralisation and vertical power), the Chinese state has had to deal with increasingly multi-layered social changes, the decentralisation of the economy, and local governance...
However, it is not simply the aggregate stock of capital in the economy that matters but also its composition. In particular, whether present generations are ‘using up’ one form of capital to meet the needs of today. For example, much of the recent interest in sustainable development has ...
Thus, the country can effectively prevent decentralism, by which matters are discussed but fail to result in decisions or lead to action.1 Democratic centralism is both an organizational principle of the CPC and a principle of state agencies at all levels as stipulated in China's Constitution. ...
As engineers often like to discuss matters using some modeling techniques, it will be beneficial to discuss the different competition models that are likely to exist in the marketplace. Commonly, two main competition models can exist in the market [37–41]: pure competition and monopolistic compet...
If you’ve also set up an automated release pipeline as you’ve seen through this series of articles, those changes will quickly be built, tested and fed into release management so they quickly make their way to customers. And once that release is done, ...
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Respondents rate their beliefs on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree; 7 = strongly agree), with items including changes in priorities, spiritual matters, closeness with others, and personal strength (e.g. “I have changed my priorities about what is important in life”,...
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