Human Development, 8/eSample Chapter
Fluid intelligence-is the ability to use your mind actively to solve novel problems. The skill involved reasoning, seeing relationships among stimuli, and drawing inferences-are usually not taught and are believed to represent a person's "raw information processing power". Involves using your mind ...
12 (Xinhua) -- China's reform and opening up has helped liberate and develop social productive forces, opened up a path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and ushered in a new chapter in the development of human rights, according to a white paper issued Wednesday....
To understand these miracles, one needs to gain a deep understanding of the economic logic behind China's policy of reform and opening-up, and the political logic behind modern China's exploration of the practice of democracy and the protection of freedom and human rights in the pursuit of ...
Sustainable agricultural landscapes seek to improve environmental, societal and economic outcomes locally and internationally. They depend on functionally biodiverse agricultural systems, i.e., systems that include diversity in plants and/or crops and ma
"all strong countries will seek hegemony", the obsession with superior strength, and the zero-sum mentality are in conflict with the needs of our times. humanity is in great need of new ideas that generate positive developments and conf...
This cannot only be done at a general level, on the basis of guiding principles and provisions, but the paradigm must be embedded into the development and deployment of each application. To this end, this chapter suggests a model for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) as part of the ...
This chapter’s theme is that the African state can best promote equitable and sustainable growth and development via domestic and external aid policies guided by well-designed and effectively implemented basic human needs (BHN) approaches. The policies would allocate resources toward supporting BHN pro...
In addition, the conditioning received at Hatcheries and Conditioning centres propagates the stability in Huxley’s idyllic world, that ‘[chose] between happiness and what people used to call high art”(ch16), by superficially fulfilling their needs to avoid questioning their personal freedom. ...
but also the structure itself is a latent variable that needs to be inferred. Furthermore, we designed the motion displays such that stimuli could occasionally be ambiguous with regard to their underlying latent structure, thereby probing perception in the face of uncertainty. Key to studying the ...