In March 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the vision of a global community of shared future; in September and October that year, he raised the initiatives of joining with others to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI)....
promotes successful teaching and facilitating activities, and has an impact on teacher commitment and student accomplishment. Unfavorable working conditions and a heavy workload have been observed in Malaysian schools. As a result, the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of school ...
theageof60.Theratesofdeathamongparticipantsinthisgroupdidclearlyshowracialdifferences,withapproximately9% ofblacksdyingat anearlyagecomparedto6% ofwhites.There werealsodifferencesincausesofdeathbyrace. Forinstance,black men weresignificantly more likelytodieofmurderandwhitemenfromAIDS. Themostcommoncausesofdeath...
The research reported here mined findings from an annual survey of all teachers in schools implementing City Connects in one of its eight cities (Boston, Massachusetts). A mixed-methods research approach was employed to study alignment of survey results with literature on the impact of student ...
Infrastructure for the urban-poor--policy and planning issues, Cities, 11: 15-24.Cotton, A. and Franceys, R. (1994). Infrastructure for the urban poor-Policy and planning issues. Cities 11(1): 15-24.Cotton, A. y R. Frances, "Infrastructure for the Urban Poor. Policy and Planning ...
This paper empirically estimates the effects of infrastructure investments on the level and distribution of impoverished households' income, utilizing the arguably exogenous investment shock from the Targeted Poverty Alleviation program in China. We focus on the agricultural income of poor rural households....
guide its response to the situation and conduct on-site investigations.The WCHC website carried its Information Circular on the Pneumonia Cases in Wuhan, confirming 27 cases and urging the public to stay away from enclosed public places with poor ventilation and venues where large crowds gathered....
Wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity due to climate change and have had severe impacts on the built environment worldwide. Moving forward, models should take inspiration from epidemic network modeling to predict damage to individual buildings and understand the impact of different mitigatio...
thanks to over 90 years of hard struggle, our Party has rallied and led the people of all ethnic groups of the country in turning the poor and backward old China into an increasingly prosperous and powerful new China and opening up bright prospects for the great renewal of the Chinese ...
Various existing case studies on the impacts of COVID-19 on waste have shown that the pandemic had major impacts on the waste infrastructure. While the general trends can be seen globally, each municipality had varied experiences and unique challenges based on the level of the impact [12,13,...