Analysis of data from 33 longitudinal cohorts from low- and middle-income countries indicates that conditions during pre-conception, pregnancy and the first few months of life are crucial in determining the risk of growth faltering in young children. Andrew Mertens Jade Benjamin-Chung The Ki Child...
to ensure that the people run the country effectively and that the people’s democracy is an overarching philosophy, principle and policy in the country’s political and social life.
From sport and science production to everyday life, higher-level pursuits demand collaboration. Despite an increase in the number of data-driven studies on human behavior, the social dynamics of collaborative problem solving are still largely unexplored with network science and other computational and ...
Underlying these disclosures of data from consumers to firms are, often implicit, terms that guide consumers’ expectations regarding the data exchange. This manuscript develops and discusses a conceptual framework that identifies four key criteria (data ownership, data intimacy, data permanence, data ...
Spiritual Meaning of Eid ul-Fitr Despite the celebratory character of Eid ul-Fitr, its underlying purpose is to thank Allah for the strength he provided to endure the Ramadan fast. On this day, it is also customary to visit the graves of family members who have passed away. The entire Ram...
are only weakly tractable. A key insight underlying our results is the novel simultaneous solvability property, which we identify as central to several fundamental properties of robust MDPs, including the existence of stationary optimal policies and dynamic programming principles. This property enables a...
“Shall I tell you about a granny I know? She’s a really strange old lady and so full of life!”1 We know that only about half of 10-year-old children in low- and middle-income countries can read and understand sentences like these two (World Bank, 2019). When in their schooling...
These strategic concepts and innovative ideas are the important outcomes of the Party’s theoretical development based on a deeper understanding of the underlying laws of socialism with Chinese characteristics. 习近平同志对关系新...
One of the underlying assumptions of this value system is that smart people, by virtue of what they ’ve learned, will formulate better decisions. (Para. 1) Meaning: One of the basic beliefs leading to this value system is that smart people are able to make better decisions because of ...
But doing so requires service providers to augment their functional-domain knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of underlying processes. In a procurement engagement for a global manufacturing company, one service provider overhauled its client'...