The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to human capital. This report presents new evidence and analysis to provide a comprehensive diagnostic of the effects of the pandemic on human capital outcomes and identify promising policy responses for governments faced with the task of rebuilding human capital in the wake of the pandemic.

Have teachers mastered the subject matter they are teaching? Can doctors accurately diagnose and treat critical health conditions? Are schools and health facilities sufficiently stocked with needed equipment and supplies? Are they sufficiently supported and staffed to optimize learning and health care outcomes? For the past decade, the World Bank's Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys have collected nationally representative data in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa to answer these ...

In plain, uncomplicated language, and using detailed examples to explain the key concepts, models, and algorithms in vertical search ranking, Relevance Ranking for Vertical Search Engines teaches readers how to manipulate ranking algorithms to achieve better results in real-world applications. This reference book for professionals covers concepts and theories from the fundamental to the advanced, such as relevance, query intention, location-based relevance ranking, and cross-property ranki...

Have teachers mastered the subject matter they are teaching? Can doctors accurately diagnose and treat critical health conditions? Are schools and health facilities sufficiently stocked with needed equipment and supplies? Are they sufficiently supported and staffed to optimize learning and health care outcomes? For the past decade, the World Bank’s Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys have collected nationally representative data in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa to answer these ...

本書專論當代中國哲學家勞思光先生 (1927-2012) 的哲學思想，尤其著重於勞先生後期哲學的發展與規模。勞思光先生以《中國哲學史》名家，然而《中國哲學史》卻只是他一生哲學關懷──為危機中的哲學及文化尋找突破困局之道──的預備工作。《中國哲學史》之後，也就是1980年代起，勞先生在三十年間逐步發展、修正他的哲學思想，主要是：(1) 建立一種基於開放思維之哲學概念的文化哲學；(2) 為二十世紀「哲學之終結」問題把脈，提出「非絕對主義的新基礎主義」，以顯示哲學思維應有的新取向；與此同時，他也發表了關於 (3) 中國文化之路向，與 (4) 中國哲學之未來的大量論著。本書基於同情的理解，全面討論了前述勞思光哲學的各個領域，並兼顧勞先生前、後期思想的演變。書中〈情意我與心靈境界〉一篇藉詩作探索勞思光先生的生命情調，頗見異趣。

Since the main purpose of the first book of my trilogy entitled "The True Images, Numbers and Ideas of the Circular Changes" is to disclose the imagery of Zhou Yi's body text from the point of divining outcome interpretation, this is not the place to analyze in details the complex aspects of historical and philosophical background of the oracle's writing. Instead, I will try to reconstruct the original structure and multivalent meanings of the oracular images which has come down to nowaday...

La revue semestrielle Jentayu (ISSN 2426-2536) est dédiée à la traduction de textes courts ou d'extraits de roman. À chaque numéro, entre douze et quinze textes provenant d'une variété de pays et de régions d'Asie sont sélectionnés sur un thème donné et traduits par des traducteurs chevronnés. Pour certains de ces textes, ils sont aussi mis en contexte sur le site internet de *Jentayu*par ...

Evolution of Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China’s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civil-military relations, intersection of politics and law, and democratization, this volume sit...

The Classics of Changing Tendons has been said that Dharma from ancient India came to the east, all the way to the law, and then to the Shaolin Temple. Dharma's inner strength was deep, and he sat in the face of the Shaolin Temple for nine years, so that the stone wall left him. After Bodhidharma’s pass-away, two volumes of secrets were left, one for Purification of the Marrow and the other for The Classics of Changing Tendons. The "Purification of the marrow" is a code of internal improve...

While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing, lack of social services, corruption, and abuse of power have often reached crisis stage. American college students often ask: How does the government control the largest urban population in t...

A translation of a key commentary on perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical ChinaThis book is a translation of a key commentary on the Book of Changes, or Yijing (I Ching), perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. The Yijing first appeared as a divination text in Zhou-dynasty China (ca. 1045–256 bce) and later became a work of cosmology, philosophy, and political theory as commentators supplied it with...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2025 issue (#225) contains:Fiction* "Emily of Emerald Starship" by Ng Yi-Sheng* "If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow" by Claire Jia-Wen* "In the Shells of Broken Things" by A. T. Greenblatt* "The Eighth Pyramid" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Faces of the Antipode" by Matthew Marcus