The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the sig...

How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice.This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on o...

This book aims to summarize and report the major research achievements and validation results under the global land cover (GLC) initiative led by the Group Earth Observation (GEO). The first part of the book introduces the major tasks and challenges facing the validation of finer-resolution GLC maps and presents the concepts and overall framework of the GEO-led initiative. Chapters 2-5 provide systematic introductions to the major methodology of finer-resolution GLC map validation, includi...

This two volume set LNCS 10177 and 10178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, held in Suzhou, China, in March 2017.The 73 full papers, 9 industry papers, 4 demo papers and 3 tutorials were carefully selected from a total of 300 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: semantic web and knowledge management; indexing and distributed systems; network embedding; tr...

This two volume set LNCS 10177 and 10178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, held in Suzhou, China, in March 2017. The 73 full papers, 9 industry papers, 4 demo papers and 3 tutorials were carefully selected from a total of 300 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: semantic web and knowledge management; indexing and distributed systems; network embedding; trajector...