China’s emergence as a global economic player has been accompanied by a major internal transformation described in a new World Bank/IFC publication.** Over the past decade, the economy has made the transition from complete reliance on state-owned and collective enterprise to a mixed economy where private enterprise plays a leading role. This is an ongoing process, during which the economy will ...

This article compares the social settings and teaching organization of two differently structured childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy, in order to understand how social processes and contexts work to negotiate authoritative knowledge. Although the explicit goal of both courses was to transmit biomedical knowledge, knowledge based in women's experience nonetheless dominated some cour...

In this paper, the prosodic realization of focus in six languages/dialects in China were experimentally investigated, which were Yi and Tibetan (TibetanBurma), Wa and Deang (Mon-Khmer), Uygur (Turkic) and Nanchang dialect (Gan), all spoken in China. Tibetan, Uygur and Nanchang showed onfocus F0 raising and post-focus F0 compression (PFC) whereas no clear F0 variation due to focus was found in W...

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This article describes X-NIndex, a novel approach for large XML documents with stable structure. The definition for the large XML document with stable struct ure is given while the concept of XML document tree coordinate(X-DTC) is introduced. The significant advantage of X-NIndex to other XML query schemas is shown and the experimental results are present.

This paper discusses the homegrown endeavors in most populated Muslim world to modernize Islamic education therein. It focuses on how modernization of comes out efforts by so-called traditional scholars particular reforming education. As a locus analysis, it deals compara­tively with two largest populations, one South Asia and another Southeast Asia. The former is represented India, latter Indo...

This article is divided into two parts. In the first part, we prove some useful theorems on finite topological spaces. In the second part, in order to consider a family of neighborhoods to a point in a space, we extend the notion of finite topological space and define a new topological space, which we call formal topological space. We show the relation between formal topological space struct (F...