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Dec 11, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Yuhan Zhang |Yuankang Zhang |Zichen Wang
1. IntroductionIn September 2015, the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was jointly adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, establishing a system of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) comprising 17 distinct objectives []. The SDGs represent a binding target indicator system developed by the United Nations, aimed at comprehensively addressing social, economic, and environmental development challenges across three dimensions.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
nature.com | Yue Liu |Yuhan Zhang |Ehsan Sharifi |Qiqi Liu |Yaqiao Liu
AbstractExtreme heat events have become more common and more severe during summer than ever before as a result of the warming climate in Australia. The impact of urban morphology and green coverage on outdoor thermal comfort has been the subject of extensive research, however, their link to suburban developments of different historic periods is still underexplored.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
middleburycampus.com | Yuhan Zhang
On Nov. 2, the Jerusalem Quartet flooded the Mahaney Arts Center with passionate string music ranging from classical to modern. Celebrating their 30th season, Jerusalem Quartet returned to Middlebury with a program of Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorák. The Jerusalem Quartet is a regular performer on stages across the world. The group is composed of four distinguished and accomplished artists: Alexander Pavlovsky (Violin), Sergei Bresler (Violin), Ori Kam (Viola) and Kyril Zlotnikov (Cello).
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
middleburycampus.com | Yuhan Zhang
If you were to send a message into the great expanse of the universe, what would it be? Artist, writer and filmmaker Dario Robleto seeks to expand on this question in his film, “Ancient Beacons Long for Notice” which is currently on display in the exhibit, “An Invitation to Awe” at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. On Oct.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
middleburycampus.com | Yuhan Zhang
Architecture, political standards, everyday ways of life — how did these concepts interact with each other in the Later Roman Empire? On Sept. 26, Dr. Hendrik W. Dey ’99, Middlebury alumnus and Professor of Art History at Hunter College of City University of New York (CUNY), shed some light on this question with a lecture elaborating on colonnaded streets' role in Later Roman societies.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Yuhan Zhang
This publication is a product of Carnegie China. For more work by Carnegie China, click here. Since September 2022, China’s producer price index has remained below 100, signaling a worrying trajectory of deflation in the country’s industrial sector. Although its consumer price index has shown some improvement this year, the fluctuations in monthly growth suggest the recovery is fragile.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Yuhan Zhang
In its latest monetary policy implementation report, published on August 9, 2024, China’s central bank noted that “rent is the core variable influencing housing value . . .
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Yuhan Zhang
To advance China’s modernisation, its leaders adopted a resolution at the third plenum to “embrace broader horizons through further reforms and opening up”. This was not unexpected, given China’s urgent need for cutting-edge technology, skilled labour, foreign capital and managerial expertise. But its economy, in particular the industrial sector, is grappling with deflationary pressure, as seen in key indicators such as the producer price index and the manufacturing purchasing managers’ index.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Mary C. Brinton |Yuri Okina |Hiroshi Ono |Yuhan Zhang
For many years, women’s labour force participation patterns in Japan and South Korea were distinct from those in other post-industrial economies. Both countries had a so-called M-shaped age curve for female labour force participation, with large numbers of women exiting the labour force upon marriage or childbearing and then returning to paid work once their children entered school. While this pattern has persisted in South Korea, it has undergone considerable change in Japan in the past 15 years.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Yuri Okina |Hiroshi Ono |Yuhan Zhang |Sourabh Gupta
In Japan’s labour market, an increase in people changing jobs is occurring in the middle of a growing labour shortage, and changing traditional features of Japanese corporate culture such as lifetime employment and seniority-based remuneration. Under the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, labour market reform is a major theme in Japan’s growth strategy with increased government spending on the development of individual skills.
