James Suroweicki’s book, The Wisdom of Crowds [1], provided examples of how diverse, independently deciding individuals make some decisions and predictions better than any individual, even an expert one. However, there have been epic failures where group dynamics derail decisionmaking and crowds become herds. Over the past decades, there has been a steady movement towards competency-based medic...

Towards promoting sustainable agriculture and economic growth, the development of the agricultural workforce and set up of innovative agricultural systems are required. Agricultural educational repositories are systems used for storing, reusing and sharing agricultural learning resources. They contribute to agricultural education at different educational levels and target groups. Thus, this pap...

Non-agricultural income has become an important source of rural household income and has brought with a wide inequality in rural China. This paper investigates the determinants of non-agricultural employment as well as non-agricultural income and then assesses the contribution of these determinants to income inequality with the Chinese Academy of Social Science 2003 survey data and a three-step...