The growth of Thai society in western style in the middle of Rattanakosin period can be defined as modernization /civilization. These terms had an influence on the development of the country in the reign of King Rama V owing to the governance reform, and cultures influenced by the West. Those were passed on until the reign of King Rama VI. The preference was not only for the renovation of archi...

Two emergent “green” forms of regional development are compared and contrasted in terms of a concept of sustainability that includes ecological, economic, and equity considerations. The green technopole is built around the ecological modernization of existing industries or the development of new environmentally oriented industries, and green localism is based on production for the regional econ...

this paper tries to explore and asses the political party activities in iran after the islamic revolution. it believes that that formation of political parties was a result of political modernization in iran after the revolution. the authors further examine this modernization based on huntington's theory about modernization including stages of faction creation (factionalism), polarization,...

In the last generation, social scientists have made great advances in understanding the forces behind the welfare state-or public social spending and provision. Scholars have asked why those aided by the state get what they do in the ways that they do for a number of circumstances affecting income and life chances. Typically, the object of study has been the state's efforts through spending or ...

Issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers have been always hindering China’s development. The only solution to these three problems is agricultural modernization. However, China's agriculture is far from modernized. The introduction of cloud computing and internet of things into agricultural modernization will probably solve the problem. Based on major features of cloud computing a...

Today many researches about legacy system modernization are done because legacy systems are needed to perform accurate functionalities and to meet new requirements m a changing computing environment such as moving to on-line systems, client/server systems, internet, and e-commerce systems. Moreover as software component technologies as well as software reuse technologies including class librari...

This study examined how societal changes associated with modernization are related to cognitive development. Data were from 4 cultural communities that represented a broad range of traditional and modern elements: the Garifuna (Belize), Logoli (Kenya), Newars (Nepal), and Samoans (American Samoa). Naturalistic observations and the performances of 3-, 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old children (N = 192) on...

Policy has long been considered one of the major driving forces for land-use/cover change. However, research on the interactions between land-use/cover change (LUCC) and relevant policies remains limited. The agropastoral ecotone is a typical area of policy implementation and LUCC. Therefore, this study integrates the use of multisource and multiresolution remote sensing and topographic and fie...

Medical education has a long history in the Netherlands and Flanders. This is not only reflected by the leading role of Dutch and Flemish universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate training, but also by the high number of scientific articles in international journals. A few examples to support these introductory statements. The national Blueprint with objectives of undergraduate medica...

A              in the social sciences is that civic traditions are more salient in Western Europe than in Central and Eastern Europe. Among the scholars who subscribe to this view, there are many who have located the origin of the difference in the pre-modern past. Typically they see the appearance of autonomous cities in many parts of Western Europe in the late Middle Ages as the ...