Sustainable development is a complex concept, which concerns a wide range of social, scientific, economical and environmental issues. The necessity of Education to sustainable development is now admitted by a majority of politic personalities. However, evolution in daily life is still slow. This paper describes a personal initiative of a few teachers of Bordeaux academy: pupils from primary sch...

This paper presents the review work of Cloud Computing techniques in small and medium business organizations. The detail work of Trends and issues, Cloud computing: Challenges and future directions, Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow, Where are we at with Cloud Computing? A Descriptive Literature Review. Where are we at with Cloud Computing?, The Utility of Cloud Computing as a New Pricing – A...

The release of dangerous contaminants to the atmosphere due to human activities is an extensively discussed issue (Oelkers & Cole 2008). The economic development often underestimated the consequences of a massive release of substances into the environment. Politic tried to introduce some regulation but in the case of CO2 emissions, the introduction of the “Carbon Tax” and the other attempts wer...

We present a review of the etymology of zoological taxonomic names with emphasis on the most unusual examples. The names were divided into several categories, starting from the most common - given after morphological features - through inspiration from mythology, legends, and classic literature but also from fictional and nonfictional pop-culture characters (e.g., music, movies or cartoons), sc...

Western region development is fundamental to the sustainable growth of China. The rapid growth in the East and the backwardness in the West vividly demonstrate its unbalanced regional economic structure. The catching-up of the Western region constitutes a major concern for the long-term sustainable development in terms of economic growth as well as in terms of politic stability. Western region ...

A method I' describS ror reconstructing decorative images concealed b livers of overcostings. The method employs • 'louparametric multivariate algorithm and. cellular—automaton construct to convert the nearinfrareil spectrum of a surisce into digit.l images of the surface Iaers. The technique h potentiall> applicable to the restoration of historic buildings "here aging previous restoration atte...

The author critically examines the majority judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Rodriguez v. Canada (A.G.) and concludes that the judges in the majority have adopted a legislative public policy mandate rather than carrying out a judicial function that accords with established canons of Charter interpretation and analysis. The author contends that the majority read section 7 of the Charte...

This special issue focuses on India as an emergent and major global economy. The various articles selected for this issue provide an interesting set of perspectives that are facing the nation with the world’s second largest population. For macromarketing scholars, the issues addressed in this special issue are retail marketing developments; cultural issues concerning the most visible export of ...

A raft of United Nations Treaties, European Union Directives and domestic laws oblige governments in 180 + countries to apply the Participative Democratic Model of mainstreaming equalities to public administration by involving those targeted by equality initiatives at all stages in their design and delivery. Notwithstanding Participative Democratic Model's deeply political nature, extant work h...

In this comment, I build on Shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. I highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that Shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...