This research examines why and how a new approach to IT planning is adopted in the public sector – the use of enterprise architecture (EA). Around the world, EA has been promoted as a key tool for transformation and modernization of government. By following ‘best practices’ from the private sector, the claim is that the adoption of EA will ensure that IT resources and business processes are pla...

The fact that the global scene is becoming more and more competitive and the position of the European Union is increasingly challenged by old and new world powers is a widely recognized fact. The awareness of this constantly growing pressure on the EU, its economic and social systems, in particular from the process of globalization stimulates numerous debates on the future of the continent. Eur...

Biomass accounts for an estimated one-third of all energy used in developing countries today. Most of this biomass is used inefficiently and with significant pollutant emissions by the more than 2 billion people who cook using direct combustion of biomass. Contrasting today’s use of biomass energy, several recent major assessments of future global energy supply show much larger roles for biomas...

Modernization theory, which dominated academic studies from the early 1950s until late 1970s, attributed a “special place” to Turkish case among many other non-Western countries, with special emphasis on Kemalist modernization of Early Republican Period. This paper seeks explore reasons for Turkey’s place and ways is positioned vis-a-vis countries by tracking scholarly works Walt Rostow, Dankwa...

The rapid development of agricultural modernization in Hubei province has an influence on cultivated land resources variations to a certain degree. This paper used grey relational analysis method,combined with Hubei province cultivated land area decreased data within the year covering 2000 to 2010 and agricultural modernization development index data, then analyzed the influence relationship be...

AIM To assess the effect of modernization of the aluminium production on physical and chemical health hazards at work environment in the Aluminium Mostar factory. The modernization included introduction of automatic equipment, computerized management, and rationalized coke manipulation in Anoda, Electrolysis, and Cast House plants. METHOD Periodical measurements of chemical (gas concentration...

This Article makes two central claims. One is that the two processes are related in important ways and that neither can be fully understood without understanding the other. The other is that the relationships between the two reveal changes in the dynamics of European competition law that have so far been little noticed. This Article first sets out briefly the basic outlines of the procedural mo...

In this paper we outline our legacy modernization approach that incorporates our reuse process and repository which we have called the Knowledge Base Software Reuse (KBSR) Process and the KBSR Repository. The KBSR Process and Repository aim to give software engineers easy access to reusable software artefacts and reusable components within a defined process which we have incorporated into our m...

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OBJECTIVES To test and expand upon modernization theory's account of subjective social status (SSS) of older people in society. It was hypothesized that perceptions of older people's social status should be higher in more modernized countries and that the proportion of older people in employment should moderate the relationship between modernization and SSS of older people. METHODS Data were ...