It is well known that Japan has started a stunning development from a completely isolated feudal society at the end of the last century to the second largest economic power of the present day. Some years ago Japan was heading to be number one (ichiban) in the world. The way in which this development could have occurred is a miracle for many people and a challenging topic of research in social s...

Foreword This study by Dr. Lu-tao Sophia Wang is one of a series which examines the development of professions as a key to understanding the different patterns in the modernization of Asia. In recent years there has been much glib talk about "technology transfers" to the Third World, as though knowledge and skills could be easily packaged and delivered. Profound historical processes were thus m...

The necessity for software migration is presented. The concept of software migrator is introduced. A generality metric for software translations is proposed. The business feasibility of automated versus manual migration is studied. nTile PHPtoJava, a working software migrator, is reviewed.

We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We …nd that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An egalitarian welfare function induces a policy that entails moving mainly unskilled immigrants into the rich countries, whereas a welfare function skewed highly towards the rich countries induces an optimal policy that entails a brain-drain from the poor countries. For intermedia...

This article is an introduction to Special Collection 6 of Demographic Research whose articles investigate the interrelations between the family and migration behaviour of individuals in industrialised countries. We first review the life-course approach and previous research on the interplay between family change and migration. We then describe the contribution of the articles in the collection...

At the time, Prof. Kemal Akishev drew attention to the considerable similarity of European Scythians culture and Asian Sakas [1], thus laying the foundation for the study of their transcontinental communications. Indeed, the very nomadic ordained main areas of communicative activity of Early Nomads in the entire Eurasian steppe zone. Cultural and economic type of their life estimated duration (...