Traditional art is one of Nigerian cultural heritage. It is an excellent instrument for documentation and identification. Antiquities are priceless and irreplaceable. They are basically preserved for future generations. Sadly, preserving these highly prized cultural heritage is becoming a serious challenge. This paper examines the extent modernization has affected the preservation of traditiona...

Due to the environmental and economical processes of the world the architectural thinking is started to change radically in the last decades. The danger of the global warming and the climate change motivated us to revalue our activity and its impacts. The concept of sustainability came into being and its role became more and more important in the architecture. It isn‟t visible that the sustaina...

Dominant theories in stratification research suppose modernization processes to have caused societies to become more open. mployers are assumed to have increasingly selected from among applicants on the basis of job-related characteristics, such as their kills, rather than on characteristics unrelated to the job, such as social origin. We address this issue by studying employers’ selection rite...

Solidarity and kinship has long been an intangible emblem to Malay community especially in the rural area. It is visibly seen through the dependability among each unit of the community either in religious and social events including the matrimonial or wedding. Nevertheless, the inevitable phenomenon, modernization legitimately alters every facets of human life not only the routines, traditions,...

This paper examines the role of knowledge elites in modernization. At the eve of the French Revolution, in the spring of 1789, King Louis XVI solicited lists of grievances (Cahiers de Doléances), in which the public could express complaints and suggestions for reforms of the Ancien Regime. We show that the demand for mass education and democratization was particularly high in regions that had a...

What forces shape corporation law? The basic framework that produces corporation law in the United States is readily apparent. Under the United States’ system of corporate law federalism, each state has the power to make its own laws concerning how corporations are to be governed, and a corporation may then select which state’s law will regulate its internal affairs by incorporating in that sta...

9 Application Modernization at LLNL and the Sierra Center of Excellence J. Robert Neely and Bronis R. de Supinski In 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory began acquisition of Sierra, a preexascale system from IBM and Nvidia. Its use marks a significant shift in direction, introducing the concept of heterogeneous computing via GPUs. An overview of LLNL’s overall application strategy focu...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity is a growing public health problem, and the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. Conversely, indigenous populations living traditional lifestyles reportedly engage in vigorous daily activity that is protective against non-communicable diseases. Here we analyze physical activity patterns among the Tsimane, forager-horticulturalists of Amazonian Bolivia ...

One of advanced trends of the current airborne control systems modernization is the development of the servos control systems (regulators) on the basis of achievements in the field of artificial intelligence and new information technology. Copyright © 2007 IFAC