Many view the period after the Second Industrial Revolution as a paradigm of a transition to a new economy following a technological revolution, including the Information Technology Revolution. We build a quantitative model of diffusion and growth during transitions to evaluate that view. With a learning process quantified by data on the life cycle of US manufacturing plants, the model accounts...

t current time, a revolution has started. A revolution called Big Data. This revolution is not limited to volume of data: this revolution requires us to change everything about technology those we daily use. It is necessary to change the architecture of modern data centres, the programming technologies available, and the way we see (and use) sensors and other instruments, and finally, requires ...

With the revolution in information technology, we experience profound changes in the nature of our world. Indeed, we live in an information age. The information technology revolution fundamentally changed our lifestyle. For example, our homes operate automatically when no one is at home. The IT revolution made it possible to communicate with someone located on the opposite side of the globe on ...

The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...

Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play. It the gradual decline in modernity through implementation principles secularism which has, according Islamic revivalists, plunged world into crisis jahiliyya (unGodliness). Revivalists sociologists such as Anthony ...

A new genus and species of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) is described and illustrated, namely Chamaeleucopis, gen. nov. (type species Chamaeleucopis trevas, sp. nov.), a predator of Ceroplastes wax scales on guava from Brazil. In addition, the previously unrecognized genus Ortalidina Blanchard 1852 (type species Ortalidina cellularis Blanchard 1852), mainly from the Neotropics, is recog...

this article is an inquiry into the causes of the failure of the iranian constitutional revolution of 1906 in achieving its aims and objectives, as the triumphant revolution faced many difficulties shortly after victory. in the period, iran was integrated into the international system, therefore, without noting international issues, understanding its internal developments cannot be possible. th...