Transnational crime, sometimes called international crime or multinational systemic crime, is more than an extension of domestic crime. In the context of globalization, transnational organized crime groups respond to market incentives and operate with cooperative relationships, which makes the multinational criminal systems become more efficient and powerful. As a result, no single country has ...

Recent studies suggest a role for the microbiota in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), potentially arising from their role in modulating the immune system and gastrointestinal (GI) function or from gut-brain interactions dependent or independent from the immune system. GI problems such as chronic constipation and/or diarrhea are common in children with ASD, and significantly worsen their behavior...

The ‘westernization’of eating habits has increased the number of fast-food outlets, both in Malaysia and Singapore. There is an increase in the prevalence of obesity in both these countries due to westernization, coupled with reduction of physical activity [1]. In 2010, the World Health Organization has ranked Malaysia as the sixth country that has the highest obesity rate in Asia. The Malaysia...

In his article "World Literatures and Romanian Literary Criticism" Caius Dobrescu argues that the notion Weltliteratur of Goethe posits the concept of world literature as the conveyor of universal (i.e., cosmopolitan) skills of socio-cultural adaptation. The influence of this form of Weltliteratur on Romanian literary criticism is traceable from Westernization in the nineteenth century to the c...

This journey started in 1950 at Antioch College when I wrote a required Life Aims paper to make a comparative study of East and West in philosophy, religion, art, literature, and the social sciences. In 1977 I went to India on a grant for clinical psychoanalytic research to assess the psychological effects of Westernization on Indians, to ascertain differences in configurations of the self from...

The article focuses on the relationship between globalization and language in modern world. In theoretical part of paper author explains concepts westernization before discussing definition lexeme English, Polish Russian. practical part, such words as mall, strip food hall, court, droguerie, discount store are analyzed. Assimilation processes registration new lexis dictionary sources (are used ...

The Westernization of black women in the US and throughout diaspora, via ideological apparatuses such as education labour market, is symptomatic West’s attempt to interpellate embourgeois them, post 1970s, fit, converge, with their role professional managers service workers globalization efforts, for equality opportunity, recognition, distribution white male counterparts, spite some obstacles r...

The purpose of this paper is to test one of the many ways of tracking the progress of media transformation in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of European integration, based on a descriptive/analytical and relativistic research approaches. The conceptual and analytical framework adopted for the analysis of the process is an institutional and cultural one, which is best suited in this c...