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In the social sciences, modernization or modernisation refers to a model of an evolutionary transition from a 'pre-modern' or 'traditional' to a 'modern' society.
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In ancient Greece, as today, an intricate web of transportation routes crisscrossed the landscape, facilitating quotidian and periodic movements of diverse kinds within and between urban, suburban, and rural communities. Religious travel, ranging from individual pilgrimages to large-scale ritual processions, is one such form of movement that has be...
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Panel: Technological Innovation and Green Turn: Religions in Between In the last decade, the environmental sustainability has become a central issue to the message of religious institutions. In this sense, the 2015 has represented a turning point for the commitment of religious groups to the safeguard of the “Creation”: the encyclical Laudato Sì,...
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This paper investigates Ahn Changho’s notion of ‘mutual love’, the central features of which present a picture of society in which the selfish desires of free-spirited individuals can be tamed and regulated through the self-cultivation of mutual love. More specifically, first, by analyzing Ahn Changho’s reconfiguration of the Confucian ideal of par...
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Deconstructing the spatial characteristics of the rural in the new era is the prerequisite for building a rural spatial governance system. The rural spatial characteristics with multi-scale and their relating governance paths would effectively enable the modernization of the national governance system. Based on the comprehensive, regional and flowi...
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The study examined the healthcare beliefs and practices among atas in Barangay Canggohob, Mabinay, Philippines. There were 25 respondents, 10 of them were Ata women who had experienced pregnancy and 1 tribal chieftain and 14 tribal healers. The qualitative-phenomenological research method was used in utilizing focus group interviews, participant ob...
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The modern development of higher education in Ukraine is the result of two main factors. One of them-the factor of social progress-reflects the transformations inherent in modern Ukrainian society. These include, first of all, the processes of democratization and the development of civic responsibility. European the choice of Ukraine, the integrati...
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MARÍN, M. 2023. When ornithology meets ethnology and archeology: the birds of the bird-cult at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and their demise. Marine Ornithology 51: 33–40. The disappearance of the bird species involved in the bird-cult of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was examined. The cult was a contest in which the winner gathered the first seabird egg of...
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The study of the Ottoman state of the eighteenth century throughout the nineteenth century focuses on a more comprehensive logical outline than before by concentrating on the socio-political transformational history of the Middle East, the Balkans, and even North Africa, that was the part of the Ottoman State once upon a time. The studies on the mo...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relevance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for national legal orders. I will focus mainly on Polish law, with some references to Hungarian law. I will analyze the amendment of the Polish Electoral Code legislated in 2018 in terms of enabling people with...
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The analysis reflects the change in attitudes towards memory and tradition in modern society, the role of youth, which, on the basis of its unique technical, technological skill, radically reduces the structure of traditional practices, creates its own, new structure of sociocultural activity and memory reproduction. The evolution of ideas about th...
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The article deals with the relevance of the renovation of children's camps, the development of new approaches to design and their modernization, which is related to the moral and physical wear and tear of existing children's recreation camps. The main tasks for recreation and use of the territories of children's camps are defined. Today, children's...
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Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar os aspectos ligados ao uso, influência e elementos motivadores para o uso das redes sociais digitais por mulheres idosas de uma cidade no interior do Rio Grande do Norte. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, de natureza descritiva, com modo de investigação baseado em uma pesquisa qualitativa básica. A coleta d...
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This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to the multilateral trading system. While recent studies h...
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The study of industrial competitive dynamics involves a wide set of approaches that range from the configuration of market structures and levels of concentration, interactions and strategic movements of groups of companies, and between companies, over time, aiming to identify performance advantages over the competitors. This work seeks to demonstra...
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Walkability is an important indicator of sustainable urban development, especially in fragmented historical blocks affected by modern development efforts. Xi’an, China, and Kyoto, Japan, which are among the oldest cities in Asia, have similar historical backgrounds and a grid-based street network that differs from European historical cities. They a...
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This essay examines three Lima-based cultural projects dating from the 1980s through the 2000s that creatively adapt ideas and iconography associated with large-scale 1960s-era modernization initiatives to forge an alliance between “nature” and “culture” against capitalist development. Lima en un árbol (1981), an action and video by Rossana Agois,...
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With increasing tension between humans and land, and arising pressure on food security in China, the improvement of total factor productivity is important to realize agricultural modernization and promote rural revitalization strategy. In this study, we applied the DEA-Malmquist index method to measure the growth of China’s agricultural total facto...
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Shoulder joint injury often affects athletes' performance, training, and daily life, and it costs more money and time to treat, so it is very important to prevent shoulder joint injury. This paper mainly provides assessment and training ideas for preventing shoulder injury to make athletes achieve better results and reduce injuries. Many shoulder j...
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Technologies like computer science, Internet, giant information Analytics, Block Chain Technology etc. computer science provides correct and timely data regarding plants, land, climate and insects etc. for farmers; so, it's going to improve crop production at a reduced risk resulting Agriculture faces major challenges. Increasing production by seve...
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Germany's Energiewende is often considered a role model for the transition to renewable energy. And notwithstanding some domestic disputes about costs and practical implementation, it enjoys broad multiparty and multi-sector commitment. However, Russia's 2022 war against Ukraine marks a turning point in Germany's energy politics. We examine the war...
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The production of space in rural areas as a result of modernization changes lifestyles not only within families but also at a broader level, namely between communities. This study aimed to examine how spatial reproduction occurs in villages in Madiun Regency by identifying the dominant agent and the stages of the process of spatial reproduction. Th...
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With the goal of establishing morality and nurturing people, university catering is thought to be one of the key components in the construction of “double first class” universities, which supports and leads the reform of education modernization. In this study, the common problems in the university catering were analyzed, and research was done throu...
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Family policy has become an increasingly important policy area in Switzerland since the 1990s. Benefits and services to families have undergone profound transformations. Some reforms became possible because family policy was increasingly defined not only as social policy but also as social investment policy promoting employment and human capital fo...
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This chapter introduces Hikojiro Nakamigawa, a salaried manager who became director of the Mitsui Bank in the Meiji period engaging in Zaibatsu reform, including modernization, streamlining, and recovery of non-performing loans.
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In August 2021, the ‘Second Act for the Modernization of Patent Law’ (Zweites Patentrechtsmoderni-sierungsgesetz) introduced an explicit proportionality defense into Sec. 139(1) German Patent Act. Unlike the competition law or national contract law prong of the Huawei defense in FRAND cases, the proportionality defense thus derives from the GPA its...
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The Panax L. genus is well-known for many positive physiological effects on humans, with major species including P. ginseng, P. quinquefolius, P. notoginseng, P. japonicus, and P. japonicus var. major, the first three of which are globally popular. The combination of UPLC-QTOF-MS and chemometrics were developed to profile “identification markers” e...
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The study was a quantitative investigation and analysis of the feature of pharmaceutics and pharmacists’ regulation and complex issue challenges seeing by public health professionals in Georgia by using questionnaires. Were used methods of systematic, sociological (surveying, questioning), comparative, mathematicalstatistical, graphical analysis. F...
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The development of sustainable agriculture is an important link in promoting agricultural modernization. As a new sustainable agricultural production model, the promotion effect of agricultural production trust depends on the participation of farmers. Therefore, based on the micro-data of 461 valid questionnaires from farmers in the Heilongjiang Pr...
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This paper provides an overview of the progress of tillage in Hungary. The local and international impacts on the national practice are summarized, and some adoption of the conservation tillage results is presented concerning Hungary. The interest in conservation agriculture in Hungary dates back almost 120 years; however, any significant changes o...
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Logistics Management plays a predominant role in distributing goods and services from the point of production to the point of consumption in every stage of life. It is used by B2B, B2C, C2C and G2C. Recently years transportation sector services have drastically change due to an advancement in technology. It helps to develop the economic growth of t...
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The article presents the possibilities of using unmanned aerial vehicles in air transport. The use of UAVs in the airspace has become widespread, despite many implemented legal regulations, there are many incidents that threaten not only aircraft during the flight, but also the airport infrastructure. The potential threats and the chances of implem...
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Ethiopia’s nation-building is rife with accusations and claims of past atrocities and injustices from the time of Emperor Menelik’s southward expansion to recent political discourse since 2018. This article attempts to capture these complexities embedded in the making of the modern Ethiopian state, critiquing both modernization and colonial theses...
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The article identifies and characterizes the organizational and pedagogical preconditions, patterns, features of the development of distance education in Ukraine, analyzes its role in solving the problem of modernization of vocational education in Ukraine. The main trends in the development of distance education and new learning technologies in Ukr...
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New‐type professional farmers are new‐type rural talents with scientific and cultural literacy and professional knowledge of agriculture under the background of rural revitalization. The new type of professional farmers is of great significance for accelerating agricultural modernization and promoting the construction of a powerful modern socialist...
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On January 1, 2023, a "reformed" Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will come into force, which is innovative by nature in structural terms, and focused on environmental and social sustainability issues, aimed at a comprehensive digitization-based modernization of the agri-food sector. Th e new CAP keeps the current structure based on expenditure and...
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Since the promulgation of the first school education regulations in the early 20th century, Chinese school aesthetic education has gone through its first century of history. Six stages of development have been formed in this century of vicissitudes, namely, the budding period, the starting period, the salvation movement period, the tortuous develop...
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This study had three objectives: (1) to consolidate poverty alleviation achievements and connect them with the current rural vitalization strategy; (2) to inaugurate agricultural modernization development in rural areas of the Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone, an important grain production area in China, during the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan in...
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Industry is the leading production sector of the national economy and forms the financial basis of society. Acceleration of economic development of the country, improvement of production efficiency depends on the development of the industrial sector. Modernization and diversification of production, technical and technological renovation, high-tech...
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Recent years, artificial intelligence technology has been a revolutionary tool in health care system, an increase in application of the technology noted significantly in Orthodontics as well. AI is an outstanding tool to help orthodontists as it can be utilized from the beginning to diagnose till the planning of the treatment. Along with speeding u...
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This study is based on the premise that modernist literature, presented as an essentially Western current in the established narratives of literary history, is global in nature, and that there are works all around the world that fall within its scope. This premise rests on the fact that the condition called modernity itself is a global phenomenon....
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Patient safety in the SC ranges from: keeping the bed’s large bed elevated, infusing the heated serum, turning off the air conditioning in the post-anesthesia recovery room to the use of robotics in surgeries. We cannot forget the use of POPs (standard operating procedure) to standardize and avoid errors in the execution of activities. Technologica...
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Walt Whitman’s ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ (CBF) (1856) conveys and constructs an exhilarated passenger’s experience with public transportation facilities of mid-nineteenth century New York against the background of modernization, urbanization, industrialization and globalization. With Whitman’s America exploiting the continent’s diverse resources al...
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Naučni rad UDC: Apstrakt: Potrebe modernizacije malih i srednjih preduzeća (MSP) odevne industrije država u razvoju implementacijom tehnološko-tehničkih inovacija i posebno informaciono komunikacionih tehnologija (IKT), ali i neefikasnost i neadekvatnost takvih primena, eksplicitno ukazuju na brojne probleme rada i razvoja, a posebno potenciraju sp...
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Introduction The management of rural domestic waste is directly related to the quality of China's rural habitat and the ecological security of the countryside, and is one of the important tasks of rural revitalization. Methods Based on the perspective of digital technology empowering rural governance, this study uses the China Land Economic Survey...
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Before colonization, Algeria was primarily a rural country with a nomadic and semi-nomadic population. However, significant changes occurred during and after the colonial era as modernization efforts were implemented. This paper provides a regional overview of Algeria’s pre-and post-millennium urban development based on census population data expre...
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The modernization of the world's tinsel goes so quickly and dynamically, the rapid development will have an effect on the order of human life. This condition has an impact on the Anak Dalam Tribe (SAD) so that it is increasingly left behind because of its inability to keep up with the changes that occur. This research aims to analyze internal and e...
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Manyastambha is a painful disorder mainly associated with vitiation of Vata involving Vyana Vayu and Sleshaka Kapha. It is a clinical entity in which the back of the neck becomes stiff or rigid and neck movements are impaired. It can be correlated with Cervical Spondylosis in modern prospective. In the present era of modernization, the changing lif...
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Before colonization, Algeria was primarily a rural country with a nomadic and semi-nomadic population. However, significant changes occurred during and after the colonial era as modernization efforts were implemented. This paper provides a regional overview of Algeria's pre-and post-millennium urban development based on census population data expre...
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The article presents the process and information management of one of the class and potential corporations like FLC of Vietnam. From the presented situation of information management organization, a number of lessons learned and policy implications have been drawn in order to improve the organization and operation of the information management appa...
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Citation: Umyshev, D.R.; Osipov, E.V.; Kibarin, A.A.; Korobkov, M.S.; Khodanova, T.V.; Duisenbek, Z.S. Abstract: Currently, 90% of Kazakhstan's oil is situated in 15 oil and gas fields where simple cycle gas turbines are utilized for electricity generation. The need for developing techniques to enhance the efficiency and eco-friendliness of fuel co...
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Dogs are one of the most accepted pet animals in every household. Increasing urbanization and modernization of human life has created a space where people are living in nuclear family or alone. This has created peoples' perception and acceptance of having pet for companionship. Human-dog interaction and close livelihood confinement emerge as crucia...
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Western Rajasthan is characterized by sandy soils, high temperatures, low and erratic rainfall, high precipitation, high evaporation resulting in desertification. Due to modernization in agriculture i.e. heavy grazing, mechanization, economically important crop dependency of farmers grasses are being disappeared from the farmer's field and limited...
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Culture is a process which consist of beliefs, customs, values, norms, mores, languages that makes the community to form under common characteristics and thus enables them to conform to shared values contributing to societal development. Every community has its own culture and also the nation. Hence the researcher would like to investigate and comp...
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Spikelets, inflorescence fragments, whole plants and isolated leaves have suites of characters that suggest affinities with Poaceae. Spikelets are borne alternately on delicate axes with slightly unequal glumes subtending two florets each with three stamens. Anthers are dorsifixed. Pollen characters are important in delimiting Poaceae from other ta...
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At present, the rural contracted land is dominated by the unified circulation of villages entrusted by contractors, but the contractor will have the possibility of self-circulation after the contract expires. The fundamental reason is that the current land transfer fee is low, which can not meet the contractor's expectations. Looking at China's eco...
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This study examined the factors influencing access to university education by students from rural secondary schools in Kasese District of Uganda. This research used a descriptive study design on a sample of 98 respondents. Data were collected using questionnaires and interview guides and were analysed using frequencies and percentages. The results...
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A feature of modern education is innovativeness - the ability to update. Therefore, improving the quality of modern education is impossible without the creation of an innovative space, that is, the study and active implementation of innovative pedagogical technologies in practice, the main task of which is to ensure a new quality of education, whic...
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Characteristic Chinese towns are “green ecology” innovation space units based on the background of the ‘Beautiful China Initiative’ (BCI), new urbanization, supply-side structural reform and the implementation of rural revitalization strategies. In this paper, spatial analysis models such as kernel density analysis, spatial autocorrelation analysis...
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Today, implantation surgery allows for a predictable result in the rehabilitation of patients with partial or complete absence of teeth. Modern technological capabilities allow dentists and dental technicians to use numerous approaches to the choice of materials, ways of manufacturing individual abutments and their final design. However, there is n...
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“In Politics, nothing happens by accident. If at all it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” At a time when the Hegemons are declining , when the boundaries and walls that created the illusion of their glory are disappearing , when military alliances are losing their viability , when the Global Governance model is being replaced by the pr...
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This paper aims to discuss the main challenges and difficulties that the banking system in Kosovo was faced under the former Yugoslavia and the Serbian state(s). Also, this paper includes a discussion over the process of consolidation and development of the banking sector during the postwar period in Kosovo and the process of modernization in the p...
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Distributed Power Generation and Energy Storage Systems (DPG-ESSs) are crucial to securing a local energy source. Both entities could enhance the operation of Smart Grids (SGs) by reducing Power Loss (PL), maintaining the voltage profile, and increasing Renewable Energy (RE) as a clean alternative to fossil fuel. However, determining the optimum si...
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With the rapid development of urbanization in China, urban waterlogging has become a significant problem in constructing the safety of the human environment. As an essential manifestation of the modernization of the urban governance system and capacity, the city physical examination establishes a multi-criteria evaluation system for problem diagnos...
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Introduction Out-of-pocket medical expenses are a crucial source of health care financing in a number of countries. With the ongoing population aging, health care costs are likely to increase. Therefore, disentangling the relationship between health care spending and monetary poverty is becoming increasingly important. Although there is extensive l...
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Artificial or synthetic seed consists of a coating that protects plant tissues, being an alternative for commercial propagation of sugarcane. The objective of this study was to develop a system for synthetic seed production of sugarcane. A first experiment determined the optimal nodal segments size (1.0, 2.5, and 5.0 cm long) in bud emergence; a se...
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This article discusses the circulation of knowledge in sociology through a case study based on the transnational exchanges between North-American sociologist Irving L. Horowitz and Latin American sociologists and intellectuals in the sixties. We explore his letters with three figures who played pivotal roles in the institutionalization of sociology...
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Automatic Dependent Surveillance−Broadcast (ADS−B) is a multiparameter surveillance system designed to improve key segments of air traffic: enabling real-time surveillance, raising safety and efficiency levels, and improving flight information and weather services. ADS-B consists of two subsystems, ADS-B Out and ADS-B In. Although only a complete s...
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This study examines the life of Yi Ch’ŏngch’un 李靑春 (1886–1955), one of the first female disciples of Wŏn Buddhism, a 20th-century Korean religious movement. Her story shows modernity’s impact on Korean women’s psyche and social roles, and the progressive initiative of male teachers who advanced gender equality in new Korean religious movements. A r...
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AbstractThis study compares the geographic dynamics of the wine industry in Spain and Brazil in the last decades. The methodology is based on empirical studies, field work, analysis of bibliography and statistics on the subject. Spain is a country that traditionally produces wine, with a recent process of modernization and expansion of exports. Bra...
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The residential buildings courtyards of the 50s–early 80s of the previous century is the object of this scientific paper. Residential environment of this kind is predominant in the central historical districts of the majority Ukrainian cities, including Poltava, Rivne, and Kyiv. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the residential courtyards of...
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Electricity theft is a costly problem. This paper will be focused on Pakistan and the problem of electricity theft. We will discuss its impacts and how best to fix them through the use of technology. For this purpose, we developed a smart meter, focusing on grid modernization through economic smart meter development. This paper focuses on a study c...
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The Criminal Protection The Economic Of Policy Summary; In the modern time , the world witnesses major developments and changes in many fields. The most important one is the economic field which witnesses a continuous progress concerning the financial and commercial business accompanied by branching and obscurity among them and the means of its adm...
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Charcoal is a primary urban energy source throughout Africa; it is also blamed for massive environmental harm, in particular deforestation and forest degradation. Despite its centrality to urbanization, rural economies, and contemporary environmental transformations, however, charcoal's politics have been relatively underexplored. This article deve...
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Green sheds light onto the mercurial and ill-defined boundaries of institutional governance within China’s unique system of higher education, a national system that remains misunderstood by scholars who continue to position it as little more than a research arm of the party/state. Through a synthesis of systems theory, complexity theory, and insti...
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We assess the situation of our elementary Linear Algebra classes in the US holistically and through personal history recollections. Possible remedies for our elementary Linear Algebra's teaching problems are discussed and a change from abstract algebraic taught classes to a concrete matrix based first course is considered. The challenges of such mo...
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Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of Chinese-style modernization. Data from 284 cities in China from 2011 to 2020 were collected to construct an evaluation system of the digital economy and common prosperity and establish relevant econometric models to explore their impact, spatial spillover, and m...
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Agricultural mechanization is an important component of agricultural modernization, as it contributes to the improvement of agricultural technology and the rapid transformation of agricultural development. However, research on the connection between agricultural mechanization and farmers' health status is scarce. Thus, using the 2018 China Health a...
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This article reflects on the spatial history of agrarian capitalism in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, through the lens of a French farming colony on the Nautla river. While, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this region’s rural landscapes were ostensibly redesigned at the hand of liberal state programs and capitalist desires, a closer...
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Background US public health authorities use syndromic surveillance to monitor and detect public health threats, conditions, and trends in near real-time. Nearly all US jurisdictions that conduct syndromic surveillance send their data to the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), operated by the US. Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
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Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of Orthodox countries and one of the most striking religious resurgences worldwide. This paper gives both a statistical and historical descript...
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The aim of the article is to analyze peculiarities of the professional orientation taking into account such methodological peculiarities as: psycho-physiological features of the audience, structure of the proforientation methods, statistical approaches to classify survey results and ways of presenting data when developing students’ profiles. Analys...
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Common prosperity is an important feature of Chinese-style modernization. The difficulty and focus of promoting the construction of common prosperity in China lies in rural areas and rural households. How to evaluate the common prosperity of rural households is becoming an important research topic. Based on the perspective of meeting the people’s n...
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This book examines changes in the “content and status of sociology” in the United States in the present and recent past. The author understands the present as an era in which relatively organized capitalism has “given way to the disorganization, “de-civilizing,” and “wilding” of post-modern post-normalcy. Sociology in the previous period was orient...