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Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"Modernisation"”.
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Model driven software modernisation
Constant innovation of information technology and ever-changing market requirements relegate more and more existing software to legacy status. Generating software through reusing legacy systems has been a primary solution and software re-engineering has the potential to improve software …
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Modernisation and changing family structure in Korea.
… and consequence of the family changes of the modernisation process of the last few decades. Part II comprising four chapters examines the result of the socio-economic change or modernisation of the last four decades in the family field : a review of the traditional family as an analytical …
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Cybernetics, AI and Modernisation in Contemporary China
… thesis investigates China's unique technological modernisation pathway through the lens of cybernetics, a discipline centred on systems control and engineering that has fundamentally influenced governance structures and bureaucratic authority. Moving beyond the existing analyses of China’s …
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
… the relationship between the New Left and modernisation, and to suggest that modernisation provides a powerful means of understanding the underlying dynamics of Britain's history in the 1960s. This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The New Left is defined broadly …
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Modernisation and Innovation Management: Developing a Digital Society. An investigation into public sector modernisation and innovation management in its introduction of wireless technology.
… technically competent solutions It explores the modernisation of society, government, the underlying theories that influence it as well as the innovations triggered by its wake. The exercise reveals a myriad of innovations; firstly in the modernisation of the infrastructure of government and …
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Migrants and modernisation : a study of change in Lao society
… rural-to-urban migration on the one hand, and 'modernisation' on the other, in the fields of economic, political and social relations in Lao society.The introduction presents the concepts and research methods used and the design of the thesis. It emphasises the aim of the work, to describe, …
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Potential market overlap between the Gautrain and the PRASA modernisation program
… High Income markets. PRASA has published their modernisation plans, with a focus on upgrading the Gauteng Metrorail network in the future. It is currently unclear whether these upgrades could result in a rail market overlap between Rapid Rail services and the PRASA Modernisation services. The …
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Continuity and Change: A study of Shia Islam and modernisation in Iran
… Shia thinkers' perceptions relating to modernisation continues to present itself in diverse forms.
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Analysing sustainability of solid waste management in Malaysia using ecological modernisation perspective
… does this by adopting the concept of ecological modernisation as a reference for analysing the policy and institutional structures that control waste management and sustainability policy. It examines the relevance the institutional dimension of the ecological modernisation theory to the Malaysian …
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A képviselet megkésett modernizációja. A magyar parlamenti képviselők összetétele és a politikai modernizáció, 1884-2006 = Belated modernisation of representation Composition and modernisation of Members of the Hungarian Parliament, 1884-2006
A disszertáció a képviselet modernizációjának magyarországi megkésettségét vizsgálja Nyugat-Európához képest. Az elemzés a magyar parlamenti képviselők összetételét hasonlítja össze a nyugat-európai törvényhozókéval 1884-től napjainkig. Az elemzés empirikus módszerek segítségével, nagyrészt …
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Modernisation or managerialism ? An investigation of the managerial paradigm and local tourism services
Tourism in England has grown to become an activity worth around £111billion to the English economy, and constituting around 4% of employment. This has led to increasing numbers of local areas becoming involved with tourism development. However local authorities supporting tourism are impacted by …
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The Modernisation of Elite British Mountaineering: Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and the Career Climber, 1953-2000
… how economics was responsible for the modernisation it experienced, with financial imperatives becoming a prime motivation for climbers. Indeed, it became increasingly individualistic as careers came to depend on climbing success. The process of change led to debates about what it meant …
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Kinship and modernisation : an analysis of a Cham community of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
… to protect kinship from the eroding influence of modernisation. Finally, the study suggests that important contributing factors to the continuing strength of kinship are the historical and contemporary efforts of a minority group to maintain their identity, persecution under the Khmer Rouge and …
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
… on the one hand there is an explicit scenario of modernisation initiated by the government and developing in unexpected depth and rapidity, and on the other hand an implicit but unrecognised scenario of democratisation nurtured by modernisation and actively involving different social forces. Due …
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Ecological modernisation and organic farming: a comparative assessment between UK and the state of Karnataka (India)
… has made them distinct in an era of Ecological Modernisation. Ecological Modernisation is an approach that believes in combining environment friendly technology and bureaucracy in terms of stringent environmental standards to meet the requirements of the affluent public. In India and UK …
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The Bretton Woods School of Development communication as an 'agent' of modernisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
… and economic change as intended outcomes of modernisation as supported by this school of thought. It grapples with Western modernisation discourse that was advanced by Bretton Woods institutions as well as the instruments of communication (media) applied to achieve the intended developmental …
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Facing the conflicts and complicities betweencapitalist modernisation and Islamisation : a study of women’s subjectivities and emancipatorystruggles in Iran
… of women in relation to the forces of capitalist modernisation and Islamisation; secondly and more importantly, on women’s main convictions and inner-conflicts, and how these are shaped by those forces. The thesis thus seeks to grasp the structure and dynamics of women’s subjective field and to …
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Impact of automation: evaluation of the implementation of diagnostic automation into the bacteriology laboratory as part of pathology modernisation
Pathology services globally are undergoing significant transformation in response to changing demographics and increased infection control demands, notably in relation to the growing challenges of identifying multidrug-resistant microorganisms. The shift from manual to automated operation poses a …
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Developing a project management maturity model to initiate sustainable project performance and modernisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
… the ideas of sustainable development and modernisation through projects and project management by highlighting the areas in which an organisation should focus in order to reach project management best practice. The commitment of project stakeholders, project managers and decision makers in …
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