This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion...

The so-called multi-revolution methods were introduced in celestial mechanics as an efficient tool for the long-term numerical integration of nearly periodic orbits of artificial satellites around the Earth. A multi-revolution method is an algorithm that approximates the map φNT of N near-periods T in terms of the one near-period map φT evaluated at few s ≪ N selected points. More generally, mu...

the principal objective of this paper is to describe and analyze the process of democratization in the egypt after mubarak regime. the article continues to give an overview over the current situation inside egypt after the revolution and collects some evidence for a changed relationship between democracy and stability inside the country. the egyptian revolution created a situation of transition...

Information systems are critical assets for modern enterprises and incorporate key knowledge acquired over the life of an organization. These systems must be updated continuously to reflect evolving business practices. Unfortunately, repeated modification has a cumulative effect on system complexity, and the rapid evolution of technology quickly renders existing technologies obsolete. Eventuall...

Purpose This paper aims to theoretically answer the question: why might business schools in Egypt fail develop responsible leaders? Design/methodology/approach The author starts by discussing modernization theory (Lipset, 1959) – which highlights idea that more educated people there are a given society/nation, calls for democracy, social citizenship and justice will be launched address strong a...

in iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. this es...

Propaganda posters have been one of many forms of political media used by modern governments such as the United States, Russia, England, and China, to spread a message across a large area to a wide audience. The popularity of the use of propaganda posters has sparked an interest in the study of posters. China has a long and varied history of the use of posters and propaganda posters. Pre-1949 p...

It is well known that Japan has started a stunning development from a completely isolated feudal society at the end of the last century to the second largest economic power of the present day. Some years ago Japan was heading to be number one (ichiban) in the world. The way in which this development could have occurred is a miracle for many people and a challenging topic of research in social s...