a considerable part of the current thought has allocated to various debates on the “globalization age” and “different globalizations”. globalization as a phenomenon which has tightened social, cultural and political relations is deepening and expanding in a daily manner. despite of this generalism, a kind of exceptionalism in form localist theories has been remarked in the globalization context...

The animosity surrounding the debate on globalization requires that a holistic approach be adopted when analyzing this issue. Globalization is a prismatic phenomenon, which should be looked at in all its manifestations and from different angles. What is globalization? What accounts for the unequal distribution of globalization effects around the world? What is the impact of globalization on the...

The issue of economic globalization and global economic change has been a subject of immense academic research in the past two decades. The Janus face of economic globalization, however, continues to obfuscate our understanding of its complex processes and alleged geographical outcomes. In this paper, I aim to re-present the indispensable role of geography in conceptualizing economic globalizat...

This paper presents a real-time and on-chip gait measurement algorithm used in our Gait Measurement System (GMS). Our GMS is a small foot-mounted device based on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which contains an accelerometer and a gyroscope. The GMS can compute spatio-temporal gait parameters in real-time and transmit them to a remote receiver. Measured gait parameters include cadence, vel...

This paper presents our approach to reducing the power consumption in our Gait Measurement System (GMS), which is the foundation for various monitoring and assistive systems. Our GMS is a small foot-mounted device based on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), containing an accelerometer and a gyroscope. It can compute gait parameters in real-time, including cadence, velocity and stride length, b...

Globalization is one of the most important developments of the late twentieth century, which is continued intensively in the twenty first century. Due to the complexity and multifaceted terms of the subject matter and level of analysis, there has been multiple and even contradictory definition for it. One of the most significant debates in the field of globalization is whether globalization lea...

Sport, in particular football, constitutes one of the most dynamic, sociologically illuminating domains of globalization. This paper examines the globalization of football with particular reference to Robertson's theorizations of global processes. We examine football's cultural globalization through the concept of 'glocalization', which highlights the interdependence of local and global process...