In this chapter I argue that there are four modes of ethno-somatic stratification in Europe and the Americas: the North American mode of binary mobilization, the Afro-Caribbean mode of pluralistic underdevelopment, the North European mode of proletarian incorporation, and the Latin mode of hegemonic blanqueamiento or whitening.1 Each mode refers to a unique configuration of ethno-racial ideolog...

Both Sassen (1991) and Castells (1996) have argued that a proper understanding of cities and their relative positions within the current globalized Information Society entails the analysis of the myriad relationships between Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and urban networks. After all, due to the rise of new information and (tele)communication technologies , the world is exper...

150 Maxillary sinus hypoplasia (MSH) is the underdevelopment of maxillary sinus antrum and it is usually associated with other anomalies, such as uncinate process and infundibular passage. Hypoplasia is classified into three: Type I is mild hypoplasia, normal uncinate and infundibulum; Type II is significant hypoplasia with hypoplastic or absent uncinate and pathological infundibular passage; T...

While dealing with the historiography of post-independence African economy, the writer has made attempts to consult sources of different interests. Majority of the sources consulted for this purpose are books written by Marxist scholars. Thence, they reflect the maxims of socialism at continental and state level in Africa. Their explanations rest on the cardinal causes for the underdevelopment ...

professionals and policy-makers need to understand the unnatural determinants of the problems facing the country and how these affect any form of response. Without such an understanding, the humanitarian impulse informing international efforts to support Haiti’s recovery and development may serve to merely reinforce the historic relationship between wealthy countries and Haiti and may fuel cont...

In Indonesia, Stand-up Comedy has become the most popular form of community entertainment, resulting in emergence influential youth culture. a platform for comics to communicate political aspirations, worries, and criticisms. Three from Eastern Arie Kriting, Abdur, Mamat Alkatiri, have continuously presented material regarding socioeconomic disparity availability public services their native re...

Urban transport in countries of East-Central Europe, including the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, played an important role residents’ daily mobility. The underdevelopment individual motorisation contributed to lasting significant public transport. Due operating characteristics electric vehicles, as well emerging fuel crises, a key role, especially large cities. Differences development eco...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...

Hernia funiculi umbilicalis. a hernia of the umbilical cord is developmental defect, consequence underdevelopment abdominal integument in navel, "while peritoneum appears to be already formed" (Tikhov).