The critical infrastructure powering the nation is currently undergoing a massive collaborative effort to integrate modern technologies with 50 year-old assets derived from 100 year-old designs. Improving the existing electric power infrastructure with smart grid technologies compounds existing threats with new threats. Identification of next generation smart grid security threats is vital for ...

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this paper highlights the importance of taking into account the role of non-domestic elements in an innovation system, which is traditionally studied by using the nation-state as the unit of analysis. Learning and knowledge accumulation is often assisted by inward and outward FDI, although this is sometimes overlooked in the study of innovation systems. Mul...

This article discusses the concept of social exclusion with an eye to assessing its utility in the study of ethnic and racial group inequality in the modern nation state. A brief review of the literature and some methodological discussion are offered. The article then examines race-based social exclusion in the United States, showing bow race and ethnicity can inhibit the full participation of ...

The 21 century is described as the Information Age. To meet the increasing demands of social development, a lot of challenges to develop information technology (IT) education have been carried out in China. This study deals with the main efforts such as the construction of wideband education network, modern web-based distance education, teacher IT training, national collegiate IT education cont...

In today's economic environment, enterprises that solely rely on traditional technologies cannot meet dynamic customer demands. Several studies confirm that a nation's growth is dictated, to a large extent, by the performance of small businesses. However, the reality is that SMEs are constantly struggling to survive and maintain their schedule of activities. This is evident in the tra...

What Rasmussen encountered in his many years of working with Chinese eye problem astonished him. He summarized his impressions thus. 'Three facts stand out clearly in both ancient and modern records of Chinese eyesight: one that they are a highly myopic nation; two that keratomalacia is the major cause of ocular disease; and three that presbyopia is earlier than in the West by about five years....

Concepts and patterns of societal culture are becoming increasingly complex in the context of modern nation-states, which have seen evolving multiculturalism as a result of immigration. Theories of national culture and identity are set out in the first section, followed by analyses of three major industrialized states: Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. These states, which toge...

This paper explores the Gandhian Ashram as a reaction to the forces of modernity in the late 19 th and early 20 th Centuries. Its deviation from the existing historiography is primarily in its exploration of the Ashram as one of many incidents of communal experiments at the time, which have an interesting geographic connection in London. I note Gandhi's readings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy, ...

This article is a brief historical overview of the Queer archive in India. The precolonial and colonial archive provides several possibilities for ‘authenticating’ the queer identity and claiming some of the history that modern nationalist homophobia seeks to wipe out. Identities are complex to begin with and become more complicated when relating them to the nation and sexuality. Contemporary I...

indigenous knowledge (ik) is important for every nation and consequently for the whole world. from scientific and cultural view point. previously ik did not have a good status and it was in a ‘backward’ state during 19th century, but in 20th century due to bio-environmental problems caused by inopportune use of modern technology in developing countries, the scholars directed their attention to ...