More than fifty years ago Daniel Lerner published his classic text on the Passing of Traditional Society (1958). While this text has served as an illustration of a dominant paradigm in the field of development communication broadly, this specific work also delves into a particular approach to the modernization of the Middle Eastern region specifically. Despite prominent critiques in the academi...

Cluster Accuracy: agreement with the functional categories Each entry shows the adjusted Rand index of the corresponding algorithm with the functional categories. The maximum adjusted Rand index of each row is shown in bold. The algorithms (rows) are sorted in descending order of the maximum adjusted Rand in each row. DIANA and single-link produce the least accurate clusters. *CAST did not conv...

TIM D AW 1 , 2 ∗, KATRI N A B ROWN 1 , SE R G I O RO S E N D O 1 , 3 AND ROBERT POMEROY 4 1School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, 2Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, 3e-GEO, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal, and 4...

This is the first study to use self-organisation (Kohonen) map technique, an artificial neural network based on a non-supervised learning algorithm, categorise Vietnamese banks into super-class groups. Drawing unbalanced yearly data from 2008 2017, this identifies two groups (one and two). While group one consists of joint stock banks, commercial state banks. Using non-structural indicator, Ler...