The purpose of this work is to identify the positive and negative aspects of parties’ participation in the country’s modernization, which in turn, will help a country to determine the necessary steps to improve the social-economic development. The article considers a question of the role of the dominating party of Kazakhstan and ruling party of China in the country’s modernization. Using a comp...

Different conclusions about quark nature of f0(980) based on the analysis of data on the reaction φ(1020) → γf0(980) make it necessary to perform detailed comparison of formulae used by various groups for the calculation of partial widths of radiative decays. We carry out a comparative analysis of methods of calculation of radiative decays like φ → γf0 and φ → γη performed by F.E. Close et al.,...

What is the future of comparative economics? This question has been with us since the collapse of the former communist regimes associated with “socialist centrally planned economies”. Various responses have been suggested in the literature during the postcommunist period of economic transformation and I will briefly sketch a few of them below (see section 1). But no one could imagine that a pos...

This research article reports the findings of a survey-based comparative study on current IT utilization by 3PL firms in the United States (US) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The findings reveal that in general the level of IT utilization and IT focus of 3PL firms in the PRC are lower than that of their counterparts in the US. This may result in a bigger gap between customer expectat...

The field-coupled QCA architecture has emerged as a candidate for providing local interconnectivity for nanodevices, and offers the possibility to perform very dense, high speed, and low power computing in an altogether new paradigm. Magnetic interactions between nanomagnets are sufficiently strong to allow room-temperature operation. We are investigating the fabrication and testing of arrays o...

Interactive narrative is a blossoming field, with new systems and approaches being developed each year. However, despite this burgeoning array of designs, little work has been done in empirically evaluating and comparing them (Weyhrauch 1997; Nelson and Mateas 2005; Magerko 2007). Such a comparison is complicated by the fact that different systems are used to create different narratives; it is ...