Cultural sensitivity in societal development has been advocated for since at least the 1960s but remained understudied. Our goal is to address this gap and investigate folk theories of development. We aimed identify both universal culturally specific lay beliefs about what constitutes good collected data from 2,684 participants Japan, Hong Kong (China), Poland, Turkey, Brazil, France, Nigeria, ...

Explaining why fertility declines as populations modernize is a profound theoretical challenge. It remains unclear whether the fundamental drivers are economic or cultural in nature. Cultural evolutionary theory suggests that community-level characteristics, for example average education, can alter how low-fertility preferences are transmitted and adopted. These assumptions have not been empiri...

In order to study the causes of weak agricultural base in China, the income gap between urban and rural residents, agriculture and the obvious insufficiency in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, we analyze focal and difficult points in the simultaneous development between Chinese industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization and seek for ways and strategies ...

Migration of legacy systems to more advanced technologies and platforms is a current issue for many software organizations. Model-Driven Modernization combined with Software as a Service delivery model is a very promising approach, which possesses a lot of advantages, including reduced costs, automation of migration activities and reuse of system functionality. However, a drawback of such an in...

Advanced RAIM, or ARAIM, extends and improves upon the traditional RAIM algorithm to detect and mitigate independent, multiple, and correlated GPS signal faults. While ARAIM depends on multiple redundant satellites in view and will perform best for multi-constellation users, the modernization of the GPS satellite constellation and Operational Control Segment provides a basis for future improvem...

Professional bureaucracies of the Finnish municipal services are challenged by many modernization pressures manifested currently in the form of New Public Management. Along with efficiency demands the new emphasis is on the provision of client-oriented services by the means of multiprofessional teamwork crossing the traditional sector boundaries. This paper analyses the learning processes neede...

In my thesis, I examine the discursive space of the detective fiction genre following Kasai Kiyoshi’s periodization in his two-volume seminal work Tantei shōsetsuron (The Theory of Detective Fiction, 1998). I investigate how Japanese detective fiction has developed in relation to Japan’s modernization, industrialization, nationalism, and globalization, specifically in the 1920s-30s, the 1950s-6...

Software organizations are nowadays facing increased demand for modernizing their legacy software systems using up-to-date technologies. The combination of Model-Driven Development and delivery models like Cloud and Software as a Service have become a very promising approach for software modernization that possesses a lot of advantages, including great deal of automation and reuse of system fun...