t current time, a revolution has started. A revolution called Big Data. This revolution is not limited to volume of data: this revolution requires us to change everything about technology those we daily use. It is necessary to change the architecture of modern data centres, the programming technologies available, and the way we see (and use) sensors and other instruments, and finally, requires ...

With the revolution in information technology, we experience profound changes in the nature of our world. Indeed, we live in an information age. The information technology revolution fundamentally changed our lifestyle. For example, our homes operate automatically when no one is at home. The IT revolution made it possible to communicate with someone located on the opposite side of the globe on ...

The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...

this article is an inquiry into the causes of the failure of the iranian constitutional revolution of 1906 in achieving its aims and objectives, as the triumphant revolution faced many difficulties shortly after victory. in the period, iran was integrated into the international system, therefore, without noting international issues, understanding its internal developments cannot be possible. th...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the causes of long-run movements in the parallel market premium in the pre-and-post revolution Iranian economy. The paper suggests that the premium is affected by both real and monetary shocks. Non-spurious co-integration results indicate that negative oil revenue shocks and a revolution-induced exogenous capital outflow caused the parallel market paralle...

The Industrial Revolution decisively changed economy wide productivity growth rates. For successful economies, measured efficiency growth rates increased from close to zero to close to 1% per year in the blink of an eye, in terms of the long history of humanity, seemingly within 50 years of 1800 in England. Yet the Industrial Revolution has defied simple economic explanations or modeling. This ...

In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income. This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993, Voth (1998,2000). This paper examines this industrious revolution using a model of labour supply where consumption takes time. This analytical framework enables us to draw a distinction between a pessi...