ICT and economic development: Analyzing Thailand's path to the information economy
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Economy general
This analysis of the development of Thailand's information economy places particular emphasis on its ICT and social infrastructure development. Drawing upon lessons learned from similar development trajectories in Ireland, China, and India we develop a set of guidelines for Thailand to consider...
Please Smile, the CCTV is running!
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Closed Circuit Television system is a tool employed in most retail environments to ensure public security, especially after the September 11 attacks, but it is usually ignored by researchers. For shoppers, CCTV may be a critical factor affecting their perspective on a retail environment and...
Lighting is the most powerful tool in the hands of an able photographer
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Control and play of lighting becomes the most powerful tool in the hands of an able photographer. It can be put to a variety of uses to create beautiful images. The ability to see, control and try innovations can only be matched by one's imaginative skills. There can be different types of...
Walden vs. Buddhist economics: Two views of the modern worker
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Man is a working animal. Despite the inevitable tension between the human tendency to be lazy and the basic desire within each person to accomplish goals and learn new skills, there are many ways in which these conflicting characteristics work together. Ages of philosophers have reflected on the...
An exploration Noam Chomsky's theories of generative and Universal grammar
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Noam Chomsky is a linguist and philosopher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been one of the twentieth century's most important writers in linguistic theory. His research into the creative aspect of human language has spawned theories that dissect and exposit a comprehensive...
Climate change and green house gas emissions: issues and challenges in India
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
Green house gas (GHG) emission is a matter of grave concern across the world. The adverse impacts happen mainly in the form of climate change and global warming. Immediate steps are required to cut the emissions. India is the fourth largest emitter of GHG in the world in absolute terms. Being a...
Utilization of solar energy: An alternative of conventional energy sources
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The earth continuously gets the shower of radiation of the sun, which is the mother of all forms of energy-conventional or non conventional. The amount of solar radiation reaching the earth is called “insolation” -the short form for “incident solar radiation”. Solar energy is...
Biodiesel-novel energy source with minimum CO2 emission
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Rapid growth in population coupled with industrial and technological developments is leading towards the depletion of limited fossil fuel resources of the world. Imperative concerns related to energy and climate change due to CO2 emission requires the large scale substitution of petroleum based...
Co-gasification of municipal sewage sludge and asphaltene residue from refineries for production of synfuels/power
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
One of the gravest problems being experienced by non-oil producing developing country like India is spiraling prices of petroleum crude which has seriously inhibited growth of power sector thereby considerably decelerating the growth rate. Added to this, the explosion in the population of the...
Mitigation of CO2 emission with CNG vehicles: A case study of Delhi
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Recently, the CNG utilization in transport vehicles has been one of many measures initiated by the Government of Delhi, to solve growing deterioration of air quality of Delhi due to manifold increase in number of vehicles. In the present study, results of structured questionnaire based survey on...
A multinational study of gender wine preferences
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Wine has become an international business, and the difference in wine preferences based on consumer's gender and how these differences vary from country to country are important issues that should be considered in wine product development. We examined consumer's preference for the type of wine...
Group balanced repeated replication variance estimation in stratified adaptive cluster sampling
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The group balanced repeated replication (GBRR) method is used in stratified sampling for variance estimation. This method is applied in stratified adaptive cluster sampling when ignores crossover between strata. The another one method is repeatedly GBRR, which involves independently repeating the...
To what extent were New-York, London and Paris centers for technical innovations?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In his paper 'City as Truth-Spot, Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies', Thomas Gyerin contends that each locus for practicing science is linked 'with distinctive epistemic virtues'. In other words, when the laboratory is standardized-prone, removing doubts that...
Democratization versus Rule of Law - published: 01/04/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Professor Daniel Saadoun distinguishes three features that are deemed essential in a modern democracy: universal suffrage, the inscription in the preamble of the Constitution of a set of rules that the State cannot modify or erase and the obligation for the State to look after all the rules...
"After colonialism. The cultural consequences of globalization ", Arjun Appadurai (1996)
Book review - 1 pages - International relations
Arjun Appadurai (born 1949 in Bombay) earned his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and his Master of Arts from Brandeis University. He is a Doctor of Philosophy since 1976. He currently focuses his studies on ethnic violence in the context of globalization. He also leads a project on the cultural...
The East in the West, "Introduction: the West's problem with the East" (1996), Jack Goody.
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Jack Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He tries to understand the specific role which written communication has played in the development of social and cultural institutions in contemporary societies. He has also written on the history of the family and the anthropology of...
The political system and indigenous populations
Thesis - 3 pages - Political science
As one can easily notice, the politics, culture, and characteristics of our country as well as surrounding countries can not be defined within the boundaries of concrete definitions. As the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, once said, “We become not a melting pot but a...
War: A truth and a lie
Thesis - 3 pages - Political science
In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “people never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” In keeping faith with this notion, numerous passages that have been read and discovered throughout the duration of this course thus far correlate with war and lies. Two...
Review essay on "Soft Power"
Book review - 2 pages - Political science
Joseph Nye's book titled, “Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics,” heavily showcases the terms hard power and soft power. By Joseph Nye's account, hard power defines itself as being a term in which everyone is familiar with. Hard power, thus, deals with how a country's...
Buddhism and our environmental obligation
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Within our society, there are certain innate concepts that every individual is equipped with. Virtues, morals, or the concept of "right and wrong" are just a few examples of such ideals. To help make humanity a more positive atmosphere, there are a few models one should strive to accomplish in...
Durkheim and study of society
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As Durkheim points out, our desire to make the study of society a scientific endeavor cannot be limited to focusing on individual actions, feelings, and thoughts. Instead, he argues that we should look to larger “social facts” that go beyond viewing our society as a simple aggregate of...
Fahrenheit 451
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Advancement of technologies have in many ways improved the way we live today; the benefits of technology have created differences in social structures, and the development of different countries in the world. This theme is prevalent in Ray Bradbury's classic satire Fahrenheit 451, which follows...
Waste water treatment plant
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This facility has a foul odor that gets stronger in certain areas but taking into consideration the nature of this facility and the products that it deals with, it is clean and well kept. The human resources building is clean and professional and appears like any other office. The facility is set...
Ship Rock Monument
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Ship Rock Monument is a spectacular example of a volcanic neck. This formation grows when a volcano is eroded all the way down to the pipe that once fed magma to the central vent. The upright conduit contains the cooled magma. Ship Rock provides a view of the magma features that were once below...
Bryce Canyon Hoodoos
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Hoodoos are defined as tall rock formations that have “totem-pole shaped bodies”, meaning they have thick and thin widths in the same formation (Bryce Canyon National Park, para 13). Height varies from one hoodoo to another, as they can be as small as a person or tower as tall as ten...
Organic coffee: Why Latin America's farmers are abandoning it
Text commentary - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Since a long time, the coffee market has been largely unstable. The coffee market is open to speculation. Coffee represents 4% of world trade in food and it is the 2nd raw material marketed worldwide. In 1962, producing and consumer countries signed an agreement setting minimum prices and export...
The recipe for a successful marriage
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen suggests what constitutes a good marriage by contrasting Charlotte Lucas and Lydia Bennet with the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet. All three young women have similar economic predicaments, though they all maintain different attitudes toward marriage....
Constitutionalism: Marbury vs. Madison Case
Essay - 1 pages - International relations
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. These unalienable rights were granted by the Founding Fathers to all humans, America and the Americans have always seemed to epitomize at best these values. At the heart of the American dream has ever, from the very beginning of its history to even...
The life of Irish
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
During the 19th century, millions of Irish men and women immigrated to the United States in hope for a new and improved lifestyle. Reasons for their immigration include the famines that struck Ireland, political disturbance, such as the mistreatment from the British, and the desire for a new...
Human kidneys as a commodity
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The current issue of making human kidneys a commodity is a hot topic in the medical world. With much controversy between different sides, many questions on legality and ethics arise. Because it is currently illegal for human living donors to sell a kidney, there is no control over its...
