Download or read book Thesis on Cyberjaya written by Azly Rahman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THESIS ON CYBERJAYA: HEGEMONY AND UTOPIANISM IN A SOUTHEAST ASIAN STATE by Azly Abdul Rahman a dissertation on "cybernating nations" submitted to Columbia University, New York (2004) This book, maintaine in its original dissertation format explores the concepts of "hegemony" and "utopianism" in the conceptualization of a "technopole" in a Southeast Asian state. I describe how "cybernetics" flow transculturally and is inscribed onto human consciousness as illustrated in the case of Malaysia's grand-scale real estate project: "Silicon Valley-inspired" Multimedia Super Corridor ("The MSC"). I focus on the new economic nerve, Cyberjaya and the administrative capital, Putrajaya to investigate the dimensions of "hegemony" and "utopianism" My guiding questions were: what variant of hegemony is emerging? And what is the nature of the "utopianism" involved? Drawing inspiration from dialectical materialism, I designed a mixed-method approach in this study. The ensemble of methods used are Gruber's Evolving System's Approach to the study of an individual, semiotic analysis of visual images, and thematic analysis of speeches. This is a four-part dissertation. In Part I) I discuss the background of this study and review related sensitizing concepts (particularly "hegemony" and "utopianism"). In Part 2, I look at the history of Malaysia and the origin of the MSC. Using Gruber's Case Study Approach, I then analyze the authoritarianism of Mahathir Mohamad, the author of the MSC project. In Part 3), using semiotics and thematic analyses. I describe how ideology is inscribed by looking at first, how "cybernetics" mutates with the recipient state, next, changes social relations of production, and finally produces and reproduces consciousness. I explore how foreign industrial and cultural complexes are installed and how they become ideological installations. In Part 4), I discuss my findings, develop propositions, outline a Theory of Hegemonic Formulations and suggest a set of tools to analyze how concepts permeate transculturally. I conclude my study with a reflection on Malaysia's MSC after the retirement of Mahathir Mohamad. I propose that hegemony is a complex, kaleidoscopic, and multidimensional yet discernable and analyzable construct. Hegemony operates at the levels of language, politics, and systems of education, and helps define, institutionalize, and ritualize authoritarian leadership. Utopianism is one formulated by ideology, nationalism, and technological determinism. The interplay between authoritarianism and cybernetic systems sustain the culture of hegemony which then helps reproduce newer forms of Oriental Despotism.
Download or read book American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21 4 written by Carool Kersten and published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book Computational Science and Technology written by Rayner Alfred and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Science and Technology 2017 (ICCST2017), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 29–30 November 2017. These proceedings offer practitioners and researchers the opportunity to present exciting advances in computational techniques and solutions in this area. They also identify emerging issues, help to shape future research directions, and will enable industrial users to apply cutting-edge, large-scale and high-performance computational methods.
Download or read book Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific written by Wendy Dobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire planet looks to Asian and other emerging markets to sustain growth momentum as traditional markets in the USA and Europe struggle with the slow and arduous processes of deleveraging after the global financial crisis. At the same time, there is growing recognition in Asia that the sources of growth must shift to sustain their own growth momentum in the years ahead. Heavy reliance on the region’s high savings rates and plentiful supplies of low-cost labour will have to shift towards increasing the human capital embodied in more educated and skilled labour forces capable of contributing to productivity growth and innovation as future drivers of growth. Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific focuses on why and how countries are making this shift. The demographic transition is shown to be a significant factor as ageing populations in Japan, South Korea and China manage declining growth in the labour force by stepping up investments in education, and by changing policies and institutions. Lessons to be learned from these experiences by more youthful populations in Southeast Asia are explored. In addition, attention is paid to the consequences of cross-border differentials in technical knowledge and the quantity and quality of human capital. Several implications for public policy and for international cooperation on human-capital issues in the Asian region are identified. The chapters in this volume are edited versions of papers presented at the 35th Pacific Trade and Development conference held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2012. The conference goal was to better understand how governments and business in Asia and the Pacific can apply the key insight that one of the reasons economies grow is because of human-capital formation – the quality and diversity of the labour force are augmented – not just because the labour force grows in size. Students of Asia’s growth prospects will find several aspects of this volume of particular value. It includes chapters on the big-picture conceptual and measurement issues; on country experiences in meeting the imperatives of the demographic transition and investing in education and skills training; and on country experiences with attracting foreign knowledge and the supply and recruitment of skills across borders in Asia and the Pacific. Policymakers will also find useful the discussions of policy implications and the menu of issues requiring intergovernmental cooperation within the Asian region.
Download or read book Proceedings of IAC EMM 2014 written by Collective of authors and published by MAC Prague consulting. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge Based Development for Cities and Societies Integrated Multi Level Approaches written by Metaxiotis, Kostas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a better knowledge and understanding of applying knowledge-based development policies, contributing to the theorizing of knowledge-based development and creation of knowledge societies"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Puppetry for All Times written by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puppetry for All Times Seminar held in September of 2013 in Ubud, Bali, was one of the most enchanting of events of its kind held anywhere in recent years. Its success revolved around the fantastic locale, the overwhelming response from performers as well as the paper presenters, and the generous support of Rumah Topengthe House of Masks and Puppets Setiadarma. In Puppetry for All Times, editor Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof offers a unique collection of papers presented at this weeklong seminar by academicians as well as performers of various traditions of Asian puppetry. The papers cover a wide range of interests and perspectives in puppetry and theater including history and tradition; heritage, preservation, and conversation; tradition and modernity; and digital puppetry and media. Puppetry for All Times recaps a key international event in the realm of puppet theater, marking the beginning of such endeavors as Rumah Topengs maiden academic publication.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 3rd International Halal Conference INHAC 2016 written by Nurhidayah Muhammad Hashim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selected papers which were presented at the 3rd International Halal Conference (INHAC 2016), organized by the Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam, Malaysia. It addresses halal-related issues that are applicable to various industries and explores a variety of contemporary and emerging issues. Highlighting findings from both scientific and social research studies, it enhances the discussion on the halal industry (both in Malaysia and at the international level), and serves as an invitation to engage in more advanced research on the global halal industry.
Download or read book AhKleh Planet Savier Society APSS written by Hui-Shin Wong and published by Wong Hui Shin. This book was released on with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AhKleh Planet Savier Society (APSS) is founded to monitor the safety and surveillance of the world and the world talents with an extremely important role to bring job opportunities to world talents at their age of 10 years old and beyond. These world talents are known as prodigies. In APSS, there are 10 featured Task Force. There are listed as below: 1) Willing-To-Die-Oxygen-Off Task Force (WiTDOO) 2) MUST-Succeed Research and Development 3) World Sound Monitoring Task Force (WSoM) 4) Say “No” Gender Discrimination (WoGDi) 5) Universe Mineral Discovery and Mining 6) Space Tourism 7) Universe Life Discovery and Inter-Planet Marriages 8) Global Warming and Climate Change 9) Natural Disaster Rescue 10) Information Security/ Cyber Security
Download or read book Biologically Inspired Energy Harvesting through Wireless Sensor Technologies written by Ponnusamy, Vasaki and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for sustainable sources of energy has become more prevalent in an effort to conserve natural resources, as well as optimize the performance of wireless networks in daily life. Renewable sources of energy also help to cut costs while still providing a reliable power sources. Biologically-Inspired Energy Harvesting through Wireless Sensor Technologies highlights emerging research in the areas of sustainable energy management and transmission technologies. Featuring technological advancements in green technology, energy harvesting, sustainability, networking, and autonomic computing, as well as bio-inspired algorithms and solutions utilized in energy management, this publication is an essential reference source for researchers, academicians, and students interested in renewable or sustained energy in wireless networks.
Download or read book Lead Markets written by Marian Beise and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. 1 Summary This thesis intends to answer three questions: First, what is a lead market; second, what constitutes a lead market, and third, how companies can harness lead markets to generate global innovations. Considering the international, cross-border diffu sion of innovations one can observe that a particular technological design such as the facsimile machine, the personal computer or the mobile cellular telephone is often adopted by one country or region much earlier than by other countries which subsequently follow this country, which I will call the lead market. A lead market is defined as a country that adopts an innovation that is subsequently adopted worldwide. When different designs of an innovation compete internationally, the design preferred in the lead market becomes the global dominant design. The study suggests a theoretical explanation for the phenomena of lead markets and collects empirical evidence from a detailed case study of the cellular mobile tele of an innovation design adopted first phone industry. The international diffusion by the lead market, i. e. subsequent adoption of an innovation design preferred in the lead market by other countries, can be put down to the special market context in the lead market. The market context includes demand preferences, the environ mental condition and the degree of competition. Multinational firms are often confronted not only with varying market acceptance of new products and processes from country to country, but with national prefer ences for particular specifications of an innovation, i. e.
Download or read book Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education written by Javier Calvo de Mora and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education, expert contributors from across Asia and Europe explore and reflect upon the innovation and creativity in teacher education programs. Specific focus is given to the internships that provide students an opportunity for intensive, hands-on experience in schools. Different approaches to internship provide comprehensive information on a diversity of ways of organising and managing internship programmes within teacher education courses, and equip future teachers with real-world knowledge within a global context. This book focuses on approaches to internship in teacher education programmes in Europe and Asia. It explores the idea that a consideration of the rich variation in approaches and experience across Eurasia will foreground critical aspects of successful internship. Each chapter provides a different focus from Asian and European perspectives on aspects of the teacher education practicum or internship, and what can be learned from school placement. This book is an invaluable resource for all those involved in teacher education, educational policy and anyone who has a stake in ensuring effective teacher education for the 21st century. It offers a far reaching overview of the teacher internship phase across a number of countries, and contributes to identifying distinctive features of teacher education in European and Asian universities.
Download or read book Mechatronic Systems in Engineering written by Sahin Yildirim and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can serve as a reference resource for those very same design and control engineers who help connect their everyday experience in design with the control field of mechatronics. This book also consists of basic and main mechatronic system's laboratory applications for use in research and development departments in academia, government, and industry, and it can be used as a reference source in university libraries. It can also be used as a resource for scholars interested in understanding and explaining the engineering design and control process and for engineering students studying within the traditional structure of most engineering departments and colleges. It is evident that there is an expansion of mechatronics laboratories and classes in the university environment worldwide.
Download or read book A CSEAR 2015 Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Centre on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference written by Dr James Hazelton and Dr John Dumay and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 14th Australasian Centre on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference (A-CSEAR 2015) is being held on 10-11 December 2015 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The Conference Chair is Dr John Dumay and the Programme Chair is Dr James Hazelton, both from Macquarie University. ACSEAR provides an opportunity for individuals researching and working in the field of social and environmental accounting in both public and private sectors, to come together to exchange ideas and discuss current research in the field. The theme for the conference this year is ‘Partnerships’, reflecting the belief amongst our community that achieving progress requires partnerships of all types – between academics of different disciplines, between industry and academia, between government and stakeholders, and of course between members and professional bodies. The keynote speakers for the conference are Charles de Villiers from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand on the topic Theorising the interactions among legitimacy accountability and pro-activity in the social sphere; Helen Tregidga from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand talking about Corporate chameleons greenwashing and counter narratives”; Markus J. Milne from the School of Business and Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand on the topic of Crass empiricism and the social construction of corporate environmental performance and Lee D. Parker from the School of Accounting, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia who will address to issue of Accounting for CSR: Revisiting the agenda. ACSEAR received 60 abstract submissions. After the double-blind peer review process 21 academic research papers, have been accepted for publication in these conference proceedings. These papers represent research from around the world, including Australia, Brazil, China, Fiji, Iran, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and the USA.
Download or read book Language Learning with Technology written by Lindsay Miller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about language learning with technology, offering readers theoretical insights as well as practical case studies with a focus on Asia and Asian students. Although technology is rapidly advancing and most, if not all, students are already using technology in their everyday lives, traditional teaching/learning practices still exist throughout Asia. This book provides examples, written by representative educators, from a variety of countries/regions and contexts where technology has successfully been used to enhance language learning. In addition to some everyday examples of using technology: Wikipedia, PowerPoint, Google Docs and YouTube, the book also offers the readers an insight into the future possible uses of advanced technology: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Eye Tracking. The book presents illustrations of how teachers can, and perhaps should, be open to integrating some form of technology into in-class learning or using it to supplement out-of-class activities.
