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Introduction: the article deals with maintaining the quality of teaching during curtailment of academic hours in curriculum. A university teacher should motivate students to use modern information technology training. The authors of the article describe the optimal dida...

ABSTRACTSingle Chinese women above the age of 27 have been commonly labelled as “leftover women” by the Chinese state-run media since 2007. To investigate how leftover women are represented metapho...

Abstract Large scale renovation of rail stations to cater for growing passenger demand has been taking place in various sites in Japan. These projects pose a challenge to researchers to identify suitable technical methods to develop infrastructure layouts that efficient...

The sentiment of being “surrounded by barbarians” was once specific to settler-colonial societies. But as the European refugee crisis made headlines in 2015, it became evident that this sentiment is gaining widespread currency in the Western world. Three developments li...

This review examines the current approaches to leadership by dividing them into two major categories: those that treat leadership as a hierarchical system and those that treat leadership as a complex, flexible framework. The innovation of the paper is in using a bibliom...

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. In order to do this, DPLA has had to build elements of the national digital platform to connect to those institu...

 Since 1 January 2005, the European Union (EU) has mandated implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for preparation of consolidated financial statements for EU-listed firms. This paper analyzes the economic impact of mandatory adoption of IF...

This paper presents an analysis and critique of Roger Penrose’s epistemological, methodological, and ontological positions. The analysis is relevant not only because Penrose is an influential scientist, but also because of the particular traits of his thought. These tra...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to rethink the focus of the smart cities debate and to open it to policymaking and strategy considerations. To this end, the origins of what is termed normative bias in smart cities research are identified and a case made for a holi...