Depth modernization by integrating mean sea surface model, ocean tide model, and precise ship positioning
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DOI: 10.1007/s00190-025-01949-3
Abstract: This paper presents a study on depth modernization, paralleling height modernization for land elevations. Depth modernization integrates mean sea surface (MSS) models, ocean tide models, and precise ship positioning to achieve accurate seafloor depth measurements.… read more here.
Keywords: depth modernization; ocean tide; precise ship; modernization ... See more keywords
What an Instrumentalist Perspective Adds to Cultural-Modernization Theory: Support for Democracy and Gender Equality in the Middle East
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03431-7
Abstract: The comparative MENA literature on democratic support and the role of gender equality attitudes show mixed results despite the dominant cultural-modernization perspective predicting a positive interrelationship. Building on recent work, this paper derives and formulates… read more here.
Keywords: democracy; support; modernization; gender equality ... See more keywords
A Review: Advances and Modernization in U.S Army Gun Propellants
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DOI: 10.1007/s11837-021-04566-5
Abstract: The U.S. Army is entering a period of modernization, phasing out older, limited and costlier weapon designs for new, more efficient, and effective weapon technologies. The emphasis has shifted to optimizing lethality and accuracy at… read more here.
Keywords: gun; army gun; advances modernization; modernization ... See more keywords
Multi-criteria group decision-making approach to the modernization of hold baggage security screening system at an airport
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101841
Abstract: Abstract The decisions on the modernization of a hold baggage screening system (HBSS) at an airport require taking into account multiple assessment criteria of the considered variants. These criteria are both objective - precisely quantifiable,… read more here.
Keywords: decision; group; airport; baggage ... See more keywords
‘Eating mountains’ and ‘eating each other’: Disjunctive modernization, infrastructural imaginaries and crisis in Greece
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DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.08.009
Abstract: Abstract Since the eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 it has been almost impossible for the Greek state authorities to initiate any infrastructural project without significant local and wider resistance. In this paper we… read more here.
Keywords: disjunctive modernization; crisis; greece; eating mountains ... See more keywords
Sumanta Banerjee, Memoirs of Roads: Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016. x + 175pp. 5 maps. £24.12 hbk.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0963926819000087
Abstract: about religion and the city within this book, a fact that is somewhat surprising when one thinks of the extensive Christian missionary activity of the period and the contemporary modernization debates within Islam. The generalization… read more here.
Keywords: memoirs roads; banerjee memoirs; modernization; history ... See more keywords
Politicized Ethnicity: A Comparative Perspective. By Anke Weber, Wesley Hiers, and Anaïd Flesken. New York: Palgrave. 2016. 187p. $95.00.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592716005090
Abstract: into political dynamics in the country—by the decision to ground the interpretation on a theoretical perspective that is well-worn in application to the Turkish case and by resorting to a dense narrative that vacillates between… read more here.
Keywords: turkey; history; historical narrative; rebellion ... See more keywords
Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey. By Begüm Adalet. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 304p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s153759271900361x
Abstract: It is a rewarding yet sobering experience to read Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, Begüm Adalet’s fascinating account of Turkey’s role in the rise of an intellectual titan—… read more here.
Keywords: modernization theory; theory; adalet; modernization ... See more keywords
Bedouins into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization. By Calvert W. Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 274p. $105.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719003761
Abstract: It is a rewarding yet sobering experience to read Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, Begüm Adalet’s fascinating account of Turkey’s role in the rise of an intellectual titan—… read more here.
Keywords: modernization theory; theory; adalet; modernization ... See more keywords
Modernization and optimization of a legacy open-source CFD code for high-performance computing architectures
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DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2017.1285398
Abstract: ABSTRACT Legacy codes remain a crucial element of today's simulation-based engineering ecosystem due to the extensive validation process and investment in such software. The rapid evolution of high-performance computing architectures necessitates the modernization of these… read more here.
Keywords: performance computing; code; legacy; computing architectures ... See more keywords
A chapter in the modernization of Turkey: damming the rivers, claiming the natural landscape, and building of the Seyhan Dam in Cilicia
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DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2020.1746651
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines building of the Seyhan Dam (1953–1956) in Turkey. Both Turkish and American agents played significant roles for planning and implementation of the project during the Cold War era. The 1950s provided… read more here.
Keywords: natural landscape; modernization; building seyhan; seyhan dam ... See more keywords