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The main negative factors that are inherent to modern society are presented. A hypothesis has been put forward. It supposes that a number of fundamental factors must be added to the basis of modern economics. Here are five factors that determine the paradigm of sustainable development of society.
The rapid development of mobile technology has enabled learners to use mobile apps to assist their learning flexibly both in place and time. This paper reports a case study of mobile app assisted English learning in Chinese tertiary education, presents results of a questionnaire survey as well as answers of interviews, and discusses some key considerations in the development of mobile app assisted...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
Globalization, preparation of educational process and education of students for their future life are nowadays important topics. World Economic Forum makes since 2001 comparison of the countries all over the world in the Global Competitiveness Index. The article proposes to describe the situation in the field of technology level in the connection with higher education in the Czech Republic. We will...
Under the background of information networking, the Marxism Theory Education is faced with challenges and opportunities. So the content, way, method and discipline system of Marxism Theory Education must be innovated. Under the background of information networking, Marxism Theory Education should draw on advantages and avoid disadvantages to adapt to new situation. Besides, it should make the education...
Access to broadband Internet is becoming a necessity for obtaining information and resources about healthcare, education, and employment. However, the broadband global digital divide continues to inhibit and limit individuals' access within and among nations. We address the question, What factors hinder and enable people from being able to afford broadband access to obtain vital information? This...
Women comprise over 49.19% of the population of Pakistan. The number of women enrolling in Computer Science and Information Technology is 14%. Computer science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) is becoming ever present in the lives of young people, including girls and young women, yet education and employment in technology fields are not attracting women. The main focus of this research study is...
Modern digital technologies offer many opportunities, whose potential has not yet been fully used even in European Union countries for the benefit of its citizens and economic development. Information and communication technologies (ICT) we use in online purchases, payment of bills, in public services over the Internet in their free time for fun and also to educate and communicate with others, whether...
Knowledge-based economic develops rapidly in the 21st century. Formal learning is playing the leading role in school education, some disciplinary knowledge also needs supplement and improvement through informal learning. This passage proposes the way of informal learning based on web2.0 by using the popular social software platform as learning terminal, such as cell phone and computer. It constructs...
The Internet and mobile phones are rapidly diffusing throughout communities, and it is important to understand what people are actually doing with their access to these technologies. This study seeks to improve our understanding of the motivational factors and social and economic consequences of such use among the urban poor, which is examined through the Diffusion of Innovations Theory (DoI) and...
To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, the future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the teamwork skills required to be effective professionals. This paper presents the Communication module of a new course in Social and Human Sciences...
Exploratory empirical studies of the digital divide exist for various nations including the United States. The contribution of this paper is to enhance understanding of factors associated with availability and utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the state level in the US. In our conceptual model of technology utilization, eight dependent technology availability and...
Massively open online courses (MOOCs) promise free, high-quality, university-course content to anyone with Internet access, but in reality, they're no substitute for credit-bearing university courses.
An anti-PROXY detecting scheme based on characters is proposed. According the characters of data flow, viz. flow rate character, application character, content character, process character and behavior character, it is identified whether the user is an PROXY object or not. The next step anti-proxy action will be made in terms of practical policies. The scheme includes character collection, modes matching,...
This paper measures China's rural-urban digital divide (RUDD) through designing an index system which, based on AHP, covers four layers, with all indicators amounting to 12. Two-step arithmetic average is employed to calculate the index for the gap during the period from 2004 to 2008.We find that the divide is serious in China as a whole, being the most severe in the west region while the slightest...
e-Agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture. People around the Globe from few years from now will be carrying a handheld computer connected to the Web to get the information about the World at their fingertips. e-Agriculture...
In this paper, we used the CHINA-VALS scale to analysis the influence of the values and lifestyle on China's mobile phone buyers. On the basis of survey data, through factor analysis and K-means cluster analysis this paper segment consumer into four groups; Next, we researched the demographic factors and product purchase intention in use of chi-square tests; Finally, we did chiasma analysis on the...
Economic model is mainly used to study the quantitative relationship of economic phenomena. In this paper, a didactical system on economic model based on ASP and MATLAB Web Server technology is developed, which is characterized by model learning, student-teacher interaction and model exploration. The system is useful to make the teaching more vivid, and improve the quality of the economic model learning...
With the rapid development of internet virtual money, its future prospect and taxation management are given more and more serious attention. This paper begin with inevitability of internet virtual money exiting and its present functions, then give a proposal that internet virtual money should be uniformly issued by monetary authority. Under the prerequisite, the implementation steps of levying tax...
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