Portuguese Abstract: A emergência da elite de Macau, no primeiro qiarto do século XX tem sido associada a dois fenómenos aparentemente contraditórios. Eles estão, contudo, interligados. Primeiro, o surgimento de grupos locais alinhados ideologicamente com os principais partidos republicanos...

According to the information revolution, the most important characteristic of knowledge is to be sought in this equation: knowledge = information. This involves reducing different facets of knowledge to quantitative information which leads to knowledge legitimacy crisis. In addition, having a...

A study was conducted to assess the readability standards of farm extension booklets published by the scientists of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Oliver's readability index and Flesch's human-interest formula were employed on sample booklets and it was found that their average sentence...

Social capital includes collective features such as social trust, norms, and networks. This paper examines social capital-related variables against demographic, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of 87,134 adult distance-learning students from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. We...

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are increasingly touted as platforms not merely for networks of friends and for private diversion, but as vehicles that allow ordinary people to enter and influence the many arenas of public life. On the surface, the disparate and shapeless population of...