Social Connections -- Conceptions of Community: Past and Present -- Common Ties: Immigrant and Ethnic Communities -- Fragmented Ties: The Poor and The Homeless -- Communities in Crisis: Reconnecting Frayed Social Ties -- Communities of Exclusion and Excluded Communities: Barriers to Neighboring -- Connections of Faith: Religion as Community -- Vital Bonds: Social Support, Social Networks and He…
Quality of Life in the Global Context: A Chinese Response -- Arts and the Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study -- Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live -- Global Quality of Life (QOL), Health and Ability Are Primarily Determined by Our Consciousness. Research Findings from Denmark 1991–2004 -- Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Enviro…
Age-Structural Transitions, Population Waves and “Political Arithmetick” -- Issues and Patterns -- Age-Structural Transitions and Policy: Frameworks -- Human Capital Aspects of Economic Development: A Comparative Perspective in Asia -- A Comparative History of Age-Structure and Social Transitions Among Asian Youth -- Policy Analysis, Models and Methods -- A Formal Model of Age-Structural Tr…
Imagining Time and Space in Universities presents critical theorizations of time and space to analyze discourses and practices of globalization and internationalization. As both dimensions have been understood in separate and hierarchical modes limited attention is given to cultural meanings embedded in these institutional policies and practices.
1. Preface -- 2. Prologue -- 3. PISA, Korean students' world-class achievements and Dark side of Korean schooling - 4. History of Shadow education in Korea -- 5. Types of hakwon education -- 6. Elementary School Years -- 7.Middle School Years -- 8. High School Years -- 9. Good and Bad Effects of hakwon education -- 10. Hakwon education as a Worldwide Curriculum Question -- 11. Conclusion: Ques…
Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Population Structure -- Age and Sex -- Population Distribution and Suburbanization -- Marriage and Family -- Demography of Gender -- Demography of Aging -- Demography of Race and Ethnicity -- Labor Force -- Population Processes -- Fertility -- Infant Mortality …
Toward a New Science of Simulation and Gaming: ISAGA and the Identity Problem of Simulation and Gaming as an Academic Discipline -- Social Sciences and Simulation and Gaming -- The Game of “Forming a Coalition Government” -- Environmental Commons Game: Is the Free Rider a “Bad Apple”? -- Use of Gaming for Training Emergency Headquarters in Responding to Earthquake Damage: VEQRES/SAITAI…
What’s New in Scientific Advice to Politics? -- Bioethical Controversies and Policy Advice: The Production of Ethical Expertise and its Role in the Substantiation of Political Decision-Making -- Advisory Systems in Pluralistic Knowledge Societies: A Criteria-Based Typology to Assess and Optimize Environmental Policy Advice -- Institutional Design for Socially Robust Knowledge: The National To…
Agent-Based Modeling Meets Gaming Simulation: Perspective on Future Collaborations -- A Horizon of Simulation and Gaming: Difficulties and Expectations of Facilitating Science, Technology, and Practice -- The U-Mart Project: New Research and Education Program for Market Mechanism -- The Gaming of Firm Strategy in High-Tech Industry: Human Agents and Artificial Intelligence Agents Intermingled i…
Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs -- Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs -- Making Dialogues More Natural: Empirical Work and Applied Theory -- Social Dialongue with Embodied Conversational Agents -- A First Experiment in Engagement for Human-Robot Interaction in Hosting Activities -- Annotation and Analysis of Multimodal…