This paper will deal with the process of modernization of Japan with particular reference to important elements of Japanese pursuits of modernization at the expense of growing Western penetration into the country. This will specifically deal with the Meiji Restoration where process of modernization has taken place. Furthermore, there will be a disc

This research focuses on travel angle control of a laboratory scale bench-top helicopter developed by Quanser Inc. Bench top-helicopter is usually used by engineers and researchers to test their designed controllers before applying to the actual helicopter. Bench-top helicopter has the same behavior as the real helicopter, with 3 degree of freedom.

Several defnitions and criteria of the frst-fush are being used to assess and control the nonpoint source (difuse) pollution. The common consensus is that the frst-fush is generally noticed in the small catchments (e.g.<10 ha) of regular shapes. It is also considered that 80% of the pollution load can be captured by capturing 30% of the runof v

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are assertive statements of intent to achieve the long term well-being of people and planet. Beyond its religious foundation, Islamic social finance provides potential solutions in achieving SDGs. While, the seventeen (17) SDGs are interconnected to each other, the main focus can be found

This paper presents a microstrip patch antenna that have an ultra-wideband (UWB) characteristics. The proposed antenna design is a slotted non-uniform pentagonal microstrip patch antenna with 1.6mm thickness of FR-4 as the substrate. Its small size of 30mm × 33mm achieved the miniaturization characteristics to fit on the surface of CubeSat. The an

This chapter discusses the use of unattended sensors and its use in marine environment. The authors present challenges of designing a marine sensor in harsh environments and a case study in implementing a marine sensor to study hypoxia. Hypoxia is a world-wide anthropogenic phenomenon related to pollution. The authors describe the construction of a

The last few decades have witnessed the widespread adoption of the communicative approach to teaching English to students of other languages with a view of helping them achieve communicative competence. However, in terms of implementation, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has encountered various problems in the EFL and ESL contexts. Drawing on

The focus of this paper is to examine the importance of cultural landscape reclamation, as well as historical values with which historical occurrences and incidences are associated. The study strives to gain insights from traditional cultural values and the importance of their reclamation in society. Indeed, most of the historical occurrences emerg

This study aims to identify factors affecting willingness in using Islamic microfinance products in Mauritania. Based on the experience of the Islamic microfinance institution PROCAPEC-Nouakchott, the study tests the effect of social barriers, religiosity, debt-phobia in affecting usage among the respondents. As well as testing the moderator effect

Dynamic of urban farming brings a significance which contributed by the fast growth of urban population. In some developed countries like Japan and Singapore, the approaches of urban farming inside of the buildings of residential, offices or workplaces, commercial and industrial lots at the city center were already begin to pop-up and embedded. Far