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The term GLOCAL that appeared only thirty years ago and was taken by us as the theme of this issue, is internally contradictory. The global, relating to the globe as a whole, looks like the opposite to the local, partial. Our paradoxical time, however, fills the term with actual meaning. Humanity is united in a common information space, and none of the
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Decolonising higher education in Africa: Arriving at a glocal solution
The recent student unrest in South African public higher education institutions highlighted the call for the decolonisation of education across post-colonial countries. This research explored the construct of the “decolonisation of education” through the
Ruth M. Mampane +2 more
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Glocal Arabic online: The case of 3arabizi
The term glocal has been used to describe phenomena that simultaneously blend both global and local elements (see Featherstone, Lash, & Robertson, 1995, p. 101).
Robert Michael Bianchi
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Quest for the Dynamical Origin of Mass - An LHC perspective from Sakata, Nambu and Maskawa [PDF]
I review the dynamical symmetry breaking (DSB) approach to the Origin of Mass, which is traced back to the original (2008 Nobel prize) work of Nambu based on the BCS analogue of superconductor where mass of nucleon (then elementary particle) arises due ...
Yamawaki, Koichi
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On Heterotic Orbifolds, M Theory and Type I' Brane Engineering [PDF]
Horava--Witten M theory -- heterotic string duality poses special problems for the twisted sectors of heterotic orbifolds. In [1] we explained how in M theory the twisted states couple to gauge fields apparently living on M9 branes at both ends of the ...
Gorbatov, E. +4 more
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Greek teenagers’ cultural taste and identity expression through a documentary-making project
This article explores a film education project conducted on an extra-curricular after-school basis in a Greek secondary school in Tampouria, Piraeus.
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New Glocal Forms of Financial Participation and Revenue Mobilization
The state-centric international tax system is currently under the threat of a type of “race” for the lowest tax rates. In this case, the “race” consists of a global fiscal trilemma where democracy, states and globalization cannot coexist.
Carlo Garbarino
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Introduction: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a significant challenge to global health due to its resistance to many conventional antibiotics.
Prateek Porwal, Satish Kumar Sharma
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The Dr Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2018: Occupational stories from a global city [PDF]
The Dr Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2018, given on June 12th 2018 at the 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, held at the Belfast Waterfront, Belfast, UK.
Pollard, Nicholas
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This article addresses Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013). The narrative, which imitates a self-help or how-to guide, offers an intriguing textual terrain to engage questions of innovation and renovation.
Hager Ben Driss
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