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Gradualism
Gradualism Gradualism, also called phyletic gradualism, is the view that the course of evolution is gradual with small changes accumulating through time. Gradualism is opposed to punctualism, where evolutionary change is thought to happen in short episodes of rapid evolution followed by long... Read more |
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Vientiane
Vientiane , city (1990 est. pop. 140,000), administrative capital and largest city of Laos, N central Laos, on the Mekong River, c.130 mi (210 km) southeast of the former royal capital of Luang Phabang . Vientiane possesses diverse light industry and is a trading center for forest products,... Read more |
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Social change
Social ChangeSocial change and cultural changeChanging theoretical interestsProblems of detection and measurementThe directions of changeStructural differentiation and social changeThe problem of discontinuitiesForecasting the futureBIBLIOGRAPHYSocial change is such a prevalent and often disturbing... Read more |
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Managing Change
Managing Change Recently, one of the concepts discussed, written about, and analyzed most frequently has been organizational change and the related concepts of resistance to change and management of change. Change has been variously defined as making a material difference in something compared to... Read more |
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Wuhan
Wuhan , city (1994 est. pop. 3,519,600), capital of Hubei prov., central China, at the junction of the Han and Chang rivers. The great industrial, commercial, and transportation center of central China, Wuhan comprises (since 1950) the former cities of Hankou , Hanyang , and Wuchang . Situated in... Read more |
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Greenwich mean time
Greenwich mean time or Greenwich meridian time (GMT), the former name for mean solar time at the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which is located on the prime meridian . In 1925 the numbering system was changed to make GMT equivalent to civil time at the prime... Read more |
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Laos
Laos , officially Lao People's Democratic Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,217,000), 91,428 sq mi (236,800 sq km), SE Asia. A landlocked nation, Laos is bordered by China on the north, by Vietnam on the east, by Cambodia on the south, and by Thailand and Myanmar on the west. The capital and... Read more |
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Technological innovations
Change, Technological BIBLIOGRAPHY Technological change refers to the process by which new products and processes are generated. When new technologies involve a new way of making existing products, the technological change is called process innovation. When they include entirely new products,... Read more |
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Hui-chang persecution
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Chang-an
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