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Social Welfare in China and Vietnam: how new welfare models are being developed in a globalised world

This paper discusses the social security systems in China and Vietnam as descriptive examples of developments of social welfare models in changing Asian contexts. It seeks to develop a methodological approach, which will enable analyses of overarching “macro” developments as well as individual experiences thereof. The main objective is to discuss the possibilities of a comparative analysis of soci

The Muhannad Effect: Media Panic, Melodrama, and the Arab Female Gaze

In the summer of 2008, the Saudi-owned, pan-Arab satellite television network Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) aired a failed Turkish soap opera, Gümüş, as the Arabized Noor, creating an overnight sensation and a media panic. Arab news media attributed a wave of domestic violence and divorce to the series’ handsome lead actor, and his character’s romantic deportment. This article combines con

Usage-Based Reading - An Experiment to Guide Reviewers with Use Cases

Reading methods for software inspections are used for aiding reviewers to focus on special aspects in a software artefact. Many experiments have been conducted for checklist-based reading and scenario-based reading concluding that the focus is important for software reviewers. This paper describes and evaluates a reading technique called usage-based reading (UBR). UBR utilises prioritised use case