Development
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- Development (in general) - it is a dynamic process of improvement, which implies a change, an evolution, growth and advancement. Development as a phenomenon suggests that people are able to control their future and can improve their condition in the world (living conditions, capacity to feed, education level, life length, etc.) through process towards something better (Skeldon R., 1997).
Development has meaning in several contexts:
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[edit] Science and mathematics
- Biological development or morphogenesis of embryos in the context of developmental biology
- Child development (in the context of physical development, or post-natal human development (pediatrics, etc); or in the context of psychological development, part of the larger area of human development (psychology) or developmental psychology)
- Net (polyhedron) in geometry, the development of a polyhedral solid
- Parallel transport in differential geometry, the development of geometric data along curves
- Developable surface, a surface swept out by a curve.
- Development (topology), a refinable net of open coverings.
[edit] Engineering and technology
- "Development" may refer to a process of land improvement and/or construction involving land, buildings or infrastructure (see project, public housing and real estate development); excessive development of this kind may lead to overdevelopment
- Urban development is the process of developing populated settlements (see urban planning and urban renewal)
- New product development
- Software development
- Sustainable development seeks to avoid overdevelopment
- Technology development, improving or researching changes in technology (eg. involving biotechnology, nanotechnology, or software)
[edit] Business, commerce and marketing
- Business development, a process of growing a business
- Corporate development, a position in a business
- Employee development (see also human resources)
- New product development (above)
- Organization development (see also training and development)
[edit] Life, personal and professional improvement
- Career development
- Leadership development
- Personal development, the development of the self (see also self-help)
- Professional development
[edit] Economics, geography and sociology
- Development aid, the provision of aid and other forms of assistance to communities or countries
- Development aid agencies
- Development charities
- Development studies, addressing issues of concern to developing countries
- Economic development in economics and international relations
- International development, the process of economic and social development and progress in developing countries
- Regional development, provision of aid and assistance to the less economically developed regions
- Social development, a process of change in societies
- Sociocultural evolution or cultural development
- National Development
[edit] The arts and popular culture
- Arrested Development, a television show based upon a company and a family
- Arrested Development (hip hop group), a hip hop group popular in the early 1990s.
- Development (album), a nu-metal album by musical group Nonpoint
- Musical development, the transformation and restatement of initial material, often contrasted with musical variation
- Photographic developer, or more generally photographic processing, the chemicals and methods of revealing the latent image in photographic material
- Script development, the development process in movie making, aimed at getting a project greenlighted
[edit] Other
- develop, Apple Computer's programming magazine
- a synonym for fundraising
[edit] See also
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