A Global Culture

Local Culture, Global Habits

As I wait in the lounge of Berlin’s Tegel airport, I’m three feet but half a world away from a woman tapping away on her cell phone. We’ve exchanged enough pleasantries to discover that we don’t speak the same language, but I’m convinced I can learn her story from the dance of her ngers across the screen and the movements of her face. Between bursts of action with her thumbs, her right index ng...

Culture, religion, and fertility: a global view.

This study tries to assess the effects of culture and religion on fertility after accounting for a country's socioeconomic standing. Analysis of covariance models are estimated for 128 countries with time-series covering the period 1950-1975. The dependent variable is the gross reproduction rate; independent variables are the infant mortality rate, an aggregate indicator of female educational...

Interactive Effects of Heat Shock and Culture Density on Embryo Induction in Isolated Microspores Culture of Brassica napusL. cv. Global

Building a safety culture in global health: lessons from Guatemala

Programmes to modify the safety culture have led to lasting improvements in patient safety and quality of care in high-income settings around the world, although their use in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been limited. This analysis explores (1) how to measure the safety culture using a health culture survey in an LMIC and (2) how to use survey data to develop targeted safe...

Emergent Culture in Global Is/it Outsourcing

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