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Economic integration in China: Politics and culture

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten, Libman, Alexander, and Yu, Xiaofan—Economic integration in China: Politics and culture The aim of the paper is to explicitly disentangle the role of political and cultural boundaries as factors of fragmentation of economies within large countries. On the one hand, local protectionism plays a substantial role in many federations and decentralized states. On the other h...

Translating culture and psychiatry across the Pacific: How koro became culture- bound

This article examines the development of koro’s epistemic status as a paradigm for understanding culture-specific disorders in modern psychiatry. Koro entered the DSM-IV as a culture-bound syndrome in 1994, and it refers to a person’s overpowering belief that his (or her) genitalia is retracting and even disappearing. I focus in particular on mental health professionals’ competing views of koro...

Integration of cell culture and microfabrication technology.

Recent progress in cell culture and microfabrication technologies has contributed to the development of cell-based biosensors for the functional characterization and detection of drugs, pathogens, toxicants, and odorants. The cell-based biosensors are composed of two transducers, where the primary transducer is cellular and the secondary transducer is typically electrical. Advances in gene mani...

A Novel Culture Algorithm for Knowledge Integration

Integrating knowledge from different subjects and sources to obtain an effective knowledge base is the key to improve decision quality and enhance organizational core competency. We put forward a knowledge integration strategy under the framework of culture algorithm. It encodes the knowledge uniformly and through the evolvement of the two phases of population space and belief space the communi...