Transforming Hospital Culture by Changing Discourse

Understanding and Transforming Organisational Culture

Since the introduction of computers, information systems and data have been repeatedly undermined by design flaws, weak passwords, lost media, social engineering and numerous other bad practices. These risks continue to grow with the increasing complexity and connectivity of modern business systems. But actions by people are not only the cause of incidents, they are also the means to prevent, d...

Changing the Context. Dynamic Semantics and Discourse

Within the logical-semantical tradition, the meaning of a sentence is (often) equated with its truth conditions: to know what a sentence means is to know in which circumstances it is true or false. In more up-to-date approaches, however, the meaning of a sentence is identified with its context change potential: to know the meaning of a sentence is to know how it changes a context. The differenc...

Reduction of DMA Transforming Activity in Culture by 6-Mercaptopurine1

The transforming activity of DMA isolated from 6-mercaptopurine-treated cultures of Bacillus subtilis strain UTH-8505 is markedly reduced when compared to that of DMA obtained from control cultures. The lower transforming activity appears to be a property of the isolated DNA; i.e., various treatments either to restore the activity or to indicate the presence of inhibitory substances that isolat...

Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture

Language learning and language culture in a changing world

To  communicate  effectively,  learners  have  to  become  proficient  in  both  the  language  and  the culture of the target language.  Being aware of socio-cultural frameworks does not mean that as an outcome of instruction learners have to become "native-like," but an awareness of L2 cultural norms can allow learners to make their own informed choices of how to become competent and astute l...