Based on the arrangement of historical data source and artistic value graphic elements in traditional Chinese culture, article uses comparative research methods to analyze art form originating from civilization according chronicle. For façade, classification method elements, main features are sorted out, pattern characteristics, scene meaning development mainly deduced. From perspective semioti...

intercultural comeptence was ignored in foreign language didactics for a long time. modern studies reveal that if we do not pay attention to this important competency, acquisition of language comeptence will not be stable. the new methods of foreign language didactics are based on intercultural communication. they not only use the target culture as a suitable means for language acquisition but ...

Cultural competency has been lauded as an effective, direct intervention to address health care disparity issues, and there is much empirical and clinical evidence to support the utility of cultural competency training. The major criticism of this evidence is the paucity of content validation studies of the competency construct itself. This literature review addresses what has been repeatedly i...

It is generally acknowledged that the organization culture affects how knowledge processes, such as knowledge sharing, evolve. Despite the growing attention for aspects of culture, the knowledge management debate has not paid systematic attention to the diagnosis of a knowledge culture. The central question of the article is how such a diagnosis can be conceived. An answer to this question is p...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....