The notion of acceptability is a counterpart of the phenomenon observed in our daily argumentation and originates from an old saying, “The one who has the last word laughs best”, as stated by Dung. It is an empirical social truth or wisdom that has been evolved in various cultural sphere over generations and considered useful by people. It is remarkable and suggestive that Dung’s theory of argu...

Background Breastfeeding aversion and agitation (BAA) while breastfeeding is anecdotally known to occur in some women who breastfeed while pregnant or those who tandem feed a newborn and a toddler. However, it is a little-researched area and the paucity of published literature around BAA reveals a significant gap in the literature. Materials and Methods This study presents the findings and re...

Even after long-term exposures, androids with a strikingly human-like appearance evoke unnatural feelings. The behavior that would induce human-like feelings after long exposures is difficult to determine, and it often depends on the cultural background of the observers. Therefore, in this study, we generate an acting performance system for the android, in which an android and a human interact ...

Film induced tourism is a recent phenomenon, which is rising increasing interest in tourism management and promotion. A research project on this topic is currently investigated at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padova, with the aim of developing a software architecture for promoting film-induced tourism. One of the challenges in the development of such system was the d...

this study sought to investigate identity construction in english language learners using critical discourse analysis (cda). to that end, a number of western cultural points extracted from interchange series were integrated into a questionnaire, asking learners to display their own feelings, behaviors, actions and reactions to the points raised. the questionnaire-generated data coupled with int...

After decades of digitization, the web hosts a large scale museum, consisting of millions of digital cultural objects. To balance the drawbacks of parsimonious search-centric interfaces, various approaches have been developed to enable also visual access to these collections, and to browse and explore the cultural richness of existing archives. This paper reviews information visualization appro...

The purpose of the article is to reveal features and trends modern musical performance through prism phenomenon postmodern culture. research methodology. analytical method applied; a systematic enables examination culture as whole; historical cultural analysis, which contributed understanding ways forming developing performance, well essence socio-cultural phenomenon; theoretical generalisation...

The works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the greatest dramatist and poet of the English language, reflect several cultural values of the Western world which are also shared by other cultures. On his 450 th birthday, many of his concepts are admired as descriptions of human feelings and neurological phenomena, demonstrating his insights into what it is today considered cognitive neuroscience.