In global networking the human-computer interface is the crucial communication link between the author and the user. In website design it is important to recognize cultural differences and understand how the design of the computer interface can reflect the culture of a particular audience. Digital storytelling is a design technique that can reflect cultural differences and engage the user. Mode...

OBJECTIVES To describe levels of risky sexual behaviour, HIV testing and HIV knowledge among men and women in Guatemala by ethnic group and to identify adjusted associations between ethnicity and these outcomes. DESIGN Data on 16,205 women aged 15-49 and 6822 men aged 15-59 from the 2008-2009 Encuesta Nacional de Salud Materno Infantil were used to describe ethnic group differences in sexual ...

although more than 3000 antibiotics have been reported from actinomycetes/ higher fungi; biotechnological potential of yeasts and yeast-like fungi with respect to production of antimicrobial compounds has not been sufficiently investigated. we examined the antimicrobial activity of 11 strains of aureobasidium pullulans (two new isolates and nine standard strains). all the strains of aureobasidi...

the ethnobotany of the medicinal plants of alamut region is important in understanding the cultures and traditions of alamut people. this study documents 16 medicinal plant species, most commonly used by the indigenous people of alamut region (ghazvin province), northwest, iran. the botanical name, family name, vernacular name, part used, and the application of the plants have been provided in ...

Objective/Context: This paper examines the arguments of Constitutional Court Colombia in a sentence declaring that Pentecostalism represents threat to indigenous cultures and country’s cultural diversity. The was issued 1998, few years after political Constitution (1991) declared is pluralist nation protects diversity country right religious freedom. Methodology: A qualitative hermeneutical stu...

Indigenous knowledge around the world is based on prevailing cultures, worldviews and paradigms. Initially assessments involved simple collection and inventory with little attention paid to the environment or to interrelationships between differe nt components of the system. Especially when undertaken in areas where access was difficult, such assessments more often than not resulted in loss and...

Ownership of land in the Western sense involves the establishment of boundaries that simultaneously contain, restrict and grant rights within a given space. Discourse on Indigenous concepts of ownership often point to the state of ‘belonging’, a deep connection with a given territory rather than a distinctly marked space that one occupies. In coastal Indigenous cultures territory will often ext...