In this paper we describe and theorize about a computer-supported and mediated educational research project which encourages cultural production and sustainability. We first describe the CD-Golem project which was developed in light of the perceived needs of a Diaspora community’s attempts to impart its youth with a sense of belonging and continuity. Next we characterize Cultural Education and ...

People have a folk theory of social change (FTSC). A typical Western FTSC stipulates that as a society becomes more industrialized, it undergoes a natural course of social change, in which a communal society marked by communal relationships becomes a qualitatively different, agentic society where market-based exchange relationships prevail. People use this folk theory to predict a society’s fut...

the aim of this study was to assess the levels of maslow's hierarchy of needs theory had been fulfilled and to compare the maslow's hierarchy of needs among iranian different ethnic groups at tehran university of medical sciences (tums).this research was a descriptive-analytical study which conducted among administrative employees of tehran university of medical sciences; tehran, iran. the stru...

the main tasks of ‘environmental graphics’ have been designated as: provision of instructions and essential information, environmental embellishment, ease of interconnection and visual identity establishment all of which can affect the culture and identity of the audience through an unconscious process. if we consider, on the one hand, the crisis of identity and cultural problems of the present...

The development of cultural psychiatry is reviewed at different stages historically in contemporary China during the past two and a half decades. Comments are made about the social, political, and professional reasons why the development of cultural psychiatry has been delayed, and what needs to be done to improve the situation in the near future, particularly to expand the concern from the min...

Cancer is a leading cause of death, ranked first or second in most developed countries such as Singapore, the USA, France, Turkey, Spain, just right after cardiovascular diseases [1-5]. Moreover, cancer diagnosis impact Quality-of-Life (QOL) for patients, and family-caregivers. Assessing cross-cultural validation is key in medicine and social sciences as, beyond language translation issues, the...

With the growing influence of China (Chinese people/culture) on the world's politics, economy, and culture, the psychological wellbeing of Chinese people is becoming increasingly important for both researchers and practitioners. Despite this, the cultural responsiveness of many conventional psychotherapeutic models has often been brought into question. In contrast, cognitive behavioral therapy ...

The stage is set for studying cultural innuences on human-human, human-agent and agent-agent communications. So far much attention has been paid to create adaptive agents which have adaptive user interface or exible capability to communicate with another software agents. However little eeort has been made for examining cultural innuence in communications. I believe that as in the human-human co...

Article points 1. Risk is a social phenomenon that needs to be studied within a social context since cultural values and beliefs influence risk perception. 2. Engagement with diabetes-related risk depends on how visible, imminent or tangible the risk is, and the perceived severity. 3. Models of diabetes care need to integrate socio-cultural and religious beliefs for minority ethnic groups livin...