education of library and information science (lis) has several problems that are caused by the changing nature of the discipline and the social, economic and cultural contexts in which lis departments function. the aim of this article is to enumerate and discuss some of the common problems of lis education in developing countries of asia and suggest solutions. we show that as asian developing c...

“OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END,” writes the biblical author of Ecclesiastes—and so it seems that of the making of many international heritage conventions, principles, and guidelines there also seems to be no end in sight. Beginning with the 1931 Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, through the 1964 Venice Charter, and continuing with the recent adoption of the 2003 I...

The article proposes a modified Design-Based Research (DBR) framework which accommodates the various socio-cultural factors that emerged in the longitudinal PA-HELP research study at Central University College (CUC) in Ghana, Africa. A transnational team of stakeholders from Ghana, Canada, and the USA collaborated on the development, implementation, and subsequent modification of the DBR framew...

Language is systematically structured at all levels of description, arguably setting it apart from all other instances of communication in nature. In this article, I survey work over the last 20 years that emphasises the contributions of individual learning, cultural transmission, and biological evolution to explaining the structural design features of language. These 3 complex adaptive systems...

OBJECTIVE This study describes an international acupuncture elective and its impact on medical students' development of cultural competence. METHODS Collaborating with Chinese colleagues, we created a 4-week elective that teaches medical students about acupuncture in its native cultural environment. Three focus groups were conducted to elicit students' experiences. RESULTS Students' reflect...