Cumulative cultural evolution is the term given to a particular kind of social learning, which allows for the accumulation of modifications over time, involving a ratchet-like effect where successful modifications are maintained until they can be improved upon. There has been great interest in the topic of cumulative cultural evolution from researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, but un...

This paper presents the military rationale for developing an improved understanding of the effects of culture on the performance of military organizations and their partners. In particular the change from conventional high intensity warfare to asymmetric warfare increases the interactions between different cultures within multi-national military forces and in the local populations. A brief desc...

BACKGROUND The Hula Empowering Lifestyle Adaption Study, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, was a 5-year research trial evaluating the impact of the traditional Native Hawaiian dance form, hula, as an exercise modality for cardiac rehabilitation, compared with usual care, on individuals recently hospitalized for a cardiac event or who had recently underg...

The concept of wellbeing is gaining popularity in the study of quality of life and cultural significance of living. The paper aims to contribute to our understanding of objective and subjective wellbeing by exploring the perceptions of women left behind by out-migrating husbands on their quality of life in a transnational social field. The paper uses both qualitative and quantitative research m...

An attempt was made in the article to analyze cultural stereotypes and their reflection advertising of Dove Olay cosmetic brands. For first time, beauty Chinese, Russian English video international companies are compared. On example transnational advertising, ways transmitting verbal information a commercial message studied, differences perception revealed, transformation is established, new me...

Agricultural proverbs are concise, catchy and profound left over from the agricultural civilization. Many of them have been proved to be used guide production practice after repeated practice. They summary experience ordinary people crystallization people's collective wisdom. also language carrier silkworm culture, ecological culture traditional culture. A large number in Foshan Sangyuanwei, pa...