نتایج جستجو برای: cultural engineering

تعداد نتایج: 400764  

2001
Jo Hanisch Theerasak Thanasankit Brian J. Corbitt

There has been growing interest in virtual teams, and more specifically in virtual software development. Requirements engineering, which is a crucial phase in software development provides another dimension when software development occurs in a virtual domain. While formal software development methods are the obvious first choice for project managers to ensure a virtual software development tea...

Journal: :Proceedings. Biological sciences 2010
David Luther Luis Baptista

In urban environments, anthropogenic noise can interfere with animal communication. Here we study the influence of urban noise on the cultural evolution of bird songs. We studied three adjacent dialects of white-crowned sparrow songs over a 30-year time span. Urban noise, which is louder at low frequencies, increased during our study period and therefore should have created a selection pressure...

2011
Ulf Toelch Matthew J. Bruce Marius T. H. Meeus Simon M. Reader

Behavioral flexibility allows individuals to react to environmental changes, but changing established behavior carries costs, with unknown benefits. Individuals may thus modify their behavioral flexibility according to the prevailing circumstances. Social information provided by the performance level of others provides one possible cue to assess the potential benefits of changing behavior, sinc...

2004
Jackie Hogan

This article examines discursive constructions of the global in two rural communities, one in Australia and one in Japan. Based on an analysis of interviews with 195 Australians and Japanese, the article identifies a set of common themes and concerns associated with globalizing social changes in these two local contexts. Economics, immigration, and cultural change feature prominently in respond...

Journal: :Psychiatry research 2011
Susana Al-Halabí Rocío Herrero Pilar A Sáiz María Paz García-Portilla José M Errasti Paul Corcoran María Teresa Bascarán Manuel Bousoño Serafín Lemos Julio Bobes

The Unified Biosocial Theory of Personality developed by Cloninger has been applied in different cultures. Distribution by age and sex of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) dimensions were assessed cross-culturally for samples in Spain and the USA. Three non-clinical samples were included: i) 404 participants from Asturias (Spain); ii) 240 participants from Burgos (Spain); and iii) 3...

2014
Ashish R. Panchal Uwe Stolz Kurt R. Denninghoff Benson Munger Samuel M. Keim

INTRODUCTION The ACGME requires that residents perform scholarly activities prior to graduation, but this is difficult to complete and challenging to support. We describe a residency research program, taking advantage of environmental change aligning resident and faculty goals, to become a contributor to departmental cultural change and research development. METHODS A research program, Schola...

Journal: :Trends in ecology & evolution 2013
Jeffrey C Nekola Craig D Allen James H Brown Joseph R Burger Ana D Davidson Trevor S Fristoe Marcus J Hamilton Sean T Hammond Astrid Kodric-Brown Norman Mercado-Silva Jordan G Okie

Two interacting forces influence all populations: the Malthusian dynamic of exponential growth until resource limits are reached, and the Darwinian dynamic of innovation and adaptation to circumvent these limits through biological and/or cultural evolution. The specific manifestations of these forces in modern human society provide an important context for determining how humans can establish a...

Journal: :Annual review of psychology 2013
Shihui Han Georg Northoff Kai Vogeley Bruce E Wexler Shinobu Kitayama Michael E W Varnum

Cultural neuroscience (CN) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the relationship between culture (e.g., value and belief systems and practices shared by groups) and human brain functions. In this review we describe the origin, aims, and methods of CN as well as its conceptual framework and major findings. We also clarify several misunderstandings of CN research. Finally, we discuss t...

2006
Judith B. Strother

When instruction is to be delivered by any medium, whether in a traditional e-learning mode or through the use of a blended learning model, cross-cultural issues have a major impact. This paper focuses on the cultural characteristics of Asian e-learners and uses Hofstede’s cultural dimensions as the basis for the analysis. Asian learners face some clearly identified challenges. For example, in ...

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