Individual differences inherent in human perceptual and behavioral data pose challenges for researchers who aim to develop standardized models of phenomena and procedures for normative assessment. A common approach used when modeling individual variation is to adopt criteria for identifying and excluding the individual data of outliers. We present investigations that use an alternative approach...

In China, the word, xin 心 (often translated as ‘heart’) is frequently used and its concept is central to Chinese culture. However, its meaning is not exactly the same as ‘heart’ in English. Using qigong as the context, this article aims to explore the meaning of xin as a cultural keyword in order to gain an indepth understanding of Chinese culture and knowledge within that cultural system. Qigo...

If there is anything that exemplifies a certain common style in ethnographically-oriented approaches to culture and society today, and sets them apart from other kinds of social science, it is the habit, irritating to colleagues in some other disciplines, frustrating to students, deemed perverse by potential funders, and bewildering to the public, of responding to explanations with the remark, ...

Under the influences of economic globalisation, cultural change, public opinion and exposure to new ideas, sexual attitudes and norms have been rapidly changing among adolescents and young people in China and there is emerging evidence from rural and urban areas of increasing premarital sexual activity among adolescents and youth. Despite this, contraceptive practice remains limited and irregul...

Augmented Reality provides an entertaining means for displaying 3D reconstructions of ancient buildings in situ for cultural heritage. Finding the pose, position and orientation, of the user is crucial for such applications since this information will be used to define the viewpoint that will be used for rendering the models. Images acquired from a camera can be used as the background for such ...

Assistant Surgeon B. M. DAS GUPTA, Assistant Professor of Protozoology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. In a previous paper (Knowles and Das Gupta, 1930) we reported that we had commenced to make a clinical stud}7 of untreated cases of malaria by cultural and enumerative methods. The series of cases reported in the present paper form a continuation of those reported in our former paper, b...

Our cultural heritage is made with almost all type of materials produced by the nature and used by men to realize several types of artefacts from very simple mono-components to complex structures integrating inorganic and organic matters. These cultural heritage objects, even if made with the more “resistant” stones and metals, are influenced by the environmental parameters, which can modify th...

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