abstracts submited for iranian congress of gastroenterology and hepatology - icgh 2011â â â 5-7october 2012 tabriz, iran

Pekka Sulkunen ABSTRACT Theoretical attempts to formulate cultural theories of drinking and drug use have traditionally stemmed from norm-theory or functionalism. These tend to reduce drinking and drug practices to intoxication alone or to neglect intoxication altogether.. The semiotic turn in the 1980s brought “meaning” to the focus of cultural studies. This article proposes, following Bruno L...

Abstract The interrelatedness of Chinese economic and cultural reforms since the beginning of the new millennium, most particularly and importantly with regard to the acceptance and deployment of the concept of creative industries as an extension of China’s ‘soft power’, needs to be considered in light of two factors: firstly, and at a conceptual level, it derived from the development of the hi...

∗ This project has been partially supported by the Italian National Research Council in the frame of the "Methodologies, techniques, and computer tools for the preservation, the structural organization, and the intelligent query of musical audio archives stored on heterogeneous magnetic media" research, Finalized Project "Cultural Heritage" (Subproject 3, Topic 3.2, Subtopic 3.2.2, Target 3.2.1...

OBJECTIVES The need to address cultural and ethnic diversity issues in medical education as a means to improve the quality of care for all has been widely emphasised. Cultural competence has been suggested as an instrument with which to deal with diversity issues. However, the implementation of culturally competent curricula appears to be difficult. We believe the development of curricula would...

In recent years, laboratory studies of cultural evolution have become increasingly prevalent as a means of identifying and understanding the effects of cultural transmission on the form and functionality of transmitted material. The datasets generated by these studies may provide insights into the conditions encouraging, or inhibiting, high rates of innovation, as well as the effect that this h...

We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent’s transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon in which the experience and future of the agent can be accounted for, together with the advantage that narrative provides to sociality by making the experience of others availab...

Errors occur commonly in healthcare and can cause significant harm to patients. Most errors arise from a combination of individual, system, and communication failures. Neurologists may be involved in harmful errors in any practice setting and should familiarize themselves with tools to prevent, report, and examine errors. Although physicians, patients, and ethicists endorse candid disclosure of...