social and cultural harms of female students such as abnormal behavior, less useful leisure, identity confusion, drug use, sex crimes, political apathy or aggression, etc. can be observed among university students which are generally caused by external factors. studies in this field are few especially for female students. subjects are also non-functional and the results are unclear and they are...

Contemporary societies are experiencing growing diversity both at different levels (firms, cities, regions, countries) and in different arenas (cultural, social, and economic). One of the main reasons is the process of globalization that has pushed the cross-country flows of ideas, knowledge, goods, capital and people. Undoubtedly, no feature of globalization is considered with more unease than...

Using event-related fMRI we investigated the rewarding properties of cultural objects (cars) signaling wealth and social dominance. It has been shown recently that reward mechanisms are involved in the regulation of social relations like dominance and social rank. Based on evolutionary considerations we hypothesized that sports cars in contrast to other categories of cars, e.g. limousines and s...

This paper presents a method for estimating contextual appropriateness of speaker’s emotions, supported with the analysis of Contextual Valence Shifters (CVS), which determine the semantic orientation of the valence of emotive expressions. In the proposed method a Web mining technique is used to verify the contextual appropriateness of the emotions recognized by a system for affect analysis sup...

independently of historical and socio cultural contexts, does not exist (Barnard, 1998). But, even if designing, as any other activity, is constrained by the social and cultural role assigned to the designer in a given society (Dormer, 1990; Downton, 2003; Manzini, 1993), that does not mean that we cannot present a general So, although there are different areas of intervention for the designer,...

in today's world, women's participation in social activities is considered as a measure of their social and civil rights. however, there are challenges to such participation. this research aims to investigate these socio-cultural obstacles, comparing athletic and non-athletic women. the present study examines women's sports participation as a form of behavior which includes fishb...

introduction: decayed teeth are one of the diseases of civilization. intraoral factors which interact with the others such as heredity, cultural and social factors are involved in the initiation of the disease. among social factors, health care is particularly important. the aim of the present study was to evaluate dmft, dmft and gingivitis in the first-year students of elementary, guidance and...