1 Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 History of Medicine, History and Cultural Studies, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, 4 Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice...

in today’s world, no one can deny the expansion of economic influence in the various aspects of social life and economization of immaterial issues of social life is becoming more obvious every day. the valuation of cultural goods, as one of the most important economic aspects related to arts and culture, is chosen to be considered in this study. the necessity of considering the economic valuati...

INTRODUCTION This paper describes a series of projects that explore the possibilities of musical expression through the combination of pre-composed, interlocking, modular components. In particular, this paper presents a modular soundtrack recently composed by the author for “Currents of Creativity,” a permanent interactive videowall installation at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center which is...

Helga Weisz, Sangwon Suh, and T. E. Graedel Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany; Department of Cultural History and Theory and Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 931...

Given that Peighambarieh street in the historical context And valuable Qazvin, Which has historical and cultural, But it seems This street appeared during the time period until today, There were many inconsistencies, Therefore, it is necessary that this study, considering all the physical and non-cellular factors affecting the range, Provide solutions for it. Research Objectives include: 1- Rec...

Digital media have today an enormous diffusion, and their influence on the behavior of a vast part of the human population can hardly be underestimated. In this review I propose that cultural evolution theory, including both a sophisticated view of human behavior and a methodological attitude to modeling and quantitative analysis, provides a useful framework to study the effects and the develop...

Language is culturally transmitted. Iterated learning, the process by which the output of one individual's learning becomes the input to other individuals' learning, provides a framework for investigating the cultural evolution of linguistic structure. We present two models, based upon the iterated learning framework, which show that the poverty of the stimulus available to language learners le...

The emerging emphasis on disaster risk reduction has broadened the range of experts whose knowledge must be garnered to resolve complex socio-technical challenges. This paper examines the role and position of the construction sector for addressing these concerns. Specifically, it examines the recursive nature of practices within the built environment, which can be seen as deeply ingraining frag...

Three studies investigated whether apologies and/or thanks in a favor asking email message increase normality of the message, positive attitude about the message, sender credibility and willingness to give the favor in the U.S. and Korea. Participants as the Sender in study 1 (N = 521) and as the Receiver in study 2 (N = 386) completed one of four versions of a questionnaire regarding a prototy...