G eography as a discipline has evolved into a field of enormous breadth in the last century. While distinctive theoretical perspectives have emerged in different periods, the ebbs and flows of new approaches are often marked by vitriolic contestations. In response to articulations of new visions of what geography is or should be, debates often turned into antagonistic discourses that are surpri...

This study examines the effects of intergenerational occupational mobility on relationships between elderly parents and their adult children, using a geographically restricted random sample of parents and a derivative sample of their children. Several explanations for the existence of mobility effects are distinguished and empirically tested: that mobility introduces cultural disparities, invid...

We me prototyping a system tor the self-learning of Chinese characters, presently on a Macintosh computer. The interactive inlormation base provides the learner with basic universal properties of the characters (morphology, intrinsic meaning), extended wilh a quite comprehensive set of language-dependent aspects (phonetics, extended semantics, contextual or pragmatic attributes). The user is in...

We identify a process of global pattern formation that causes regions to differentiate by culture. Violence arises at boundaries between regions that are not sufficiently well defined. We model cultural differentiation as a separation of groups whose members prefer similar neighbors, with a characteristic group size at which violence occurs. Application of this model to the area of the former Y...

Keith Augustine has provided a legitimate and cogent critique of a transcendental interpretation of near-death experiences, exposing weaknesses in the research methodology, paucity of the data, and gaps in the arguments. He offers evidence from psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs that he interprets as favoring a hallucinatory understanding of these phenomena. However, his analys...

Global Software Development (GSD) projects are characterized by the fact that work is distributed throughout many geographically distanced sites. Software engineering activities in such scenarios face various challenges. Although interpersonal communication is crucial if a common understanding with regard to the system under construction is to be achieved, time separation, cultural diversity an...

this contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of persian (nsp) and native speakers of english (nse) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

OBJECTIVE Family health history (FHH) plays a significant role in early disease detection and prevention. Although Asian Americans are the fastest growing U.S. immigrant group, no data exists regarding Chinese Americans' (the largest Asian subgroup) views and use of FHH. This study examines this important issue. METHODS Forty-nine adults from southern U.S. Chinese American communities partici...

Child welfare-affected parents of color (CW-PaoC) are often described using language that is deficit-focused, their families depicted as fragile and living in a near constant state crisis need. This commentary challenges the stereotypes created by hyper-attention to these parents’ struggles situates them, families, within broader context American appetite for family separation, wherein specific...

Asian multinational companies (MNCs) have an emerging history of operations in Nigeria, presenting dilemmas in the development process. Specifically, MNCs have continued their cultural, economic and political hegemony in less developed countries (LDCs). This paper examines the prospects of transfer and crosstransfer of selected managerial philosophies and the enabled employment practices betwee...