BACKGROUND Sexual health is increasingly understood as an integral part of health. In Canada, education for sexual health is delivered predominantly in middle and secondary school. What of adults who immigrate to Canada from countries where sex education is not delivered to youth? This paper explores the needs and experiences of one such group of Canadian immigrants: those from Iran. METHOD T...

The concept of a European Digital Library cannot only be based on a technical framework enabling access to digital goods-there is also a need to introduce new ways of cooperation between different stakeholders (Cultural Organisations, Industries, Administrations, etc.) as well as to "re-engineer" traditional business processes in the light of globalisation and world wide markets. The main activ...

Despite the prevalence of mental illness among African American women, only a limited number of them seek or accept help from mental health service delivery systems. An extensive review of the literature revealed that (1) racism and discrimination, (2) socioeconomic status, (3) stress and well being, and (4) housing and neighborhood conditions must be considered in an assessment of the mental h...

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, as a world cultural heritage, is the existed world’s largest and best-preserved Buddhist art treasures. For thousands of years, it has attracted millions of people all around world. However, in the long-term protection and exploitation, Mogao Grottoes has been in the dilemma between cultural relic protections and tourism developments. In this regard, the paper, leverage...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

This paper examines the influences of culture on the user experience of local e-government services. It investigates the hypothesis that people with different cultural backgrounds experience different problems when using egovernment applications. Thirty participants with the Moroccan, Surinamese and Dutch cultural background were first asked to fill in a short questionnaire for demographic purp...

The concepts of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), cultural competency and primary healthcare (PHC) appear to be linked in theory and practice. This discussion article provides arguments explicating the potential linkages between IPCP and cultural competency. We argue that cultural competency is an important component of IPCP both for relationships with patients and/or communities...

This case study describes an Asian Information Technology (IT) outsourcing partnership in the discrete manufacturing industry. Interviews with business and IT executives of both the Outsourcing Company and the IT Services Supplier provided the necessary insights. Nowadays many organizations in discrete manufacturing move their plants to Asian countries or other lower wages countries. Most IT se...