Authors often convey meaning by referring to or imitating prior works of literature, a process that creates complex networks of literary relationships ("intertextuality") and contributes to cultural evolution. In this paper, we use techniques from stylometry and machine learning to address subjective literary critical questions about Latin literature, a corpus marked by an extraordinary concent...

In constructing improved models of human behavior, both experimental and behavioral economists have increasingly turned to evolutionary theory for insights into human psychology and preferences. Unfortunately, the existing genetic evolutionary approaches can explain neither the degree of prosociality (altruism and altruistic punishment) observed in humans, nor the patterns of variation in these...

Process improvement shares many characteristics with product development. Recognizing these similarities is important, but so is recognizing some of the crucial differences. It is vital to the success of improvement efforts to realize that process change entails cultural change. Numerous social and technical barriers must be overcome to effect lasting improvement. Ten patterns of successful sof...

We present an individual based model of cultural evolution, where interacting agents are coded by binary strings standing for strategies for action, blueprints for products or attitudes and beliefs. The model is patterned on an established model of biological evolution, the Tangled Nature Model (TNM), where a ‘tangle’ of interactions between agents determines their reproductive success. In addi...

Museums and archives collect and store documentation of processes of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), such as craftsmanship skills, acts, and events recorded in videos, audio tapes, manuscripts, photos, and transcriptions. Such recordings are typically catalogued in an object-centric way as documents, using schemas such as Dublin Core. Also in event-centric models the focus has been on tangi...

Several models of service care delivery have emerged to meet the challenges of providing health care to our growing multi-ethnic world. This article will present Campinha-Bacote's model of cultural competence in health care delivery: The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services. This model views cultural competence as the ongoing process in which the health care pro...

There is a growing consensus that the benefits of information technology (IT) can not be realised fully by merely automating existing business processes. Consequently, major process changes enabled by IT, including business process re-engineering efforts, have been popular in North America and are now being introduced all over the world. Differences between nations and societies make it critica...