This article will examine the EU Member States with the largest economies, the UK, Italy, France and Germany. The work will consider the relationship between company law rules and national cultures in these varied systems. It will consider whether the current diversity of laws is likely to endure. This article examines the four European Union Member States with the largest national economies by...

Economic game experiments have become a prominent method among social scientists developing and testing theories of cooperation. These games provide a valuable opportunity to generate measures of cooperation that can be compared from one place to the next, yet challenges remain in how to interpret crosscultural differences in these experiments and connect them to cooperation in naturally occurr...

Triangular norms, or t-norms for short, play an important role for the semantics of fuzzy logics. Although an enormous number of examples and a remarkable number of construction methods for this kind of operation has been established, a uniform approach is still outstanding. This paper is devoted to a specific algebraic-geometrical framework within which t-norms, up to isomorphism, can be descr...

The paper explores the cultural rights accommodation by the state which has left many unresolved problems. The cultural rights sometimes violate the basic individual rights of the members inside the community like women. The paper further explicates certain cultural norms and practices which violates the rights of women inside the community in the name of culture. Keywords—Culture, Patriarchy, ...

background: the south-southern zone of nigeria is one of the zones in the country that has reported consistent high prevalent rates of hiv/aids pandemic in the last decade. in spite of bio-medical reasons adduced for the spread of the pandemic, socio-cultural factors may be major issues in the access to both prevention and treatment services especially for women. hence, this study investigated ...

The foundation of most intellectual discourse is Western-centric to the exclusion of other views. This includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. Such a position is culturally myopic. Western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. The assumption is ...

The cultural defense has been the subject of a great deal of recent scholarship. Much of this analysis has concerned the consequences of the cultural defense, both for defendants and victims. Scholars differ on what these unintended consequences may be, however, and identify effects ranging from encouraging American ideals to spreading racism, to legitimizing violence against women. Although se...

Increasing European co-operation must take place in many areas, including medical ethics. Against the background of common cultural norms and pluralistic variation within political traditions, religion and lifestyles, Europe will have to converge towards unity within the field of medical ethics. This article examines how such convergence might develop with respect to four major areas: European ...

Developing a technical product for a foreign market or a target group with a different cultural background always brings with it the challenge and the need of adaptation. One has to deal in this case with four different levels: a technical level including issues of technical standards (e.g. electricity systems, video norms, cell phone standards), a linguistic level including the translation of ...