The authors reviewed interventions using cultural leverage to narrow racial disparities in health care. Thirty-eight interventions of three types were identified: interventions that modified the health behaviors of individual patients of color, that increased the access of communities of color to the existing health care system, and that modified the health care system to better serve patients ...

A number of learning models are commonly employed in the simulation of social behaviour. These include population learning, lifetime learning and cultural learning. Population learning allows populations as a whole to evolve over time, typically through a Darwinian model of natural selection. Lifetime learning allows individuals to acquire knowledge during their lifetimes and cultural learning ...

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)....

The number of digital collections in the cultural heritage domain is increasing year on year. Improved quality of access to cultural collections, especially those collections which are not exhibited physically is a key objective of the digitisation process. Despite some successes in this area, many digitised collections struggle to attract users or to maintain their interest over a prolonged pe...

In the turbulent information technology (IT) industry, firms need to continuously innovate to maintain or increase their competitiveness. Focused technology acquisitions provide a means to rapidly gain IT competencies and innovations. Research consistently identifies knowledge and culture as critical antecedents to success in these acquisitions. Since such studies are typically observational, t...

The design of educational technologies involves making decisions based in cultural assumptions and ideologies, and student learning may be improved when these design choices are made intentionally with the students’ own cultural context in mind. Despite this, the classroom systems in which these technologies are deployed have their own culturally-based contexts which are often at odds with the ...

Tradition Medicines as the name implies have been a cultural age long healing remedy practiced over the year and improved by casual and unformulated experiments, or in some case are totally forgotten with the passing away of the partition in cases where record have not been kept especially skin and bone related cancers with the use of traditional herbal formula and cultural approaches that need...