The preliminary stages of a large scale culture-led urban regeneration project initiated by the Korean government in Gwangju were studied. Stakeholders’ perceptions of culture’s contribution to urban regeneration and their views on collaborative partnerships were explored. Qualitative data were gathered via semi-structured interviews from 19 purposively selected stakeholders. This case study de...

This paper explores why Iran was a particularly fertile ground for repeated visitation of cholera in the 19th century. Along with certain unique Iranian cultural and religious factors, the author demonstrates how Iranian urban ecology, particularly the qanat system, contributed to the fatal spread of the epidemic. These multi-faceted conditions, the author concludes, resulted in distinct modes ...

We present applied examples of laser scanner survey and data processing using phase measuring system. Beside the time of flight principle, the phase measurement principle represents another technique for medium ranges laser survey. High speed of acquisition, very high data density and resolution open new application frontiers in cultural heritage, but poses challenging problems with regard to d...

Cultural Heritage-Management (CHM) in Italy appears to chronically suffer from resources fragmentation. The aim of this chapter is to highlight the need for a value co-creation logic based on resource integration in CHM to improve awareness and involve citizens, organizations and other stakeholders in the cultural heritage preservation and enhancement activities. The methodological approach ado...

New socio-economic conditions impose specific requirements to the education system as a whole, including all stages and forms of vocational education. The article discusses the role and place of a diversified, multi-level system of training, which provides a variety of characteristics and volumes of educational and vocational programs that actualizes the problem of improving the system of life-...

In this paper we take a multi-agent model of agricultural subsistence in the Mesa Verde region between 600 A.D. and 1300 A.D. and allow the emergence of a set of overlaid social networks over time in response to environmental dynamics. These overlaid networks include kinship, economic, and community level (hub) networks. Agents are able to participate in each of these networks and strategies fo...

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the product involvement and multi-dimensions evaluation for innovative and cultural creativity products of the remote districts in Taiwan. A total of 120 subjects divided into two groups (including local group and non-local group) participated in the investigation. In order to achieve the research objective, revised Personal Involvement Inventory des...

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...