Individuals who have been exposed to two different musical cultures (bimusicals) can be differentiated from those exposed to only one musical culture (monomusicals). Just as bilingual speakers handle the distinct language-syntactic rules of each of two languages, bimusical listeners handle two distinct musical-syntactic rules (e.g., tonal schemas) in each musical culture. This study sought to d...

Much of Western anthropology, since its origins in the 19th century, has emphasized "man the hunter" and has seen in males hunting animals the primary roots of human culture. This view has put a deep mark on exhibits in museums of anthropology and thereby on the public image of human "nature" and development. There is reason to question this view. First, humans belong to the ape family. Early h...

Review Number: 1999 Publish date: Thursday, 29 September, 2016 Author: Brian Copenhaver ISBN: 9781107070523 Date of Publication: 2015 Price: £66.58 Pages: 612pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher url: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/magicwestern-culture-antiquity-enlightenment?format=HB Place of Publication: Cambridge Re...

As the end of the century [in this case the end of the 80s] approaches, the triumph of Western liberal democracy again seems the inevitability that it did at the turn of the previous century. This is an absolute triumph of the Western idea. It is seen in the failure of all viable alternative ideas, and also in the spread of consumer culture around the world. This may signal the end of history i...

Humor seems to manifest differently in Western and Eastern cultures, although little is known about how culture shapes humor perceptions. The authors suggest that Westerners regard humor as a common and positive disposition; the Chinese regard humor as a special disposition particular to humorists, with controversial aspects. In Study 1, Hong Kong participants primed with Western culture evalua...

The ERP adoption rate in developing countries in Asia is very low. Apart from obvious differences in relative wealth of organizations in Western versus most Asian countries, the literature suggests that national cultures of the Asian countries, which are quite different to the culture of the Western world—the birth place of ERP—may be one reason for such low adoption rates in developing countri...

Objective(s):Multi-epitopic protein vaccines and direction of vaccine delivery to dendritic cells (DCs) are promising approaches for enhancing immune responses against mutable pathogens. Escherichia coli is current host for expression of recombinant proteins, and it is important to optimize expression condition. The aim of this study was the optimization of multi-epitopic HIV-1 tat/pol/gag/env ...