In today’s world, no one can deny the expansion of economic influence in the various aspects of social life and economization of immaterial issues of social life is becoming more obvious every day. The valuation of cultural goods, as one of the most important economic aspects related to arts and culture, is chosen to be considered in this study. The necessity of considering the economic valuat...

PURPOSE The authors critically examined the quantitative measures of cultural competence most commonly used in medicine and in the health professions, to identify underlying assumptions about what constitutes competent practice across social and cultural diversity. METHOD A systematic review of approximately 20 years of literature listed in PubMed, the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied H...

1 Cross-Cultural Comparison of Adolescents’ Online Self-Presentation Strategies: Turkey and the United States; Nevfel Boz, Children’s Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA & Department of Media and Communication, Social Science University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey Yalda T. Uhls, Children’s Digital Media Ce...

The article considers two paradigms of the center-periphery interaction in mixed and multiethnic systems. historical examples show peculiarities colonial paradigm where peripheral culture is suppressed displaced by center (metropolis). eparchial based on cross-cultural enrichment between provinces. Within final decades 20th century, principle was replaced “cultural colonization” global scale. A...

This paper uses data on over 800,000 cultural participants in 1996 and 2004 to examine changes in patterns of cultural participation over these years. The authors discover a consistent pattern in which areas of metropolitan Philadelphia with a large number of cultural organizations are those most likely to have high rates of participation. The connection between institutional presence and cultu...

this research aims at investigating the role of certain factors in organizational culture in the success of knowledge sharing. the research question asks which cultural factors affect knowledge sharing in r&d; center of petrochemical industry. research method used in research is survey. of the 190 survey packages sent out, 132 of the questionnaires returned. to analyze data we use spearman corr...

In recent years, laboratory studies of cultural evolution have become increasingly prevalent as a means of identifying and understanding the effects of cultural transmission on the form and functionality of transmitted material. The datasets generated by these studies may provide insights into the conditions encouraging, or inhibiting, high rates of innovation, as well as the effect that this h...

We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent’s transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon in which the experience and future of the agent can be accounted for, together with the advantage that narrative provides to sociality by making the experience of others availab...

Errors occur commonly in healthcare and can cause significant harm to patients. Most errors arise from a combination of individual, system, and communication failures. Neurologists may be involved in harmful errors in any practice setting and should familiarize themselves with tools to prevent, report, and examine errors. Although physicians, patients, and ethicists endorse candid disclosure of...

It has been proposed that cultural evolution was made possible by a cognitive transition brought about by onset of the capacity for self-triggered recall and rehearsal. Here we develop a novel idea that models of collectively autocatalytic networks, developed for understanding the origin and organization of life, may also help explain the origin of the kind of cognitive structure that makes cul...