national identity is a main factor of stability of social and political systems. therefore one of the aims and scopes of poiltical socialization in all political systems is strengthening and reproduction of national identity. but this problem is required to exact recognition and evaluation, it is necessary to identify, dimensions, elements and indicators of national identity in order to dot sci...

Title: Identification of microbial indicators and free living protozoa in natural mineral water using cultural and molecular methods. Author list: Michele Totaro*, Beatrice Casini*, Paola Valentini*, Mario Miccoli°, Pier Luigi Lopalco*, Angelo Baggiani* Affiliations: *Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy. ° Department of Cl...

The development of specific agriculture and food supply systems are closely related to general developmental trends of humankind. In this context technology and economic development as well as socio-cultural developments affect productivity and a secure supply with food. For all those factors, however, the relation to agriculture works in two directions. This is obvious for economic development...

People in an organization constitute an important and essential asset which tremendously contributes to development and growth of that company by the help of their collective attitudes, skills and abilities. This is why the human capital (HC) can be considered the most important sub-dimension of the intellectual capital. Since you cannot manage what you cannot control, and you cannot control wh...

Introduction: Children with atypical development often present behavior problems that impair their psychosocial adaptation. Objective: To describe the cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI-01), as well as preliminary indicators of instrument reliability and validity. Methods: The process involved translation, back-translation, and cultural adaptatio...

SETTING Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Colombia. OBJECTIVE Assess indicators of TB-related stigma and socio-cultural and gender-related features of illness associated with stigma. DESIGN Semi-structured Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) interviews were administered to 100 or more patients at each site, assessing categories of distress, perce...

For how long does cultural heritage persist? Do the culturally inherited values of immigrants dilute as generations pass? We answer these question by studying the relationship between revealed political behavior of immigrant families and the culture of the place where they migrated from, either one or many generations ago. Using surnames as indicators of region of origin of Italians in Venezuel...

Being able to assess the impact of government-led investment onto socio-economic indicators in cities has long been an important target of urban planning. However, owing to the lack of large-scale data with a fine spatio-temporal resolution, there have been limitations in terms of how planners can track the impact and measure the effectiveness of cultural investment in small urban areas. Taking...