OBJECTIVE The Truth about Suicide video has been widely used but has never been empirically tested regarding its cultural appropriateness for Asian Americans. The purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility of using the video in a web-based suicide awareness programme for Asian American and non-Hispanic white college students. METHODS A cross-sectional, comparative, web-based study ...

The present paper provides a comprehensive review about the main concepts on situation awareness for critical infrastructure. The issues related to models and architectures for data fusion and situation awareness are reported in the framework of Critical Infrastructure Protection. Both data fusion and situation swareness have been developed in Critical Infrastructure field to merge and integrat...

Increased resources are being committed to the multicultural training of counselors. Despite these gains, training continues to focus almost exclusively on the acquisition of cultural awareness and culture-specific knowledge. Valuable though they are, awareness and knowledge, the authors argue, do not necessarily result in effective multicultural counseling skill. Therefore, it is recommended t...

This paper illustrates a Cultural Heritage Space Identification System, named CUSPIS, and his three main applications: the Cultural Asset Management (CAM), the Cultural Asset Fruition (CAF) and the Cultural Asset Geo-Time Authentication (GTA). CUSPIS project aims to introduce in Cultural Heritage sector the positioning and navigation satellite technology provided by EGNOS and GALILEO system, cr...

Background and Objectives: Effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. Cultural competence is key to effective communication. The aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   Methods: Twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. Data ...

This article describes the activities conducted by the Race and Gender Committee of one school of nursing in North Carolina to promote cultural awareness and knowledge among faculty and doctoral students. Wells's Institutional Cultural Development Model provided a theoretical framework for a systematic approach to the development of activities designed to identify cultural issues as they relate...

Cultural competence in health care has come to the forefront with the changing demographics in the United States. Standards have been created by the Office of Minority Health for culturally appropriate health care. This article presents the findings of one hospital system's cultural competency assessment. Employee surveys and patient and physician focus groups were conducted to gain insight int...

The present study is an in depth empirical study of dowry-related offences. It makes a critical analysis of judicial activism-a new developmentin liberating women. The specific objective of this paper was to study the socio-educational profile of victims of dowry offences and relate it to the socio-cultural practice of dowry. It also makes an analysis of the laws related to dowry and their effe...

This paper describes the development of a haptic device for emulating the sonic and haptic dynamics of a carillon, specifically the National Carillon in Canberra, Australia. The carillon is one of only a few instruments that elicit a sophisticated haptic response from the amateur and professional player alike. Force-feedback varies widely across the range of the instrument and developing an int...