BACKGROUND Sustainable and equitable health programmes require a grounded understanding of the context in which they are being implemented. This socio-cultural understanding is pivotal for effective delivery of elimination programmes. Standardised valid methods are needed for gathering authentic socio-cultural insights. The currently recommended protocol for collecting Lymphatic Filariasis (LF)...

The goal of this paper is to link a bridge between social relationship and cultural variation to predict conversants’ non-verbal behaviors. This idea serves as a basis of establishing a parameter based socio-cultural model which determines non-verbal expressive parameters that specify the shapes of agent’s nonverbal behaviors in HAI. As a first step, comparative multimodal corpus analysis is do...

Our recent research investigated the experiences of educators teaching statistics as service courses at universities. We conducted interviews by email with participants from many countries and whose teaching reflects diverse settings, student groups and disciplines—a microcosm of higher education today. We now focus on the tools, artefacts and resources respondents identified as critical to dev...

modernization as a process also affects the way a society thinks, its attitudes, beliefs, food, dress habits, and cultural patterns at the level of individuals, and as the individuals can be seen as units of the society. in this study, an attempt has been made to understand the consequences of modernization in the traditional housing pattern as reflected in the changes in kitchen. for the prese...

the author in this research has tried to link the alexander pattern language theory, which is based on human oriented and spatial factors, to landscape design, which could come to a cyclic model of “a pattern language for landscape design” in iranian schools of architecture. so, a landscape design process based on the value of human-oriented approach, which is extracted from other values, and t...

The complexities of digital age pose challenge to existing instruction technology theory as it applies to a distance learning environment. Through the lens of Activity Theory, this study takes a broad picture of an online course and examines the socio-cultural factors affecting the success of a distance course as well as their complex relationships. Interventions at the group and organizational...

Spatial data sharing mechanisms are an important asset to territorial communities. They help them understand and control their long term development. In this perspective, this paper suggests a novel approach of geodata appropriation processes based on diverse socio-cognitive theories. This approach suggests that the evolution of spatial data infrastructures from rough data exchange platforms to...

This paper investigates the influence of culture on product design in Botswana, a topic on which there little previous research. It is argued that product innovation should be assimilated within the context of Botswana’s own culture but it has been observed that designers have not yet been able to encode cultural phenomena to the same extent as physical ones. The basis of this paper is that the...

We present here lesson plans for teaching the dynamical systems topic of iteration of functions and (attractive and repelling) xed points from three existing pedagogical viewpoints in practice: constructivism, socio{cultural theory and interactionism. In each lesson plan, it is suggested that the topic can be taught using algebraic, geometrical and computational tools.