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The Information Culture Challenge: Moving Beyond OAIS

One of the major challenges involved in digital preservation is to understand what the problem of preserving digital objects is in all of its diverse, idiosyncratic instantiations, rather than to look for uniform, technically feasible, economically sustainable, and standard-compliant solutions. We argue that by using a situated, descriptive approach to the investigation of actual environments w...

Technology, Design, Culture: Interconnected ingredients for moving beyond best practice in commercial buildings

Overview Both the technologies and design concepts exist for a new generation of low-energy buildings that outperform today’s typical high-performance buildings. Cultural barriers, however, are a primary inhibitor of the widespread construction of these buildings. This paper first gives examples of existing technologies and design concepts exceeding today’s best practice, followed by successful...

Culture and child maltreatment: cultural competence and beyond.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to comment on current issues in the relationship between culture and child maltreatment. METHOD A review of the literature on culture and child maltreatment is the basis of the article. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION While attention has been directed to the relationship between culture and maltreatment for more than 20 years, there is a need for further de...

Beyond nature versus culture: cultural variation as an evolved characteristic*

There is a perceived dichotomy between evolutionary explanations for behaviour and social or cultural ones. In this essay, I attempt to dissolve this dichotomy by pointing out that organisms are susceptible to social or cultural influence because they have evolved mechanisms that make them so. I review two classes of evolutionary explanation for cultural variation, ‘evoked’ and ‘transmitted’ cu...

Disciplining the Sustainable City: Moving Beyond Science, Technology or Society?