Is Cultural Diversity a Socio-Economic Opportunity ?

Socio-Cultural Aspects of Native Maize Diversity

Transgenic Maize in Mexico.

Measuring Doctoral Student Diversity socio-economic background

Cultural Diversity, Economic Development and Societal Instability

BACKGROUND Social scientists have suggested that cultural diversity in a nation leads to societal instability. However, societal instability may be affected not only by within-nation or alpha diversity, but also diversity between a nation and its neighbours or beta diversity. It is also necessary to distinguish different domains of diversity, namely linguistic, ethnic and religious, and to dist...

The Effect of Socio-Economic-Cultural Factors on Breast Cancer.

OBJECTIVE Socioeconomic and cultural factors influence breast cancer prognosis. The effect of these factors on breast cancer was evaluated among women who live in Gaziantep and its surroundings. MATERIALS AND METHODS female patients who were admitted to Gaziantep University Oncology Hospital with a diagnosis of breast cancer between October 2006-July 2013 were included in the study. The effec...

Cruise tourism : economic , socio - cultural and environmental impacts

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing sector of the travel industry in the last years. Arrivals in the Caribbean region increased from three million in 1980 to more than 25 million in 2007. In this paper we describe the evolution of the cruise industry and review the experiences of different cruise destinations. We als...