Japanese Persimmon Cultural Practices in Florida

Intensive Cultural Practices Increase Growth of Juvenile Slash Pine in Florida Sandhills

Cultural differences in the health information environments and practices between Finnish and Japanese university students

The Internet has changed the way people of all ages seek information (Rowlands et al. 2008), and the ongoing paradigm shift in the realm of the Internet to Web 2.0, in other words, to more dynamic sources and interactive content, will change people’s information behaviour even more (O’Reilly 2005). The Internet is a vast resource of health information and services. For example, in the context o...

Cross-cultural epistemic practices

should provide a framework for the effective investigation of the entire complex problem of the intellectual processes of society—a study by which society as a whole seeks a perceptive relation to its total environment. It should lift the study of intellectual life from that of a scrutiny of the individual to an inquiry into the means by which a society, nation, or culture achieves understandin...

Best Management Practices for Florida Citrus

Best management practices (BMPs) started in Florida citrus (Citrus spp.) in the 1990s and have evolved to play a major role in production practices today. One of the earliest BMPs in Florida arose from concerns over nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in some surfi cial groundwater aquifers exceeding the 10 mg·L–1 drinking water standard. This occurred in an area of well-drained sandy soils known a...

Verbal Behavior and Cultural Practices

Three kinds of selection are reviewed with primary focus on the relations between behavioral and cultural contingencies. Operant behavior is briefly examined with regard to cultural materialist theory. The functions of verbal behavior in infrastructural and superstructural practices are suggested. Discrepancies between rules promulgated in the superstructure and the requirements of the infrastr...