Conserving and managing animals that learn socially and share cultures.

Ethnobotanical Importance of Orans - As a Means Of Conserving Biodiversity

Special sites or areas that have one or more attributes which distinguish them as somehow extraordinary, usually in a religious or spiritual sense, are called sacred places. They tend to evoke a feeling of some awesome, mysterious, and transcendent power that merits special reverence and treatment. Sacred groves are stands of trees or patches of forest that local communities conserve primarily ...

Whistleblowing in the Wind Towards a Socially Situated Research Agenda: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Role of Employee Whistleblowing and Raising Concerns in an Organizational Learning Culture – Elusive and Laudable?; Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”

It is inevitable that healthcare workers throughout their careers will witness actual or potential threats to patient safety in the course of their work. Some of these threats will result in serious harm occurring to others, whilst at other times such threats will result in minimal harm, or a ‘near miss’ where harm is avoided at the last minute. Despite organizations encouraging employees to ‘s...

Iranian EFL Learners’ Attitudes towards Target and Source Cultures

Maintaining that language and culture are interwoven to the extent that learning the former is largely dependent on the latter, this study aimed to investigate the attitude of Iranian English as Foreign Language (EFL) Learners of Tehran South Branch of Islamic Azad University (both undergraduates and postgraduates) towards the learning of the cultural aspects of language, both the target and so...

Learning to Behave Socially

Our previous work introduced a methodology for synthesizing and analyzing basic behaviors which served as a substrate for generating a large repertoire of higher{level group interactions (Matari c 1992, Matari c 1993). In this paper we describe how, given the substrate, agents can learn to behave socially, i.e. to maximize average individual by maximizing collective beneet. While this is a well...