Indo-Portuguese Quilting Tradition: The Cross-Cultural Context

Reconstructing the history of marriage strategies in Indo-European-speaking societies: monogamy and polygyny.

Explanations for the emergence of monogamous marriage have focused on the cross-cultural distribution of marriage strategies, thus failing to account for their history. In this paper I reconstruct the pattern of change in marriage strategies in the history of societies speaking Indo-European languages, using cross-cultural data in the systematic and explicitly historical framework afforded by t...

Copyright and Cross-Cultural Borrowing: Indo-Western Musical Encounters

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale in Brazil.

Objective Conduct a cross-cultural adaptation of the expanded version of the 29-items Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) into Brazilian Portuguese. Method Five steps were adopted: three translations, synthesis, three back-translations, assessment by an expert committee, and pre-test. Validation comprised 327 students from 13 undergraduate health courses from a public univers...

Cross-cultural adaptation of The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire into Portuguese.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ-Specific) has proven useful for measuring patients' beliefs and associating them with non-adherence to treatment in several illness groups. The aim was to cross-culturally adapt the BMQ-Specific into Portuguese for the general population of medicine users. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study conducted among users of pu...

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Rivermead Mobility Index in stroke patients within the brazilian cultural and language context.

The aim of this project is to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the assessment instrument known as the Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI) within the Brazilian cultural context and in Brazilian Portuguese for people suffering from strokes. The RMI was translated into Portuguese and translated back into English by independent bi-lingual translators, preserving the characterist...