Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine have entered into a three-year, collaborative agreement to explore potential uses of next-generation Internet for professional education in public health. Computers and the Internet are pervasive elements in personal and professional life, and their influence on education and training is growing. Variou...

In non-stationary economic conditions, being one of the most promising macroregions Russia and despite existing problems, Far Eastern Federal District possesses all resource technology potential essential for a breakthrough in socioeconomic development. East driver development can be presented by gas industry on functioning which is concentrated entire range interests (national, public, regiona...

Prior research differentiates dialectical (e.g., East Asian) from non-dialectical cultures (e.g., North American and Latino) and attributes cultural differences in self-concept consistency to naïve dialecticism. In this research, we explored the effects of managing two cultural identities on consistency within the bicultural self-concept via the role of dialectical beliefs. Because the challeng...

The main focus of the presented paper is to investigate whether the concept of bonding and bridging social capital can be reasonably specified by categorizing voluntary associations according to their constitutive goods, i.e. purposes, and whether this conceptualization will also hold for empirical analysis in the realm of political participation. The empirical findings both for East and West G...