In an age of globalization phenomena, ideas or traditions considered typical for one culture may appear in another, even entire cultural environment. Of course, as they adapt to the recipient culture, will be different from what were originally. this essay, author analyzes phenomenon popularity Japanese philosophy known wabi-sabi Western while, at same time, contrasting original understanding t...

abstract: the physician-patient relationship has been undergoing significant changes in recent decades in western countries. taking a client-centered approach, society has given more autonomy and freedom to patients. the patient is regarded as a consumer who is looking for the best and most scientific approach and is free to choose among different methods of treatment. the role of the physician...

objective(s):multi-epitopic protein vaccines and direction of vaccine delivery to dendritic cells (dcs) are promising approaches for enhancing immune responses against mutable pathogens. escherichia coli is current host for expression of recombinant proteins, and it is important to optimize expression condition. the aim of this study was the optimization of multi-epitopic hiv-1 tat/pol/gag/env ...

Western science has developed powerful techniques for modeling and aiding important social decisions. One such technique is risk assessment. The relationship of risk to cultural context is apparent in a number of its facets, including its dependence on values and the (potential) clash between probabilistic versus deterministic views about states of the future. This paper is an examination of th...

The present article attempts to point out a promising model of emotional intelligence and its measure for identifying usefulness in clinical psychology research and practice. The place of emotional intelligence in clinical psychology is examined in relation to existing concepts, that is, alexithymia, neuroticism, general mental ability, social intelligence, and empathy. The psychometric status ...

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Every year, the United States was estimated to have suffered from billions of dollars of trade losses due to piracy and counterfeiting in China. While the Chinese undeniably have taken a free ride on the creative efforts of Western authors and inventors, greed alone does not explain the massive piracy and counterfeiting problems in the country. Instead, one needs to develop a better understandi...

In this paper, I argue that science education research and curriculum development efforts in Nonwestern countries can benefit by adopting a constructivist view of science and science learning. The past efforts at transferring curricula from the West, and local development projects that result in curricula only marginally different from Western curricula, stem from an acultural view of science. ...

Abstract This article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University Singapore. Students draw their experiences living in culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies recognize that such contradictions exist both Western non-Western world.

BACKGROUND Despite decades of disagreement among mental health practitioners and researchers in the Western world pertaining to the causation, classification and treatment of mental disorders there is an ongoing push to implement western mental health models in developing countries. Little information exists on the adaptability of western mental health models in developing countries. METHOD T...