BACKGROUND Cultural diversity often leads to misunderstandings, clashes, conflicts, ethnocentrism, discrimination, and stereotyping due to the frequent intersection of many variables, such as differences in traditions, behaviours, ethical and moral perspectives, conceptions of health and illness, and language barriers. The root of the issue is related to the way people conceptualise differences...

The overall aim of this thesis is to explore, analyze and clarify how cultural competence is understood. This is explored from the perspective of nurses, nursing students, nurse educators, and nurse researchers in relation to the Swedish care context. The field of transcultural nursing and cultural competence was founded in the United States in the 1950s in response to an increased awareness of...

Abstract The emergence of the Internet Things has fueled a proliferation smart things in many fields, including cultural spaces. Context-awareness addresses production large volumes context by analyzing raw data and adding meaning to them. Middleware systems have emerged, which perform modelling reasoning, supporting context-aware applications. services provided such applications can be persona...

Intercultural communicative competence plays an important role in the development of students' language and communication skills. This article examines cultural characteristics intercultural study English language. is a new "borderline" subject closely related to teaching higher education institutions. Thus, proper use linguistic skills essential part