Conservation of cultural-artistic information. Cultural assets are very important components in ensuring and developing a sense of national identity. However, in spite of this importance, it is difficult to conserve these assets. In the case of performances and non-artefactual cultural assets, information is apt to disappear almost immediately after the initial performance. The same is true of ...

Using a three-part theoretical framework, the cultural relevance cycle-which consists of (a) knowing community dynamics, (b) knowing how community dynamics influence educational processes, and (c) implementing strategies that reflect cultural knowledge of the community--we examined teachers' and students' perspectives on culturally relevant physical education in urban settings. We observed and ...

This paper introduce a cultural algorithm based testbed which allows one to plug and play various combinations of evolution components for solving constrained numerical optimization. Our cultural algorithm framework combines weak search method with knowledge representation scheme for collecting and reasoning knowledge about individual experience. Currently genetic algorithm based software packa...

This article explicitly connects a growing body of specific literature, the political ecology of conservation, tosome of the often overlooked, main conceptual components emerging from political anthropology andgeography (sources of legitimacy, governmentality, territoriality, or state making), political economy(commoditization, market integration, niche markets, or gentrificatio...

This study was undertaken to improve the cultural and linguistic sensitivity of an established parent-mentor training curriculum for Latino parents of young children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The cultural sensitivity of curriculum components was determined by interviewing four Latino mothers raising five children (aged 7 to 12 years) with type 1 diabetes. The mothers recommended off...

Throughout the world, computer users approach a computer system with a specific set of cultural requirements. In all cultures, they expect computer systems to accommodate their needs. A major part of interaction with computers occurs through written language. Cultural requirements, particularly written languages, influence the way computer systems must operate. Cultural differences concerning n...

Cultural traits have long been used in anthropology as units of transmission that ostensibly reflect behavioural characteristics of the individuals or groups exhibiting the traits. After they are transmitted, cultural traits serve as units of replication in that they can be modified as part of an individual's cultural repertoire through processes such as recombination, loss or partial alteratio...

As the use of cell phones pervades over the world, globalization of user interface (UI) design is emphasized in developing cell phones for successful business. In reality, however, it is rarely possible to design a product that satisfies all international and intercultural customers. UI designers, therefore, need to collect cross-cultural usability information in the product development process...

Service design is considered to be one of the pivotal components in cultural and creative design industries which has a significant impact on consumer perception of innovation. Despite service design’s recognized importance, cultural and creative industries lack a systematic approach to it. Therefore, based on the “Taiwan experience”, this paper proposes a service innovation design model and pr...