This paper takes Taoxichuan Cultural and Creative Street as a case study. It explores how enterprises activate the value of “industrial heritage” resources achieve sustainable development from perspective affordance theory. Research findings indicated that: (1) creation culturally recognized context performs vital role in activating industrial heritage; (2) evocation heritage is dynamic process...

We propose two fundamentally different motives for helping: gaining pleasure and fulfilling one’s duty (‘‘pressure’’). Using the newly developed Pleasure and Pressure based Prosocial Motivation Scale, we demonstrated the distinctiveness of pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation in three studies. Although the two motives exhibited different relations to a variety of personality charact...

OBJECTIVES Cultural variability (CV) is introduced as an overlooked dimension of cultural identity development pertaining to emphasizing and de-emphasizing the influence of a single cultural identity (i.e., cultural influence [CI]) on daily interactions and behaviors. The Cultural IDentity Influence Measure (CIDIM) is introduced as a novel measure of CI and CV, and hypothesis-driven validation ...

In recent years, far from arguing that evolutionary approaches to our own species permit us to describe the fundamental character of human nature, a prominent group of cultural evolutionary theorists has instead argued that the very idea of 'human nature' is one we should reject. It makes no sense, they argue, to speak of human nature in opposition to human culture. The very same sceptical argu...

In an experiment on 6 young adults advance (precued) information of the correct choice response was utilized completely: (a) For precue-to-stimulus intervals (PSIs) clearly shorter than the difference between mean choice and simple reaction time (RT), median response latency (L) measured from precue onset was invariant; (b) For clearly longer PSIs, median RT was very near the value for simple R...

Lotos data structures are described by sorts, which represent value domains, and operations, which are mathematical functions defined on these domains by algebraic equations. Value expressions are terms built from variables and operations. Sorts, operations, and equations are grouped in modules called types, which can be combined together using multiple inheritance, renaming, parametrization, a...

the central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. this necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

In this paper we suggest an alternative to standard neodarwinian evolution theory. The problem is that Darwinism, which sees evolution as a consequence of random variation and natural selection is based on a materialistic i.e. matter-based view of science, while matter in itself is considered to be a very complex notion in modern physics. More specifically, on a microlevel, matter and energy ar...