There are pitfalls in the singular application of western categories in diagnosing psychiatric disorders and distress among refugees. Based on my research with Cambodian refugees I argue that cultural bereavement, by mapping the subjective experience of refugees, gives meaning to the refugee's distress, clarifies the 'structure' of the person's reactions to loss, frames psychiatric disorder in ...

The Western project management (PM] approach requires the use of not only PM technology but also PM values/beliefs. This research is concerned with the likely cultural barriers for Chinese enterprises to use the PM approach. The literature review reveals the four cultural barriers of the Doctrine of the Mean, Strong Hierarchy, Family Consciousness, and Boss Orientation. Then, through a question...

Abstract In this paper, we introduce the notion of a complete hypertetrahedral arrangement $${\mathcal {A}}$$ A in $${\mathbb {P}}^{n}$$ P n . We address two basic problems. First, describe local freeness terms smaller arrangement...

Gravity balancing techniques allow for the reduction of energy consumptions in robotic systems. With appropriate arrangements, often including springs, overall potential a manipulator can be made configuration-independent, achieving an indifferent equilibrium any position. On other hand, such arrangements lose their effectiveness when some system parameters change, mass. This paper proposes met...

This paper explores the scope for upscaling and transnational transfer of participatory landslide risk management strategies informal settlements in Latin America. Drawing on lessons from transdisciplinary action-research three neighbourhoods Medellín, Colombia, one São Paulo, Brazil, discusses how bottom-up approaches were developed to co-produce both Global South cities, a way that optimises ...

BACKGROUND To develop and evaluate a continuing medical education (CME) course aimed at improving healthcare provider knowledge about breast cancer health disparities and the importance of cross-cultural communication in provider-patient interactions about breast cancer screening. METHODS An interactive web-based CME course was developed and contained information about breast cancer dispariti...

BACKGROUND Anecdotal evidence suggests that people from non-Anglo-Celtic backgrounds are under-represented at familial cancer clinics in the UK, the USA, and Australia. This article discusses cultural beliefs as a potential key barrier to access, reviews previous empirical research on cultural aspects of cancer genetics, draws implications from findings, and sets a research agenda on the inter-...

In buildings with triangular plan, the center of mass and rigidity cannot geometrically match all possible directions of the earthquake. This will result in torsional moments in the stories causing the building to rotate around the center of rigidity. In this paper, via response spectrum analysis (RSA) and nonlinear static analysis, the seismic behavior of 5-, 10- and 15-story steel structures ...