INTRODUCTION AND AIMS This paper describes how substance use features in the accounts of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators in treatment in England and Brazil. The aim of the research was to better understand cross cultural constructions of IPV perpetration amongst men in treatment for substance use. DESIGN AND METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 men in communi...

This paper reviews the literature concerning technology used for creating and delivering accessible museum cultural heritage sites experiences. It highlights importance of delivery suited everyone from different areas expertise, namely interaction design, pedagogical participatory it presents how recent future artificial intelligence (AI) developments can be this aim, i.e.,improving widening on...

Driven by artificial intelligence technology, the research of intangible cultural heritage innovative design is carried out. Firstly, appearance modeling characteristics, decorative element and composition form characteristics typical products are analyzed. According to collected relevant data existing products, combined with regional other factors, analysis Atlas product innovation constructed...

An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was used to analyse the capillary rise in porous media. Wetting experiments were performed with fifteen liquids and fifteen different powders. The liquids covered a wide range  of  surface  tension ( 15.45-71.99  mJ/m2 )  and  viscosity (0.25-21 mPa.s). The powders also provided an acceptable range of particle size (0.012-45 μm) and surface free...

Validating the cultural context of health is important for obtaining accurate and useful information from standardized measures of child health adapted for cross-cultural applications. This paper describes the application of ethnographic triangulation for cultural validation of a measure of childhood disability, the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) for use with children livin...

We discuss the thesis that the implementation of a moral code in the behaviour of artificial intelligent systems needs a specific form of human and artificial intelligence, not just an abstract intelligence. We present intelligence as a system with an internal structure and the structural levels of the moral system, as well as certain characteristics of artificial intelligent agents which can/m...

Cultural psychology ultimately aims to increase intercultural understanding, but it has also been accused of reifying stereotypes. Can learning about cultural psychology research cause students to increase their cultural sensitivity, or does it increase stereotyped and rigid thinking about cultural others? Students in an undergraduate cultural psychology course (N = 34) were compared to student...

The last few years have seen the publication of a number of studies by researchers claiming to have induced "synaesthesia," "pseudo-synaesthesia," or "synaesthesia-like" phenomena in non-synaesthetic participants. Although the intention of these studies has been to try and shed light on the way in which synaesthesia might have been acquired in developmental synaesthestes, we argue that they may...

The article discusses causes, ways, and results of modifying Russian phraseological units with a letter-name component, which play significant role in all written linguistic cultures. relevance the theme is proven by sustained attention linguists to origin functioning units, objective comprehend underlying processes interacting between extralinguistic reality, including culture, language struct...