This paper has three goals. The first is to understand why members of one organizational department are blind to the reasons why members of another department do not share their ideas for a new technology—what I call a “technology concept.” The second is to understand what consequences this “innovation blindness” has for the development of technology concepts across organizational and occupatio...

The present research investigates cultural variation in grounding principles for inferring agency. Our motivating question is whether cultural diversity in agency concepts reflects an animistic overextension of a single (universal) folkpsychology, as argued by many researchers, or an alternative folktheory of communication based on relational principles. In two experiments, a mind-perception me...

The intent of this chapter is to familiarize readers with the principles and constructs of an approach to learning and mental development known as Sociocultural Theory.1 Sociocultural Theory (SCT) has its origins in the writings of the Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky and his colleagues. SCT argues that human mental functioning is fundamentally a mediated process that is organized by cultura...

Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science Scientists currently employ numerous approaches to examine culture and its origin. Specifically, studies in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and archeology focus on illuminating different aspects of the cultural phenomenon. Although these traditional approaches provide much knowledge of the elements that constitute culture (e.g. value definitions...

To extend the application of digital technology to replication artifacts, meticulous details process and diversity three-dimensional (3D) printing output materials need be supplemented. Thus, in this study, a bronze mirror with Hwangbichangcheon inscription was digitalized by 3D scanning, converted into voxel model, virtual conservation treatment performed using haptic device. Furthermore, mold...

This paper focuses on the design and implementation of an Electronic Sales Infrastructure for Digital Images of the Cultural Heritage. The main components of the infrastructure are an Advanced Digital Image Repository, which offers specialized services and a Dedicated User Interface for the protection and management of the Intellectual Property Rights of digitized material. In addition, another...

Autobiographical remembering is examined as a cultural practice unfolding in the developmental dynamics of the interplay between memory, self and culture. In discussing the results of recent comparative studies in the United States and East Asia, we argue that autobiographical memory and self are interconnected meaning systems constructed in macroand micro-cultural contexts—contexts of collecti...

introdouction: one of the reasons that cause a pathologist to make an incorrect diagnosis includes artifacts leading to tissue changes and artificial structures in microscopic slides. the aim of this study was to examine the artifacts in histopathological slides in zahedan school of dentistry. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, all the available slides in oral and maxillofaci...