Understanding the main values and beliefs that might promote humanized birth practices in the specialized hospitals requires articulating the theoretical knowledge of the social and cultural characteristics of the childbirth field and the relations between these and the institution. This paper aims to provide a conceptual framework allowing examination of childbirth practices through the lens o...

In this commentary, it is argued that greater attention paid to ethical considerations related to doing Public Health Research with Scheduled Tribes (STs) should be prioritized. Given the high levels of health needs among STs as well as their high levels of deprivation, cultural oppression, and impingement on their rights, there is a need to revisit our research practices to contribute to bette...

We examined the negative effects of individualism in an East Asian culture. Although individualistic systems decrease interpersonal relationships through competition, individualistic values have prevailed in European American cultures. One reason is because individuals could overcome negativity by actively constructing interpersonal relationships. In contrast, people in East Asian cultures do n...

Changes in foodways were an object of literary reflection on the Roman past in the early empire. They offered a rich set of ingredients with which to characterize social, economie, and cultural change. Varro is prominent in attesting and shaping this tradition, but it is an older, and more broadly based means of narrating Roman social history. Varro developed this material in his treatise, On t...

Inter-cultural communication apprehension is one of the major factors that may influence the processes of the interorganization collaboration in electronic commerce. It is an obstruction, prohibiting inter-organization collaboration in different ways. If we can manage the inter-cultural communication apprehension properly, we may be able to bring organizations of different cultures together for...

Our research explores the possibilities for factoring culture into user models, working towards cultural adaptivity in the Semantic Web. The aim is to automate the localization process by acquiring details about an individual’s cultural background. The paper shows how we have based our approach on research findings from related fields, outlining the connection between the cultural user and doma...

in 2010, the ministry of education of one of the most diverse provinces in canada initiated the implementation of a support program for newcomer students to facilitate their academic, linguistic, social, and cultural adaptation in french speaking schools. this longitudinal multiple case study will document how immigrant parents support their children’s learning, and create a home environment co...

Chimpanzees show cultural differences among populations across Africa but also between neighboring communities. The extent of these differences among neighbors, however, remains largely unknown. Comparing three neighboring chimpanzee community in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, we found 27 putative cultural traits, including tool use, foraging, social interaction, communication and huntin...

The paper presents a web-based application for preparation and presentation of various twoand three-dimensional cultural showpieces in a virtual environment. Specific task modules built on a common database provide tools for designing spatial models of a real or a fully virtual gallery, exhibit management, arrangement of exhibits within the virtual space, and final web presentation using standa...

Tihe problem of whether the cultural and social environ­ ment of natural sciences, physics in particular, can influ­ ence the structure of their theories is considered. It is ar­ gued that the structure of particular theories is often in­ fluenced by the environment however not in a direct way but through the scientific community itself in the process of its struggle to gain autonomy and respec...