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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 80047 1 hardback ISBN 0 521 80482 5 paperback Contents List of figures page vii List of contributors viii Preface ix 1 Social, cultural and cognitive factors in stereotype formation 1 8 From personal pictures in the head to collective tools in the world: how shared stereotypes allow groups to represent and change ...

In this paper, a novel definition of Context is presented along with its usage in a Mobile application for Cultural Heritage (CH). The proposed approach is pragmatic and takes care of practical issues that need to be addressed when an implementation has to be built. Examples are shown of how the context is used for three different purposes: context-aware media retrieval, user orienteering and s...

This talk investigates the meaning, contents and characteristics of systems institution on the basis of Noetic Science, which was founded by Qian Xuesen. The systems intuition is the human capability to find the hidden system imagery of the object or to create an imagery of new system. The basic noetic foundation of system intuition and cultural influence to it are studied. The open problems ar...

Abnormal development of the external and internal genital organs and male pseudohermaphrodite-type disorders of sex development is one of the conditions that creates problem in determination of gender. In this case report, our aim is to discuss how disorders with psychotic symptoms may affect different cultural life styles, circumstances, experience, delusion contents of identification and acce...

Digitization has immense potential to store, preserve, disseminate and redistribute cultural materials, if the materials are captured in a bit stream format so as to enable to access through network for learning and understanding the history and culture of a civic society. Generally these materials are stored in museums or in libraries, but they can be spread over the globe and with the spread ...

This article argues that ennobled urban spaces are places of consumption, in which contemporary processes gentrification promote a double movement: they make local cultural contents more flexible and, otherwise, rehabilitate certain contents, aiming at the re-traditionalization these consumption by insertion events as way legitimizing interventions based on supposedly common tradition.