Designers and engineers that plan and manufacture technological systems imprint their values and practices onto these systems, without fully realizing that inconsistencies in cultural dimensions between developers and users may result in poor implementation of the new system due to resistance to change, among other causes. Therefore, manager's awareness of cultural differences is a necessary co...

1.introduction this study is going to explore the effects of cultural tourism. it emphasizes on the rich cultural heritage of rural areas, like shaikh kolini in fashafouieh. also, this research explores the domination of cultural tourism in this area beside other types of tourism and also tourism effects on rural areas is going to be discussed. 2.theortical framework primarily, places have vari...

The overarching goal of my research program is to develop a scientific framework for cultural evolution that is as clear as our scientific framework for biological evolution. Such a framework can provide us with a better understanding of our origins and possibly improve the accuracy of predictions concerning future cultural scenarios. This presentation will begin by motivating the theoretical f...

The Internet, World Wide Web, and related information technologies, originally developed in western countries, have rapidly spread to a great variety of countries and cultures. Many of these technologies facilitate and mediate interpersonal communication, an activity whose modes and means bind closely to cultural norms and values. This article provides a theoretical integration of Hall's (1976)...

BACKGROUND Learning with virtual patients (VPs) is considered useful in medical education for fostering clinical reasoning. As the authoring of VPs is highly demanding, an international exchange of cases might be desirable. However, cultural differences in foreign VPs might hamper learning success. OBJECTIVE We investigated the need for support for using VPs from the United States at a German...

Creating organization-wide behavioral change in a large organization is an extremely challenging task. However, it is a well-known fact that creating tangible cultural change in the way people think and act regarding exchange of knowledge is an absolute pre-requisite for successful introduction of Knowledge Management (KM) in a company. Based on the experience of several cultural change project...

In this Essay, we examine a case in which the organizational and logistical demands of a novel form of organ exchange (the nonsimultaneous, extended, altruistic donor (NEAD) chain) do not map cleanly onto standard cultural schemas for either market or gift exchange, resulting in sociological ambiguity and legal uncertainty. In some ways, a NEAD chain resembles a form of generalized exchange, an...

The recent earthquake in Haiti thrust the debate over intercountry adoption into the mainstream media. The Associated Press reported that before the earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, there were 380,000 parentless Haitian children. Estimates reported in the New York Times suggest that the earthquake orphaned hundreds of thousands of additional Haitian children who are now in need ...