Among the developmentally supportive care modalities that have been tested in the treatment of preterm infants, music interventions have been tested quite intensively. This article reports on the environmental, cultural, and philosophical considerations of a research program that studied the effects of live music, wordless singing, and rhythm upon neonates in a Middle Eastern NICU hospital unit...

This paper reviews literature on communication between informed experts and uninformed decision makers. The research provides some insight into what constitutes a persuasive statement and under what conditions a decision maker will benefit from consulting an expert. I classify the literature along four dimensions: strategic, technological, institutional, and cultural. To the extent that decisio...

In this article, we describe how cross-cultural research methodologies have evolved, with each phase of research addressing limitations of a previous one. We describe briefly the three previous phases and argue for embarking on a fourth phase that empirically establishes linkages between the active cultural ingredients hypothesized to cause between-country differences and the observed differenc...

clinical and cross-cultural considerations in typically developing 4-to 12-year-old French-speaking children Abstract The principal aim of this study was to validate the five-factor structure of the French version of the Conners Parent Rating Scale-CPRS in French-speaking children. A sample of children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was assessed and their ADHD CPRS pro...

The literature indicates that involvement of families in critical care settings is effective in meeting the needs of families and patients during a medical crisis. This article presents basic concepts from family systems theory, including cultural considerations useful in developing nursing care plans that integrate family involvement in the care of critically ill patients.

The past thirty (30) to forty (40) years has been a period when emphasis was placed on the development of available water resources all over the world. Despite the benefits, the environmental, social and cultural impacts have had a mixture of desirable and undesirable effects. These considerations must therefore be integrated into the development process so as to make water resource use sustain...

This paper argues that there is a need for integrating cultural considerations into AIED systems in order to enhance interactions between systems and learners. The development of a conceptual model of intercultural communication, the challenges encountered and the major achievements are described.

Members of a multicultural society must all be subject to the same equitable system of justice. However, culture exerts profound influences on human behavior, and cultural considerations have a place in determinations of capacity and in appropriate sentencing. Cultural psychiatry can contribute to forensic psychiatry by helping to contextualize individuals' actions and experiences. This context...

The affects associated with culture, the values inherent in cultures and the identification of cultural assumptions are popular topics in recent management and Information Systems (IS) research. The main focus in relevant IS research over the years, has been on the comparison of cultural artifacts in different cultural settings. Despite these studies we need to ask whether there is a general ap...

This paper argues that there is a need for integrating cultural considerations into AIED systems in order to enhance interactions between systems and learners. The development of a conceptual model of intercultural communication, the challenges encountered and the major achievements are described.