The development of information networks has given people the freedom choice and ability to mutate adapt on their own. Today's upper elementary school students college (born in late mid-1990s early 2010s) are first digital native generation, known as “Generation Z” (shortly Gen Z). A review immersion education shows lack case study approach, therefore, this paper, through specific global collabo...

Understanding residents’ attitudes is critical for successfully developing cultural tourism in aboriginal protected areas. This study developed an integration model combining two theories to identify the key determinants of indigenous residents’ attitudes toward cultural tourism development. Social exchange theory stresses the impact of the benefits derived from tourism on indigenous residents’...

This paper presents a simple mathematical model that shows how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning process driving cultural evolution increases individuals’ economic gains. The key assumptions are that human populations are structured into groups and that cultural learning is more likely to occur within than between groups. ...

SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform) is a Research and Development project sponsored under the Europeans Commission’s 7th Framework. The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalized access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using onsite knowledge databases...

Over 1,650 participants from 94 countries came together in Florence from 9-14 November 2014 for the 18 General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 1300 technical proposals and the exchange between heritage specialists have culminated in the following Declaration of principles and recommendations on the value of cultural heritage and landscapes for promoting pe...

This project poster introduces the recently started EEXCESS project, which aims at Enhancing Europes eXchange in Cultural Educational and Scientific Resource. Europe has digitised vast amounts of cultural, scientific and educational content like for example scientific research, historical sound recordings, images of sculptures, films and sheet music. However, since content dissemination on the ...

Cultural competency is a process that requires knowledge, diligence, and availability of resources. For the individual practitioner, it may be unfeasible to expect expert-level knowledge of any more than a few cultural groups. This commentary provides a general approach that clinicians can use to become oriented to a culture, make use of evidence-based frameworks, and treat the therapy as an on...

It is the aim of the CULTOS project to provide researchers in intertextual studies with a collaborative multimedia platform for the authoring, management, search, exchange, and presentation of Intertextual Threads (ITTs), knowledge structures that interrelate and compare cultural artefacts. By means of the CULTOS platform, researchers will be able to create a world-wide collection of multimedia...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...