Wetlands are a critical part of natural environments that offer wide range ecosystem services. In urban areas, wetlands contribute to the livability cities through improving water quality, carbon sequestration, providing habitats for wildlife species, reducing effects heat islands, and creating recreation opportunities. However, maintaining in areas faces many challenges, such as reduction hydr...

values matter to business process management? Results from a global Delphi study. Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source. Abstract Purpose – Business Process Management (BPM) requires a holistic perspective that includes m...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the association between cultural orientation and drinking behaviors among university students. Cultural orientation is the measure of how the cultural values of individuals living in their own society are influenced by cultural values introduced from the outside. METHODS In 2011, a cross-sectional survey collected data from 1279 university students from six univ...

This paper presents a classification of Chinese Cultural Values (CCVs). Although there exist great differences between the Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is still possible to identify certain core cultural values that are shared by the Chinese people no matter where they live. Based on the original list by the Chinese Cultural Connection (1987), the paper creates a new list that conta...

Starting from Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination, we introduce a rewiring probability, enabling agents to cut the links with their unfriendly neighbors if their cultural similarity is below a tolerance parameter. For low values of tolerance, rewiring promotes the convergence to a frozen monocultural state. However, intermediate tolerance values prevent rewiring once the network is fragme...

BACKGROUND Cultural values are invisible and relatively constant in societies. The purpose of the present study is to find diversities in cultural values of Iranian and Malaysian nursing students. MATERIALS AND METHODS Convenience sampling method was used for this comparative-descriptive study to gather the data from full-time undergraduate degree nursing students in Iran and Malaysia. The da...