Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

This paper explores the relations between island settlement, identity and sense of place in the prehistoric Mediterranean. It uses modern examples and archaeological case studies to discuss the effects of colonisation and abandonment on island communities and the creation of distinctive identities as a form of cultural resistance. Abandonment had a homogenising effect on prehistoric cultures, a...

The transmission of genes and culture between human populations has major implications for understanding potential correlations between history, biological, and cultural variation. Understanding such dynamics in 19th century, post-contact Native Americans on the western Great Plains is especially challenging given passage of time, complexity of known dynamics, and difficulties of determining ge...

the aim of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and the new measure to evaluate the organization' performance. powerful organizational culture has significantly related with organizational’ performance and it is going to be expected to create value in the organization. but, when the cultural values support organizational adaptation to environmental, the...

the establishment of non-governmental organizations (nogs) for the present society of iran is a historical need. the more the ngos are materialized, the closer the iranian society gets to the governorship of the people. the stronger the ngos, the stronger the presence of the people in various social arenas. in the past, trade :union:s were responsible for the exchange of cultural and economic c...

The Internet globally connects a great deal of diverse and heterogeneous information resources, which an agent can dynamically combine in order to synthesise new information. An agent society is used to facilitate a common project within globally distributed, heterogeneous organisations. Besides coordinating a finite number of variables, the agents are used to iron out cultural differences with...

The purpose of this study is to identify the role of sport as a soft power for Iranto facilitate its diplomatic relations after the nuclear deal. The research methodused in this study is mixed (qualitative and quantitative): in the qualitative part ofthe analysis, the study sample was selected via Snowball sampling based onpartricipants’ expertise in the sport diplomacy ...

New methodologies and approaches are required nowadays in order to facilitate non-technically trained users to access, browse and retrieve content from relational databases. This paper presents the methodology developed for the scope, definition, real implementation and visualization of a domain ontology for content generation based on cultural databases. This ontology has been implemented with...