In this article we explore the theoretical limits of the inference of cultural transmission modes based on sparse population-level data. We approach this problem by investigating whether different transmission modes produce different temporal dynamics of cultural change. In particular, we explore whether different transmission modes result in sufficiently different distributions of the average ...

AIM This exploratory study set out to investigate the perceptions and practices of junior healthcare managers with regard to stress at work. BACKGROUND It has been suggested that cultural change is needed to accommodate a shift towards recognition of organizational responsibility for stress (Schulz et al. 1985). Logically, it can be argued that junior healthcare managers, as potential future ...

Since its creation, New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) has used child and family development research to bridge the chasm between child welfare and juvenile justice policy and practice. OCFS's major challenges have been to help the staff and stakeholders of the merged child welfare and juvenile justice agencies develop a common culture and design new financial and prog...

ARIATION in cultural characteristics, viability, and motility of bacV teria has been recognized almost from the beginning of their study in pure culture. Because of the influence of the Koch school, which emphasized cultural purity, early bacteriologists were prone to attribute changes in cultures to contamination. Thus, many of the earlier observations of bacterial variation probably were disc...

This paper examines the rôle of letterforms as a means of communication, starting with hand-set metal type and mechanical typesetting in hot metal. Present-day techniques of phototypesetting, and of digital typesetting, via cathode-ray tube and laser machines, are also discussed. Careful attention is paid to the cultural impact of these techniques, with particular reference to traditional Frenc...

During the past decade the relationship between biodiversity and human diversity has received increased attention, resulting in the identification of what the Declaration of Belém calls an ‘inextricable link’ between biological and cultural diversity. Although the term biocultural diversity, introduced to denote this link, is being used increasingly, there has been little critical reflection on...

As is well-known, cultures are rooted in their unique regions, histories and languages. Communication media have been developed to circulate these cultural characteristics. As a part of our research “Cultural Computing”, which means the translation of cultures using scientific methods representing essential aspects of Japanese culture[1], an interactive Renku poem generation supporting system w...

This paper deals with the interchangeability of culture, and seeks to answer the question of whether there are situations in which culture is interchangeable, whether one item of culture could be substituted for another. On a pretheoretic level, the answer would probably be ‘no’. If you have your mind set on watching the Royal Shakespeare Company perform The Merchant of Venice, you are not like...

For the Hopi people, named places on the landscape localize, commemorate, and transmit traditional knowledge within a spatial context used to reference and explain Hopi history and culture—geographic information the Hopi Tribe seeks to preserve. This paper discusses the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office’s use of geospatial technologies during recent collaborative efforts to document important p...