In this paper anthropology and psychiatry are defined as well as their scientific area, their methods and research objectives; the high level of their mutual thematic and methodological complementarity has been emphasized. The sociocultural factors which are inherent in the area of cultural anthropology can affect mental health in a number of ways: by forming a certain personality type that is ...

The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting HIV risk reduction among 150 Black and 150 White South Africans chosen by systematic random sampling. Main outcome measures included sexual behavior and condom use, knowledge about correct condom use, intention of condom use, behavioural norms, attitudes, normative beliefs, and subjective norms about condoms, HIV/AIDS health beliefs, and H...

This paper examines Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in Noun Plurals (e.g. 'tooth/teeth') and Past Tense formation (e.g. 'sing/sang') according to the signoriented theory of the Columbia School (CS) in general and the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB) in particular. Today, these IVA forms are considered to be "irregular", and are vestiges of former prevalent and productive processes i...

Several studies have noted that, besides inadequate availability of health care services in many areas, especially the less developed countries, certain disease-specific and non-disease-specific cultural beliefs may influence people's health seeking behaviour. It has even been noted that health services may be underutilized and several health and child care instructions may be ineffective or ig...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel approach to determining how the decision – making behaviour of a military system could be influenced by the cultural attributes demonstrated by the system both as a whole and by its sub-systems. The research will also address how well a system with a particular configuration of cultural attributes will function in a designated operating environment....

Genes and culture represent two streams of inheritance that for millions of years have flowed down the generations and interacted. Genetic propensities, expressed throughout development, influence what cultural organisms learn. Culturally transmitted information, expressed in behaviour and artefacts, spreads through populations, modifying selection acting back on populations. Drawing on three c...

Culture dependent behaviour affects relations between groups and individuals. During the last decades there has been a dramatic increase in the importance of cross-cultural meetings and negotiations. The objective of our project is to design and implement a system that provides cross-cultural knowledge via mobile devices for people in international business meetings or in international research...

Some aspects of evolution are, by their very nature, unsuited to a process of direct experimentation. The work described here is a computational system strongly inspired by real ecology, it is intended as a framework within which the interaction of evolution, learning and cultural eeects may be investigated. The design, development and behaviour of the system is outlined in some detail.

The architecture of a process agent is a three-layer BDI, hybrid, multi-agent architecture. These process agents are intended to deal with corporate cultural, or political, sensitivities as well as with corporate rules. These agents adapt their behaviour on the basis of the likelihood of plan success, and on estimates of the time, cost and value of choosing a plan.

Different cultures vary in their perceptions of mental illness (Karno & Edgerton, 1969), which can affect their utilisation of orthodox psychiatric facilities (Padilla et al, 1975;Sue, 1977). Mental health services may be seen by ethnic minorities as challenging the value of traditional support systems, reflecting dominant Western cultural values and harbouring implicitly racist psychological f...