Discovered around 1979, coronary angioplasty has emerged to be one of the principal treatments for advanced coronary artery disease. This paper uses methods from social network analysis to understand how this mode of treatment developed. By using a bibiliographic database of over 11,000 medical journal articles related to coronary angioplasty spanning the 25 years of its history, a large citati...

The dynamics of da'wah and social cultural change/disruption, especially since the middle last century, have challenged major civic organizations such as Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). is often considered a conservative organization, unprogressive, even stigmatized, but this organization continues to fly its wings capture code change. This study examines Ulama's method, in deal with changes socio-cultur...

A fundamental issue in understanding human diversity is whether or not there are regular patterns and processes involved in cultural change. Theoretical and mathematical models of cultural evolution have been developed and are increasingly being used and assessed in empirical analyses. Here, we test the hypothesis that the rates of change of features of human socio-cultural organization are gov...

Water management is facing major challenges due to increasing uncertainties caused by climate and global change and by fast changing socio-economic boundary conditions. More attention has to be devoted to understanding and managing the transition from current management regimes to more adaptive regimes that take into account environmental, technological, economic, institutional and cultural cha...

Cross-national differences in homicide rates are traditionally attributed to socio-cultural factors, especially cultural values condoning and prescribing violence in response to insult or frustration (Wolfgang and Ferracuti, 1967; Ferracuti and Newman, 1974; Anderson, 1976), and culture-conflict engendered by rapid social change (Clinard and Abbott, 1973). However, the origin of these value dif...

The current healthcare delivery model will not meet future healthcare demands. The only sustainable healthcare future is one that best leverages advances in technology to improve productivity and efficiency. Information communication technology (ICT) has, therefore, been touted as the panacea of future healthcare challenges. Many ICT projects in healthcare, however, fail to deliver on their pro...

The present paper aims at describing the most relevant background data on geomorphological, economic, ethnohistoric and demographic features of the island of Rab. They show the most important population movements to the island that affected its population structure. This work, as a part of the holistic anthropological research of morphological, physiological, genetic and socio-cultural variable...