National Cultural Information Resources Sharing Project is a project which is benefit people and welcomed by people. Since this project started in 2002, it has got great achievements. However, with continuous expansion of the coverage, new problems has coming up. Henan cultural information resources sharing project group not only considering those new problems, but also thinking and exploring a...

! e study of cultures in today’s world has become a major academic exercise. ! ere are many challenges and problems for human beings that are created by the relationship between cultural inheritance and individuals, namely, through modernization and globalization processes. ! e immediate outcomes of these challenges and problems are ethnic con" icts, cultural clash and other cultural competitio...

Evidence suggests disparities in the prevalence of mental health problems and access to mental healthcare for a number of minority groups. The main response from mental health services falls into two related categories: (a) cultural adaptations of existing evidence-based interventions (EBIs) and/or (b) cultural competence of mental health professionals. This editorial looks at the evidence on c...

1. Cultural heritage problems share many characteristics with problems encountered in environmental economics. Many of the services provided may not enter markets, or do so only indirectly and imperfectly. And many benefits are wholly intangible. Moreover, the nature of the benefits provided by cultural heritage sites is conceptually very similar to those provided by, for example, national park...

The purpose of this guidance is to review currently available evidence on mental health problems in migrants and to present advice to clinicians and policy makers on how to provide migrants with appropriate and accessible mental health services. The three phases of the process of migration and the relevant implications for mental health are outlined, as well as the specific problems of groups s...

AIM This paper reports a study of (a) popular conceptions of mental illness throughout history, (b) how current social and cultural knowledge about mental illness influences Chinese-Australian patients' and caregivers' understanding of mental illness and the consequences of this for explaining and labelling patients' problems. BACKGROUND According to traditional Chinese cultural knowledge abo...

In this paper I present my research goals and what I have obtained so far into my first year of PhD. In particular this paper is about a novel architecture for closed domain question answering and a possible application in the cultural heritage context. Unlike open domain question answering, which makes intensive use of Information Retrieval (IR) techniques, closed domain question answering sys...

The classification of archaeological assemblages in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa in terms of diversity and temporal continuity has significant implications with respect to recent cultural evolutionary models which propose either gradual accumulation or discontinuous, episodic processes for the emergence and diffusion of cultural traits. We present the results of a systematic technologic...

Goal preferences indicate intentions to achieve or avoid particular states. We examined whether Curacaoan and Dutch students differ in goal preferences related to school and whether goal preferences are associated with students' evaluation of the classroom climate. Measurement invariance of the instruments was also tested between samples. Participants attended vocational high schools in Curacao...