This article argues that contemporary, computer-mediated, algorithmic forms of sociality problematize a long and major tradition in cultural anthropology, which has appropriated the notion of artistic style to theorize culture as a relatively distinct, coherent, and durable configuration of behavioral dispositions. The article’s ethnographic site is a lab in a major institute of technology in t...

This paper summarizes the current views on coping styles as a useful concept in understanding individual adaptive capacity and vulnerability to stress-related disease. Studies in feral populations indicate the existence of a proactive and a reactive coping style. These coping styles seem to play a role in the population ecology of the species. Despite domestication, genetic selection and inbree...

Theory of learning styles is steadily evolving in several decades and reveals importance of such styles for construction and adoption of adaptive e-learning platforms. Courseware delivery adaptive to learning styles needs precise definition of types of learning objects most appropriate for individual given learning character with its specific learning style. The present article provides results...

this study investigated language learning styles of iranian efl learners and their class achievement. to this end, sixty female ad- vanced learners of instruction and different ages (15-30), studying at a language institute in shiraz were asked to take part in the study. a 30- item language learning styles questionnaire developed by reid (1987) was employed to elicit information for the study. ...

The article examines how two Laotian American teenage girls in a multiracial California high school take divergent pathways through contrasting stereotypes of Southeast Asian Americans: model–minority nerd and the dangerous gangster. girls, both first-generation immigrants, each draw on linguistic youth-cultural practices to align themselves some degree with one these while distancing from othe...

objectives the purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the learning styles of postgraduate students in kerman university of medical sciences and their baseline characteristics. patients and methods in this cross-correlation study, 400 postgraduate students of kerman university of medical sciences were randomly selected. to collect data, the kolb’s learning styles question...

This work shows how a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) can be applied in the analysis of di erent handwriting styles. Handwriting styles are represented with vectors whose components re ect the tendencies of the writers to use certain prototypical styles for isolated alphanumeric characters. The study shows that the correlations between di erent writing styles congruent with prior human knowledge can ...

The present study examined the role of parenting styles with respect to adolescents' sleep patterns and symptoms of depression and anxiety. A total of 246 adolescents (age: 17.58+/-1.62) took part in the study. They completed several questionnaires with regard to parenting styles and to symptoms of anxiety and depression; additionally, they filled in a questionnaire assessing sleep-related pers...

The codification of software architectural decisions made to address recurring software development challenges results in architectural styles. The Alfa framework provides a small set of architectural primitives for systematically specifying styles and style-based architectures for networkbased systems. In this paper, we formalize Alfa’s primitives in a compositional theory of styles and softwa...