The integration of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within the cultural domain creates what is commonly known as e-culture. The need to create an e-culture environment arose from the undeniable fact that the cultural heritage of a nation defines a nation and therefore should be disseminated to all, regardless of their location and their disability. This article discusses...

Social/cultural learning is an effective way to reduce uncertainty about the environment, helping individuals adopt an adaptive behavior cheaply. Although this is evident for learning about temporally stable targets, such as acquisition of a skill in avoiding toxic foods, the utility of social/cultural learning in a temporally unstable environment is less clear, since knowledge acquired by soci...

in this paper, a house is assumedas an expression of culture. it has been tried to study a qajar1 house in tabriz, in terms of its ties with cultural context.methods and viewpoints of amos rapoport have been used in order to identify and peruse the circumstance of this relationship. the main reason for using rapoport's viewpoints to understand salmasi house, as a case study, in addition to cont...

Sustainable design is the concept that recognizes human civilization as an integral part of the natural world, and that nature must be preserved if the human community itself is to survive. Cultural dimensions of design are the tangible and intangible aspects of cultural systems that are valued by or representative of, a given culture and reflected in the built environment [12]. There was no ex...

Today, in order to achieve an effective result in a globalized business environment, an understanding of cultural diversity is urgently needed. In this background, such a concept, cultural intelligence, is newly presented. This is an ability to socialize and work with people from different culture and background without cultural struggle. This article discusses about a concept and theory of cul...

The behavioural variation among human societies is vast and unmatched in the animal world. It is unclear whether this variation is due to variation in the ecological environment or to differences in cultural traditions. Underlying this debate is a more fundamental question: is the richness of humans' behavioural repertoire due to non-cultural mechanisms, such as causal reasoning, inventiveness,...