Hypertext are proposed to be adopted in theatre as the "cultural" alternative to the "physical" means of interaction such as ~nultivision or tridimensional effects. A particular class of hypertexts, oriented to multimedia1 shows on the cultural heritage of some peoples, has been designed and experimented in several perfo~mances. Hypertexts enrich and are enriched from the performance of the act...

Many engineering optimization problems can be state as function optimization with constrained, intelligence optimization algorithm can solve these problems well. Cultural Algorithms are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evolution process in nature, cultural algorithms in the optimization of the complex constrained functions of its superior performance. Experime...

Politeness, as a universal phenomenon in society, is a reflection of specific cultural values, which can be observed in all languages and cultures. This thesis attempts to make a comparative study of politeness behavior between English and Chinese on the contrastive analyses on such linguistic behaviors as addressing, greeting, complimenting. Owing to different beliefs and values, and different...

One common aspect of all human beings, regardless of education level, income level, location and so on, is that they are all consumers. The key of success in marketing strategy both in terms of local and global aspects is understanding consumer behavior. So aim of this study was to investigate the role of socio-cultural factors on sports consumer behavior. This research was survey- descriptive....

African Americans have made consistent progress toward first-class citizenship since 1965. Nonetheless, mental health services for this population have been biased, incomplete, and deficient because similarities to European Americans have been emphasized whereas differences were largely ignored. This article addresses some differences, including cultural/racial identity and the cultural self, t...

This article examines the extent to which cultural capital helps to explain the link between social background and gaining an offer for study at the University of Oxford. We find that cultural knowledge, rather than participation in the beaux arts, is related to admissions decisions. This effect is particularly pronounced in arts subjects. We only partly support Bourdieu’s postulation of cultur...

Electronic circuit optimization design is important research field in engineering applications. Circuit scale and the time of evaluate the circuit are the challenge problems for circuit optimization design algorithm and the traditional optimization algorithms cannot solve the two problems very well. Cultural Algorithms are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evol...

Optimization problems arise in many real-world applications. Cultural Algorithms are a class of computational models derived from observing the cultural evolution process in nature, compared with genetic algorithm the cultural algorithms have high convergence speed. Aiming at the disadvantages of basic cultural algorithms like being trapped easily into a local optimum, this paper improves the b...