since the collapse of the soviet :union: and the declaration of independence by azerbaijan, tehran-baku relations have been generally moving in the right direction with occasional ups and downs over the past two decades. factors such as cultural and historical communalities and the potential for economic cooperation have acted as impetus for the expansion of relations between the two neighbors....

Title of Dissertation: KOREAN PARENTS’ AND ADOLESCENTS’ REPORTS OF PARENTING STYLES: A DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY Angel Hayoung Kim, Ph. D., 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor Kenneth H. Rubin Department of Human Development The main purpose of this study was to examine differences and relations among Korean mothers’, fathers’, and adolescent girls’ and boys’ reports of parenting styles, disting...

Humans are a cultural species, and the study of human psychology benefits from attention to cultural influences. Cultural psychology's contributions to psychological science can largely be divided according to the two different stages of scientific inquiry. Stage 1 research seeks cultural differences and establishes the boundaries of psychological phenomena. Stage 2 research seeks underlying me...

To start a research on the application of dialect in movies and their formation causes and social functions, we must place the questions into specific social and cultural background and examine the relations between dialect, mainstream language and the cultural views of audiences. This paper attempts to take Chinese movies as a starting point to discuss heterogeneity issues in filmic culture by...

Network visualizations are powerful albeit suggestive means to represent and explore complex relations between entities (people, words, places...) and have become increasingly popular with cultural heritage institutions. In this article we briefly introduce the functionality of histoGraph (Wieneke et al. 2014), a technical demonstrator for the network-based analysis of photographs, survey curre...

As physicians encounter an increasingly diverse patient population, socioeconomic circumstances, religious values and cultural practices may present barriers to the delivery of quality care. Increasing cultural competence is often cited as a way to reduce healthcare disparities arising from value and cultural differences between patients and providers. Cultural competence entails not only a kno...

People often use spatial vocabulary to describe temporal relations, and this has increasingly motivated attempts to map spatial frames of reference (FoRs) onto time. How people assign FRONT to time and to temporal entities depends on cultural conventions, and is crucial for diagnosing which temporal FoR a person actually adopts. Here, we report findings from a survey with speakers of Norwegian ...

New archaeological evidences of the so-called "Bactrian-Margiana Archaeological Complex" (= BMAC) has invited a change in our knowledge of the cultural relations between Oxus civilization and south-eastern Iran during the III-II millennium B.C. transition period. The new archaeological projects in southern and western Turkmenistan, as well as attested at Gonur Depe, have showed a wider and more...

Çalışma, ticaret/tüccarlar ve kültür arasındaki karmaşık ilişkiyi araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Antik çağlardan beri, gezgin tüccarlar kültürlerarası diyalogun artmasına yardımcı oldular, bu nedenle çalışmaları “ozmotik” bir süreç olarak görülebilir. Sadece malları dolaşıma sokmakla kalmadılar, aynı zamanda fikirleri, kavramları (bilim, din veya felsefe alanından) kelime dağarcıklarını (bir ulust...