Citation: Witzel C (2015) Commentary: An experimental study of gender and cultural differences in hue preference. A commentary on An experimental study of gender and cultural differences in hue preference by Al-Rasheed, A. S. Color preferences are a curious phenomenon. At first view, they seem to depend on the idiosyncrasies of individual observers and culture. At the same time, color preferenc...

This work presents the architecture used in the ongoing e-learning EduCa Project. The approach is based in a strong use of ontologies for the retrieval, management and clustered of electronic educational resources according to user’s cultural aspects. Cultural aspects are preferences and ways of behavior determined by the person’s culture. In this project, the cultural aspects are just the feat...

A growing body of research has examined how cultural capital, recently broadened to include not only high-status cultural activities but also a range of different parenting practices, influences children’s educational success. Most of this research assumes that parents’ current class location is the starting point of class transmission. However, does the ability of parents to pass advantages to...

The relationship between media practices and social inequality has been studied within a range of sub-disciplines in communication studies cultural sociology. In various, more or less direct, ways these point to the fact that habitus – socially formed class specific relations world generates certain tastes, lifestyles, preferences. When groups form relatively distinct practices, distance themse...

Abstract There has long been a dominant logic in the international business literature that multinational corporations should adapt practices to “fit” host cultures. Business are congruent with local cultural norms have advocated as effective and desirable, while incongruent deemed problematic. We examine challenge this persistent assumption by reviewing showing evidence for both benefits accep...

BACKGROUND Understanding end of life preferences amongst the oldest old is crucial to informing appropriate palliative and end of life care internationally. However, little has been reported in the academic literature about the end of life preferences of people in advanced age, particularly the preferences of indigenous older people, including New Zealand Māori. METHODS Data on end of life pr...

Abstract Despite significant debate about the ability of international law to constrain state behavior, recent research points domestic mechanisms that deter non-compliance, most notably public disapproval governments violate treaty agreements. However, existing studies have not explicitly differentiated two distinct, theoretically important motivations underlie this disapproval: respect for le...

OVERVIEW OF THE READINESS & FIT ANALYSIS All software engineering and management practices are based on cultural and social assumptions. When adopting new practices, leaders often find mismatches between those assumptions and the realities within their organizations. The SEI has an analysis method called Readiness & Fit Analysis (RFA) that allows the profiling of a set of practices to understan...

Food and drink are two of the most basic needs of human beings. However, as society evolved, food and drink became also a strong cultural aspect, being able to describe strong differences among people. Traditional methods used to analyze cross-cultural differences are mainly based on surveys and, for this reason, they are very difficult to represent a significant statistical sample at a global ...