BACKGROUND As the diversity of the European population evolves, measuring providers' skillfulness in cross-cultural care and understanding what contextual factors may influence this is increasingly necessary. Given limited information about differences in cultural competency by provider role, we compared cross-cultural skillfulness between physicians and nurses working at a Swiss university hos...

Do French Students really bid sincerely in real and hypothetical incentive compatible auctions? Recent evidence suggests they do, which goes counter to most observed bidding behavior in the United States, and supports the idea that cultural di erences may explain bidding behavior more than economic circumstances. Herein we run a robustness check by exploring bidding behavior in classic Vickrey ...

In the realm of philosophy and other theoretical discourses, there are many different paths to the turn from the modern to the postmodern, representing a complex genealogy of diverse and often divergent trails through different disciplines and cultural terrains. One pathway moves through an irrationalist tradition from romanticism to existentialism to French postmodernism via the figures of Nie...

FORTHCOMING GOVERNMENT REVIEW AND GOVERNMENT PARTICIPANTS: 17 Dec 2007 -at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A one-day technical review to be attended by the review team of Dr. Kenneth Boff (formerly Chief Scientist AFRL/HE, currently consultant to AOARD), Dr. Rebecca Goolsby (ONR Program Mgr. & Cultural Anthropologist), Dr. Fariba Fahroo (AFOSR Program Mgr. Computational Mathematics),...

AIM The aim of this study was to interpret and validate a French version of the Oswestry disability index (ODI), using a cross-cultural validation method. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was assessed in order to ensure the psychometric characteristics. METHOD The cross-cultural validation was carried out according to Beaton's methodology. The study was conducted with 41 pati...

Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ by cultural background. To test the hypothesis of a ‘Teutonic work ethic’, this paper takes advantage of Switzerland in its cultural diversity. By comparing different cultural groups in the same institutional setting, I empirically test whether such deep psychological traits ha...