The theory of oppositional culture, as discussed by Bonnie Mitchell and Joe Feagin (1995), suggests that African Americans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans draw on their own cultural resources to resist domination. Patricia Hill Collins suggests that Black women develop a unique vision of the social world based on their position within a matrix of domination that organizes intersecting ...

This study paints a picture of the determinants of interorganizational decision-making and partner effort, taking into account cultural aspects; a contribution that clarifies interaction aspects in distribution partnerships and networks. The paper suggests that we need to understand the components of bounded and social rationality in the decision-making process. More specifically, this paper il...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a culturally-based argument in a non-insane automatism defense would be detrimental or beneficial to the defendant. We also examined how juror ethnocentrism might affect perceptions of such a defense. Participants read a fictional filicide homicide case in which the defendant claimed to have blacked out during the crime; we manipulated whethe...

The current status of antenatal genetic diagnosis is reviewed and the limitations of present techniques are discussed. It is suggested that multidisciplinary clinics are the most efficient means of providing this aspect of health care. Advances in cell culture techniques, in ultrasonography and in fetoscopy will extend the services available, and the impact of this will be felt by the community...

Article history: Received 19 March 2016 Accepted 18 August 2016 Available online 1 September 2016 Culture shapes how we interpret behavior, symbols, customs, and more. Its operation is largely implicit, unnoticed until we encounter other cultures. Therefore deep cultural differences should bemost evident in automatic processes for interpreting events, including behavior. In two studies, we comp...

Title of dissertation: EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORETIC MODELING OF DECISION MAKING AND CULTURE Patrick Roos, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Dana Nau Department of Computer Science Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) has become an attractive framework for modeling human behavior because it provides tools to explicitly model the dynamics of behaviors in populations over time and does...

My paper aims to historicize our understanding of the consumer, a being who nowadays quite often seems to be treated as a quasi-natural entity not only in some sciences, but also in politics, economics and in the media (and all that not only in the West). Specifically, I would like to show how at the beginning of the 20 century advertising deployed various means to bring forth a specific consum...

For complicated infections, or in patients at risk for therapeutic failure or developing resistance, identification of the infecting organism most appropriately should be based on appropriately collected cultures with (ideally) tube dilution susceptibility testing to allow assessment of “how” susceptible the isolate is, in general, to other drugs, but specifically to the drug of choice, such th...