Results: The results revealed that most women in different countries have multiple factors preventing her to perform breast cancer examination and other screening methods, such as cultural, socio-demographic, socio-economic, behavioral and educational factors. Conclusion: Eliminating barriers and increasing perceived self-efficacy with an emphasis to make the women acquainted with BSE performan...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of overweight appears to vary in people of first and second generation ethnic minority groups. Insight into the factors that underlie these weight differences might help in understanding the health transition that is taking place across generations following migration. We studied the role of social and cultural factors associated with generational differences in overwe...

The Network Readiness Index (NRI) was developed to measure the propensity for countries (and regions) to exploit information and communications technology (ICT) for development and growth. Much has been written about the influences of economic and non-economic factors on ICT diffusion in developed societies. Studies examining the impact of relevant factors on Africa’s regions’ capabilities to e...

Anthropologists have become increasingly interested in embodiment-that is, the ways that socio-cultural factors influence the form, behavior and subjective experience of human bodies. At the same time, social cognitive neuroscience has begun to reveal the mechanisms of embodiment by investigating the neural underpinnings and consequences of social experience. Despite this overlap, the two field...

The teaching of evolutionary theory represents one of the most exciting challenges for science teachers. The learning of the main principles of biological evolution and, more particularly, the origin of human species could be influenced by the socio-cultural environment. Our preliminary investigation among final year students of high schools located in both the centre and outlying area of the c...

Cross-national differences in homicide rates are traditionally attributed to socio-cultural factors, especially cultural values condoning and prescribing violence in response to insult or frustration (Wolfgang and Ferracuti, 1967; Ferracuti and Newman, 1974; Anderson, 1976), and culture-conflict engendered by rapid social change (Clinard and Abbott, 1973). However, the origin of these value dif...

This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) N000141512797 Minerva award for Dynamic Statistical Network Informatics, and the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organization Systems (CASOS). The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or i...