Since the 18th National Congress of Party, promoting national culture and building self-confidence in has been main direction cultural development today. In particular, 20th once again proposed “promoting people's self-improvement, creating a new glory socialist culture-inheriting outstanding traditional Chinese culture.” The curriculum ideology political given to university teachers is that ex...

This paper details the demonstration of an annotation and affordance-based software model intended to introduce cultural and social influences into a non-player character’s (NPC) decision-making process. We describe how recent research has supported the need to begin incorporating the effects of culture into the interactive digital domain. The technical approach is presented that describes the ...

Sidama people occupy a subsistence niche partitioned between traditional enset agropastoralism and transitional maize farming. Enset production is low risk and requires multiple years for cultivation and processing. Maize farming is high risk and high yield, requiring one growing season from planting to harvest. Contrasting enset and maize farming, we examine effects of crop loss and social sho...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) released the report “Advancing Environmental Justice” to summarize and communicate the outcomes from its efforts to address environmental justice over the last two decades. The report describes the various research programs, scientific conferences, and public health interventions NIEHS has supported that are aimed at reducing envir...

The article discusses the importance of peace education as a means to promote culture peace. Peace aims equip individuals with knowledge, skills, and values necessary prevent resolve conflicts peaceful coexistence. traces history education, from early 20th century present, explores broad scope which encompasses formal informal learning environments wide range issues, including conflict resoluti...