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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Cultural Behaviors"”.
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Cultural Behaviors and Their Influence on the Proximal Femur: Comparisons of Postural Behavior, Occupation, and Subsistence-Settlement Between a Pre-Contact and Historic Sample
… Femoral neck version is associated with postural behaviors such as squatting and kneeling. The neck-shaft angle is linked to mobility and settlement patterns. Bicondylar angle was explored to see if behaviors had any affect. Allen’s fossa and Poirier’s facet are linked to squatting and kneeling …
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Examining Acculturation Strategies in Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Mixed Methods Approach to Arts-Informed Research
Extending far beyond migration to a new home, the cultural, emotional, and mental plight of immigration plagues immigrants and refugees of all ages. Nonetheless, immigrant youth are commonly overlooked in acculturation studies. This mixed methods approach to arts-informed research examined the …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… who come from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds may be unaware of, confused by, or ill equipped to understand each other's linguistic and cultural behaviors.' Some researchers have examined teachers' contrastive analysis of non-prestige varieties of English with that of the …
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Problemática social y cultural que se presenta al interior de la economía informal en la localidd de Suba en la ciudad de Bogotá.
… presents and investigation about social and cultural behaviors on the informal economy to identify conducts from the people that exerts these activities both in his jobs and in their homes, uncover aspects from their work lives that aren´t covered on economics studies and an interview was …
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Exploring Social Identity and the Acculturation Process of Venezuelan Undergraduate Students at a Midwestern U.S. University
… with the English language, practicing new cultural behaviors, and in some cases, discrimination from the host society. All participants engaged in retaining and forming social networks as a method to cope with these stresses. The majority of the participants reported feeling a more familial …
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Factors Affecting Enrolment of pupils in Tanzania Primary schools" A study of Mtwara Rural District
… organizations should advocate changes of bad cultural behaviors such as divorce, early marriages and encourage family planning.Government and Non-government organization should take special attention to orphans and street children by providing education serves
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Cultural Competence Among Oncology Health Care Providers
<p>The purpose of the study was to examine cultural competence among oncology health care providers. Specifically, the study assessed how career type, presence of previous diversity training, and education affected overall cultural competence of oncology health care providers.</p> <p>The study used …
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Speaking of rivers: demystifying foreign-born Blacks through a secondary ESL context
… language learners (ELLs) who have distinct cultural and linguistic mores that often go unnoticed. Foreign-born Blacks possess uncommon mother tongues and cultural behaviors that present struggles with salient entrenched racialization in ESL because the historical aspects of English are …
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Toward intercultural competence : intercultural training for Japanese students in the United States
… can help Japanese students develop intercultural competence through predeparture and ongoing intercultural training so as to improve their capacity to adapt effectively to American cultural norms. The ultimate purpose of this thesis project was to help Japanese students who were studying …
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Reforming Tastes: Taste as a Print Aesthetic in American Cookery Writing
… discourses of taste as a means of standardizing cultural behaviors. Using physical taste as a metaphor for aesthetic perception and judgment, these writers could both define and abstract group boundaries. As American writers worked to distinguish their nation from their British forebears, many …
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Three Essays on the Land Property Rights Reform in China
… reform in rural China after 1978 on cultural public goods provision. A staggered difference-in-differences model that analyzes the timing of reform implementation in 1,114 counties finds that the reform resulted in a surge in the number of newly constructed religious sites. Further …
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No Node Left Behind: Digital Transformation and Cultural Analytics at BanRepCultural
… integration of digital transformation and cultural analytics frameworks in public sector cultural institutions. This research focuses on how digital transformation, and cultural analytics as a component of it, can support public value creation at BanRepCultural, the cultural arm of Banco de …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… who come from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds may be unaware of, confused by, or ill equipped to understand each other’s linguistic and cultural behaviors.” Some researchers have examined teachers’ contrastive analysis of non-prestige varieties of English with that of the …
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As Below So Above: Reconstructing the Neo-Babylonian Worldview
… not what we think about. Underlying surficial cultural behaviors are deeper levels of cognition regarding how to reason, perceive the world, prioritize values, prescribe behavior, and explain all of life. Specifically, this work examines the language and logic reflected in the textual archive, …
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Science Research Literacy Through Immersive Professional Development in Biomedical Research
… students and models scientific communication and behaviors (www.nextgenscience.org/faqs). This research includes creating and sustaining long term collaborations between scientists and teachers while also identifying professional development that enables both laboratory research and science …
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Ethical Issues in Business Communication: A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Japanese and US Students
… Japanese and US students' intended beliefs and behaviors relating to ethical business decisions. The study assessed the extent to which three of Hofstede's (1984) cultural indexes related to three ethical classifications of Vitell, Nwachukwu, and Barnes (1993). Participants were 79 US and 33 …
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Community Assessment of Cardiovascular Health and Risk Among People of Mexican Descent in Berwyn, Illinois
… within this community must be understood before culturally appropriate risk reduction strategies are designed and implemented.</p><p>Purpose: The purpose of this community-based study is to gain a better understanding of selected social and physical health determinants and risk factors which may …