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Cosmopolitan cities: The frontier in the 21st century?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
People with independent (vs. interdependent) social orientation place greater priority on personal success, autonomy, and novel experiences over maintaining ties to their communities of origin.
A. Timur Sevincer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changing Research Culture [PDF]

open access: yesThe Annals of Family Medicine, 2004
Although there is general agreement that family medicine has a lot to offer to the health care system, the academic dimension is still not widely understood. There are two main reasons why family medicine needs to develop its scientific potential: to address the true nature of the discipline, and to help in its recognition.
openaire   +2 more sources

A Sociology of Wine – Reflections from my Kitchen Table [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In this paper Dr. Peter J. Howland—former bureaucrat, concrete block maker, journo (investigative and sports), publican, apple picker, bank clerk (for one week), gas station attendant (for two weeks), horse-racing results editor and now, wine scholar and
Howland PJ
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Formation of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age cultural model in Wielkopolska [PDF]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society, 2017
The start of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age was the time of a transformation of the communities residing in this region into a new civilizational quality that was radically different from the quality of the preceding period.
Andrzej Michałowski, Milena Teska
doaj  

Changing Fashion Cultures

open access: yesCoRR, 2017
The paper presents a novel concept that analyzes and visualizes worldwide fashion trends. Our goal is to reveal cutting-edge fashion trends without displaying an ordinary fashion style. To achieve the fashion-based analysis, we created a new fashion culture database (FCDB), which consists of 76 million geo-tagged images in 16 cosmopolitan cities.
Kaori Abe   +5 more
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Paradigm shifters : tricksters and cultural science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper seeks to link anthropological and economic treatments of the process of innovation and change, not only within a given ‘complex system’ (e.g. a cosmology; an industry) but also between systems (e.g.
John Hartley   +2 more
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Are common names becoming less common? The rise in uniqueness and individualism in Japan

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
We examined whether Japanese culture has become more individualistic by investigating how the practice of naming babies has changed over time. Cultural psychology has revealed substantial cultural variation in human psychology and behavior, emphasizing ...
Yuji eOgihara   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Corporate headquarters as physical embodiments of organisational change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the interdependency of corporate architecture and organisation cultural change. Corporate headquarters have become symbols of corporate change ambitions to endure cultural value sets.
van Marrewijk, A.H.; id_orcid   +2 more
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Abstract Book: Kiel Conference: Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The interplay of environment, social relations, material culture, population dynamics, and human perception are the key factors of socio-environmental changes.

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Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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