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Cultural Characteristics of the Texts
2014This chapter will look at the cultural characteristics we see from the texts. Unsurprisingly, a lot can be learned or evinced from these narratives about Palestinian culture. In many cases, these are based on Islam, the main religion of the area, and they include family structure, modes of address, honorific titles, taboos, the use of euphemisms and ...
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Characteristics of Colonial Cultures
Pacific Historical Review, 1944THE AIM Of this paper is to set forth a number of well-known facts concerning the expansion of western European civilization since the end of the fifteenth century, and to interpret them along lines suggested by Arnold J. Toynbee in his Study of History.
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Ageing in the Netherlands: Structural and cultural characteristics
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1989This article discusses the specific situation of social policy for the elderly in the Netherlands. On the one hand, due to a prolonged high birth rate after the Second World War, the proportion of the aged is relatively moderate in comparison with surrounding countries.
J, Baars, K, Knipscheer
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The Cultural Characteristics of Breast-Feeding: a Survey
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 1972A cross-cultural survey of traditional breast-feeding practices and beliefs was made using ethnographic material from a social science information retrieval system the Human Relations Area Files. Insofar as possible only large populations were used.
A, Niehoff, N, Meister
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Cellular Characteristics of Cultured Canine Trophoblasts
Reproduction in Domestic Animals, 2012ContentsShallow trophoblast invasion is detrimental in human pregnancies, but represents normal endotheliochorial placentation in dogs. Factors regulating shallow trophoblast invasion into the canine decidua are not well described, but it is known that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a crucial role in trophoblast invasion in many species ...
L, Sahlfeld, T, Hazzard, M, Kutzler
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Cultural Characteristics of IT Professionals
2011The purpose of this chapter is to present data and analysis from research that focused on the human side of IT. In an effort to determine the potential effects of outsourcing on the shared norms, values, beliefs, and assumptions of IT professionals, a two-part study was conducted using ethnographic research methods.
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[Cultural characteristics of diseases].
Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980), 2011The disease was a condition that normal functions of human being were damaged. However, the recognition of disease cannot be limited to the level of physiology and pathology. In fact, under different ages and different social background, even for a same disease, the recognition of its essence, the process, the understanding and attitude for the patient
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Cultural Characteristics of Scrum
2014In order to understand a culture, one has to know where its origins are and how it evolved. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland presented Scrum for the first time at the OOPSLA conference in Austin, Texas, in 1995. At this point they had already been working together for several years.
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The Cultural Characteristics and Cultural Adaptability of Stress
Advances in Social Sciences, 2023openaire +1 more source
The effect of auditors’ psychological characteristics on cultural values and social health
Management Research Review, 2023exaly