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This chapter provides a brief overview of how cultural diversity has been addressed by cultural economists, in particular in relation to the cultural sector. It first provides a definition of cultural diversity and, secondly, explains how the diversity of cultural identities contributes to team efficiency.
Leela Viswanathan, Sarem Nejad
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Reliable and updated indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet are required to drive efficiently policies for languages, to forecast e-commerce market or to support further researches on the field of digital support of languages.
Daniel Pimienta +2 more
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Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable. [PDF]
de Courson B +3 more
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Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany
During the 2015 “summer of welcome”, the mass arrival of refugees to Germany triggered widely publicised acts of pro-refugee solidarity among citizens. To date, scholarship has largely focused on hostility towards immigrants—including refugees-, and few ...
Lucas G. Drouhot +3 more
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Prospects for Higher Shia Religious Education in Post-Soviet Countries
The opportunity to receive religious education plays an important role in the formation of the religious elite of society. It forms the Muslim clergy, which, in turn, represents this community in front of other members of society.
Akif Tahiiev
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Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship
Migrant entrepreneurship in times of transnational migration go beyond locally serving markets and increasingly operate transnationally. The mixed embeddedness by Kloosterman and Rath has become the main concept to analyze such migrants’ entrepreneurship
Sakura Yamamura, Paul Lassalle
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Studies show that executive functions and motor development are associated with each other and with learning ability. A more technological lifestyle combined with digital culture should be considered a viable alternative to stimulate children’s ...
Victória Branca Moron +5 more
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New Caledonian crows keep ‘valuable’ hooked tools safer than basic non-hooked tools
The temporary storage and re-use of tools can significantly enhance foraging efficiency. New Caledonian crows in one of our study populations use two types of stick tools – hooked and non-hooked – which differ in raw material, manufacture costs, and ...
Barbara C Klump +2 more
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Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity [PDF]
We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms, values, and attitudes. Using survey data for 76 countries, we find that ethnic identity is a significant predictor of cultural values, yet that within-group variation in culture trumps between-group variation. Thus, in contrast to a
Klaus Desmet +2 more
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Poor hand hygiene practice has been linked to an increase in the number of infections among children in urban slums. Hands are considered an intersection for bacterial transmission, but it is unclear whether the handwashing technique affects bacteria ...
Mahmud Aditya Rifqi +6 more
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