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Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient
New England Journal of Medicine, 2008Dr. Abraham Verghese discusses the problem with a “chart as surrogate for the patient” approach. He believes that if one eschews the skilled and repeated examination of the real patient, then tests, consultations, and procedures that might not be needed are ordered, while simple diagnoses and new developments are overlooked.
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Cultural Icons and Reasons of Culture
2023Abstract At first glance it seems plausible to hold that cultural icons, landmarks, and other items of cultural significance should be protected in the context of war, even at the cost of some human life. But this presents a puzzle: what could explain the normative significance of icons?
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Cross-Cultural Communication with Icons and Images
2014Visual information such as pictorial symbols, icons and images capture our imagination. In our paper, we discuss icons and images in the context of cross-cultural communication. The authors present their own viewpoints to the subject. We discuss about communication in the multi-cultural world and analyze icons in cross-cultural context.
Anneli Heimbürger +4 more
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The Iconicity of Russian Culture
Almanac “Essays on Conservatism”, 2021Russian culture should be adequately represented in the modern cultural consciousness as a unique phenomenon. Among new approaches there seem to be three that can be considered the most important and promising. 1) The concept of the iconicity of Orthodox culture, created by V.V.
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Consumption Markets & Culture, 2016
ABSTRACTIn this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as
Bartmanski, Dominik, Woodward, Ian
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ABSTRACTIn this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as
Bartmanski, Dominik, Woodward, Ian
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005
Three case studies of historic renovations are presented where acoustics were a key component of the renovation process. Each hall is an icon of the cultural life in the surrounding community. The first case study is Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, a late nineteenth century musical gem where recent renovations (adding variable acoustic features) required
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Three case studies of historic renovations are presented where acoustics were a key component of the renovation process. Each hall is an icon of the cultural life in the surrounding community. The first case study is Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, a late nineteenth century musical gem where recent renovations (adding variable acoustic features) required
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Artists as cultural icons: the icon myth transfer effect as a heuristic for cultural branding
Journal of Product & Brand Management, 2018Purpose Communicating the national values of artists and the role of product benefits as symbols of national values, infuse iconic national brands. This paper aims to validate a conceptual framework that offers empirical insights for cultural identity that drives brand management.
Joseph L. Scarpaci +2 more
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2019
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be an insignificant entity in the electoral arena of Tamil Nadu as the party won only one seat in the 2014 parliamentary elections. However, its efforts to expand its support base in the state where ideologically hostile political dispensations have near hegemonic presence demand a thorough scrutiny.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be an insignificant entity in the electoral arena of Tamil Nadu as the party won only one seat in the 2014 parliamentary elections. However, its efforts to expand its support base in the state where ideologically hostile political dispensations have near hegemonic presence demand a thorough scrutiny.
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International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2008
PurposeTo explore the evolution and function of the wristwatch as a contemporary cultural icon.Design/methodology/approachTo apply the concepts of iconography and of postmodern cultural theory to the general history of watches and to examine the meaning watches in contemporary culture.FindingsBecause the watch oscillates between use and signal values ...
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PurposeTo explore the evolution and function of the wristwatch as a contemporary cultural icon.Design/methodology/approachTo apply the concepts of iconography and of postmodern cultural theory to the general history of watches and to examine the meaning watches in contemporary culture.FindingsBecause the watch oscillates between use and signal values ...
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Cultural Icon for a Nation in the Making
2023Abstract In the decades leading to up to India’s Independence the Hindu woman saint Mirabai emerges as a national saint and cultural icon, capturing peoples’ imaginations as scholarship, biographies, dramas, and films about her proliferated.
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