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Religion, culture and illness: a sociological study on religious coping in Iran

open access: yesMental Health, Religion & Culture, 2018
The present article is based on an international study on meaning-making coping aimed at understanding the role of culture in coping. The larger study has been conducted among cancer patients in 10 countries.
Fereshteh Ahmadi   +6 more
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Model of Culture for Innovation

open access: yesOrganizational Culture, 2018
In the current economic panorama, innovation is considered to be an important source of sustainable competitive advantage. The literature indicates that organizational culture is one of the most important factors in innovation stimulation, given that ...
J. C. Naranjo-Valencia   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Good culture, bad culture’: polygyny, cultural change and structural drivers of HIV in Papua New Guinea

open access: yesCulture, Health and Sexuality, 2017
Culture is often problematised as a key structural driver of HIV transmission in Papua New Guinea. Official HIV programmes, as well as church teachings, tend to focus on customary marital practices of polygyny and bride price payments as ‘harmful ...
Patti Shih   +3 more
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2D vs. 3D Cell Culture Models for In Vitro Topical (Dermatological) Medication Testing

open access: yesCell Culture, 2018
Due to ethical concerns regarding animal testing, alternative methods have been in devel- opment to test the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products and medications, specif ically topical (dermatological) medications.
Arezou Teimouri, P. Yeung, R. Agu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of genetic and epigenetic changes during cell culture ageing and relations with somaclonal variation in Coffea arabica

open access: yesPlant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture, 2015
Long-term cell cultures were used in coffee to study the cytological, genetic and epigenetic changes occurring during cell culture ageing. The objective was to identify the mechanisms associated with somaclonal variation (SV).
Roberto Bobadilla Landey   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

US Black college women’s sexual health in hookup culture: intersections of race and gender

open access: yesCulture, Health and Sexuality, 2016
Wendasha Jenkins Hall, Amanda E. Tanner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Culture Industry Reconsidered

The Culture Industry, 2020
The term culture industry was perhaps used for the first time in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Horkheimer and I published in Amsterdam in 1947.
T. Adorno
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Language: a ‘mirror’ of the culture and its application English language teaching

Linguistics and Culture Review, 2021
This article is intended to highlight the linguistic principle proposed by anthropological linguists, “Language is a mirror of the culture.” The purpose of study attempts to explore foreign language teaching and learning from the perspective of language ...
H. Hartono, S. Suparto, Ahdi Hassan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Culture and Cognition

The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, 2019
In this chapter, the authors discuss various ways that culture shapes cognition—the processes and products of the human mind. Their coverage ranges from what is traditionally considered to be less purely cerebral components, such as attention and ...
Michael Cole, Martin J. Packer
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Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference

Culture, Power, Place, 1992
For a subject whose central rite of passage is fieldwork, whose romance has rested on its exploration of the remote ("the most other of others" [Hannerz 1986:363]), whose critical function is seen to lie in its juxtaposition of radically different ways ...
Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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