Abstract Introduction The inclusion of people who use drugs in the design and evaluation of their health services remains a relatively new phenomenon. The aim of the research was to explore the experiences and perceptions of people accessing the Medical Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), and Clinic 180, Sydney Australia, and the factors facilitating ...
Greg Rickard, Bethne Hart
wiley +1 more source
Universal Access to Healthcare: The Case of South Africa in the Comparative Global Context of the Late Anthropocene Era [PDF]
Much current global debate – as well as a great deal of political rhetoric – about global health and healthcare is characterised by a renewed emphasis on the goal of universal access throughout the world.
Solomon Benatar, Stephen Gill
doaj +1 more source
Traversing Racial Distance in Hip-hop Culture: The Ethics and Politics of Listening [PDF]
Hip-hop is often studied as a ‘political’ culture. Listeners, however, often contest the attachment of a political nature to hip-hop. After the ‘dilution’ of “real” hip-hop by record labels seeking to package the sound for mainstream consumption, is it ...
Ganesh, B
core +1 more source
Translating Politeness Across Cultures: Case of Hindi and English [PDF]
In this paper, we present a corpus based study of politeness across two languages-English and Hindi. It studies the politeness in a translated parallel corpus of Hindi and English and sees how politeness in a Hindi text is translated into English. We provide a detailed theoretical background in which the comparison is carried out, followed by a brief ...
arxiv
TyDiP: A Dataset for Politeness Classification in Nine Typologically Diverse Languages [PDF]
We study politeness phenomena in nine typologically diverse languages. Politeness is an important facet of communication and is sometimes argued to be cultural-specific, yet existing computational linguistic study is limited to English. We create TyDiP, a dataset containing three-way politeness annotations for 500 examples in each language, totaling 4 ...
arxiv
Political Thought of Ayatollah Boroujerdi: Policy-making or Policy-abstaining [PDF]
پژوهش حاضر، در راستای ترسیم چگونگی حضورِ روحانیت در ساماندهی زندگی سیاسی مردم ایران، به این پرسش پاسخ میدهد که مبانی دینی سیرهی سیاسی آیتالله بروجردی در دوران زعامتشان چیست؟ لذا مسألهی این پژوهش، شناخت ریشههای دینی سیاستورزی معظمله، چه در نحوهی
Reza eisania
doaj
"Kosovization" of Serbian monumental culture and creation of new identities [PDF]
Starting from the sociological understanding of culture as a set of determinants that channel social movements, the authors analyze the complex Kosovo-Metohija reality with a focus on material monumental heritage and its destruction with the aim of ...
Perić Nenad N., Jevtović Ana Z.
doaj +1 more source
Quantitative Analysis of Cultural Dynamics Seen from an Event-based Social Network [PDF]
Culture is a collection of connected and potentially interactive patterns that characterize a social group or a passed-on idea that people acquire as members of society. While offline activities can provide a better picture of the geographical association of cultural traits than online activities, gathering such data on a large scale has been ...
arxiv
A Sign That Spells: DALL-E 2, Invisual Images and The Racial Politics of Feature Space [PDF]
In this paper, we examine how generative machine learning systems produce a new politics of visual culture. We focus on DALL-E 2 and related models as an emergent approach to image-making that operates through the cultural techniques of feature extraction and semantic compression.
arxiv
The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: Examining the Role of Politics and Diplomacy in Cultural Property Disputes [PDF]
Abstract:This article constitutes the first systematic attempt to synthesize the role of politics as an affecting dynamic during the negotiation of cultural property disputes. The article limits its scope to disputes concerning the ownership of cultural artifacts between states and museums settled through negotiation and to the subsequent claims for ...
Shehade, M, Fouseki, K
openaire +3 more sources