• Subsequently, the outcomes are the product of the complex interventions as well as the contexts in which they develop. (cdc.gov)
  • Canada), access/barriers to care (including insurance coverage and cultural barriers), and treatment outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Results showed preliminary evidence of cultural adequacy and a satisfactory comprehension of the instrument instructions by the target population. (bvsalud.org)
  • and some cultural practices amplified the outbreak (e.g., burial practices). (cdc.gov)
  • 4 This investigation by the pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome describes the characteristics of the first community coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has subsequently spread outbreak in Viet Nam and the intensive intervention and all over the world, with 1.5 million deaths as of early preventive measures taken in response. (who.int)
  • Through empirical analysis of ethnographic data of drives performed by a German artist and an American IT specialist, the article illustrates how talk and driving are embedded differently in different cultural contexts. (researchgate.net)
  • The algorithm model consists of a chaos-based population space and a knowledge-storing belief space, uses normative knowledge and situational knowledge for chaos search and chaos perturbation, respectively, effectively avoids premature convergence of cultural algorithm, and overcomes chaos search optimization's sensitivity to initial values and poor efficiency. (hindawi.com)
  • The cultural algorithm framework consists of the population space and the belief space which simulate the evolutionary process from the microscopic and macroscopic levels separately as shown in Figure 1 . (hindawi.com)
  • The recent removal of Anna-Marie Lopez's work from a show at the Centro Cultural Aztlan has shaken belief in the Centro's real commitment to the representation of a diversity of Chicano voices and has led many in the community to suspect that the Centro is censoring artists' work. (ncac.org)
  • The study proposes a rigorous and systematic model to effectively achieve cultural adaptation of psychometric instruments. (who.int)
  • This study aimed to describe the processes of translation and cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Childhood Executive Functions Battery (CEF-B), designed to evaluate executive functions in children and adolescents from 6 to 16 years of age. (bvsalud.org)
  • We sought to ensure the translation and adaptation properties of the CEF-B in terms of semantic, idiomatic, experiential and cultural equivalence between the instructions in the original language and the target language. (bvsalud.org)
  • Aim: This study aimed to construct and evaluate the cross-cultural adaptation of DK-HIV-Q in an Argentine Spanish version. (bvsalud.org)
  • These activities have to be tailored to the special circumstances of the foreign born, which may involve factors such as visa status, drug resistance, social and economic hardships, linguistic barriers, and cultural beliefs that deter diagnosis and interfere with adherence to therapy and cooperation with contact investigations. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite these wrongs, California Native Americans resisted, survived and carried on cultural and linguistic traditions defying all odds. (ca.gov)
  • Therefore, in the world described in his writings, individual personalities, particular events, cultural traditions, and the peculiarity of language play significant roles. (jrank.org)
  • GENEVA (24 February 2016) - The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Namibia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. (ohchr.org)
  • The protection and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights parallel to the protection of civil and political rights had given rise to the right to development, which had brought together those two categories of rights. (ohchr.org)
  • T he Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 文化大革命 (1966-1976, referred to as the Cultural Revolution hereafter) was a radical social movement initiated by Mao Zedong 毛泽东, then chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • This movement subsequently spread to other social groups (Kwong 1988). (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • He set as his goal the writing of a scientific and philosophical history of English law that took into account its interaction with the social, economic, and cultural life of the English people. (jrank.org)
  • This paper and presentation discuss the social and cultural power of stories, and how they have been used to develop training for skilled blue-collar workers. (cdc.gov)
  • identificar la prevalencia de la resiliencia en los miembros mayores de la comunidad y su relación con el apoyo social y la satisfacción con la vida. (bvsalud.org)
  • se encontró baja resiliencia en adultos mayores que eran mujeres, mayores, solteros, vivían solos, no sabían leer ni escribir, no trabajaban, recibían hasta 1 salario mínimo, estaban insatisfechos con la vida y tenían un fuerte apoyo social. (bvsalud.org)
  • Individual resources (social, cultural, economic) can in fact help to stretch the law's boundaries to blend them to one's personal goals. (lu.se)
  • In particular, specific cultural elements and local beliefs must be taken into account to ensure proper messages, confidence, and close cooperation of the community" ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Other researchers have written about Acholi and other Nilotic peoples' health beliefs ( 5 - 7 ), but none has described cultural responses to epidemic diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • These studies identified a number of cultural practices and beliefs likely to prolong transmission of EVD. (who.int)
  • My art is positioned in the borderland next to my practices as a cultural analyst and a scholar of digital cultures, and I use my research to spur artistic concepts and to explore the interplay between representation and evocation. (lu.se)
  • Over the decades that followed, they survived cultural marginalization in a country where children were taught in school that Moriori were inferior to the dominant Indigenous group, the Maori. (artdaily.com)
  • If two necessary keys to effective training are getting the attention of trainees and gaining cultural acceptance of the messages taught, the NIOSH videos would appear to have succeeded. (cdc.gov)
  • The Cultural Property Advisory Committee reviews requests for import restrictions submitted to the United States by foreign governments, considers proposals to extend existing agreements and emergency actions, carries out ongoing review of current import restrictions, and provides reports of its findings and recommendations to the Department of State. (whitehouse.gov)
  • The day set the tone for strong relations between the participants, and also introduced issues that were to reappear over the following days, including the respective attitudes of the countries towards Europe, and the independence of State-sponsored Cultural Diplomacy organisations from the respective governments. (culturaldiplomacy.org)
  • The Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act established the 11-member presidentially-appointed Committee to ensure that the U.S. government receives advice from diverse public interests in cultural property matters. (whitehouse.gov)
  • The Cultural Heritage Center serves as the secretariat for Committee and convenes and facilitates the Committee's quarterly meetings. (whitehouse.gov)
  • Susan Schoenfeld Harrington brings a wide range of experience and perspective to the Department of State's Cultural Property Advisory Committee due to her diverse and multinational career in consulting, media, law, politics and the arts. (whitehouse.gov)
  • In addition to serving as a board member, Armando is also a member of the Villa Charities Cultural Committee. (villacharities.com)
  • Through the notion of scales of action and their composition, this article sheds new light upon the complexity and cultural differences of drives and car talk in middle class Germany and North America. (researchgate.net)
  • For premature convergence and instability of cultural algorithm in solving function optimization problem, based on cultural algorithm and chaos search optimization, a chaos cultural algorithm (CCA) is proposed. (hindawi.com)
  • Enlightened from this, Reynolds put forward a brand-new evolutionary computation of cultural algorithm [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The cultural algorithm simulates the evolution from both the macroscopic and microscopic levels which stimulate and influence each other mutually. (hindawi.com)
  • Nowadays, the cultural algorithm, as the hotspot of the algorithm research, has been successfully applied to many fields and achieved better results at certain problems than the traditional evolution algorithm [ 2 - 4 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • As for the function optimization, the cultural algorithm possesses high solution efficiency, but it has such deficiencies as premature convergence, instability, and so on. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, this study puts forward the chaos cultural algorithm (CCA) by introducing the chaotic search optimization into the cultural algorithm model. (hindawi.com)
  • by making use of the knowledge guidance of the cultural algorithm, it improves the search efficiency and precision. (hindawi.com)
  • The pseudocode of the cultural algorithm is illustrated in Algorithm 1 [ 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • With a form shaped by an algorithm and a façade constructed by robots, the Inkstone House OCT Linpan Cultural Center may seem out of sync with the natural landscape of the Chengdu Plain, in China's Sichuan province. (architectmagazine.com)
  • Since the creation of the House, Kenzo Takada mixes the cultural codes of the East and the West. (kenzo.com)
  • Mixes of art and cultural analysis are at the heart of my practice. (lu.se)
  • Since the 1970s the Cultural Revolution has been the subject of considerable research and attention. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • The artworks have often emanated from research questions and are subsequently used as something I call art probes. (lu.se)
  • Within this frame the possible shift from linear productions models to production across media represents a challenge since on the producers side requires a radical cultural shift and on the audience side it requires both knowledge and willingness to engage with texts across media. (lu.se)
  • The controversial French report recommending a systematic and unconditional return of African cultural heritage was all-but buried yesterday at a conference in Paris. (theartnewspaper.com)
  • Outside of Aotearoa, now used as the Māori name for New Zealand, the Polynesian Cultural Center provides a unique place where students are learning the culture and heritage of the Māori while obtaining a university degree. (polynesia.com)
  • The government agreed to pay the group 18 million New Zealand dollars ($12.3 million), hand over a range of property and grant a degree of control over cultural sites important to the approximately 2,000 people who now identify as Moriori. (artdaily.com)
  • The sultanates gradually declined and subsequently lost most of the territory due to internal succession conflict, piracy, and expansion of colonial powers such as the British. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Sultanate subsequently lost more territory to the James Brooke Kingdom of Sarawak through lease and seizure. (worldatlas.com)
  • A week's exercise is imparted: this involves cultural practice and online tutoring pedagogy. (shine.com)
  • Discover the cultural gems, spectacular scenery and friendly people of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia on this one-of-a-kind heritage tour. (bestway.com)
  • As the English travelled across the Atlantic Ocean, they not only extended the rule of the English monarchy but also transported their cultural heritage as well. (bartleby.com)
  • Successful professionals, PhD students as well as young and promising undergraduates all seized the opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue that encompassed cultural, political as well as economic elements. (culturaldiplomacy.org)
  • The Global Film Initiative promotes cross-cultural understanding through cinema. (firstrunfeatures.com)
  • Thursday's much lower-key symposium at the French Academy focused on "wider cultural cooperation with Africa" according to a source close to the minister, aimed at overcoming the confusion and consternation caused by the report. (theartnewspaper.com)
  • The Silk Road was probably the most important development in human history, which brought close trading and subsequently. (bestway.com)
  • Le présent article propose un modèle pour l'adaptation qualitative d'instruments psychométriques au contexte des pays en développement et présente une étude de cas sur l'adaptation au Pakistan de trois instruments internationalement reconnus : la liste de contrôle du comportement des enfants (Child Behavior Checklist), l'auto-évaluation des jeunes (Youth Self-Report) et le rapport d'évaluation de l'enseignant (Teacher's Report Form). (who.int)
  • Neither Morris nor his directors yet comprehended the inherent technical and cultural complexities, which today would engage the services of a dozen specialists and a large contingent of specially trained excavators and construction workers. (nps.gov)
  • Counterspace began as a response to this, as a space to imagine what cultural typologies for the African continent looked like. (designboom.com)
  • That includes everything from the color of sunlight in a space, to the cultural and material histories of a context. (designboom.com)
  • subsequently, the function of influence () guides the evolution of the population space by means of population experience or knowledge. (hindawi.com)
  • ICD Director and Founder Mark Donfried welcomed the group with an introduction on the history and meaning of Cultural Diplomacy. (culturaldiplomacy.org)
  • Maitland's interests subsequently shifted to the history of ENGLISH LAW . (jrank.org)
  • Bonnie Joy Kasian, a consultant attached to the California office of the Turkish Cultural Foundation, said it sponsors the trips for educational purposes about the culture, history and current affairs of modern-day Turkey. (turkishculturalfoundation.org)
  • he subsequently served for many years as a government minister. (hubpages.com)
  • A Butte County judge last week sent 18-year-old Teng Yang to prison for 32 years for shooting 16-year-old Fue Yang (no relation) at a Chico cultural event last year. (newsreview.com)
  • The project funded as a small pilot-project by NIOSH in 1998, and subsequently funded for six more years, had the goal of creating effective training for the mining industry. (cdc.gov)
  • Subsequently, the colonists revolted against English monarch, King George III, during the American Revolutionary War in the late 18th century. (bartleby.com)
  • Stoppard had his own experiences trying to bridge the cultural gap between Europe and Asia. (dctheatrescene.com)
  • Li was born in China and was selected to study at Beijing Dance Academy, upon his graduation, he received a cultural exchange scholarship to America. (sydneyoperahouse.com)
  • 2,3 Viet Nam shares a 1200 km border with China, previously had multiple direct flights METHODS from Wuhan, and has had long-standing cultural and business ties with China, resulting in an increased risk Setting of importation of SARS-CoV-2. (who.int)
  • Throughout the week, this diversity ensured a constructive exchange of ideas and opinions on discussions relating to the UK-Germany relationship and cultural diplomacy. (culturaldiplomacy.org)
  • The mix of classical Indian styles with Western realism sets out the theme of inter-cultural exchange which runs throughout her sister's wild trek around India. (dctheatrescene.com)
  • An exhibition hub for the local government and the Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises, a state-owned company, the project includes a two-story, oblong doughnut-shaped cultural center, a farm building, and a series of semi-covered walkways. (architectmagazine.com)
  • Although many view the Cultural Revolution as a catastrophe that caused severe damage to the nation (Seeberg 2000), some elements of its educational rhetoric may deserve attention, even though the realities of implementation were so disastrous (Chen 1974). (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) transformed China's educational system from what had been in place under Soviet influence in the early 1950s to a more revolutionary one. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • The minister also announced that the regular cultural season planned each year in France will be dedicated in 2020 to Africa and its artists. (theartnewspaper.com)
  • The community reacted to persecution by developing a complex of cultural and educational institutions, and formal relationships were retained with the governmental authorities. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The goal of the revolution was to transform educational and cultural institutions, which Mao claimed had failed to meet the needs of Marxist-Leninist socialist construction (MacFarquhar and Schoenhals 2006). (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • Te Arohanui o Te Iwi Māori Marae - The 'marae' is the open area or courtyard in front of the ancestral meeting house Hawaikiroa at the Polynesian Cultural Center and includes the grounds and surrounding buildings. (polynesia.com)
  • At 23,680 square feet, the cultural center offers glass-partitioned exhibition, conference, and multipurpose spaces connected by an interior corridor that encircles a glazed-in courtyard featuring circular reflecting pools derived from the inkstone used in Chinese calligraphy. (architectmagazine.com)
  • We believe that these approaches not only show a healthy respect for a diversity of viewpoints but also enhance the Museum's reputation as a cultural center. (ncac.org)
  • Ranging from conventional solo piano performances, to organs, theremins, electronic music, and large orchestras performing a specially written score, today's cultural institutions compete in curating and delivering programmes of 'film concerts' focusing specifically on silent films. (lu.se)
  • We are member-supported, so your donation is critical to KCRW's music programming, news reporting, and cultural coverage. (kcrw.com)
  • Dubbed "resistance media" by its management, Al-'Ahd promotes a message of Shi'i supremacism, incites violence against Iraqi minority communities and foreigners, and serves generally to advance the cultural and political agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Latin American, other Spanish, or other variation among subgroups in terms of status, and utilization of health care unknown type of Hispanic/Latino/ cultural background, socioeconomic services (10,11). (cdc.gov)
  • Our journey begins with the less-explored highlights of Laos, including in-depth looks at the cultural capital of Luang Prabang. (bestway.com)
  • Des discussions entre les groupes thématiques et les informateurs ont permis de mettre en évidence les problèmes de compréhension. (who.int)
  • We urge the Centro Cultural Aztlan to affirm its respect for free expression and the integrity of its curatorial vision. (ncac.org)
  • Socio-Cultural Factors and Experience of Chronic Low Back Pain: a Spanish and Brazilian Patients' Perspective. (plos.org)
  • Low back pain (LBP) could be influenced by socio-cultural factors. (plos.org)
  • Rodrigues-de-Souza DP, Palacios-Ceña D, Moro-Gutiérrez L, Camargo PR, Salvini TF, Alburquerque-Sendín F (2016) Socio-Cultural Factors and Experience of Chronic Low Back Pain: a Spanish and Brazilian Patients' Perspective. (plos.org)