Journal articles: 'Sociocultural systems'

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Salthe, Stanley N. "Development in sociocultural systems." World Futures 38, no. 1-3 (October 1993): 165–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02604027.1993.9972378.

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Hajiyev, Rovshan. "On the Content of Sociocultural Systems." Вопросы философии, no. 11 (2018): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s004287440001889-2.

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Caldwell, Agnes I. "Book Review: Macrosociology: The Study of Sociocultural Systems." Teaching Sociology 38, no. 1 (January 2010): 62–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0092055x09354053.

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Kaladzavi, Guidedi, Papa Fary Diallo, Cedric Bere, Olivier Corby, Isabelle Minrel, Moussa Lo, and Kolyang. "Ontologies-based architecture for sociocultural knowledge co-construction systems." Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management 6, no. 1 (October 22, 2018): 226–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36965/ojakm.2018.6(1)226-239.

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Considering the evolution of the semantic wiki engine on-based platforms, two main approaches could be distinguished: Ontologies for Wikis (OfW) and Wikis for Ontologies (WfO). OfW vision requires the existing ontologies to be imported. Most of them use the Resource Description Framework (RDF-based) systems in conjunction with the standard Structured Query Language (SQL) database to manage and query semantic data. But, relational database is not an ideal type of storage for semantic data. A more natural data model for Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is RDF, a data format that organizes information in graphs rather than in fixed database tables. This paper presents an ontology on-based architecture, which aims to implement this idea. The Architecture mainly includes three-layered functional architecture: Web User Interface Layer, Semantic Layer, and Persistence Layer.

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Nandasena, Sumal, and Upul Senarath. "Health care beyond professional health systems: The sociocultural context." Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka 20, no. 1 (July 30, 2015): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jccpsl.v20i1.8066.

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Nicholls, Jill, and Adam Drewnowski. "Toward Sociocultural Indicators of Sustainable Healthy Diets." Sustainability 13, no. 13 (June 28, 2021): 7226. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13137226.

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Balancing the social, economic and environmental priorities for public health is at the core of the United Nations (UN) approaches to sustainable development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The four dimensions of sustainable diets are often presented as health, society, economics, and the environment. Although sustainable diet research has focused on health and the environment, the social and economic dimensions of sustainable diets and food systems should not be forgotten. Some research priorities and sociocultural indicators for sustainable healthy diets and food systems are outlined in this report. The present goal is to improve integration of the social dimension into research on food and nutrition security.

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Shevtsova, Maria. "Sociocultural Analysis: National and Cross-cultural Performance." Theatre Research International 22, no. 1 (1997): 4–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300015893.

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It is well known that theatre semiotics follows the metamorphoses of theories of semiotics in general and, like them, draws on Charles Peirce and American pragmatism, Saussurean linguistics and the linguistics of the Prague Circle, Russian formalism and French structuralism. These currents converge in the theatre semiotics of the 70s, producing a methodology that is highly scientist, technical, self-reflexive and abstract. This type of theatre semiotics may no longer be an up-markettopic, nor is it stone-dead. Its fundamental principle of ‘abstract objectivism’, as Bakhtin/Voloshinov describe it, survives despite the greater flexibility provided by its attention to such areas as reception theory and theories of cultural systems. Its inclusion of reception theory acknowledged of the fact that spectators exist in the construction of semiosis. Ideas concerning cultural systems and, thus, primarily those concerning codes were used to indicate the importance of cultural contexts in the processes of signification.

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McCafferty, Steven G. "Dynamic Systems Theory and Sociocultural Theory: Some Connections and Distinctions." Language and Sociocultural Theory 3, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/lst.v3i1.30476.

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Erting, Carol. "Sociocultural Dimensions of Deaf Education: Belief Systems & Communicative Interaction." Sign Language Studies 1047, no. 1 (1985): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sls.1985.0023.

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Vislenko, Andrei L. "Possibilities of Fractal Analysis Application to Cultural Objects." Observatory of Culture, no. 2 (April 28, 2015): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-2-13-19.

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Considers validity and productivity of applying the fractal analysis to study various sociocultural objects. The author analyses related works and shows that in principle, it is possible to achieve practically significant results to make prognosis concerning dynamics of cultural processes including evolution of sociocultural systems. The method demands using relatively difficult mathematical procedures that are ambiguous when applied to the analysis of sociocultural objects and needs a significant volume of initial data thus imposing strict responsibilities on researcher.

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Anzures, G., L. Ge, Z. Wang, and S. Itakura. "Differential sociocultural experience moderates latency of facial age judgments." Journal of Vision 9, no. 8 (March 24, 2010): 511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.8.511.

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Herchanivska, P. E. "MODEL OF CULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE PARADIGM OF THEORY OF SYSTEMS." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (2017): 19–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2017.1.04.

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The article is devoted to the development of culturological studies methodological model of the socio-cultural phenomenon basedon the theory of systems principles. The analysisis based on a conceptual paradigm: Sociocultural object is a system consisting of separate parts, interconnected by certain relationships; the system is in continuous development and interaction with the external environment. The algorithm of system analysis contains: understanding the basic purpose and functions of the system; the choice of most optimal variant for partitioning system on components (subsystem, elements); introducing of the hierarchy of parts in the structure of the system; detection оf function of each subsystem and linkages between them; definition ofthe system connections with the environment (or other systems); study of the nature of the variability of the system, of its ability to development and adaptation to the environment. The classification of the sociocultural systems depends on the selected criteria, for example: on the nature of the items, their origin, the variability of propertie, the degree of difficulty, the attitude to the environment, etc. The article reveals the features of system analysis in cultural studies, as well as the potential of the theory of systems in the field of culturology for solving theoretical and practical problems. In the view of the synergetic model, the algorithm of the process of self-organization of the sociocultural system and the mechanisms governing this process are analyzed. The article shows that the self-organization of a sociocultural system is a nonlinear process that is a sequence of phase transitions from an equilibrium state through a nonequilibrium phase and dissipation to bifurcation and relaxation of the system. The process of intercultural interaction is considered through the prism of system analysis. The article shows that the openness of the socio-cultural system is a necessary and indispensable condition for intercultural interaction.

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Talukder, Majharul, Sultan Alyammahi, Ali Quazi, Abm Abdullah, and Raechel Johns. "USERS’ SOCIOCULTURAL ORIENTATION AND SMART SYSTEMS ACCEPTANCE LINK: DO DEMOGRAPHICS MATTER?" Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce 29, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 223–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10919392.2019.1611287.

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Diallo, Papa Fary, Olivier Corby, Isabelle Mirbel, Moussa Lo, and Seydina Ndiaye. "Ontologies-Based Platform for Sociocultural Knowledge Management." Journal on Data Semantics 5, no. 3 (June 20, 2016): 117–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13740-016-0065-4.

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Palomino, Horacio U., and Binshan Lin. "Technology, innovation and sustainability in sociocultural-ecological systems: a case in Mexico." International Journal of Sustainable Economy 2, no. 2 (2010): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijse.2010.030760.

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Docherty, Marcia A. "Sociocultural learning in emergency medicine: a holistic examination of competence." Diagnosis 7, no. 3 (August 27, 2020): 325–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dx-2020-0001.

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AbstractObjectivesIn the medical community of practice, the resident is situated in systems of professional and cultural activities. How diagnostic competence manifests in their sociocultural context is examined through situativity and systems theories. A holistic model is proposed that could examine diagnostic competence across micro (individual), meso (activity), and macro (cultural) systems.MethodsTwo short scenarios are presented resulting from observations of emergency medicine residents and their supervising physicians. These scenarios are analyzed using a trans-theoretical model of situativity and systems theories to understand how diagnostic competence manifests in practice (activity system).ResultsAssessment of diagnostic competence in a sociocultural context may require assessment of responses to contextual factors that seem immaterial to clinical reasoning. This information may signal that the resident also has the skills to identify appropriate information channels within an activity system and can accurately collect and prioritize clinical information within those channels. Therefore, the formal assessment of competent clinical reasoning performance, as a situated practice, may benefit from delineating how much of the context of an activity system is required to be competently managed and synthesized across the competency milestones.ConclusionsThe examination of diagnostic competence as a sociocultural practice can provide a unique and holistic examination of clinical reasoning performance and assessment.

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Mao, Tiaoyuan. "Redefining pragmatic competence among modular interactions and beyond." Intercultural Pragmatics 17, no. 5 (November 26, 2020): 605–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2020-5004.

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AbstractLanguage is a perfect system that satisfies the conditions imposed by the external performance/interpretive systems, but how the external systems interact with the core syntax is partially understood. With reference to Chomsky’s dichotomy of grammatical and pragmatic competences, this paper tentatively reformulates an integrated model of pragmatic competence, consisting of an internal and an external part. The former originates from the interaction of the internal syntactic submodule with external but organism-internal submodules, such as semantic, pragmatic and phonological-phonetic modules, and among three external submodules, thus creating thinking activities. The latter refers to the interaction between all organism-internal submodules and organism-external sociocultural factors, namely, mapping the computational results of the organism-internal submodules into the specific sociocultural contexts in communication. Meanwhile, this paper assumes an organism-internal pragmatic module in the Conceptual-Intentional system, providing linguistic and socio-cultural pragmatic knowledge in the operation of the internal and the external pragmatic competences, facilitating both pure thought and sociocultural communications.

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Tarasov, Aleksei Nikolaevich. "Sociocultural transformations as the basis for periodization of European culture: cultural and philosophical analysis." Социодинамика, no. 3 (March 2021): 48–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2021.3.32900.

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The goal of this research consists in demonstration of transitional periods in the dynamics of European culture, defined as sociocultural transformation, as the basis for its periodization. The article indicates that namely sociocultural transformations, i.e. transitional eras, play a crucial role in the historical-cultural process. In the dynamics of European (Euro-Atlantic) culture, the author determines the three sociocultural transformations: late Hellenism, Renaissance and Reformation, avant-garde and postmodernity. They divide the cultural continuum of the countries of European (Euro-Atlantic) civilization into three stages of gradual development: antiquity, medieval, and modern European. The key research method is the philosophical interpretation of the knowledge on cultural heritage of the European (and later Euro-Atlantic) culture. It is underlined that sociocultural transformations manifest as a condition for the creative process in its classical meaning (emergence, consolidation, and distribution of the new), and the key for cultural continuity, although the contemporaries often consider it as “shifting away from the norm”. In the intervals (sociocultural transformations) of gradualism (cultural systems) underlies the guarantee of continuity of the historical-cultural process.

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Ell, Kathleen O., and L. Julian Haywood. "Sociocultural Factors in MI Recovery: An Exploratory Study." International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 15, no. 2 (June 1986): 157–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/f1hv-tej0-y6ww-ykrh.

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The reported study examines the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) and ethnicity in coping with a first acute myocardial infarction (MI). The study employed a panel design in which seventy-five patients were interviewed during acute hospitalization and six months later, and sixty of those were interviewed again at one year post-MI. Using the analysis of variance test, gradients in anxiety, functional status, and self-reported health status were found among lower SES Blacks, Hispanics, Anglos and upper SES Anglos as well as statistically significant differences in personal sense of control, beliefs about recovery, coping responses, and social support systems. More important, analysis of covariance documents that associations between coping variables and post-MI recovery outcomes vary among the different socioculturel groups.

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Silverman, Barry G., Gnana Bharathy, Michael Johns, Roy J. Eidelson, Tony E. Smith, and Benjamin Nye. "Sociocultural Games for Training and Analysis." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans 37, no. 6 (November 2007): 1113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tsmca.2007.906574.

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Symonds, Paul, David H. K. Brown, and Valeria Lo Iacono. "Exploring an Absent Presence: Wayfinding as an Embodied Sociocultural Experience." Sociological Research Online 22, no. 1 (February 2017): 48–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.4185.

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Wayfinding has often been seen as being about the quickest or shortest possible route between two points (Hölscher et al 2011; Tam 2011 ; Haque et al 2006). Moreover, this process has very often been seen as a cognitive one, with the experiential nature of wayfinding and with the embodied, emotional and sociocultural aspects of this experience conspicuously absent. We argue that wayfinding is rarely a purely cognitive process that involves an individual person, who is entirely instrumental in navigating a direct and precise route, but instead that this is a process almost always directed according to embodied and sociocultural needs. We propose a reassessment of present wayfinding definitions and suggest an alternative understanding that includes sociocultural elements, embodied individuals and experience through their embodied senses, as crucial elements of the concept. Seeing wayfinding from this different sociocultural ontological viewpoint, opens up new ways of understanding and planning wayfinding systems.

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Swierad, Ewelina, Terry T. K. Huang, Ellis Ballard, Karen Flórez, and Sheng Li. "Developing a Socioculturally Nuanced Systems Model of Childhood Obesity in Manhattan’s Chinese American Community via Group Model Building." Journal of Obesity 2020 (June 29, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4819143.

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The purpose of this study was to develop a qualitative and socioculturally tailored systems model of childhood obesity in the Chinese American community in Manhattan’s Chinatown. We utilized group model building (GMB) methodology as a form of participatory systems modeling. The study was conducted in Manhattan’s Chinatown community. We recruited 16 Chinese American adults from the community. GMB workshops engendered a causal loop diagram (CLD), the visualization of a complex systems model illustrating the structures, feedbacks, and interdependencies among socioculturally specific pathways underlying childhood obesity, in Manhattan’s Chinatown community. The analysis of CLD revealed that participants considered the following factors to influence childhood obesity: (1) traditional social norms affecting body image, how children are raised, parental pressure to study, and trust in health of traditional foods; (2) grandparents’ responsibility for children; (3) limited time availability of parents at home; and (4) a significant amount of children’s time spent indoors. GMB represents a novel method to understand the complexity of childhood obesity in culturally specific populations and contexts. The study identified sociocultural subsystems that may underlie the development and perpetuation of childhood obesity among Chinese American children. Insights from the study can be useful in the design of future empirical studies and interventions.

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Trigos Carrillo, Lina. "A Critical Sociocultural Perspective to Academic Literacies in Latin America." Íkala 24, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v24n01a10.

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In this editorial, the author reflects on the state of research on academic literacies in Latin American higher education. To this end, the author presents a description of the context of higher education in Latin America, and the analysis of literature on academic literacies in the region through the lenses of three models: the study skills model, the academic socialization model, and the critical sociocultural model. From this analysis, the author argues that a critical sociocultural perspective is emerging in Latin America, which considers academic literacies as social practices embedded in systems of power. This turn into a critical sociocultural perspective is important and timely because it challenges deficit views of students, and it includes issues of power, identity, representation, and authority. The author invites Latin American scholars to consider the implications of a critical sociocultural perspective to academic literacies and the possibilities it offers to understand how youth interact with literacy in a region where education most of the times reinforces deep inequalities.

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Abdullah, Rusli, Shamsul Sahibudin, Rose Alinda Alias, and Mohd Hasan Selamat. "Collaborative Knowledge Management Systems for Learning Organisations." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 04, no. 04 (December 2005): 237–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649205001237.

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A knowledge management system (KMS) is a concept that can be used for creating knowledge repositories, improving knowledge access and sharing as well as communicating through collaboration, enhancing the knowledge environment and managing knowledge as an asset for an institution or organisation. In this paper, we propose a collaborative KMS framework for learning organisations (LOs) and discuss components in the framework that will help organisations to increase productivity and quality as well as to gain return on investment from a KMS. These components are KMS functionality, architecture, taxonomy, psychological, sociocultural and audit.

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Zhura, Viktoria V., and Yulia V. Rudova. "A Sociocultural Perspective on Learning: Arabic And Indian Medical Students Compared." SHS Web of Conferences 69 (2019): 00141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196900141.

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The sociocultural backdrop of international students coming to a foreign country from different cultural and social environments plays a key role in shaping their attitude towards learning. The article explores and compares the motivational drives of international students from the Arab countries and India, which underlie their attitude to academic activities and academic progress. We used the method of systematic literature review, a questionnaire survey, comparative, quantitative, and qualitative analyses to obtain data on the value systems, traditions, and worldview of international students, which will make it possible for educators to appreciate the cultural contexts these students are embedded in. Social and cultural awareness of different aspects of the students’ value systems will enable teachers in host countries to contribute effectively to international student integration into the educational process.

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Beltrán-Jaimes, Javier Orlando, Nidia Milena Moreno-López, Javier Polo-Díaz, Maryoris Elena Zapata- Zabala, and María Rocío Acosta- Barreto. "Autobiographical memory: a system functionally defined." International Journal of Psychological Research 5, no. 2 (December 30, 2012): 108–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21500/20112084.742.

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This article seeks to define and explain autobiographical memory from a functional standpoint. For this, definitions are analyzed from cognitive and sociocultural perspectives highlighting how they converge in relation to components assumed as constituent of autobiographical memory and tasks attributed to it. A theoretical model about its functioning is reviewed and allows us to understand how the memory systems that constitute it interacting with process control and cultural patterns to generate autobiographical memories essential to maintain a consistent image of the individual and a moderately accurate record of the experiences. Its functions are described: self-definition, social interaction and self-regulation. It raises that autobiographical memories are multimodal, are distributed among memory systems and executive processes, and are mediated by sociocultural contexts

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Bruneau, Thomas J. "Time, change, and sociocultural communication: A chronemic perspective." Sign Systems Studies 35, no. 1/2 (December 31, 2007): 89–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2007.35.1-2.03.

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The temporal orientations of any sociocultural grouping are major factors comprising its central identity. The manner in which the past (memories), the present (perception), and the future (anticipation/expectation) are commonly articulated also concern cultural identity. The identity of a cultural group is altered by developmental changes in time keeping and related objective, scientific temporalities. Three modes of temporality, objective, narrative, and transcendental, congruent with different kinds of brain processes, are common throughout our planet. Objective temporality tends to alter and replace traditional narrative and transcendental (spiritual) time, timing, and tempos. Objective temporality is concerned with what is transitory, modern and “progressive”. Objective time is not a traditional form of cultural time; it is a derived Westernized scientific imposition, rather than any cultural formation. This essay develops a new conception of how semiosis occurs. All information is essentially rhythmic, transduced through sensory systems as signals in a space-time domain, but deposited for use into a spectral thermodynamic domain in the human cortex. A “chronemic” perspective, (temporality as it is based in semiotic processes related to human communication) is assumed throughout. Such a perspective appears to be somewhat novel in both communication and semiotic studies.

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Hofmann, Richard J., and Nadeem Ashurey. "Possible Interaction of Education and Culture on Basic Conservation Tasks." Perceptual and Motor Skills 63, no. 3 (December 1986): 1207–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1986.63.3.1207.

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A basic conservation continuum is defined (number, mass, length). Scores on the continuum range from 0 to 9 and define a Guttman reproducibility of .94. The continuum provides numerical scores that document individual differences both quantitatively and qualitatively. The continuum is validated using four nearly equal groups of children, a total of 65, from two distinct sociocultural settings. The young children from an Appalachian sociocultural setting showed suppressed conservation scores. For the other three groups the scores were qualitatively but not quantitatively different. Qualitative differences are discussed and the possible effects of schooling are noted.

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Greeson, Megan R., Christina Soibatian, and Jaclyn D. Houston-Kolnik. "The Influence of Community Sociocultural Context on Creating an Effective, Coordinated Response to Sexual Assault." Psychology of Women Quarterly 42, no. 4 (August 7, 2018): 445–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684318790233.

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Members of Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) coordinate and improve the community response to sexual assault. A SART’s effectiveness is likely influenced by its sociocultural context, or the norms, values, and beliefs of the local community. However, this has yet to be empirically examined. We conducted a qualitative study to explore how sociocultural context may influence effectiveness within a sample of 169 leaders of 169 U.S. SARTs. SART leaders believed that specific norms and beliefs held by the general public in their community (rape myths and victim blame, denial of sexual assault happening locally, taboos against discussing sexual assault, and a male-dominated environment) delegitimized sexual assault as a problem that deserved public intervention. Leaders believed these led community members to resist the team’s efforts, by decreasing the community’s support and buy-in to the SART, interfering with efforts to make services accessible to survivors, and obstructing the SART’s ability to effectively respond to cases. And some leaders believed highly interconnected communities compromised the accessibility and objectivity of systems that respond to sexual assault. SARTs need to carefully tailor their efforts to improve accessibility of systems, and the response to sexual assault cases, to their unique local sociocultural context.

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Cheney, Ann M., Tanya Nieri, Elizabeth Davis, Joe Prologo, Esmirna Valencia, Ashaunta T. Anderson, Keith Widaman, Christina Reaves, and Greer Sullivan. "The Sociocultural Factors Underlying Latina Mothers’ Infant Feeding Practices." Global Qualitative Nursing Research 6 (January 2019): 233339361882525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333393618825253.

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In this study, we examined the sociocultural factors underlying infant feeding practices. We conducted four focus groups with 19 Latina mothers of children 0 to 2 years of age enrolled in Early Head Start programs in the United States over a 1-year period. We found these mothers considered both science- and family-based feeding recommendations. However, advice from family was often inconsistent with science- and nutrition-based recommended feeding practices. In the interest of showing respect and preserving harmonious relationships, some mothers accepted family advice instead of recommended practices while others employed strategies to follow recommended practices without offending. Nutrition educators need to consider the intersection of macro, organizational, and community factors with micro-level processes in shaping the implementation of recommended feeding practices within family systems. Nutrition interventions for Latino families should capitalize on Latina mothers’ strategies for navigating multiple information sources while preserving cultural values and family relationships.

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Verberk, Frans, and Jacqueline Fawcett. "Thoughts About Created Environment." Nursing Science Quarterly 30, no. 2 (March 24, 2017): 179–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894318417693316.

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This essay is about the Neuman systems model concept of the created environment. The essay, based on work by Frans Verberk, a Neuman systems model scholar from the Netherlands, extends understanding of the created environment by explaining how this distinctive perspective of environment represents an elaboration of the physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual variables, which are other central concepts of the Neuman Systems Model.

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Etuk, Grace Reuben, Ugo Samuel Bassey, and Ejukwa Osam. "Gendered Sociocultural Structures and Africa’s Quest for Development." Journal of Sustainable Development 12, no. 6 (November 28, 2019): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v12n6p121.

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The way gender interfaces with development is a concern that has occupied the attention of development planners and feminists for some time now. The impetus for this concern is the realization that a key component for achieving development in all its dimensions is the existence of gender equality. This explains why the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals of 2000 framed its third goal as “To promote gender equality and women empowerment”; and more recently in its Sustainable Development Goals of 2015, the fifth goal is “To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. Against this backdrop, therefore, this paper attempts to accentuate the extent of gender inequality that has persisted in Africa’s social structures, and how it has so far affected development on the continent. Particular prominence is given to the ways gender inequality in Africa’s social structures have functioned to keep the continent’s development rate at a snail pace by crippling the extent of participation in the development process by women – the main victims of gender inequality. The issue of gender and its effects on Africa’s social systems and subsequently the processes that will lead up the continent’s development must be properly addressed if a highway is to be created for development to ride in Africa. Thus, among other recommendations, the paper advocates for gender mainstreaming in policies and programmes at country level on the continent.

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Elwood, Jannette, and Patricia Murphy. "Assessment systems as cultural scripts: a sociocultural theoretical lens on assessment practice and products." Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 22, no. 2 (April 2015): 182–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969594x.2015.1021568.

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Чернявская, Валерия Евгеньевна. "IMAGE AND VISUALITY IN SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSION." ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics, no. 2(28) (April 20, 2021): 96–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/2312-7899-2021-2-96-109.

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Теоретический контекст рассуждений в рамках публикации задан современным пониманием мультимодальной / поликодовой природы человеческой коммуникации. В статье поликодовость рассматривается применительно к вербально-визуальным текстам. Анализируется роль визуального изображения в конструировании человеческого опыта и знаний. Исследовательский вопрос связан с тем, как в социокультурном пространстве действующие участники коммуникации выражают и интерпретируют смыслы с помощью визуального ресурса. Методологические основы анализа заданы социальной семиотикой, лингвистикой текста, культурной семиотикой, культуроведческой лингвистикой. Показывается, во-первых, как на современном исследовательском этапе внутри науки о языке осмыслена роль визуальной составляющей в создании текстуальности. Внутри лингвистики методологический приоритет сместился с признания языка главным кодом и архимедиумом коммуникации на изучение языка вместе с возможностями другого семиотического ресурса, а именно визуальной презентации смыслов и идентичностей. В результате анализа систематизированы основные направления изучения визуальности в лингвистике текста, стилистике, когнитивных исследованиях с начала 2000-х гг. и сформулированы выводы о роли визуального ресурса в создании текстуальности. В лингвистике важным объектом изучения становятся поликодовые тексты, структура которых состоит из семиотически разнородных частей и содержательно-смысловое единство образуется языковыми и неязыковыми знаками. Поликодовость дает значимый и интересный материал для междисциплинарных исследований, когда вербальный и визуальный компоненты текстового целого создают неразрывное интегративное единство. Глубинная связность текста не сводится к механическому сложению языковых и визуальных знаков. Исследованный материал показывает такие коммуникативные ситуации, когда в интерпретации смысла высказывания невозможно говорить о визуальном ресурсе отдельно от языковых знаков. Во-вторых, в анализе показано, что вербально-визуальные тексты могут становиться прецедентными, то есть надындивидуальными, укорененными в культурной практике. Они участвуют в интертекстуальном диалоге и трансляции человеческого опыта и знаний. В этой связи объяснительные возможности получает понятие «интериконичность», или «визуальная интертекстуальность». В ее основе лежит процесс интерсемиозиса, то есть перенос значений и смыслов, выраженных в одной знаковой системе, в другую. Рассматривается интериконичное построение смысла высказывания через интерпретацию и трансформацию существующих визуальных изображений. Интериконичность в таком ракурсе показывает еще один ракурс интертекстуальности как диалогического взаимодействия смысловых систем и культурных кодов. Изучение визуальности вносит вклад в теоретическое осмысление того, как возникает и функционирует общее, разделяемое с другими участниками культурного сообщества знание. Экспансия изображения в социальных практиках требует от участников коммуникации определенных компетенций и отрефлексированного визуального опыта. The article discusses the challenges and opportunities posed by the visual turn and visual studies in the investigation of communication. The theoretical framework of the article was found in the modern concepts of multimodal communication. The article focuses on the role of a visual image in shaping our sociocultural experience and knowledge. The main research question is as follows: how communicative actors produce and interpret meanings through visual images. Visuality is considered as a semiotic resource of meaning making that is socially constructed and culturally given. The article looks at images as they are context sensitive and represent information from the sociocultural environment. The methodology of the present analysis is in line with social and cultural semiotics, and reflects the main principles of text and cultural linguistics. The findings and implications can be summarized as follows. First, the article sketches out a linguistic, or, to be more precise, text linguistic, view on multimodality and summarizes the main approaches to the visual medium of communication compared with language. The point of departure is a methodological shift within linguistics from logocentrism towards multimodality and visual resources of meaning making. In the research papers in the 2000s, linguists also legitimized the pictorial and multimodal turn. Visuality is now at the cross-point of research interests of many modern disciplines such as text linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics. Multimodal texts are considered a crucial object to investigate the meaning making in its sociocultural embeddedness. Second, the suggested inquiry is in line with the issue of intericonicity and reveals the explanatory charge of visual intertextuality. I show that pictures, image-language links may emerge as rooted in certain sociocultural practices as a part of the cultural knowledge of communicators. That means they may be dependent upon the knowledge of previously encountered texts or meanings. Visual intertextuality is considered a form of intericonicity, which reflects the intersemiotic translation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal sign systems. I show visual intertextuality in current Russian communicative practice as a means of meaning making through reference on images or image-language links. A conclusion looks at some requirements and directions for further research. Images may provide a new access point to investigation of the cognitive dimension of meaning making and its sociocultural dimension. They allow us to observe the forms in which socially shaped and shared experience is fixed. The visual resource provides an access to contextualization: images are context sensitive and context embedded. The use and interpretation of images gives a special angle for the active, social construction of reality through semiotic (visual) resources.

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Wang, Li. "Sociocultural Learning Theories and Information Literacy Teaching Activities in Higher Education." Reference & User Services Quarterly 47, no. 2 (December 1, 2007): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.47n2.149.

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Pfeiffer, Steven I., and Glen P. Aylward. "Outcome for Preschoolers of Very Low Birthweight: Sociocultural and Environmental Influences." Perceptual and Motor Skills 70, no. 3_suppl (June 1990): 1367–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1990.70.3c.1367.

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PFEIFFER, STEVEN I. "OUTCOME FOR PRESCHOOLERS OF VERY LOW BIRTHWEIGHT: SOCIOCULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES." Perceptual and Motor Skills 70, no. 3 (1990): 1367. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.70.3.1367-1378.

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Lloyd, Annemaree. "Framing information literacy as information practice: site ontology and practice theory." Journal of Documentation 66, no. 2 (March 9, 2010): 245–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00220411011023643.

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PurposeInformation literacy is a rich and complex social information practice that is constructed according to specific practical understandings, rules and teleoaffective features which characterise a social site or setting. This paper aims to explore the philosophical and theoretical perspective of practice theory, in particular, the ontological work of Schatzki. These perspectives are to be used to frame an understanding of the features of information literacy as sociocultural practice.Design/methodology/approachA theoretical perspective is introduced to examine the concept of information literacy practice by framing this analysis through a site ontology developed by Schatzki. Sociocultural and practice theory are employed in this exploration of information literacy as sociocultural practice and provide a framework for architecture of information literacy practice.FindingsInformation literacy can be understood as a critical information practice which is organised and arranged through the site of the social, rather than as a reified and decontexualised set of skills.Research limitations/implicationsFraming information literacy research through site ontology and the use of a practice perspective has implications for further research into information literacy and for the development of pedagogic practices related to information literacy instructionOriginality/valueThe paper offers an alternate way of framing information literacy by introducing the concepts related to practice theory.

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Polyakova, Eugenya K. "Sociocultural phenomenon of management: institutionalization and problems of modernity." Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Management, no. 9 (August 24, 2020): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.46486/0234-4505-2020-9-167-177.

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The paradigm of modern development has brought to the Central positions of research essential transformations of the management system, which are caused by qualitative changes in the status roles of key «players» - the subject and object of management. The transformation of the management system in a modern organization can be positioned as a transition from subject-object relations in the «power - subordination» dichotomy to socially oriented forms of relationships based on the priority of the practices of participation, community and equality of interests. The article considers the key factors that determined the qualitative changes in the management system, which lie in the plane of changes in both the nature of production (the priority of high-tech technologies) and the needs of production in highly qualified professionals. In these conditions, the functionality of traditional management systems becomes insufficiently effective and, under the influence of socio-cultural factors that professionals become carriers of, changes its vector. The article shows the actor model of management, in which participants in the management process, who are capable of active and creative actions in an organized space, form and develop a unique environment of the organization, which is able to function adequately and mobile in conditions of uncertainty and risks.

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Marett, Kevin M., Rae Jeanne Memmott, W. Eugene Gibbons, Randy L. Bott, and Lee Duke. "Interdisciplinary Client Care with the Neuman Systems Model." Illness, Crisis & Loss 6, no. 3 (July 1998): 310–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/il6.3.e.

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This article describes how the Neuman Systems Model (NSM) can be used in a two-step process to provide both the form and the function for interdisciplinary client care. The NSM proposes five dimensions of human experience as being necessary for a complete understanding of a client system. This article takes these five content areas—psychological, physiological, spiritual, developmental, and sociocultural—and extrapolates them to their respective disciplines (e.g. nursing, social work, religion, psychology, etc.) to create a comprehensive interdisciplinary model for client care. The NSM also provides a common language and conceptual paradigm, congruent with allied disciplines. A demonstration project incorporating the NSM in the formation and functioning of an interdisciplinary team is described.

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Otero, G. "EEG development in children with sociocultural disadvantages: a follow-up study." Clinical Neurophysiology 114, no. 10 (October 2003): 1918–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1388-2457(03)00173-1.

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Popov, Lubomir, and Franklin Goza. "The Architectural Object as a Sociospatial System." European Review Of Applied Sociology 10, no. 15 (December 1, 2017): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eras-2017-0008.

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AbstractConcerns with the social inadequacy of architecture and the movement towards user-centred design call for new perspectives and architectural visions that can help alleviate usability problems and make buildings more user-friendly and accommodating in supporting user operations. Accordingly, this study proposes the concept of the sociospatial system. This conceptualization is based on premises of the systems approach and a social science interpretation of the problem. We provide a foundation for relating spatial-material objects and sociocultural phenomena, for homogenizing different discipline perspectives, and for developing relational descriptions of the systems components. This allows the built environment to be represented in terms of the sociocultural organism that it accommodates. The elastic concept of the sociospatial system described herein can be used as a holistic framework for the study of sociospatial interactions; including facilities programming and design, where this way of thinking can facilitate a holistic interpretation of a wide array of considerations.

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Hu, Xiao, and Chun Lai. "Comparing factors that influence learning management systems use on computers and on mobile." Information and Learning Sciences 120, no. 7/8 (July 8, 2019): 468–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ils-12-2018-0127.

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Purpose Learning management systems (LMSs) have been embraced for their potential to create a ubiquitous learning that is free from time and space constraints. Mobile devices afford enhanced mobility that enables flexible learning with LMSs. Thus, understanding students’ use of mobile devices to interact with LMSs and the influencing factors is essential. This paper aims to examine the factors that influenced students’ behavioural intention in using Web-based LMSs via mobile phones and compared the factors with those that affect students’ general acceptance of Web-based LMSs. Design/methodology/approach This study surveyed 356 university students and interviewed 17 students on the various factors that might affect their LMS adoption. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the survey data. Findings This study identified that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social influence and facilitating conditions were significant determinants of students’ usage intention in both contexts. However, social factors exerted greater influence on students’ behavioural intentions of mobile access than the attitudinal factors. The results also pinpointed some sociocultural and tempo-spatial factors that might have minimized the influence of perceived usefulness in the mobile context. Originality/value The study calls for special attention to the potential influences of sociocultural norms and tempo-spatial circumstances of mobile use in shaping the nature of learners’ voluntary mobile use of LMSs.

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Rasmussen, Susan. "Making Better "Scents" in Anthropology: Aroma in Tuareg Sociocultural Systems and the Shaping of Ethnography." Anthropological Quarterly 72, no. 2 (April 1999): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3317964.

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Amiri, Sohrab, and Amir Ghasemi Navab. "Emotion regulation, brain behavioural systems, and sensory sensitivity in sociocultural attitudes towards appearance in adolescents." Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia 14, no. 1-2 (2019): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/nan.2019.87726.

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Zhao, Yuxiang Chris, Yan Zhang, Jian Tang, and Shijie Song. "Affordances for information practices: theorizing engagement among people, technology, and sociocultural environments." Journal of Documentation 77, no. 1 (October 8, 2020): 229–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-05-2020-0078.

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PurposeIn the domain of information science, affordance is a relatively new concept that deserves further exploration. It may serve as a bridge to narrow the research-practice gap that has persisted in information studies. Building upon previous research, we call for a broader concept of affordance that would help researchers understand information practices from an ecological perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe study focuses on conceptualizing affordances for information practices in order to theorize engagement among people, technology, and sociocultural environments. We develop a hierarchical model and a component model to illustrate how key tenets of affordances can be linked with the decomposition of activities and its mechanism. Following this, we describe an illustrative case of a popular Chinese cloud-based music platform to demonstrate the utility of our conceptual frameworks in guiding studies of information practices.FindingsThe study proposes to shift the focus of technology affordances, which highlights the features and functions of particular technologies, to the affordances for practices that are enacted through technology and social construction within a sociocultural environment. The illustrative case of the cloud-based music platform shows that the proposed models can provide a structured view of operations, actions and motives for music information practices. The processes of internalization and externalization offer insight into the decomposition of information practice as a chain of activity-action-operation.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature on theorizing engagement among people, technology and sociocultural environments through the theoretical lens of affordances and sheds new light on the challenges of information practice.

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Carvalho, Sara C., Fátima Alves, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, and Pablo A. Meira‐Cartea. "Sociocultural and educational factors in the sustainability of coastal zones." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 23, no. 4 (June 8, 2012): 362–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14777831211232254.

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PurposeEnvironmental threats of immediate risk in areas such as coastal zones (CZ) have aroused new trends of citizenship and participatory democracy. The purpose of this paper is to analyse elements within those trends, such as environmental culture, socio‐political context, dynamics of social associative movement and integration of local knowledge. It also aims to contribute to an overview of the opportunities and barriers found in considering socio‐cultural and educational challenges in CZ.Design/methodology/approachIn this analysis, case studies of integrated coastal management occurring worldwide were selected and reviewed, considering several nuances of socio‐economic and political contexts of CZ. Experiences of public response to coastal catastrophes such the Prestige oil spill in Spain, are also described.FindingsWhether implementing sustainable coastal management through either balanced systems (between large and small‐scale strategies) or through largely bottom‐up approaches, participation is detected as one of the main factors for a successful integrated approach. Principles such as participatory governance and social justice should be adopted in initial phases of sustainable management processes and preferably involve all of the implied actors of CZ.Originality/valueThe literature reviewed highlighted specific factors that have empirically contributed to participatory sustainability of CZ, integrating three dimensions of citizenship: education, society's dynamics and culture.

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Zolotukhin, Vladimir Mikhailovich, Rashit Saitgoraevich Bikmetov, Vadim Viktorovich Shiller, and Anastasiya Aleksandrovna Tarasenko. "Sociocultural aspect of criminal law enforcement in the Russian mentality." SHS Web of Conferences 118 (2021): 02009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202111802009.

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The aim of the study is a comparative analysis of the socio-cultural aspect of criminal law enforcement in the Russian mentality. The methodological basis was such scientific methods as dialectical, comparative, logical, historical, prognostic, and systems analysis. This allowed, to achieve this goal, to perform a comparative analysis of the works of Russian and foreign legal experts on the examined problem. The result of the study was the conclusion that the effectiveness of law enforcement is due not only to national mentality, but also to the socio-cultural environment both on the part of the law enforcement officer and citizens as participants and/or eyewitnesses of specific legal relations. The authors also emphasize that culture, as well as socio-cultural environment forms stereotypes of legal behavior, depending on the constitutional and legislative consolidation of socio-political and socio-economic trends in the development of society. The novelty of the work lies in the formulation of the problem and its substantiation. This is due to the fact that the authors emphasize that an essential element is the degree of acceptability of value stereotypes in a particular state that allow and/or prohibit certain actions in connection with the possibility of undermining the foundations of national security and public morality.

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Ezedinachi, E. N. U., Igbo N. Egwu, M. A. Nwangwa, and J. O. Charles. "Perception of Malaria Infection in Two Rural Communities in Nigeria." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 16, no. 3 (October 1996): 257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/fepb-ctm1-v87q-xrbk.

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This investigation was concerned with how and when parents and other members of two rural communities (Awi and Ikot Edem Odo) in Cross River State, Nigeria, recognized malaria infection, what they do to prevent the disease, and what triggers their treatment seeking behaviour (cue to action). The psychological and sociocultural contexts of these complex factors were considered. Focus group discussion (FGD) techniques were employed. A total of eight groups selected using theoretical sampling matrix method were categorized. A thirty-three-item FGD battery of guide questions was used. Information and data on knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) and the perception of malaria infection were generated. Analysis showed that both communities recognized the symptoms, morbidity and mortality of malaria infection in both adults and children. The mosquito vector was identified among numerous other causes of malaria. The pervasive role of ethnomedical sociocultural, and belief systems on KAP and perception of malaria were revealed. Both communities will likely benefit from health education interventions which recognize the belief systems of the two communities.

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Viqueira, Jacinta Palerm. "Sistemas hidráulicos y organización social: La polémica y los sistemas de riego del Acolhuacan septentrional." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 11, no. 2 (1995): 163–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1051919.

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This article reviews the debates about the "hydraulic theory" of sociocultural evolution, particularly with regard to the controversial implications of the causal connections between irrigation and the nature of social organization. It also examines the role of current irrigation systems, such as those of northern Acolhuacan, in light of the questions raised by that debate.

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