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Intercultural experiences and practices in a Chinese-Japanese joint venture: a study of narratives and interactions about and beyond "Chinese" and "Japanese"Funayama, Izumi 28 August 2008 (has links)
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Exploring battered Mexican-origin women's help-seeking within their socio-cultural contextsBrabeck, Kalina Marie 28 August 2008 (has links)
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Eco-nuclear publicity : a comparative study in Florida and ScotlandTilson, Donn James January 1994 (has links)
This comparative study of the corporate public relations strategies of the nuclear industry in the U.S. and Britain, specifically of Florida Power & Light (FP&L) in Florida and Scottish Nuclear Limited (SNL) in Scotland, examines the use of visitor centres and environmental messages as key components of advocational campaigns designed to influence public opinion and shape public policy in favour of a pro-nuclear agenda. The study would seem to confirm other research that draws a direct relationship between the function of public relations in an organisation and the degree of input by public relations into corporate policy-making. Moreover, the data also suggest that, given a prominent role within an organisation, public relations can and does develop strategies and programmes to pro-actively manage emerging strategic public policy issues in direct support of organisational objectives Such programmes, as the study reveals, have been designed specifically around visitor centres as communication vehicles for corporate pronuclear messages, carried directly to key publics without gatekeeping by the mass media. Moreover, it would appear that the nuclear industry has been intentionally 'greening' its corporate messages so as to capitalise upon the public's growing concern about the environment. The study also suggests that the nuclear industry is using such centres, as well as newer, emerging advocational initiatives, in a fully promotional sense to circulate and thereby enhance the reputation of the industry. A comparative analysis of corporate nuclear public relations in the U.S. and Britain suggests a 'cross-national' exchange of intelligence, and in some respects, an outright collusion of efforts. Moreover, it would seem that there exists a further government-industry alliance both within the U.S. and Britain as well as trans-Atlantically. This alliance represents a convergence of government and industry interests in the development of nuclear energy for military and civilian purposes, and further illustrates earlier research of collusion among politicaleconomic elites and the over representation of corporate interests at the expense of unorganised public interests in the government decision-making process. Finally, the study argues that upcoming public policy decisions on the future of nuclear power in each country will be a measure of the effectiveness of pro-nuclear campaigning in achieving its objectives. The public debate on nuclear power will represent a genuine test of the relative health of democracy in both the U.S. and Britain, nation-states in which, military-industry-government interests mostly have had their way as it has concerned nuclear energy.
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Global families : families' experiences of moving cross-culturally within a global corporationBrady, Cody Ann 14 April 2011 (has links)
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The influence of Chinese cultural values on successful housing management in China and Hong KongYip, Wai-leung., 葉偉良. January 2002 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management
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CROSS CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN THE INCIDENCE AND ETIOLOGY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGYStoker, David Herbert, 1939- January 1965 (has links)
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A comparison of the symptomatology of Spanish-American and Anglo- American hospital patientsStoker, David Herbert, 1939- January 1963 (has links)
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A comparative adjustment study of older Mexican-American and Anglo womenKelly, Marynell Atwater, 1931- January 1966 (has links)
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Self and culture : a dialogical perspective.Saville, Lisa Joan. January 2001 (has links)
There is a growing library of literature on the relationship between self and culture. Most
studies (Cousins, 1989; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Sampson, 1989) in this area are quantitative
and approach culture as a concept that is "intemally homogenous and externally distinctive"
(Hennans & Kempen, 1998, p.1113). Such studies have found cross-cultural differences in how
people define their sense of self. This has led to a classificatory approach to self and
culture such that the western and non-western self have been defined as distinct from one
another. This thesis explores the appropriateness of such cultural dichotomies from a novel,
dialogical perspective of self (Hennans, Rijks & Kempen, 1993) which allows for the special
investigation of self and culture A qualitative methodology was adopted for this investigation,
within the narrative paradigm. Narrative interviews were conducted with a sample of twelve
women between the ages of 35 and 50 years and these women were varied by ethnicity as one
measure of culture. A voicecentred relational method (Mauthner & Doucet, 1998) was used to
analyse the interviews. Both investigative and methodological aims were forn1Ulated during the
analysis. Investigative aims explore the appropriateness of the dichotomisation of the self as
western and non-western. The results of the analysis question such cultural dichotomies
criticised by Spiro (1993) and yet so prevalent in self and cultural studies (Cousins, 1989;
Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Sampson, 1989). Frequently in the narratives there is an interweaving
of individualistic and collectivist characteristics. Such a co-existence of traits is
accommodated by the dialogical view of self, which provides a large enough framework to account
for both interdependent and independent characteristics in the same self. The methodological
aims directed the researcher to investigate the appropriateness of the measurements of self and
culture adopted by traditional approaches (Cousins, 1989; Markus & Kitayama, 1991 ; Sampson,
1989). The results of the thesis suggest that as intercultural connections are becoming
increasingly common, culture needs to be recognised as a complex concept that is no longer
homogenous. Cross-cultural approaches to this area are questioned by this investigation because
of their tendency to simplify and categorise the self and culture. It is proposed that future
research should approach this area of self and culture as an intersection or interface of
complex factors that are not easily homogenised or dichotomised. The findings point to the
value of qualitative research, and in particular the framework of the dialogical self, for
exploring this interface. / Thesis (M.A.)- University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.
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The role of architecture in the development of indigenous and biomedical collaborative healthcare facilities : designing a joint indigenous and biomedical healthcare centre for Durban.Mdakane, Dumisani Talent. January 2008 (has links)
South Africa is currently revitalising the role of Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) in
the country's healthcare provision. This undertaking is guided by Chinese Traditional
Medicine which is said to be one of the most highly developed traditional healthcare systems
in the world.
Programmes developed by the National Department of Health and other stake holders in the
development of indigenous medicine often need to be accommodated architecturally.
Collaboration with biomedicine is one of the main programmes aimed at empowering
Traditional Health Practitioners of the country.
Accordingly, this dissertation is divided into two sections, both based on the current
undertakings of collaboration between biomedicine and indigenous medicine in South Africa.
Due to the fact that traditional healing systems are less commonly described than
biomedicine, the main focus of this study is indigenous medicine and how architecture could
be influenced by alternative healthcare practices.
The first section (A) is theoretical. It investigates and compares the current architecture that
accommodates THPs in rural and urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal. This unveils social, cultural,
economic and political factors affecting this architectural genre. The aim thereof is to
establish architectural elements to be considered when designing a health care facility for
THPs. Section A also explores the current state of healthcare architecture in the country and
abroad so as to establish the latest challenges to be addressed by the proposed collaborative
healthcare model.
Design principles for collaborative architecture accommodating THPs and biomedical
practitioners in an urban context of South Africa are then be put forward.
Section B incorporates the theories derived from section A, towards the design of a joint
indigenous and biomedical healthcare centre for Durban. It gives specific spatial
requirements for a collaboration between biomedical practitioners and izinyanga. / Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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