Wu, Mengtong Jiang, Chao Zhang, Yi Cao, Jingjing Cheng, Ying Liu, Yu
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Computational Urban Science
Culture and distance are two major factors for geographically segmenting tourists in tourism marketing and advertising. Previous empirical studies on the destination image, however, have examined extensively the effect of the culture while inadequately the effect of the distance, let alone comparing the effects of the two variables. Using social me...
Dalaba, Maxwell A. Nonterah, Engelbert A. Chatio, Samuel T. Adoctor, James K. Watson, Daniella Barker, Mary Ward, Kate A. Debpuur, Cornelius
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BMC Nutrition
BackgroundThis study explored cultural and community perceptions of optimal diet for maternal and child health in northern Ghana.MethodsThis was an exploratory cross-sectional study using qualitative methods for data collection. Data were collected between March and April 2019 consisting of 10 focus group discussions with men and women community me...
Pearson, Adam R. Bacio, Guadalupe A. Naiman, Sarah Romero-Canyas, Rainer Schuldt, Jonathon P.
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Climatic Change
Research has identified familism, a cultural value reflecting the centrality and prioritization of the family, as a key psychosocial determinant of health risk-mitigation behavior among Latinos, a large and growing segment of the US public. In a national probability survey in which Latinos were oversampled, we explored whether familism predicts cli...
Zhang, Dayong Li, Jun Ji, Qiang Managi, Shunsuke
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Climatic Change
Societies adapt to climate variations and develop unique cultures that lead to distinctive economic behaviour across different regions. To estimate the climate-economic link and test the hypothetical role of culture, this paper uses a nationwide survey at the household level in China, together with historical temperature data at the prefectural cit...
Kostis, Pantelis C.
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Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
During recent decades, culture is gaining more and more attention as a factor that determines economic outcomes. Trying to investigate its role on innovation and economic development, this paper uses a dataset that offers the potential for a cross-sectional and time series analysis. Thus, in this paper, the effects of culture on innovation (as meas...
Bone, Jessica K. Bu, Feifei Fluharty, Meg E. Paul, Elise Sonke, Jill K. Fancourt, Daisy
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundEngaging in the arts is a health-related behavior that may be influenced by social inequalities. While it is generally accepted that there is a social gradient in traditional arts and cultural activities, such as attending classical music performances and museums, previous studies of arts engagement in the US have not adequately investiga...
PROIETTI-JUNIOR, A. A. LIMA, L. S. ROGES, E. M. RODRIGUES, Y. C. LIMA, K. V. B. RODRIGUES, D. P. TAVARES-DIAS, M.
In fish, bacteriosis has been widely linked with Aeromonas species, but co-infection by these bacteria has been little addressed. The aims of this study were to report on an outbreak of disease in pirarucu Arapaima gigas caused by Aeromonas and to investigate experimental co-infection and characterize resistance profile, virulence factors and pheno...
Guo, Jia Zhong, Qinyi Tang, Ying Luo, Jiaxin Wang, Hongjuan Qin, Xiaofen Wang, Xiuhua Wiley, James Allen
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BMC Nursing
BackgroundVisual art training is a student-led approach using Western art pieces as the main teaching resources. It has been developed and applied in nursing and medical education in the United States. This study aimed to adapt visual art training to Chinese cultural context, then to compare the efficacy of the culturally-tailored visual art traini...
Reddy, Sreenivasulu B. Nagy, Noemi Rönnberg, Caroline Chiodi, Francesca Lugaajju, Allan Heuts, Frank Szekely, Laszlo Wahlgren, Mats Persson, Kristina E. M.
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundPlasmodium falciparum parasites cause malaria and co-exist in humans together with B-cells for long periods of time. Immunity is only achieved after repeated exposure. There has been a lack of methods to mimic the in vivo co-occurrence, where cells and parasites can be grown together for many days, and it has been difficult with long time...
Hoffer, Thom (author)
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