Cultural change

... Managing the risks of 'Future Challenges'. ... wider society' in the White Paper is through “providing support to local projects that promote dialogue and understanding ... Commission is not only necessary to respond to the social risks associated with the increasing diversity of 21st ...

... No longer at ease shows Obi Okonkwo caught between the western values that have been inculcated in him through his education and the ... This conflict is skilfully illustrated in the characters of Chris, Ikem and Beatrice who strive to come to terms with their identity (see above). ...

ABSTRACT: The construction industry is being viewed as one with poor quality emphasis compared to other sectors like the manufacturing and service sectors. Many criticisms have been directed to the construction industry for generally shoddy workmanship. It not only the final product ...

Globalisation, linked to Anglo-American political economy, is a force for socio-economic, political and cultural change. This has ambiguous implications for accounting and the profession and engenders differing and ambivalent responses. We critically and contextually give a voice to Syrian accountants, exploring how they perceive globalisation's actual and potential impacts. In-depth, face-to-face interviews with Syrian accountants indicate they perceive globalisation as

Sam / ACCULTURATION ATTITUDES 239 A theoretical viewpoint of acculturation is the acculturation attitude model developed by Berry and his associates (see Berry, 1990,1991 ; Berry & Kim, 1988; Berry, Kim, Power, Young, & Bujaki, 1989). The model depicts different modes of ...

Thirty-nine educated middle-class residents of Patna, India, were interviewed about a vignette describing the behaviour of a seemingly mad man or woman. The interview explored their representations of traditional healing methods and of Modern psychiatric notions. Besides explanations for mental illness and madness, the interviews also covered the reaction of families and neighbours to such phenomena. Respondents think of different causes depending on the context, ranging from frustrated desires, shock, and heredity to spirit possession. The majority's spontaneous preference for modern, psychiatric, treatment often co-exists with a faith in traditional healing. This faith is strengthened by their family's traditional preference. The results are discussed as an example of a process of modernisation of common-sense in which popularised scientific notions become anchored in the traditional setting of social structure and family life. The newly acquired knowledge forms a loosely ...

Technology evaluation of integrated/digital OR is needed since very little literature has been published on the subject. The integrated OR is a technological solution intended for minimally invasive surgery where the surgeons have complete control of the environment, devices and image distribution. Before such an investment, Health Technology Assessment can be used as a method to evaluate what vendors' state, i.e. the fact that the integrated OR is a very effective and efficient solution. Then a follow-up evaluation could be useful after the installation to test the users' satisfaction and give suggestions to the community about real- experienced integrated OR advantage. A multiple answer questionnaire has been handed to 17 surgeons and 9 scrub nurses form Varese Town and University Hospital to evaluate the degree of satisfaction after 2 years of use of integrated ORs. Surgeons and scrub nurses agree that the integrated OR can be very effective in increasing quality, risk reduction and surgery time reduction through the use of digitalized video acquisition system, boom-mounted devices and multiple displays. Scrub nurses are a little bit more confident than surgeons that medical device control could reduce the confusion inside the OR and reduce the number of setting errors. A very positive judgment was given to the system's teaching capabilities, but both surgeons and scrub nurses agree that a great degree of education and a cultural change are needed to use the system in a correct and complete way. Results show that there is a deep appreciation of the system which proved to be efficient (reducing surgery time and enhancing surgical quality) and effective. This is a pilot study based on few collected data, but the questionnaire could be handed to many hospitals where integrated ORs are present, in order to achieve a significant degree of assessment and find common topics to be considered fundamental especially in the evaluating phase.