Cross-cultural analysis
A cross-cultural analysis of heart metaphors
... Along our investigation we have faced the issue of assigning the target domains, since the assignment of an expression to a concrete target domain could be subjective. This corresponds to the formulation of metaphors ...
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A cross cultural analysis of popularizations in English and Spanish newspaper discourse
... As Table 1 above shows, although the length of BCTG and BCEP is quite similar, BCTG is longer than BCEP, containing 116 words, 5 sentences and 5 paragraphs more. On the other hand, BCEP has an average distribution of 22 ...
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Perceived Risk Questionnaire in Canyoners: content validity, cross-validation and transcultural invariance across Portugal and Spain
... to cross-validation, we resorted to the study of invariance between Portuguese and Spanish ...of cross- cultural invariance is to evaluate if the structure of the measurement model is equivalent ...
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1993 Ardila Historical Evolution of Spatial Abilities
... Cross- cultural analysis of spatial abilities in different human groups, normalization of neuropsychological testing instruments, and clinical observations of spatial ability disturbanc[r] ...
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Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games
... descriptive analysis brings to the fore not only the behavioural diversity across the fifteen societies selected for the study but also a number of regularities: for example, society mean DG offers vary from 26 to ...
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Developing translator's intercultural competence: a cognitive approach
... of cultural knowledge and the differences between images and perceptions of “the same” phenomena depending on one’s cultural belonging, which is an argument in favour of such somewhat simplistic ...
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Los sistemas mandálicos como herramienta intercultural para organizar la enfermería internacional
... Por otra parte la Carta Mandálica también es un vehículo organizador en el campo de la competencia cultural. Entendida ésta como “la integración compleja de conocimiento, ac- titudes y habilidades que aumenta la ...
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Understanding ten years of stagnation in Costa Rica's drive for universal coverage
... Except for a qualitative analysis of the design and current performance of Costa Ricas health financing system, this paper presents the results of a cross sectional analysis of the 2006 [r] ...
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Using Cross-Lingual Explicit Semantic Analysis for Improving Ontology Translation
... Semantic Analysis (ESA) was introduced by (Gabrilovich and Markovitch, 2007), and allows the semantic comparison of two texts with the help of explicitly defined ...Semantic Analysis (Landauer and Foltz, ...
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CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF THE INSTRUMENT “FAMILY NEEDS QUESTIONNAIRE”
... the cross-cultural adaptation of the “Family Needs Questionnaire” (FNQ), which is a structured instrument developed in the United States to measure the perceived needs of family members after the Traumatic ...
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Colour Emotion for Two-Colour Combinations
... Data analysis reveals that male observ- ers liked higher-chroma colour pairs more than female observers, a finding shared by Schloss and Palmer’s study using American ...
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Cross cultural validation of TEOSQ in mexican and spanish junior athletes
... En el ámbito de la evaluación psicológica en el deporte, uno de los instrumentos que ha sido traducido a diferentes idiomas y sobre el que se ha contrastado su invarianza factorial en[r] ...
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Traducción y adaptación transcultural de un cuestionario para evaluar la satisfacción en pacientes portadores de prótesis total
... Abstract The scope of this study was to develop the culturally-adapted version of the KID- SCREEN-52 questionnaire for Mexican adoles- cents aged 8 to 18, and to analyze its reliability and validity. A translation and ...
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CROSS ANALYSIS OF PROFESSOR – STUDENT EVALUATIONS AND THE LEVEL OF SINCERITY: A STATISTICAL APPROACH
... careful analysis of the different structures that constitute the Higher Education System, such as universities, faculties, careers, teachers, students, methodologies, evaluations, ...
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Do business games foster skills? A cross cultural study from learners' views
... This conclusion has practical implications and proves that the cultural context affects the students’ perception about the effectiveness of this learning method. In the specific case of business games, our results ...
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Bladder cancer index: cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish and psychometric evaluation.
... Although cross-cultural differences should not be discarded, it may be due to the fact that sexual prob- lems could have appeared some time ago and become accepted as a “normal” consequence of ageing, not ...
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Diálogos interculturales en las traducciones de los sonetos de William Shakespeare al lituano por Sigitas Geda
... popular cultural images, also on the selection, transfer, transformation and representation of typical poetic ...‘the cultural turn’ – when the text is no longer studied in isolation but inevitably involves ...
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Cross cultural influences and correspondences in contemporary Nigerian drama
... Furthermore, Western literary devices that characterize Shakespeare’s dramaturgy have wielded much influence on contemporary Nigerian drama in the area of topicality and form. For example, Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not ...
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Cross-cultural counseling: problems and prospects
... of cultural insensitivity within the system in order to achieve educational equality and to use initiatives to get round these (Lee, 1995), and special intervention should take place with parents and the ...
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Strategies for a Cross Cultural Ecofeminist Literary Criticism
... These questions were further illuminated in July 2009, when I taught a graduate seminar on Ecofeminist Literary Criticism at Tamkang University in Taiwan, and we discussed these features of language, literature, and ...
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