Cultural Assessment for Sustainable Kiosk Projects

While lack of access to consistent safe drinking water is estimated to affect nearly 2 billion people worldwide, many of the efforts to solve this crisis have proven to be unsustainable. This paper discusses some of the reasons for these challenges and suggests interdisciplinary practices that could be integrated from the very beginning of a water intervention to achieve long-term success. Of key importance for sustainable water implementation is an enabling environment that incorporates aspects such as funding, potential for market development, and supportive governance. While this enabling environment is acknowledged, the focus of this work is on the integration of three key areas: (i) social and cultural assessment of behavior and preferences; (ii) market-based implementation approaches that draw on this knowledge; and (iii) technology development for these markets.

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Cross-Cultural Assessment of Situational Experience

The Oxford Handbook of Psychological Situations ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190263348.013.11 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 218-229

Author(s):

Gwendolyn Gardiner ◽

Erica Baranski ◽

Janina Larissa Buehler

Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Cultural Psychology ◽

Affective Response ◽

Cultural Influences ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Situational Cues ◽

Cultural Assessment ◽

Situational Experience

Cross-cultural psychology can benefit from the incorporation of psychological situations and the investigation of how cultural influences are manifested in our daily lives. In this chapter, we review the current literature on cross-cultural assessments of situations under the framework of cues (objective attributes of a situation), characteristics (meaning or interpretation of cues), and classes (groups of situations based on cues or characteristics). Cultural situational cues, such as the weather or population density, vary both in frequency and in interpretation across countries. Characteristics of situations differ in the meaning individuals ascribe to cues, the affective response to situations based on culture socialization, and the amount of agency or autonomy perceived in situations. Lastly, classes of situations (e.g., education settings, the workplace, romantic relationships), provide a useful method of grouping common situations for understanding cultural differences.

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A Case Study on Lean Six Sigma Cultural Assessment at Timken India Limited, Jamshedpur

Management and Labour Studies ◽

10.1177/0258042x0703200206 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 251-256

Author(s):

Susan Chirayath

Keyword(s):

Six Sigma ◽

Lean Six Sigma ◽

Cultural Assessment

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THE MERCURIO GUNFLINTS: A TECHNO-TYPOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL ASSESSMENT

The Antiquaries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0003581516000214 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 96 ◽

pp. 363-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paolo Biagi ◽

Elisabetta Starnini ◽

Carlo Beltrame

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Size And Shape ◽

Manufacturing Technique ◽

The North ◽

Major Significance ◽

Cultural Assessment ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Napoleonic Era ◽

Small Finds

The discovery of the wreck of the brig Mercurio, which sank in 1812 in the waters of the north Adriatic, is of major significance for the study of Italic Kingdom vessels from the Napoleonic era. The underwater excavations carried out in 2004–11 led to the recovery of many small finds, among which are several gunflints of different size and shape. The Mercurio gunflints were produced mainly from blades using a technique in use in Britain and France, but also in the workshops of the Lessini Hills around Ceredo (Verona province, northern Italy). We suggest that the flint employed for their manufacture probably came from Monte Baldo, in the Trentino, or perhaps from the River Tagliamento, in Friuli. We can exclude the possibility that the specimens recovered from the shipwreck were made from French flint because of the typically north Italian manufacturing technique and the character of the grey Treveti-derived flint. Given the complexity of the period during which the Grado (or Pirano) battle took place, the study of even such small items can contribute to a better interpretation of the dramatic events that characterised the beginning of the nineteenth century in that part of the Mediterranean.

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