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culture
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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culture culture shock the feeling of disorientation experienced by a person who finds himself or herself in a notably unfamiliar or uncongenial cultural environment; the term is recorded from the 1940s.
culture vulture a person who is very interested in the arts (humorous formation from the mid 20th century).
See also
canteen culture,
two cultures.
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Cultures for Cellulitis.
Newspaper article from: Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Reports; 1/1/1999; 700+ words
; Cultures for Cellulitis ABSTRACT...obtaining a sample for culture from a focus of...anxious child for culture of periorbital cellulitis...the value of blood cultures. In immunocompetent...material for bacterial culture. Cultures of tissues and blood...
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Blood Cultures Taken During the First 72 Hours of Antibiotic Therapy Are a Waste of Time and Money.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert; 5/15/2001; 700+ words
; ...diagnostic value of blood cultures obtained in the...Usefulness of blood culture for hospitalized...Of the 598 blood culture sets obtained...started. Blood cultures were negative or...the preantibiotic culture results before deciding...of taking blood cultures during therapy is...
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Culture-performance research: challenges and future directions.
Magazine article from: Journal of Academy of Business and Economics; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; 1. CULTURE-PERFORMANCE RESEARCH: CHALLENGES AND...demonstrate a link between organizational culture and performance, findings have yielded...more cohesive models of the corporate culture and performance link. Specifically, researchers...
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Culture, culture learning and new technologies: towards a pedagogical framework.
Magazine article from: Language, Learning & Technology; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...approaches to the learning and teaching of culture using new technologies by relating the key qualities and dimensions of the culture concept to elements within a pedagogical...In Part One, five facets of the culture concept are developed: culture as...
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The culture of culture. (widespread use of the word 'culture')
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 6/6/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...with the intermediate "cultures" that Eliot mentions...he understood the "culture" of the Pentagon...of a male-dominated culture trying to shed a reputation...intractable clash of cultures between Warner and Time...needs "a new economic culture...a culture of dealing...
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Culture, power and pain. (female circumcision)
Magazine article from: WIN News; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...words, about the connection between culture, power and pain. Those who defend...argue that it is a part of traditional culture, and that we should respect every people's right to their own culture. But what is <a people>...
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Culture's in between. (concept of culture)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...culture, this partial culture, is the contaminated...connective tissue between cultures--at once the impossibility of culture's containedness and...culture-sympathy and culture-clash." The peculiarity of cultures' partial, even emtonymic...
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The culture based model: constructing a model of culture.(Report)
Magazine article from: Educational Technology & Society; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...In anthropology, models of culture take a holistic examination of cultures looking for shared behavior...inquiry suggests that models of culture provide a framework to examine cultures, guide the design of culture-based products and services...
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Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth Century America.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 1/3/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...happened to American culture in the years between...Depression. In Cultures of Letters, Richard...mass entertainment culture back to its humble...segmentation of American culture in the mid-nineteenth century. Cultures of Letters is an...
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Culture as a management tool for medical groups.(Group Practice Management)
Magazine article from: Physician Executive; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...is known about these cultures and how they influence...disparity. First, while culture as a social construct...concept of organizational cultures is less well articulated...concept of organizational culture can be traced to the...be conceptualized as cultures rather than impersonal...
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Culture, Low and High
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...scientific research on culture revolves around...words, are some cultures more valued than...Herbert Gans, cultures can be divided...American Popular Culture and High Culture in a Changing...x201C; taste cultures ” are...
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Cell Culture
Book article from: Biology
Cell Culture Cell culture describes the laboratory growth of cells derived from plants or animals. To put cells into culture, the tissue of interest is exposed to enzymes that dissociate the...
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Culture
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...x201C; culture ”...x201C; cultures ”...x201C; culture-in-the...that specific cultures existed in different...Rather, each culture has its own integrity, and all cultures are equal to...
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culture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...studies material culture, the remains of extinct human cultures (e.g., pottery...comparisons among various cultures. Theories of Culture Investigations have...relations among cultures. Important theorists on culture have included Franz...
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Material Culture
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Material Culture “ EXPERIENCE-NEAR ” MATERIAL CULTURE Material culture consists of any physical manifestation or product of culture. Culture as a conceptual category exists in opposition to material culture, with culture...
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