Four important factors may be related to the success of the Diabetes TeleCare intervention: high participant retention, modification of materials for cultural competency, coordinating administrative functions with the primary-care centers, and the successful personalized interactions during group education sessions enabled by video conferencing.
I pretended that I needed material for my cultural studies course, but I was there for myself, among thirty other non-heteronormative people.
The last day of the conference was dedicated to new materials and methods for cultural heritage, and was opened by an impressive plenary lecture of Prof. Antonio Candeias (University of Evora and HERCULES Laboratories, Portugal) who raised awareness of the potential of biotechnology to investigate cultural heritage objects.
"We're not about geopolitics, we're not about minefields, we're about trying to do the best and the right thing for the long term for material cultural heritage," Mr. Snyder said.
Ask for referrals to good art conservators from museums, historical societies, or other organizations responsible for cultural material.
Cindy Chupack's essay exemplifies a take on Jewishness that seems to see it as something to be mocked, abandoned or used as material for ironic pop-cultural musings.
Not so for material cultural artifacts, which can be reinvented or, better still, deliberately resurrected based on surviving information: whether from old horns, catalogs or patent drawings, etc.
Recently, there has been significant interest in the use of portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometers (pXRF) for cultural materials applications, especially ceramics and sediments.
For this reason, portable and non-destructive spectroscopic techniques have become powerful tools to analyze the structure and properties of materials of cultural and historical value.
"It seems that the measure will mainly benefit record producers and not performing artists, will only have a very limited effect for most of the performing artists" and "will have a negative impact on the accessibility of cultural material" for consumers.
