This research examines the growth and transformation of Chinese cities in relation to the practice of hosting mega-events as a means of capital mobilization and the expansion of local debts.
Francis also complained that the church often organizes conferences where "the same voices" are heard over and over, an apparent reference to the practice of hosting only like-minded speakers at church-sponsored academic conferences.
After the extended 1992 1993 Zoo TV Tour, full of sensory overloads and alternate stage personae for Bono, the couple began a practice of hosting Sunday lunches at home, to establish a sense of regular, ordinary activities.
The process by which immigrants adopt the dietary practices of the host country called "dietary acculturation"—is multidimensional, dynamic, and complex; in addition, it varies considerably, depending on a variety of personal, cultural, and environmental attributes.
The Olympic Games have been criticized as upholding (and in some cases increasing) the colonial policies and practices of some host nations and cities either in the name of the Olympics by associated parties or directly by official Olympic bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee, host organizing committees and official sponsors.
Interestingly, the prevalence of diabetes was positively correlated with increasing years of living in the U.S., an important proxy measure of acculturation the process whereby an immigrant culture adopts the beliefs and practices of a host culture (7, 8).
For some women, contradictions and conflict occurred when family and friends took on the dominant cultural practices of the host country and the new mother was somewhat torn between her own more traditional beliefs and those of key family members such as the mother-in-law [ 14, 27, 29].
Ostrobothnia was the focus of our study because in this area we could find multiple greenhouses with different management practices in terms of host plant species, their cultivars (Table 1) and the origin of seedlings.
It is worth noting that Augusta sidestepped similar questions about racial discrimination by quietly admitting two black members in 1990, shortly after the discriminatory practices of P.G.A. Championship host Shoal Creek in Birmingham, Ala., came to light and ended in the club agreeing to invite black members.
The influence of host nation practices on the nutritional status of military families is not known and iodine-dependent outcomes have not previously been assessed in these populations, highlighting the importance of the findings of this study.
