1 A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.ULTURAL ETHNOCENTRISM. 1  Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to that of other cultures. 2  It is a form of reductionism that reduces the other way of life to a distorted version of one's own.
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) As It Relates To Urine Drug Testing. Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (or GC/MS) is a two-step methodology used to identify different substances within a test sample. GC/MS is widely used due to its ability to perform a specific test, and is an extremely effective in identifying the presence of a specific substance within a given sample.
To calculate Glycemic Load, you must first determine the food's Glycemic Index (GI), which can only be done via human testing. GI testing is relatively expensive and very time-consuming. Human test subjects are required, and only a limited number of laboratories currently perform these tests.