Cultural proximity, destination familiarity and tourists’ sense of away-from-home (SAFH)

A Home Away from Home

Someday, many people hope, humans will travel to Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has plans for a mission to the planet in the 2030s, and entrepreneur Elon Musk says his SpaceX company can do it by 2024. If people succeed in setting up an outpost on Mars, they’ll need to build someplace for astronauts to live, sleep, and work. But hauling building materials acro...

A home away from home: the patient-centered health home.

The survey of the psychological and personality characteristics of delinquent girls and women running away from home

Saki M1, Safa M2, Jazayeri H3, Asti P4, Jariani M2, Saki M5 1. Instructor, Department of psychology, Faculty of nursing and midwifery, Lorestan University of medical sciences 2. Assistant professor, Department of psychology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University of medical sciences 3. Master of science, psychology 4. Instructor, Department of midwifery, Faculty of nursing and midwi...

Sense Proximity versus Sense Relations

It has been widely assumed that sense distinctions in WordNet are often too fine-grained for applications such as Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Document clustering, Question Answering, etc. This has led to a number of studies in sense clustering, i.e., collapsing sense distinctions in WordNet that can be ignored for most practical applications [1,5,6]. At the ...

Living With “Man’s Fate” Away From Home

Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the dominant culture and medical system were foreign to him. Here, he gives an account of his physical...