Information and Communication Technologies can be instrumental for those who have moved away permanently from their places of origin. This paper presents a condensed analysis of interviews conducted with twenty six (26) Mexican migrants and family members living in Mexico. The interviews addressed several topics ranging from family communication to communication with the community in general. I...

abu ahmad askari - the scholar, philologist and hadith teller - was living in askar makram city that unfortunately this city and his literary works have lost. he wished to meet the scientist – saheb ibn abad. but why the works of abu ahmad and his hometown scientists were lost while they caused the progress of literature especially in elementary literary criticism and created a dam against the ...

JEL Classification: I120, Z130 Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties...

This experiment investigates the impact of scale and perspective on spatial representations. Seventy summer school participants indicated the spatial relationship between the conference center and a nearby lake (map A) as well as their hometown (map B). They marked the target both on partial maps in birds-eye perspective or on a tilted plane (oblique perspective). After completing both maps, pa...

Nagauta (長唄) is one of the classical styles of Japanese singing characterized by original and unique prosodic patterns. Abrupt and sharp changes of F0 are often observed and they induce simultaneous abrupt changes of power. It is very interesting that the F0 increases are synchronized with the power decreases. In our previous study, we proposed two models to synthesize the unique prosodic patte...

The aim of the article is to discuss Dorothy Allison’s novel Cavedweller (1998) in terms narrative strategies doubling. features Delia, a woman who returns South with her daughter, Cissy, reconnect rest family. While Delia’s return hometown meets social ostracism, daughter manages find sense identity and belonging underground caves Georgia. two parallel stories homecoming are presented by Allis...