Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant backgro...

Biographical notes: Teresa Romão is an Assistant Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), where she teaches and develops research work in the area of HCI. She is a member of the Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (CITI-FCT/UNL) and was a Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She studied computer science at F...

Teffi’s theatrical work has not been investigated to any great extent. As Teffi was dubbed the ‘female Chekhov’, I aim explore similarities with Chekhov’s dramatic by comparing two of her early miniatures Chekhov vaudevilles in order find out how he may have influenced and where instead she seeks own way. A more general analysis an full-length drama coupled a comparison that features major dram...

Die neu gegründete Tischtennisabteilung des TV Schmetterhausen möchte in der kommenden Saison in einer Liga am Punktspielbetrieb teilnehmen und eine Mannschaft mit 6 Spielern melden. Die Mannschaft muss nach Spielstärke aufgestellt sein, d.h. der beste Spieler spielt an Position 1, der zweitbeste an Position 2, usw. Um die Spieler nach Spielstärke ordnen zu können, beschließt der Abteilungsleit...