Why do countries participate in currency unions or unilaterally adopt a foreign currency? I investigate the roles of geography, synchronization of economic shocks, cultural similarity, size, political integration and colonial heritage as determinants of monetary unions. The results motivate a selection model for common currency areas, which I then use to revisit the impact of currency-union mem...

This thesis investigates the use of sentence final particles (SFPs) in heritage Cantonese. Heritage speakers are early or sequential bilinguals who, in adulthood, are more proficient in the dominant language of their society than in their first, “heritage” language. Heritage speakers exhibit systematic divergence from the baseline (the language they were exposed to), a number of which can be at...

Digital technologies are becoming extremely important for web-based cultural heritage applications. This thesis presents novel digital technology solutions to ̳access and interact‘ with digital heritage objects and collections. These innovative solutions utilize service orientation (web services), workflows, and social networking and Web 2.0 mashup technologies to innovate the creation, interpr...

admittedly, one of the problems facing the high school education system in iran is that students do not show interest in arabic and obtain very low marks. this is specially important because arabic is the key to understanding religious texts and our literary and scientific heritage. a study of 400 high school students from various education districts in the city of mashhad, using a cluster samp...

The relevance of this study lied in actualising the issue increasing level social consolidation Ukrainian society under conditions a number political, economic, social, and cultural transformations. Intangible heritage serves as main resource for establishment development national consciousness, which, turn, strengthens integration processes within society. purpose is to prove value intangible ...

This paper focuses on the means by which City Hall of Rio Janeiro implemented a policy for preservation local cultural heritage and used legal instruments available to protection intangible heritage, notably from 2013, as creation new category: The Traditional Notable Economic Activities`s Book Registry. research is based debate about conception Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) an analytical ...

opment as part of a digital libraries initiative to integrate access to Europe’s distributed digitised cultural heritage resources. The prototype of “Europeana.eu” was launched by the President of the European Commission in November 2008 to such large-scale public interest that the portal came to a standstill. Now back online with full functionality, it gives access to 4.5 million items from ov...

This paper addresses the issue of conservation of native biodiversity on privately owned farmland in New Zealand. Based on surveys of Waikato dairy farmers as exemplars of intensive agricultural practice, it examines factors that influence the survival of native forest on land with potential for commercial production. Results suggest that a significant proportion of Waikato dairy farmers regard...