Abstract Viewed from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective, this research addresses multilingual codeswitching practices of youngsters with North African roots the super-diverse Flemish city Ghent. Particular attention is paid here to their artistic – mainly interethnic performances, as these play a vital role in constructing ethnic and social belonging by voicing “glocal” identities. In...

Neste artigo desenvolvemos a noção de glocalização religiosa para examinar as religiões imigrantes. Compreendemos os enraizamentos das comunidades imigrantes no contexto receptor sentido hibridização. Desenvolvendo quatro principais padrões (indigenização, vernacularização, nacionalização e transnacionalização) nós assumimos como conceitos-chave análise do estabelecimento religiosas. Adotamos e...

Tourism is one of the most important economic sectors worldwide, with significant overarching impact on environment, including negative effects caused by tourist inappropriate behavior while vacation. By providing informal educational activities, tourism also has an educative role that leads to positive learning outcomes and beneficial environmental effects. Here we present short- long-term a p...

This paper reports our experiments for three TRECVID 2011 tasks: instance search, semantic indexing, and multimedia event detection. For the instance search task, we present three different approaches: (i) Large vocabulary quantization by hierarchical k-means and weighted histogram intersection based ranking metric (ii) Combination of similarities based on Glocal quantization of two set of SIFT...