This paper examines the conceptualizations of shtetl, ‘a small Jewish town or village formerly found in Eastern Europe’, American English from perspective cultural linguistics. It can be observed that concept shtetl reflects metaphors, where is viewed as a mythic idyll and, contemporarily, metaphor for communality, example, referring to an apartment building urban neighborhood East Coast cities...

This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to discourse wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital examines texts, in widest sense, contextualised within norms culture. The texts emanating on platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope @myco...

Background There is considerable evidence that vision impairment and blindness are a risk factor for accelerated cognitive decline incident dementia. Additionally, up to 90% of preventable or has yet be treated. Nonetheless, not been included in prevailing life-course models dementia factors used shape public health policy research priorities. Method We calculated the population attributable fr...

The question of what community comes to mean has taken on increasing significance in sociological debates and beyond, as an increasingly politicised term the focus new theorisations. In this context, it is necessary ask meant when invoked. Building recent work that positions a practice ever-present facet human sociality, article argues consider powerful idea does shaping everyday communal pract...

In the field of data science, there are a variety datasets that suffer from high-dimensional, low-sample-size (HDLSS) problem; however, only few dimensionality reduction methods exist applicable to address this type problem, and is no nonparametric solution date. The purpose work develop novel network-based (nonparametric) analysis (NDA) method, can be effectively applied HDLSS data. First, wit...