This essay is an attempt to portray the Hindenburg O.S. in Upper Silesia as autobiographical place works of German writer Werner Heiduczek. The space town, which he discovered his childhood and early adolescence, runs through various literary texts that gradually add transform vision this place. life on border cultures historical events was personal experience contributed perception hometown re...

In 2015, over 7 million Japanese citizens donated a total of ¥165,291,021,000 (approximately 1.5 billion USD) to municipalities in which they did not live in using the “Furusato Nouzei” system, which was developed as a means to revitalize rural areas in the country (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications). In this paper, I examine this system in two ways. First, I predict the amount of...

In this paper, we demonstrate the possibility of predicting people’s hometowns by using their geotagged photos posted on Flickr website. We employ Kruskal’s algorithm to cluster photos taken by a user and predict the user’s hometown. Our results prove that using social profiles of photographers allows researchers to predict the locations of their taken photos with higher accuracies. This in ret...

Research question: Can evidence of trickle-down-effects be observed among youth living in the hometowns Canadian athletes that competed and/or won medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games? Research methods: Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) rates male and female were extracted from Community Health Survey (n > 1,000,000) for 110 health regions during pre-Olympic (2009/2010), Olympic...