A familiar syntactic feature of dialectal (Southern and Appalachian) U.S. English is the optional occurrence of a nonsubcategorized “personal dative” pronominal in transitive clauses which obligatorily coindexes the subject but whose semantic contribution is ill-understood. As we shall see, this personal dative (PD) bears suggestive if not always straightforward relations to constructions in su...

In the paper a short biography of Stefan Banach, a few stories about Banach and the Scottish Café and some results that nowadays are named by Banach’s surname are presented.

Social Café Meals Programs aim to reduce food insecurity and social exclusion by providing participants access to subsidised meals in mainstream local cafés. This study aimed to explore the program's ability to address social exclusion and food insecurity and the impact of the program on the community. A qualitative evaluation approach was utilised whereby in-depth interviews were conducted wit...

The general research question is: To what extent can the use of an Internet Café create social capital in a local community? In more detail: Does the use of an IT-Café lead to more social contacts? How can it provide community members with support and trust and generate community solidarity? Who are the users of the Café and what is it used for? Can usage of an IT-Café facilitate co-operation a...

This article investigates the meaning and function of the game café as a ‘Third place’ for boys and young men who play games in a game café. As there has been relatively little focus on game cafés in Western Europe as compared to studies of game cafés in Asia this paper examines the meaning and function of a game café in Sweden. This is achieved through an ethnographic study of a game café in c...

The Death Café is part of the Death Positive movement, and as such, is uniquely positioned to bring the dialogue about death and dying to the public. Participants in a Death Café typically have two different perspectives. Some participants have not experienced death in their family and friends' circle and wish to converse with others about their beliefs on death and dying. Others are those who ...

In contemporary popular leisure trends, modern restaurants have been innovative regarding all aspects of the restaurant business, such as food, leisure, and consumption, thus evolving into cafés with unique characteristics and styles, which differ greatly from traditional restaurants. In order to meet consumers’ preferences of delicious food and beautiful decor, many new cafés have opened, and ...

The café wall pattern is composed of rows of alternating light and dark tiles, and alternate rows are shifted by one fourth of a cycle. The rows of tiles are separated by narrow horizontal mortar lines whose luminance is between those of the dark and the light tiles. Although the mortar lines are physically parallel, they are perceived to be tilted, which is known as the café wall illusion. In ...

This paper suggests a system which takes the role of café clerks and communicates with customers. The automatic dialog system is based on an algorithm of machine learning to estimate the intention of customers’ talks which are entered into the system as texts and generate appropriate clerks’ replies. Since the system learns characteristics of dialogues in the café from a corpus collected from r...

Notwithstanding the rise of trendy coffee café, little is done to investigate revisit intention towards the café in the context of developing markets. In particular, there is a lack of study which provides theoretical and practical explanation to the perceptions and behaviours of infrequent customers. Hence, the study aims to look into the subject matter by using the theory of reasoned action a...