Abstract In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural other forms of diversity associated with migration commonplace others migrants regarded unusual or even out-of-place. both types contexts, migrant-run eateries spaces in which people various backgrounds interact. some may serve ‘third places’ regular intercultural conviviality occur, y...

Historical fabrics are known as a national heritage and treasure which are full of spiritual and human concepts. However, we are witnessing that many of these historic districts are being forgotten, abandoned and destructed as the emotional relationship between human and its residing place is fading out. Sense of place is a concept which focuses on the emotional and internal relation between pe...

the global spread of english, co-occurring with globalization, has generated new views towards some issues in english language teaching, one of which being the place of home culture versus foreign language culture in english language classes. the following study aimed to compare the viewpoint of three groups, i.e. language teachers, language learners and parents regarding the role of home cultu...

When rats forage for randomly dispersed food in a high walled cylinder the firing of their hippocampal "place" cells exhibits little dependence on the direction faced by the rat. On radial arm mazes and similar tasks, place cells are strongly directionally selective within their fields. These tasks differ in several respects, including the visual environment, configuration of the traversable sp...

The increasing population of elders in the near future, and their expectations for a independent, safe and in-place living require new practical systems and technologies to fulfil their demands in sustainable ways. This paper presents our own reflection on the great relevance of FQAS’ main topics for recent developments on the context of Home Assistance. We show how those developments employ se...