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Old age facilities for German-speaking people in Thailand – a new facet of international migration in old age

2018

This article examines old age facilities in Thailand catering to people from German-speaking countries. These institutionalised spaces of age(ing) in the ‘Global South’ represent a new facet of mig...

Do they stay or go? Analysis of international students in Finland

2020

The increase in international student mobility raises questions of how many international students choose to stay in their host country and the reasons why some stay and others leave. This study ex...

Adaptive Distance-Based Pooling in Convolutional Neural Networks for Audio Event Classification

2020

In the last years, deep convolutional neural networks have become a standard for the development of state-of-the-art audio classification systems, taking the lead over traditional approaches based on feature engineering. While they are capable of achieving human performance under certain scenarios, it has been shown that their accuracy is severely degraded when the systems are tested over noisy or weakly segmented events. Although better generalization could be obtained by increasing the size of the training dataset, e.g. by applying data augmentation techniques, this also leads to longer and more complex training procedures. In this article, we propose a new type of pooling layer aimed at …

Emergence of regional leadership – a field approach

2016

ABSTRACTEmergence of regional leadership – a field approach. Regional Studies. The complex processes associated with the emergence of regional leadership are interpreted in this paper through a field theoretical framework, and are discussed with example cases relating to green economy developments in four Nordic regions. It is argued that macro- and meso-level processes create opportunities and constraints for local agency, and how local agency can respond to this is discussed. Field theory offers a novel perspective on regional leadership because it helps one gain a deeper understanding of the various forms regional leadership can take.

Evidence for Early Closure Attachment on First Pass Reading Times in French

1997

An eye-tracking experiment was conducted in French with sentences of the form “N V N1of-N2 who …” Example: “A journalist approached the barrister (male) of the singer (female) who seemed more confident (masculine or feminine gender) than (s)he ought to be.” The results are consistent with those of Cuetos and Mitchell (1988). French readers, like Spanish readers, prefer early closure (and are garden-pathed when the sentence turns out to be a late-closure attachment). This effect was exhibited by first-pass reading times that are usually assumed to reflect initial syntactic commitments. These results are discussed in relation to Frazier and Clifton's recent proposals concerning attachment me…

The Discursive Constitution of a World-Spanning Region and the Role of Empty Signifiers: The Case of Francophonia

2007

The cultural turn in political science, history, and political geography has opened new perspectives on the division of the world into geographic entities. Nation-states, regions, districts, etc., are no longer qualified as quasi-natural objects based upon intrinsic qualities but, rather, as contingent results of social or accordingly discursive processes. The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) defines Francophonia as an “geocultural space” (espace geoculturel) and an international community of more than 50 states. In this contribution, the concept of political communities as “imagined communities” and the advancements of discourse theory by Laclau and Mouffe are used in o…

Uncertain sunset lives: British migrants facing Brexit in Spain

2020

One of the most concerned groups potentially impacted by the approval of Brexit in 2016 is that of the so-called “Brexpats”. This group of people is composed by at least 784,900 British citizens who are living in the European Union (EU), among which those settling in Spain are the most prominent. Spanish Brexpats are the largest British population outside the borders of the UK, except for in the Commonwealth territories. They have some peculiar characteristics, such as an advanced average age compared to other EU destinations; a large number of people living off the radar; geographical concentration within coastal areas; and a certain social isolation. In this context, the succession of new…

Media effects on policy preferences toward free movement: evidence from five EU member states

2020

In a time when freedom of movement is being challenged by an increasing number of European Union member states, and where immigration has been dominating public debate for years, this study investi...

Stepwise migration: What drives the relocation of migrants upon return?

2021

Análisis y tipología de brechas viarias dentro del palimpsesto urbano de València

2020

espanolEl palimpsesto urbano es el resultado de la superposicion y yuxtaposicion diacronica de una serie de modelos de desarrollo urbano que han determinado, en mayor o menor medida, la trama viaria actual. Resultado de esta dinamica, la trama urbana de muchas ciudades presenta una serie de brechas viarias singulares –por sus formas sinuosas, transversales u oblicuas– que dan caracter e identidad al paisaje urbano. En este articulo se analizan –mediante SIG y revision bibliografica– las brechas viarias del palimpsesto urbano, tomando como paradigma el plano de la ciudad de Valencia. Se lleva a cabo tambien una original categorizacion de las brechas viarias de acuerdo a una taxonomia derivad…