HOW DO UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS CONVEY MEANING TO OLDER PEOPLE? URBAN DIMENSIONS OF PLACELESSNESS AND ATTACHMENT

How do unfamiliar environments convey meaning to older people? Urban dimensions of placelessness and attachment

The discussion within gerontology of the relationship between older people and their environment (place attachment and ageing in place in particular) has been based on an assumption of familiarity with place.Yet increasingly older people experience unfamiliar environments.This can be through increased travelling as tourists and visitors to other to

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Genotoxicity of Polystyrene (PS) Microspheres in Short-Term Exposure to Gametes of the Sand Dollar Scaphechinus mirabilis (Agassiz, 1864) (Echinodermata, Echinoidea)

Microplastic pollution appears to be one of the major environmental problems in the world Smoothing today, and researchers have been paying special attention to the study of the impact of microplastics on biota.In this article, we studied the short-term effects of polystyrene micro-spheres on genome integrity using the gametes of the Scaphechinus m

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