cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AN INVESTIGATION ON CULTURAL CUISINE OF MAINLAND CHINA. MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS FOR RESTAURANT OPERATORS
Creators: name: Camillo, Angelo
name: Di Pietro, Loredana
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Historical records show that food has always played an important role in the cultural evolution of mankind. Eating culture, rituals, and food preferences based on environmental and social conditions emerged steadily over time. Italian food culture based on traditional Italian cooking has evolved into one of the worlds most prevalent. Since China opened the doors to international trade, Chinese consumers have been exposed to both Italian cuisine and Italian food and beverage products. In this scenario, the aim of this study is to investigate factors contributing to the popularity of Italian cuisine in mainland China and identify implications for restaurant operators. Specifically the study identifies those factors that may or may not contribute to the expansion and sustainability of Italian cuisine in mainland China. This study will help understand how the Chinese perceive foreign cuisines such as Italian and, in turn, attempts to identify the determinants that make this cuisine popular now with potential for growth in the future.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
STUDY OF NEEDS IN DEVELOPING AN EXCELLENT CURRICULUM WITH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING FOR LEARNING MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AT A PRIVATE ISLAMIC SCHOOL IN YALA PROVINCE, THAILAND
Creators: name: ADULSMAN SUKKAEW
name: PIYARUK PRADABPHETRAT
name: PATTAMA PISAPAK
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Study of Essential Needs, Curriculum Development, Project-Based Learning, Private Islamic Schools.

description: Abstract

This research aims to study the need for developing an excellent curriculum with project-based learning for the learning management of secondary school students at a private Islamic school in Yala Province. Teachers who participated in the study to determine the need for developing an excellent curriculum with project-based learning found that the average score was at a high level, both in the actual context and in what it should be. On the other hand, when asking students for information, their decision to continue their education at the high school level, and the desired characteristics of students who graduate according to the 2008 core curriculum, revised in 2017, the average score of students who answered the questionnaire under existing conditions was at a medium to low level. However, the intended score should be at a high level.
Strong gravitational lensing across dilaton anti-de Sitter black hole
Creators: name: Ghosh, Tanwi
name: Sengupta, Soumitra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate gravitational lensing effect in strong field region around a dilaton black holes in an anti de Sitter (ADS) space. We also analyse the dependence of the radius of the photon sphere and deflection angle on dilaton coupling and cosmological constant in this black hole space time. Finally the values of minimum impact parameter, the separation between the first and the other images as well as the ratio between the flux of the first image and the flux coming from all the other images are determined to characterize some possible distinct signatures of such black holes.
description: 8 pages and 3 figures. Accepted in Physical Review D
ARE BACKPACKERS A HOMOGENEOUS SEGMENT? A STUDY OF BACKPACKERS’ MOTIVATIONS IN THE CAPE COAST-ELMINA CONURBATION, GHANA
Creators: name: Dayour, Frederick
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of the study was to assess whether or not backpackers are homogeneous, using those who visited the Cape Coast-Elmina conurbation, Ghana. Questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 backpackers in Cape Coast and Elmina. The factor analysis, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), independent samples t-test, and descriptive statistical analysis were employed in the discussion of the data. The study revealed that backpackers who visited the Cape Coast-Elmina conurbation were mostly young international students. Six (6) main push-pull related factors, including historical/cultural attractions, service delivery, ecological attractions, heritage, escape, and adventure were found to have explained backpackers’ motivation for visiting Ghana. There was sufficient evidence to conclude that backpackers are not the same, in relation to their background characteristics and motivations to travel. It is recommended that local travel intermediaries focus attention on packaging tailored tours that will sell the country’s historical, cultural and ecological attractions to backpackers.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
A Galaxy Merger Scenario for the NGC 1550 Galaxy from Metal Distributions in the X-ray Emitting Plasma
Creators: name: Kawaharada, Madoka
name: Makishima, Kazuo
name: Kitaguchi, Takao
name: Okuyama, Sho
name: Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
name: Matsushita, Kyoko
name: Fukazawa, Yasushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elliptical galaxy NGC 1550 at a redshift of $z=0.01239$, identified with an extended X-ray source RX J0419+0225, was observed with {\it XMM-Newton} for 31 ks. From the X-ray data and archival near infra-red data of Two Micron All Sky survay, we derive the profiles of components constituting the NGC 1550 system; the gas mass, total mass, metal mass, and galaxy luminosity. The metals (oxygen, silicon, and iron) are extended to $\sim 200$ kpc from the center, wherein $\sim$ 70% of the $K$-band luminosity is carried by NGC 1550 itself. As first revealed with {\it ASCA}, the data reconfirms the presence of a dark halo, of which the mass ($1.6 \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}$) is typical of a galaxy group rather than of a single galaxy. Within 210 kpc, the $K$-band mass-to-light ratio reaches $75 M_{\odot}/L_{\odot}$, which is comparable to those of clusters of galaxies. The iron-mass-to-light ratio profile (silicon- and oxygen mass-to-light ratio profiles as well) exhibits about two orders of magnitude decrease toward the center. Further studies comparing mass densities of metals with those of the other cluster components reveal that the iron (as well as silicon) in the ICM traces very well the total gravitating mass, whereas the stellar component is significantly more concentrated to within several tens kpc of the NGC 1550 nucleus. Thus, in the central region, the amount of metals is significantly depleted for the luminous galaxy light. Among a few possible explanations of this effect, the most likely scenario is that galaxies in this system were initially much more extended than today, and gradually fell to the center and merged into NGC 1550.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
From the Gaffnian critical point to the incompressible 2/5 quantum Hall state
Creators: name: Das, Sahana
name: Das, Sudipto
name: Mukherjee, Sutirtha
name: Mandal, Sudhansu S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the high overlap with the exact Coulomb ground state, the so-called Gaffnian state fails to describe the incompressibility at the 2/5 quantum Hall filling factor and consequently it was conjectured to be a quantum critical state. To achieve a gapped state starting from the Gaffnian wavefunction, which we interpret as the inter-flavor pairing of the composite fermions, we propose a minimally `modified Gaffnian' wavefunction keeping the pairing intact. We find that a suitable hybridization of these two wavefunctions is an excellent description of the 2/5 quantum Hall state. It has a very high overlap with the exact Coulomb state and their entanglement spectra match up to reasonably higher levels. Interestingly, this hybridized wavefunction being a representative of a paired state suggests an exotic possibility of non-Abelian quasiparticle excitations at 2/5 filling.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures Abstract has been rewritten and some discussions have been added
MEDICAL TOURISM AND THE ROLE OF E-MEDICAL TOURISM INTERMEDIARIES IN GREECE
Creators: name: Sarantopoulos, Ioannis
name: Katsoni, Vicky
name: Geitona, Mary
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: The aim of this paper is to investigate the tourist industry’s satisfaction with medical tourism in Greece, the factors associated with its performance improvement and the ICT infrastructure underlying it. For this purpose, a nationwide survey was carried out in 2012. According to our findings, satisfaction of tourist company executives with their performance in handling the flow of medical tourists depends on the degree of company staff training on medical tourism. In addition, the important role of state agencies or local government in guaranteeing local infrastructure availability and quality is a fact that influences directly tourism entrepreneurship in the country. Obviously, medical tourism in Greece could constitute an important source of national income and consequently, an alternative for the country to exit the economic crisis, provided care is given to ICT infrastructure and legislation procedures.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
$L_p$ compression, traveling salesmen, and stable walks
Creators: name: Naor, Assaf
name: Peres, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that if $H$ is a group of polynomial growth whose growth rate is at least quadratic then the $L_p$ compression of the wreath product $\Z\bwr H$ equals $\max{\frac{1}{p},{1/2}}$. We also show that the $L_p$ compression of $\Z\bwr \Z$ equals $\max{\frac{p}{2p-1},\frac23}$ and the $L_p$ compression of $(\Z\bwr\Z)_0$ (the zero section of $\Z\bwr \Z$, equipped with the metric induced from $\Z\bwr \Z$) equals $\max{\frac{p+1}{2p},\frac34}$. The fact that the Hilbert compression exponent of $\Z\bwr\Z$ equals $\frac23$ while the Hilbert compression exponent of $(\Z\bwr\Z)_0$ equals $\frac34$ is used to show that there exists a Lipschitz function $f:(\Z\bwr\Z)_0\to L_2$ which cannot be extended to a Lipschitz function defined on all of $\Z\bwr \Z$.
The mass-radius relationship from solar-type stars to terrestrial planets: a review
Creators: name: Chabrier, G.
name: Baraffe, I.
name: Leconte, J.
name: Gallardo, J.
name: barman, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review, we summarize our present knowledge of the behaviour of the mass-radius relationship from solar-type stars down to terrestrial planets, across the regime of substellar objects, brown dwarfs and giant planets. Particular attention is paid to the identification of the main physical properties or mechanisms responsible for this behaviour. Indeed, understanding the mechanical structure of an object provides valuable information about its internal structure, composition and heat content as well as its formation history. Although the general description of these properties is reasonably well mastered, disagreement between theory and observation in certain cases points to some missing physics in our present modelling of at least some of these objects. The mass-radius relationship in the overlaping domain between giant planets and low-mass brown dwarfs is shown to represent a powerful diagnostic to distinguish between these two different populations and shows once again that the present IAU distinction between these two populations at a given mass has no valid foundation.
description: Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun 15, invited review
Additional file 1 of Comparison of fibrosing mediastinitis patients with vs. without markedly increased systolic pulmonary arterial pressure: a single-center retrospective study
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinyuan
name: Zhang, Shu
name: Wang, Jianfeng
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Sun, Lanlan
name: Li, Yuanzhi
name: Guo, Dichen
name: Yang, Yuanhua
name: Lu, Xiuzhang
name: Li, Yidan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Table 1. Echocardiographic parameters pre-BPA vs. post-BPA.
Lee_etal_2021_connectivity
Creators: name: Lee, Finnbar
name: Simon, Kevin S.
name: Perry, George L.W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: metacommunity model

description: Code and model output associated with manuscript Lee F., Simon K.S. & Perry, G.L.W. Network topology mediates freshwater fish metacommunity response to loss of connectivity.
Photometric properties of Ly alpha emitters at z=4.86 in the COSMOS 2 square degree field
Creators: name: Shioya, Y.
name: Taniguchi, Y.
name: Sasaki, S. S.
name: Nagao, T.
name: Murayama, T.
name: Saito, T.
name: Ideue, Y.
name: Nakajima, A.
name: Matsuoka, K. L.
name: Trump, J.
name: Scoville, N. Z.
name: Sanders, D. B.
name: Mobasher, B.
name: Aussel, H.
name: Capak, P.
name: Kartaltepe, J.
name: Koekemoer, A.
name: Carilli, C.
name: Ellis, R. S.
name: Garilli, B.
name: Giavalisco, M.
name: Kitzbichler, M. G.
name: Impey, C.
name: LeFevre, O.
name: Schinnerer, E.
name: Smolcic, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a survey for Ly alpha emitters at z=4.86 based on optical narrowband (lambda_c=7126 angstrom, Delta lambda=73 angstrom) and broadband (B, V, r', i', and z') observations of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field using Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. We find 79 LAE candidates at z=4.86 over a contiguous survey area of 1.83 deg^2, down to the Ly alpha line flux of 1.47 x 10^-17 ergs s^-1 cm^-2. We obtain the Ly alpha luminosity function with a best-fit Schechter parameters of log L^*=42.9^+0.5_-0.3 ergs s^-1 and phi^* = 1.2^+8.0_-1.1 x 10^-4 Mpc^-3 for alpha=-1.5 (fixed). The two-point correlation function for our LAE sample is xi(r) = (r/4.4^+5.7_-2.9 Mpc)^-1.90+/-0.22. In order to investigate the field-to-field variations of the properties of Ly alpha emitters, we divide the survey area into nine tiles of 0.5^circ x 0.5^circ each. We find that the number density varies with a factor of ~ 2 from field to field with high statistical significance. However, we find no significant field-to-field variance when we divide the field into four tiles with 0.7^circ x 0.7^circ each. We conclude that at least 0.5 deg^2 survey area is required to derive averaged properties of LAEs at z~5, and our survey field is wide enough to overcome the cosmic variance.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, uses emulateapj sty, accepted for publication in ApJ
The throughput calibration of the VERITAS telescopes
Creators: name: Adams, C. B.
name: Benbow, W.
name: Brill, A.
name: Buckley, J. H.
name: Christiansen, J. L.
name: Falcone, A.
name: Feng, Q.
name: Finley, J. P.
name: Foote, G. M
name: Fortson, L.
name: Furniss, A.
name: Giuri, C.
name: Hanna, D.
name: Hassan, T.
name: Hervet, O.
name: Holder, J.
name: Hona, B.
name: Humensky, T. B.
name: Jin, W.
name: Kaaret, P.
name: Kleiner, T. K
name: Kumar, S.
name: Lang, M. J.
name: Lundy, M.
name: Maier, G.
name: Moriarty, P.
name: Mukherjee, R.
name: Rosillo, M. Nievas
name: O'Brien, S.
name: Park, N.
name: Patel, S.
name: Pfrang, K.
name: Pohl, M.
name: Prado, R. R.
name: Pueschel, E.
name: Quinn, J.
name: Ragan, K.
name: Reynolds, P. T.
name: Ribeiro, D.
name: Roache, E.
name: Ryan, J. L.
name: Santander, M.
name: Weinstein, A.
name: Williams, D. A.
name: Williamson, T. J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The response of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to incident γ-ray-initiated showers in the atmosphere changes as the telescopes age due to exposure to light and weather. These aging processes affect the reconstructed energies of the events and γ-ray fluxes. Aims. This work discusses the implementation of signal calibration methods for the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) to account for changes in the optical throughput and detector performance over time. Methods. The total throughput of a Cherenkov telescope is the product of camera-dependent factors, such as the photomultiplier tube gains and their quantum efficiencies, and the mirror reflectivity and Winston cone response to incoming radiation. This document summarizes different methods to determine how the camera gains and mirror reflectivity have evolved over time and how we can calibrate this changing throughput in reconstruction pipelines for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The implementation is validated against seven years of observations with the VERITAS telescopes of the Crab Nebula, which is a reference object in very-high-energy astronomy. Results. Regular optical throughput monitoring and the corresponding signal calibrations are found to be critical for the reconstruction of extensive air shower images. The proposed implementation is applied as a correction to the signals of the photomultiplier tubes in the telescope simulation to produce fine-tuned instrument response functions. This method is shown to be effective for calibrating the acquired γ-ray data and for recovering the correct energy of the events and photon fluxes. At the same time, it keeps the computational effort of generating Monte Carlo simulations for instrument response functions affordably low.
description: 19 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables Received: 22 September 2021 / Accepted: 03 November 2021
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM ON LOCALS’ PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Creators: name: Mehran, Nejati
name: Badaruddin, Mohamed
name: Shida Irwana, Omar
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: Since engagement of locals plays a key role in the success of any tourism development, understanding how residents perceive sustainable tourism and the ways it is influenced by their perception about environmental impacts of tourism provides researchers, administrators and service providers in tourism sector with invaluable insights. Thus, the current research vies to contribute to the knowledge concerning how local residents in Perhentian and Redang Islands in Malaysia perceive environmental impacts of tourism and the importance of sustainable tourism. Study results reveals that the highest concern about the environmental impacts of tourism was perceived for landscape, air quality, and water quality, respectively. Moreover, by investigating the causal link between perception towards six major environmental impacts of tourism and the perceived importance of sustainable tourism, it was found that only environmental impacts of tourism on air quality and landscape significantly influenced local residents’ perceptions about the importance of sustainable tourism.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
INFRASTRUCTURE INFLUENCE ON TOURIST MOVEMENTS IN MELAKA
Creators: name: Jamil, Jusoh
name: Nor Fatimah, Abd Hamid
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: This study presents the type and infrastructure elements that contribute to the movement of tourists in the Heritage City of Melaka, Malaysia. The Tourist Movement Infrastructure framework has been proposed to study the infrastructure elements that influence the tourist movements. Questionnaires were used as a medium to obtain feedback from tourists. Data was analyzed from the 197 feedback obtained from domestic and international tourists. Factor analysis and regression analysis are used to achieve the study objectives. This study introduces infrastructure elements that could affect the tourist movements in historical areas and may be applied in historical areas that have similar geographical characteristics. Particularly, the main infrastructure that affects tourist movement is accessibility. Overall, These results of this study can help the decision makers of Melaka historic areas to improve the provision of infrastructure accessibility in the study area.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
Sizes and shapes of sources in solar metric radio bursts
Creators: name: Gordovskyy, M.
name: Kontar, E. P.
name: Clarkson, D. L.
name: Chrysaphi, N.
name: Browning, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metric and decametric radio-emissions from the Sun are the only direct source of information about the dynamics of non-thermal electrons in the upper corona. In addition, the combination of spectral and imaging (sizes, shapes, and positions) observations of low-frequency radio sources can be used as a unique diagnostic tool to probe plasma turbulence in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. The geometry of the low-frequency sources and its variation with frequency are still not understood, primarily due to the relatively low spatial resolution available for solar observations. Here we report the first detailed multi-frequency analysis of the sizes of solar radio sources observed by the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). Furthermore, we investigate the source shapes by approximating the derived intensity distributions using 2D Gaussian profiles with elliptical half-maximum contours. These measurements have been made possible by a novel empirical method for evaluating the instrumental and ionospheric effects on radio maps based on known source observations. The obtained deconvolved sizes of the sources are found to be smaller than previous estimations, and often show higher ellipticity. The sizes and ellipticities of the sources inferred using 2D Gaussian approximation, and their variation with frequency are consistent with models of anisotropic radio-wave scattering in the solar corona.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Optimization of the double electron-electron resonance for C-centers in diamond
Creators: name: Rubinas, Olga R.
name: Soshenko, Vladimir V.
name: Bolshedvorskii, Stepan V.
name: Cojocaru, Ivan S.
name: Vorobyov, Vadim V.
name: Sorokin, Vadim N.
name: Vins, Victor G.
name: Yeliseev, Alexander P.
name: Smolyaninov, Andrey N.
name: Akimov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NV centers in diamond recommend themselves as good sensors of environmental fields as well as detectors of diamond impurities. In particular, C-centers, often also called ${{p}_{1}}$-centers, can be detected via double electron-electron resonance. This resonance can be used to measure the C-center concentration. Here, we measured the concentration of C-centers in several diamond plates and investigated the influence of the free precession time of the NV center on the observed contrast in the measured double electron-electron resonance spectrum. The dependence of the resonance amplitudes and widths on the concentration of C-centers as well as the length of the combined C-center driving and NV-center $π$-pulse is also discussed. The optimal contrast-free precession time was determined for each C-center concentration, showing a strong correlation with both the concentration of C-centers and the NV-center ${{T}_{2}}$ time.
How informative are spatial CA3 representations established by the dentate gyrus?
Creators: name: Cerasti, Erika
name: Treves, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the mammalian hippocampus, the dentate gyrus (DG) is characterized by sparse and powerful unidirectional projections to CA3 pyramidal cells, the so-called mossy fibers. Mossy fiber synapses appear to duplicate, in terms of the information they convey, what CA3 cells already receive from entorhinal cortex layer II cells, which project both to the dentate gyrus and to CA3. Computational models of episodic memory have hypothesized that the function of the mossy fibers is to enforce a new, well separated pattern of activity onto CA3 cells, to represent a new memory, prevailing over the interference produced by the traces of older memories already stored on CA3 recurrent collateral connections. Can this hypothesis apply also to spatial representations, as described by recent neurophysiological recordings in rats? To address this issue quantitatively, we estimate the amount of information DG can impart on a new CA3 pattern of spatial activity, using both mathematical analysis and computer simulations of a simplified model. We confirm that, also in the spatial case, the observed sparse connectivity and level of activity are most appropriate for driving memory storage and not to initiate retrieval. Surprisingly, the model also indicates that even when DG codes just for space, much of the information it passes on to CA3 acquires a non-spatial and episodic character, akin to that of a random number generator. It is suggested that further hippocampal processing is required to make full spatial use of DG inputs.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, submitted
title: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
Creators: name: Tourismos
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2014

description: RESIDENTS’ ATTITUDES AND SUPPORT FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT...289-313 NON-ASIAN TOURISTS' VIEWS ON SINGAPORE CULTURAL TOURISM...281-287 SPECIFICATION OF TARGET MARKET IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ACCOMADATION BUSINESSES: A STUDY ON BOUTIQUE HOTELS OPERATING IN CITY OF MUGLA...279-299 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF LIBERALIZATION OF AIR TRANSPORT ON TOURISM: IRAN, TURKEY AND UAE...259-278 ANALYSING THE POTENTIAL OF WINE TOURISM OF THE ISLAND OF FOGO (CAPE VERDE)...241-258 CURRENT STATE AND POTENTIAL OF WINE TOURISM IN NORTHERN GREECE: WEIGHING WINEMAKERS’ PERCEPTIONS...227-239 GASTRONOMIC TOURISM: MEASURING MOTIVATIONS, CONSUMER’S SATISFACTION AND PROPOSING EFFECTIVE MARKETING STRATEGIES...207-225 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PRACTICES OF ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS IN BULGARIA: AN EXPOLRATORY STUDY...175-205 INFRASTRUCTURE INFLUENCE ON TOURIST MOVEMENTS IN MELAKA...161-173 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM ON LOCALS’ PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM...147-160 MEDICAL TOURISM AND THE ROLE OF E-MEDICAL TOURISM INTERMEDIARIES IN GREECE...129-145 ARE BACKPACKERS A HOMOGENEOUS SEGMENT? A STUDY OF BACKPACKERS’ MOTIVATIONS IN THE CAPE COAST-ELMINA CONURBATION, GHANA...105-128 AN INVESTIGATION ON CULTURAL CUISINE OF MAINLAND CHINA. MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS FOR RESTAURANT OPERATORS...83-104 THE IMPACT OF THAI TOURISM ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF TOURISM IN LAO PDR: A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH...67-82 CREATING A SUPPLY TYPOLOGY. GREECE AS A CASE STUDY...33-65 INTEGRATED CULTURAL TOURISM: NEW EXPERIENCES IN MOUNTAIN AREAS...15-32 Initial Pages & Editorial...i-xiv
INTEGRATED CULTURAL TOURISM: NEW EXPERIENCES IN MOUNTAIN AREAS
Creators: name: Prat Forga, Josep
name: Cànoves Valiente, Gemma
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: Tourism has for some time been viewed as providing a lifeline for mountain areas where agriculture is in decline and few alternative employment opportunities exist. One of the manifestations is cultural tourism, which, besides revaluing the heritage of a territory, can be made compatible with rural tourism. This paper analyzes integrated cultural tourism in mountain areas, including the scale, degree of embeddedness, endogeneity, sustainability and role of interactions between tourists and local people. This research is based on a survey with cultural tourists in the Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain). They are presented in the context of the experience of tourists in mountainous areas, related to the practical operation of integrated cultural tourism. The results reveal that this cultural tourism has strong links to the natural environment in the study area but that there are existing threats to integration in the physical and social domains.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
CREATING A SUPPLY TYPOLOGY. GREECE AS A CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Constantoglou, Mary
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: The objective of this paper is to illustrate both the necessity and the methodology for the creation of a supply typology which will be able to contribute to decisionmaking process. A supply typology can contribute in policy formulation and implementation that can lead to the overall goal of sustainability in a destination area. The methodology proposed by this paper is based in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a tool of visualizing and communicating a big amount of information stored in data bases. Are data are stored in time series and they concern the minimum available spatial scale and policy formulation and implementation for tourism. The case study area of this paper will be the Greek coastal and insular area. In order for all available data to be recorded, analyzed, synthesized and, finally, spatially visualized, the use of advanced information technologies is essential. Furthermore, the use of technologies and methodologies that can categorize data and various multicombinations of them are also essential. In this case, the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) combined with the Fuzzy c-Means algorithm was used.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
Supplementary materials from Surface energy and separation mechanics of droplet interface phospholipid bilayers
Creators: name: Huang, Y.
name: Suja, V. Chandran
name: J. Tajuelo
name: Fuller, G.G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Supporting information of the main text
Resolved debris disk emission around eta Tel: a young Solar System or ongoing planet formation?
Creators: name: Smith, R.
name: Churcher, L. J.
name: Wyatt, M. C.
name: Moerchen, M. M.
name: Telesco, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 60% of the A star members of the 12 Myr old beta Pictoris moving group (BPMG) show significant excess emission in the mid-infrared, several million years after the proto-planetary disk is thought to disperse. Theoretical models suggest this peak may coincide with the formation of Pluto-sized planetesimals in the disk, stirring smaller bodies into collisional destruction. Here we present resolved mid-infrared imaging of the disk of eta Tel (A0V in the BPMG) and consider its implications for the state of planet formation in this system. eta Tel was observed at 11.7 and 18.3um using T-ReCS on Gemini South. The resulting images were compared to simple disk models to constrain the radial distribution of the emitting material. The emission observed at 18.3um is shown to be significantly extended beyond the PSF along a position angle 8 degrees. This is the first time dust emission has been resolved around eta Tel. Modelling indicates that the extension arises from an edge-on disk of radius 0.5 arcsec (~24 AU). Combining the spatial constraints from the imaging with those from the spectral energy distribution shows that >50% of the 18um emission comes from an unresolved dust component at ~4 AU. The radial structure of the eta Tel debris disk is reminiscent of the Solar System, suggesting that this is a young Solar System analogue. For an age of 12Myr, both the radius and dust level of the extended cooler component are consistent with self-stirring models for a protoplanetary disk of 0.7 times minimum mass solar nebula. The origin of the hot dust component may arise in an asteroid belt undergoing collisional destruction, or in massive collisions in ongoing terrestrial planet formation.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
LEXT: a lobster eye optic for Gamow
Creators: name: Feldman, Charlotte
name: O'Brien, Paul
name: White, Nicholas
name: Baumgartner, Wayne
name: Thomas, Nicholas
name: Lodge, Alexander
name: Bautz, Marshall
name: Hinrichsen, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lobster Eye X-ray Telescope (LEXT) is one of the payloads on-board the Gamow Explorer, which will be proposed to the 2021 NASA Explorer MIDEX opportunity. If approved, it will be launched in 2028, and is optimised to identify high-z Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and enable rapid follow-up. The LEXT is a two module, CCD focal plane, large field of view telescope utilising Micro Pore Optics (MPOs) over a bandpass of 0.2 - 5 keV. The geometry of the MPOs comprises a square packed array of microscopic pores with a square cross-section, arranged over a spherical surface with a radius of curvature of 600 mm, twice the focal length of the optic, 300 mm. Working in the photon energy range 0.2 - 5 keV, the optimum L/d ratio (length of pore L and pore width d) is 60, and is constant across the whole optic aperture. This paper details the baseline design for the LEXT optic in order to full the science goals of the Gamow mission. Extensive ray-trace analysis has been undertaken and we present the development of the optic design along with the optimisation of the field of view, effective area and focal length using this analysis. Investigations as to the ideal MPO characteristics, e.g. coatings, pore size, etc., and details of avenues for further study are also given.
Neutron Stars and the High Density Equation of State
Creators: name: Klahn, T.
name: Roberts, C. D.
name: Blaschke, D. B.
name: Sandin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the key ingredients to understand the properties of neutrons stars is the equation of state at finite densities far beyond nuclear saturation. Investigating the phase structure of quark matter that might be realized in the core of NS inspires theory and observation. We discuss recent results of our work to point out our view on challenges and possibilities in this evolving field by means of a few examples.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, Proc. 5th ANL/MSU/JINA/INT FRIB Workshop on Bulk Nuclear Properties, E. Lansing, Nov. 19-22, 2008
Water Elements in Islamic Architectures
Creators: name: Dhannoon, Ahmed Abdulwahid
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Arab architecture
Feng shui
Architecture of water
Water element in courtyards
Islamic Gardens
Salsabeel
Muslim architecture
Water element in mosque
Decorative water element.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 11, 12A11A: 1-13
Polarization and entanglement spectrum in non-hermitian systems
Creators: name: Ortega-Taberner, Carlos
name: Rødland, Lukas
name: Hermanns, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement spectrum is a useful tool to study topological phases of matter, and contains valuable information about the ground state of the system. Here, we study its properties for free non-Hermitian systems for both point-gapped and line-gapped phases. While the entanglement spectrum only retains part of the topological information in the former case, it is very similar to Hermitian systems in the latter. In particular, it not only mimics the topological edge modes, but also contains all the information about the polarization, even in systems that are not topological. Furthermore, we show that the Wilson loop is equivalent to the many-body polarization and that it reproduces the phase diagram for the system with open boundaries, despite being computed for a periodic system.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Development in the Synthesis, Topoisomerase I inhibitor and Cytototoxic Properties of Indenoisoquinoline and Its Analogs: Review
Creators: name: Zeleke, Digafie
name: Yadessa, Ayana Melaku
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2021

description: Indenoisoquinolinediones are a class of non-camptothecin topoisomerase I poisons that display marked cytotoxic and potent antitumor properties. Currently three indenoisoquinoline derivatives LMP400 (indotecan, NSC724998), LMP776 (indimitecan, NSC725776) and LMP744 (MJ-III-65, NSC706744) have been poised for Phase 2 clinical trials. In the last two decades, various synthetic methodologies for the syntethesis of indenoisoquinolines and its analogs have been developed. These compounds are of great research significance owing to their novel structures and broad biological activities including antitumor, cytotoxic and topomerase I inhibitory properties. Thus, this review addresses some of the most important indenoisoquinolines synthesis methodologies and their cytotoxicity, antitumor properties and topomerase I inhibitory efficacy during the period 2015-2020. The ample synthetic methodologies reviwed herein along with the bioactivities of these compounds might serve as a nice refence to facilitate future research.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 8 No 1 (2021): EJSSD
THE IMPACT OF THAI TOURISM ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF TOURISM IN LAO PDR: A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH
Creators: name: Nonthapot, Sakkarin
name: Ueasin, Nattanin
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2014

description: This study examines the relationship between the economic growth of tourism in Lao PDR, and the number of Thai tourists visiting Lao PDR, international trade and the exchange rate by employing a hierarchical model using quarterly data from Q1 2000 – Q1 2012. It was found that the number of Thai tourists visiting Lao PDR has both short and long run causality on the GDP of tourism. This result shows that Thai tourists are important and has a causal relationship with the economic growth of tourism in Lao PDR. This study suggests that Lao PDR should maintain Thai tourist groups and create new tourism products to encourage Thai tourists to visit Lao PDR, which would contribute to the economic development of Lao PDR.
description: tourismos, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2014)
The astrophysics of rotational energy extraction from a black hole
Creators: name: Garofalo, David
name: Singh, Chandra B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work has called into question whether nature can extract the rotational energy of a black hole via electromagnetic fields by appealing to an alleged ability to absorb current. We describe the strategies needed to properly treat the astrophysics in curved spacetime near black holes, showing that while the Blandford-Znajek effect is sound, the deeper nature of the electric nature of black holes remains unresolved.
description: 7 pages, Post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Nature Astronomy
Quantum Persistence: A Random Walk Scenario
Creators: name: Goswami, Sanchari
name: Sen, Parongama
name: Das, Arnab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we extend the concept of persistence, well defined for classical stochastic dynamics, to the context of quantum dynamics. We demonstrate the idea via quantum random walk and a successive measurement scheme, where persistence is defined as the time during which a given site remains unvisited by the walker. We also investigated the behavior of related quantities, e.g., the first-passage time and the succession probability (newly defined), etc. The study reveals power law scaling behavior of these quantities with new exponents. Comparable features of the classical and the quantum walks are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, revtex4. To be published in PRE
From the Dining Room to the Coll{è}ge royal: The Scholarly Spaces of the Female Collaborators in Astronomy of J{é}r{ô}me Lalande
Creators: name: Lémonon-Waxin, Isabelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: J{é}r{ô}me Lalande, a famous French astronomer in the 18th century, collaborated throughout his career with several female calculators in astronomy: Nicole Reine Lepaute, Marie Louise Dupi{é}ry and Marie Jeanne Lefran{\c c}ois. Taking on highly technical tasks of calculation and sometimes observation, they also took on the scientific ''intendance'' for the astronomer. This management of a part of the scholarly enterprise was mainly carried out from home, as were the astronomical calculations. This space was therefore both a family living space and a space for the production of knowledge. This article will focus on its material organization as well as on the dynamics that took place between the different places of knowledge involved here.
description: in French
SUSTAINABILITY OF YOUTH TOURISTS IN EVENT TOURISM: THE MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCES
Creators: name: Ahmad, Habibah
name: Jusoh, Hamzah
name: Nor Azazi, Noor Alyanie
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2012

description: Youth tourists are becoming more influential as one of the market potentials in both developed and developing countries. Besides their conventional characters of being individuals, travels with tight budget and preferred non guided tours or on backpackers, youth tourists also play significant roles in event tourism which are more specific in term of schedules and themes. However, youth sustainability of event tourism is hardly discussed in tourism studies in Malaysia. Based on a case study of Visit Malaysia Year 2007 and a convenient sampling of 130 respondents, this article draws the perspective of youth tourists in event tourism. The findings showed that the clarity of youth tourists in event tourism, form of participation and event suitability act as the mediating factors that encouraged youths’ participation in event tourism. Sustainability of youth tourists in event tourism also depends on the promotional campaigns and knowing the youth tourists’ desires and capabilities.
description: tourismos, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2012)
Functional asymptotic confidence intervals for a common mean of independent random variables
Creators: name: Martsynyuk, Yuliya V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17, 60G50, 62G15 (Primary)

description: We consider independent random variables (r.v.'s) with a common mean $μ$ that either satisfy Lindeberg's condition, or are symmetric around $μ$. Present forms of existing functional central limit theorems (FCLT's) for Studentized partial sums of such r.v.'s on $D[0,1]$ are seen to be of some use for constructing asymptotic confidence intervals, or what we call functional asymptotic confidence intervals (FACI's), for $μ$. In this paper we establish completely data-based versions of these FCLT's and thus extend their applicability in this regard. Two special examples of new FACI's for $μ$ are presented.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-EJS233 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Preparation and superconductivity of iron selenide thin films
Creators: name: Han, Y.
name: Li, W. Y.
name: Cao, L. X.
name: Zhang, S.
name: Xu, B.
name: Zhao, B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FeSex (x = 0.80, 0.84, 0.88, 0.92) thin films were prepared on SrTiO3(001) (STO), (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3(001) (LSAT), and LaAlO3(001) (LAO) substrates by pulsed laser deposition method. All thin films show single-phase and c-axis oriented epitaxial growth, and are superconducting. Among them, the FeSe0.88 thin films show Tc, onset of 11.8 K and Tc, 0 of 3.4 K. The upper critical magnetic field is estimated to be 14.0 T.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation and its implication for dark matter halos
Creators: name: Trachternach, C.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: McGaugh, S. S.
name: van der Hulst, J. M.
name: Dettmar, R. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTF) is a fundamental relation between baryonic mass and maximum rotation velocity. It can be used to estimate distances, as well as to constrain the properties of dark matter and its relation with the visible matter. In this paper, we explore if extremely low-mass dwarf galaxies follow the same BTF relation as high-mass galaxies. We quantify the scatter in the BTF relation and use this to constrain the allowed elongations of dark matter halo potentials. We obtained HI synthesis data of 11 dwarf galaxies and derive several independent estimates for the maximum rotation velocity. Constructing a BTF relation using data from the literature for the high-mass end, and galaxies with detected rotation from our sample for the low-mass end results in a BTF with a scatter of 0.33 mag. This scatter constrains the ellipticities of the potentials in the plane of the disks of the galaxies to an upper limit of 0-0.06 indicating that dwarf galaxies are at most only mildly tri-axial. Our results indicate that the BTF relation is a fundamental relation which all rotationally dominated galaxies seem to follow.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Discontinuities in reciprocal and nonreciprocal inhomogeneous waveguides
Creators: name: McRitchie, William Kenneth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Four types of waveguide discontinuity are investigated: (1) the interface between reciprocal homogeneous and reciprocal inhomo-geneous waveguides; (2) the interface between reciprocal homogeneous and nonreciprocal in-homogeneous waveguides; (3) a thin metal diaphragm in a reciprocal inhomogeneous waveguide; (4) a thin metal diaphragm in a nonreciprocal inhomogeneous waveguide. Mode matching is used to obtain theoretical solutions for discontinuities of types (l)-(3); experimental results are obtained for type (3) and type (4) discontinuities. Detailed studies are made of the two types of interface discontinuity. Both E-plane and H-plane dielectric loading are investigated for the reciprocal case while the configuration used for the nonreciprocal structure is that of the twin-slab ferrite loaded waveguide. Based on these analyses, the interface and the two waveguides, homogeneous and inhomogeneous, are described by relatively simple equivalent transmission circuits. In these circuits, unique normalized equivalent transmission line characteristic admittances are defined for the inhomogeneous waveguide. These admittances are shown to be not generally proportional to the wave admittances, even when such can be defined. In the nonreciprocal case, the characteristic admittances are nearly the same in the two directions of propagation although the phase coefficients can be very different. The two types of diaphragm discontinuity are investigated experimentally at a frequency of 8.5 GHz. The experimental procedure is the same for both types and requires the measurement of reflection and transmission coefficients of unmatched sections of the inhomogeneous waveguide. Theoretical results are obtained for the reciprocal case which indicate that the error in the measurements is less than ±6%.