cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HERITAGE AND TOURISM: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES
Creators: name: Cuccia, Tiziana
name: Rizzo, Ilde
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: It is a common opinion that culture and tourism are strictly complementary activities because of the positive externalities that culture generates on tourism. In this paper, we aim at evaluating this common opinion. Firstly, we explore the concept of cultural tourism and the different definitions provided in the literature; secondly, we show the role that cultural tourism can play in Italy and particularly in Sicily, reporting the main results of some empirical studies, and finally we analyse the related policy implications. From this point of view, it is worth exploring how different institutional arrangements are able to deal with the vertical and horizontal fragmentation of competencies and to offer solutions for the governance of the interaction of the different actors (public, private, no profit) in order to enhance the above mentioned positive externalities.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2011)
ELEMENTS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS
Creators: name: Pechlaner, Harald
name: Raich, Frieda
name: Kofink, Lisa
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: Tourism organizations used to be central players when it came to destination management. However, demands from the market — but also from local stakeholders — have changed significantly, both in form and content. One approach to further develop and professionalize tourism organizations is to apply the concept of corporate governance. It offers organizations a set of instruments to govern, control and monitor themselves, and enables the implementation of previously defined structures and standards. This article analyzes whether selected elements of corporate governance are applied in tourism organizations in the Alps, and what characteristics these elements offer. Our results show that tourism organizations are aware of the selected corporate governance elements, and even of their potential, but the degree and extent of their application so far has been rather poor.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2011)
High Frequency GPS sources in the AT20G Survey
Creators: name: Hancock, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) survey was used to select a complete sample of 656 Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources with spectral turnovers above 5GHz. The AT20G has near simultaneous observations at 4.8, 8.6 and 20GHz, which makes it possible to exclude flat spectrum variability as a cause of a source's peaked spectrum. Optical identification of the sample results in 361 QSOs and 104 galaxies and 191 blank fields. Redshifts are known for 104 of the GPS sources. The GPS sources from the AT20G are discussed and compared to previously known samples. The new sample of high frequency peaking GPS sources is found at a lower redshift than previous samples and to also have a lower 5GHz radio power. Evidence is found to support the idea that the origin of the GPS spectral shape are intrinsically different for galaxies and QSOs. This paper is an elaboration and extension of the talk given at the $4^{th}$ CSS/GPS conference in Riccione in May 2008.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings from the 4th CSS/GPS conference
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ROOTS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT: A CULINARY TOURISM CASE STUDY IN ARGENTINA
Creators: name: Schlüter, Regina
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: Rural tourism is gaining new fans all the time, especially in those countries that have not been blessed with the natural resources necessary for a beach holiday industry, or that don't have a sufficiently significant cultural heritage to generate large waves of tourists. However the peacefulness of the countryside, the communing with nature and the chance to indulge in some traditional rural activities are not enough for a lot of people. As a result, people are increasingly turning to gastronomy as an important complement of this type of tourism and as a means of promoting rural development by offering traditional cuisine to tourists. This paper sets out a brief description of this phenomenon based on a study conducted in Tomás Jofré, in Argentina, of the risks which a tourist strategy, apparently risk-free and without any negative consequences, can create for a tourist destination.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2011)
Proteoglycan aggregation in human intervertebral disc and bovine nasal cartilage
Creators: name: Emes, John Hayward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Herniation of the intervertebral disc is a pathological condition characterized by protrusion of the tissue posterio-laterally, often impinging on the spinal chord or nerve roots. The disease is accompanied by a reduction in the average molecular weight and viscosity of the disc proteoglycans, in excess of that which normally occurs with increasing age. The proteoglycans of disc however have not been examined in terms of the modern concepts of cartilage matrix structure. Bovine nasal cartilage, has been shown to contain proteoglycan aggregates, trapped in the intersticess of a collagen network, which can be dissociated with 4M guanidine hydrochloride into diffusible proteoglycan subunits and a multicomponent "linking" fraction. A similar system was thought to occur in the intervertebral disc. It seemed possible that, if such a system was present in the disc, the reduction in the molecular weight and viscosity of the proteoglycans with increasing age and herniation could be due to a decrease in proteoglycan aggregation. The present study showed that proteoglycan aggregates similar to those of bovine nasal cartilage are found in the human intervertebral disc, but that they only represent 5% of the total proteoglycans in the tissue. In contrast, bovine nasal cartilage contained 70% of the proteoglycans in the aggregated form. A novel modification of the extraction procedure was devised by which it was possible to assess the degree of proteoglycan aggregation. Sequential extraction of the tissue with a weak and strong electrolyte (0.4 M and 4M guanidine hydrochloride) selectively removed non-aggregated and aggregated proteoglycans respectively. This procedure provides a new and rapid method for assessing the degree of proteoglycan aggregation in a variety of connective tissues. The small proportion of aggregate in the disc was almost exclusively located in the annulus fibrosus. Re-aggregation studies suggested that both disc and cartilage contain two proteoglycans, only one of which is capable of forming aggregates. Examination of the proteoglycans in a limited number of discs suggested that the degree of aggregation did not change with increasing age. Since, in addition, aggregates represent only a small proportion of the disc proteoglycans, it appeared unlikely that a decrease in the degree of aggregation could account for the decrease in molecular weight and viscosity of the disc proteoglycans observed with increasing age and/or degenerative disc disease.
title: Contextual Differences in Reinforcement Affect Self-Control in SHR and WKY Subjects
Creators: name: Rich, Jonathan C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is the outcome of selectively breeding its progenitor the Wistar Kyoto (WKY) for hypertension. In the present experiment, the context of reinforcement was manipulated to determine its effect on impulsivity across the SHR and WKY strains of rat. An additional block of delays was added onto the end of a standard delay discounting procedure to vary the context of reinforcement from one condition (0 sec.) to the next (60 sec.). Results indicate that both SHR and WKY subjects made fewer impulsive decisions when a shorter delay followed the longest delay in the task - although this effect was more pronounced in the SHR strain. This suggests that differences in contextual factors of reinforcement may affect impulsivity, but that the magnitude of this effect may depend on fundamental differences in genetics or other biological substrates.
Elastic behavior of spherical nanodroplets in head-on collision
Creators: name: Kim, Sangrak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulation results for head-on collisions of equal-sized spherical polymer nanodroplets using molecular dynamics are presented. Elastic behavior of an initial compressed phase for the colliding droplets is analyzed. Deformations and contact radii of the nanodroplets are compared with the Hertzian model of elastic solid balls. It is found that at least the initial phase of collision can be explained by this continuum model, except at the very moment of the beginning of collision.
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH ON DESTINATION IMAGE CONSTRUCT
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Ana Isabel
name: Correia, Antonia
name: Kozak, Metin
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: Destination image has a significant theoretical and practical contribution in tourism. Since the last four decades conceptual and empirical studies concerning this topic have been conducted. However, there is still a lack of theoretical framework due to the complex and multiple construct of destination image. This paper presents work in progress towards the development of a destination image model and intends to be a reflective thinking concerning image and destination image research. A review is provided and a way towards a theoretical framework based on an alternative approach is presented. Following the assumption that destination image construct is ambiguous a broader understanding grounded on a multidisciplinary approach is required. Recommendations are made for using this holistic conception on destination image research, aiming to a future development of an integrative model to be applied on the Alqueva Lake, the largest man-made lake of Europe, located in the south of Portugal.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2011)
title: CR9000 Measurement and Control System PCMCIA-ATA Software Device Interface
Creators: name: Soulier, Ryan Jon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Many industries have a need for high speed data collection of a large amount of data. For example, the auto industry extensively tests vehicles for resistance to stress, temperature, and moisture. Campbell Scientific, Inc. (CSI) has built the CR9000 measurement and control system that fills this need by being able to measure up to 252 separate sensors at a sustained rate of up to ten thousand samples per second.
The CR9000 system lacks efficiency because it has only a small, fixed amount of memory and is capable of recording data only for a short period. Older devices designed by CSI had to be supported with additional PC software and were large and bulky, making it inconvenient to transport them from one site to another.
To rectify this, the designers of the CR9000 included two type II PCM CIA' slots for upgrading the memory. The PCMCIA standard has been adopted by a variety of portable computer platforms, which ensures long-time support for the standard. Devices are already available to use in the slot, and it is not necessary to design a new memory module. PCMCIA slots are currently being added to most portable computers, which makes the cards usable for not just upgrading the CR9000 available memory but for transporting data between a host computer and the CR9000.
The PCMCIA interface has been successfully integrated in the CR9000 operating system. This software is currently being used by companies all over the world for data collection in a variety of environments. Testing has shown that the AT A devices are capable of holding large amounts of data, while maintaining a high speed of data collection.
This report details the implementation of this software.
title: A Comparison of Landsat TM Imagery Versus Aerial Photographs for Classifying and Monitoring Riparian Vegetation
Creators: name: Rodemaker, Sara Goeking
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Ouray National Wildlife Refuge contains important riparian habitat s for fish and wildlife. The dominant woody plant species are Populus fremontii, Salix sps., and Tamarix ramosissima, a nonnative shrub that has become established in the Upper Colorado Basin in this century. T. ramosissima is quickly becoming the dominant riparian species, and could affect habitat quality and ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. A current vegetation map of the refuge was developed using Landsat thematic mapper imagery. Maps were also generated from aerial photographs to delineate areas of Tamarix invasion between 1936 and 1996. The two sources of remote sensor data were compared.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay July 1999
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: International travel; approval of various political figures and groups; internal party elections (presidential primaries); foreign languages (English, French, etc.); experience learning English; interest in politics; closeness to political party; rate kindness of political figures; respondent’s political ideology vs. their father’s; judiciary funds; Uruguay economy; satisfaction with job; women in politics; Mercosur (1991 South American trade bloc); 1994 voting history. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
DISEASE DETERMINANTS AND DRIVERS, THE NIGERIAN DECADE EXPERIENCE (2011-2020)
Creators: name: Akpakpan, Ekam Ime
name: Mgbechidinma, Chiamaka
name: Okonta, Udoka Onyeka
name: Udoekong, Nsikan Samuel
name: Olaniyi-George, Joyce Foluke
name: Akan, Otobong Donald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111705 Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Diseases
subject: Health Care
subject: 111710 Health Counselling
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Nigeria’s position in Africa is strategic, with approximately 202 million people, high commerce and industrial hub (The World Bank, 2020). Justifiably, the high influx and outflow of people and goods to and fro Nigeria, can impact her health status and those of partner countries (Siedner et al., 2015). Although well respected amongst the committee of nations, Nigeria’s health system is plagued by many challenges. Dearth of data, non-incorporation of ICT, insecurity, mass displacement, lack of country-to-country collaboration, low government funding, and decaying health facilities are some of the challenges that fuel spontaneous disease outbreaks and sustained spread amongst the populace (Olumade et al .,2020; GHS index, 2019).
The Nigerian health care system reflects its health investment over time. Factually, Nigeria is still under-budgeting her health sector ,notches less than ‘the Abuja agreement’, six years after (Olumade et al., 2020; Olatubi et al., 2018). Major disease outbreaks and spread have strongly been influenced by disease determinants and environmental drivers that range from (a) Globalization and environment, (b) Sociodemographic, to (c) Public health systems. Notwithstanding factors that propel diseases, infections of public health concerns are highly virulent and contagious: uncontrolled spreads always have potential national and international public health and security threat components.
A new method for measuring the 3D turbulent velocity dispersion of molecular clouds
Creators: name: Stewart, Madeleine
name: Federrath, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure and star formation activity of a molecular cloud are fundamentally linked to its internal turbulence. However, accurately measuring the turbulent velocity dispersion is challenging due to projection effects and observational limitations, such as telescope resolution, particularly for clouds that include non-turbulent motions, such as large-scale rotation. Here we develop a new method to recover the three-dimensional (3D) turbulent velocity dispersion ($σ_{v,3D}$) from position-position-velocity (PPV) data. We simulate a rotating, turbulent, collapsing molecular cloud and compare its intrinsic $σ_{v,3D}$ with three different measures of the velocity dispersion accessible in PPV space: 1) the spatial mean of the 2nd-moment map, $σ_i$, 2) the standard deviation of the gradient/rotation-corrected 1st-moment map, $σ_{(c-grad)}$, and 3) a combination of 1) and 2), called the 'gradient-corrected parent velocity dispersion', $σ_{(p-grad)}=(σ^2_i+σ^2_{(c-grad)})^{1/2}$. We show that the gradient correction is crucial in order to recover purely turbulent motions of the cloud, independent of the orientation of the cloud with respect to the line of sight (LOS). We find that with a suitable correction factor and appropriate filters applied to the moment maps, all three statistics can be used to recover $σ_{v,3D}$, with method 3 being the most robust and reliable. We determine the correction factor as a function of the telescope beam size for different levels of cloud rotation, and find that for a beam FWHM $f$ and cloud radius $R$, the 3D turbulent velocity dispersion can best be recovered from the gradient-corrected parent velocity dispersion via $σ_{v,3D}=[(-0.29\pm0.26)f/R+1.93\pm0.15]σ_{(p-grad)}$ for $f/R<1$, independent of the level of cloud rotation or LOS orientation.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. MNRAS, accepted
Anxo Abuín González, El teatro nel cine. Estudio de una relación intermedia
Creators: name: Iacoli, Giulio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2014

description: Nell’affollato campo di studi sui territori confinanti di cinema e teatro, il contributo monografico di Anxo Abuín González, comparatista in forza alla Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, presenta diversi punti di forza, diverse traiettorie originali – soprattutto applicative – che andranno indicate e discusse. Frutto di un progetto dedicato a «Narrativas cruzadas: hibridación, transmedia y performatividad en la era digital», finanziato dal ministero spagnolo per l’economia e la competitività (11, nota), abbastanza ironicamente El teatro en el cine fonda le proprie basi proprio sul vincolo competitivo che dalle origini si istituisce fra le due pratiche espressive, in un costante, ancorché «delicado y complejo», processo di «escenificación» (8) mediante il quale il cinema fa appello, trova riparo nelle forme della teatralità
description: Between, Vol 4, N° 7 (2014): Poteri della retorica
Irrigation Agriculture in the West
Creators: name: Greenshields, Elco L.
name: Greenshields, Elco L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1948
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: This publication has been prepared in the interest of a permanent irrigation agriculture. Irrigation has played an important role in the remarkable achievement by farmers of this Nation in meeting wartime and postwar production goals. It may play an even greater part in our future agricultural production. Today, as never before, we are coming to realize that the food needs of our growing population and the establishment of desirable trade relations with other nations will require the maintenance of efficient, high-level agricultural production. In this publication we view the West as a distinct agricultural region because of the widespread dry climates and because of the great part that irrigation plays in crop production. Without irrigation, the West would still be an important agricultural region as a dry-land wheat-producing area and as a vast grazing area capable of producing a notable share of the country's demand for beef, mutton, hides, and wool. With irrigation, the West has become a region of utmost importance to the Nation, for here are grown many agricultural products—fruits, vegetables, sugar beets, and nearly all types of crops.
Decoding Finger Flexion using amplitude modulation from band-specific ECoG
Creators: name: Liang, Nanying
name: Bougrain, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: EEG-BCIs have been well studied in the past decades and implemented into several famous applications, like P300 speller and wheelchair controller. However, these interfaces are indirect due to low spatial resolution of EEG. Recently, direct ECoG-BCIs attract intensive attention because ECoG provides a higher spatial resolution and signal quality. This makes possible localization of the source of neural signals with respect to certain brain functions. In this article, we present a realization of ECoG-BCIs for finger flexion prediction provided by BCI competition IV. Methods for finger flexion prediction including feature extraction and selection are provided in this article. Results show that the predicted finger movement is highly correlated with the true movement when we use band-specific amplitude modulation.
Three-wave interactions of dispersive plasma waves propagating parallel to the magnetic field
Creators: name: Spanier, F.
name: Vainio, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-wave interactions of plasma waves propagating parallel to the mean magnetic field at frequencies below the electron cyclotron frequency are considered. We consider Alfvén--ion-cyclotron waves, fast-magnetosonic--whistler waves, and ion-sound waves. Especially the weakly turbulent low-beta plasmas like the solar corona are studied, using the cold-plasma dispersion relation for the transverse waves and the fluid-description of the warm plasma for the longitudinal waves. We analyse the resonance conditions for the wave frequencies $ω$ and wavenumbers $k$, and the interaction rates of the waves for all possible combinations of the three wave modes, and list those reactions that are not forbidden.
description: accepted for publication in Advanced Science Letters
The Algebraic Structure of the KLT Relations for Gauge and Gravity Tree Amplitudes
Creators: name: Frost, Hadleigh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations for quantum field theory by reformulating it as an isomorphism between two Lie algebras. We also show how explicit formulas for KLT relations arise when studying rational functions on ${\mathcal M}_{0,n}$, and prove identities that allow for arbitrary rational functions to be expanded in any given basis. Via the Cachazo-He-Yuan formulas for, these identities also lead to new formulas for gauge and gravity tree amplitudes, including formulas for so-called Bern-Carrasco-Johansson numerators, in the case of non-linear sigma model and maximal-helicity-violating Yang-Mills amplitudes.
Approximate perturbed direct homotopy reduction method: infinite series reductions to two perturbed mKdV equations
Creators: name: Jiao, Xiaoyu
name: Yao, Ruoxia
name: Lou, S. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approximate perturbed direct homotopy reduction method is proposed and applied to two perturbed modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations with fourth order dispersion and second order dissipation. The similarity reduction equations are derived to arbitrary orders. The method is valid not only for single soliton solution but also for the Painlevé II waves and periodic waves expressed by Jacobi elliptic functions for both fourth order dispersion and second order dissipation. The method is valid also for strong perturbations.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Four Statements about the Fourth Generation
Creators: name: Holdom, B.
name: Hou, W. S.
name: Hurth, T.
name: Mangano, M. L.
name: Sultansoy, S.
name: Unel, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This summary of the Workshop "Beyond the 3-generation SM in the LHC era" presents a brief discussion of the following four statements about the fourth generation: 1) It is not excluded by EW precision data; 2) It addresses some of the currently open questions; 3) It can accommodate emerging possible hints of new physics; 4) LHC has the potential to discover or fully exclude it.
description: Summary of the "Beyond the 3-generation SM in the LHC era" Workshop, CERN, September 4-5, 2008; 7 pages. V2: updated bibliography and minor typos fixed. To appear in PMC Physics A
Mittendrin oder nur dabei?
Creators: name: Astfalk, Timo
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 370 Education
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Qualitative Untersuchung mittels Grounded Theory zu den persönlichen Netzwerken von 27 deutschen und internationalen Medizinstudierenden an der Universität Rostock. Datenerhebung mittels Leitfandeninterviews sowie Netzwerkkarten. Es zeigten sich kleinere Netzwerke bei internationalen Studierenden mit weniger persönlicher Ressourcen zur Bewältigung des Medizinstudiums. Deutsche Studierende beschrieben dazu den Bildungsprozess der Netzwerke positiver als internationale Medizinstudierende. Einfluss hierauf hatten insbesondere die kulturellen und akademischen Rahmenbedingungen des Medizinstudiums.
Geometry and stability of dynamical systems
Creators: name: Punzi, Raffaele
name: Wohlfarth, Mattias N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider both the global and local stability of solutions of continuously evolving dynamical systems from a geometric perspective. We clarify that an unambiguous definition of stability generally requires the choice of additional geometric structure that is not intrinsic to the dynamical system itself. While global Lyapunov stability is based on the choice of seminorms on the vector bundle of perturbations, we propose a definition of local stability based on the choice of a linear connection. We show how this definition reproduces known stability criteria for second order dynamical systems. In contrast to the general case, the special geometry of Lagrangian systems provides completely intrinsic notions of global and local stability. We demonstrate that these do not suffer from the limitations occurring in the analysis of the Maupertuis-Jacobi geodesics associated to natural Lagrangian systems.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures
title: tourismos, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2006)
Creators: name: Tourismos
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2006

description: Managing Global Trends and Challenges in a Turbulent Economy...113-116 An International Handbook of Tourism Education...107-111 Indigenous Tourism: The Commodification and Management of Culture...103-106 TOURISTS’ PREFERENCES FOR QUALITY OF SERVICES: EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF LESVOS, SAMOS AND CHIOS ISLANDS...95-101 THE ADVENT OF SEMANTIC WEB IN TOURISM INFORMATION SYSTEMS...77-93 SERVICE QUALITY OF TROY: AN IMPORTANCESATISFACTION ANALYSIS...61-75 THE CORRELATES OF VACATIONING: GREEK CYPRIOTS AND THEIR VACATIONING HABITS...45-60 INFLUENCE OF AGE ON CUSTOMER DINING EXPERIENCE FACTORS AT U.S. JAPANESE RESTAURANTS...29-43 THE BACKPACKER AND SCOTLAND: A MARKET ANALYSIS...11-28 Initial Pages & Editorial ...1-9
Estimates for a family of multi-linear forms
Creators: name: Nie, Zhongyi
name: Brown, Russell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 26D20, Secondary 37K10

description: We consider a special class of the multi-linear forms studied by Brascamp and Lieb. For these forms, we are able to characterize the L^p spaces for which the form is bounded. We use this characterization to study a non-linear map that arises in scattering theory.
description: Added references
Density-gradient-corrected embedded atom method
Creators: name: Wu, Gang
name: Lu, Gang
name: Garcia-Cervera, Carlos J.
name: E, Weinan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through detailed comparisons between Embedded Atom Method (EAM) and first-principles calculations for Al, we find that EAM tends to fail when there are large electron density gradients present. We attribute the observed failures to the violation of the uniform density approximation (UDA) underlying EAM. To remedy the insufficiency of UDA, we propose a gradient-corrected EAM model which introduces gradient corrections to the embedding function in terms of exchange-correlation and kinetic energies. Based on the perturbation theory of "quasiatoms" and density functional theory, the new embedding function captures the essential physics missing in UDA, and paves the way for developing more transferable EAM potentials. With Voter-Chen EAM potential as an example, we show that the gradient corrections can significantly improve the transferability of the potential.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Parallelization of the LBG Vector Quantization Algorithm for Shared Memory Systems
Creators: name: Annaji, Rajashekar
name: Rao, Shrisha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.1; I.4.2; D.1.3

description: This paper proposes a parallel approach for the Vector Quantization (VQ) problem in image processing. VQ deals with codebook generation from the input training data set and replacement of any arbitrary data with the nearest codevector. Most of the efforts in VQ have been directed towards designing parallel search algorithms for the codebook, and little has hitherto been done in evolving a parallelized procedure to obtain an optimum codebook. This parallel algorithm addresses the problem of designing an optimum codebook using the traditional LBG type of vector quantization algorithm for shared memory systems and for the efficient usage of parallel processors. Using the codebook formed from a training set, any arbitrary input data is replaced with the nearest codevector from the codebook. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is indicated.
description: 14 pages
MPEC 2023-K198 : 2023 KT4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 KT4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Personality traits and mediating pathways to mortality risk: a systematic review
Creators: name: S. Grogan, Christopher
name: Turiano, Nicholas A.
name: Habenicht, Andrea
name: McGeehan, Máire
name: Ó Súilleabháin, Páraic
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objective: Personality traits have been regularly linked with all-cause mortality risk. However, what mechanisms may provide an indirect pathway from personality traits to mortality is unclear. We sought to systematically review the literature and provide an overview of the potential mechanisms that have been identified in the literature.
Method: Five electronic databases (PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycInfo, and PsycArticles) were searched from inception to January 27, 2023. From 611 studies initially identified, seven studies met the final inclusion criteria. These seven papers have a combined sample of 60,104 individuals (M = 8,585, SD =14,600; range 957–44,094).
Results: These papers found that several variables, such as smoking, inflammation biomarkers, blood pressure, and sleep, mediated the relationship between various personality traits and mortality. There was considerable variation in the impact of results across cohorts, even when looking at similar variables, and notable differences in methodological approaches and reporting were discussed.
Conclusions: This review identified a small pool of research looking at a range of indirect pathways (mediating variables). The review identified traits with well-established associations with mortality risk, such as neuroticism, do not have consistent findings in the mediation literature and a high level of variance in the degree to which mediators account for the personality–mortality relation between different cohorts. Despite these limitations, it is clear that examining indirect effects (mediation) has a crucial role to play in developing our understanding of the complex pathways that connect personality–mortality risk. We identify several avenues and considerations for future research.
Weder Fluch noch Segen. Die Steuerung des Ölbooms im postsowjetischen Raum
Creators: name: Pleines, Heiko
name: Heinrich, Andreas
Publisher: name: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (BWV)
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: -
subject: 320

description: Der Erdöl- und Erdgasboom verlangt von den Eliten Aserbaidschans, Kasachstans, Russlands und Turkmenistans politische Steuerung. Es gilt, die Rohstoffförderung zu organisieren, Regeln festzulegen und die Rolle ausländischer Investoren zu definieren sowie die Einnahmen aus dem Rohstoffexport zu verwalten. Ein strukturelles Problem sind ineffiziente Verwaltungen und die Korruption. Misst man den Erfolg nicht an der sozioökonomischen Entwicklung, sondern am Machterhalt, so muss man feststellen: Die Präsidenten der vier Staaten haben den Ölboom bislang sehr erfolgreich zu steuern gewusst.
EDUCATING A NEW GENERATION OF TOUR GUIDES FOR THE FORTHCOMING ERA, AT THE ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
Creators: name: Scaltsa, Matoul
name: Nitsiou, Paraskevi
name: Georgaki, Polyxeni
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: tourismos, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2016)
Geofreebie: A Location-Based Freecycling App to Support Forced Migrant Resettlement
Creators: name: Braun, Lucas
name: Degbelo, Auriol
name: Kray, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.2; H.1.2

description: Germany has witnessed an influx of forced migrants in recent years. Promoting social interaction with the local community is key to supporting the resettlement of these newcomers. Location-based freecycling services present important benefits due to freecycling's potential to bolster social engagement and location-based services' ability to adapt to the user's context. Yet, their potential to support forced migrants' resettlement is yet to be examined. We conducted needs assessment interviews with 11 participants in Muenster, Germany. We analyzed the interview results to develop user requirements for location-based freecycling services. We then implemented a subset of the user requirements as a prototype mobile app called Geofreebie. The evaluation of the app with 22 participants showed that Geofreebie offered two key advantages for forced migrants' resettlement: it increased the size of their social network, and created a sense of community on their side. These findings can benefit researchers and developers of location-based services to support forced migrant resettlement.
description: Article accepted for publication in the Journal of Location-based Services
MPEC 2024-S160 : 2024 SM4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 SM4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Demokratisierung ohne Demokraten. Die Oligarchen in der ukrainischen Politik
Creators: name: Pleines, Heiko
Publisher: name: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (BWV)
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: -
subject: 320

description: Die ukrainische Politik wird von einer Gruppe von Großunternehmern dominiert. Diese sogenannten Oligarchen haben in den 1990er Jahren riesige Vermögen angehäuft und große Industrieholdings geschmiedet. Sie stützten das autoritäre Regime des Präsidenten Kučma, daher sollte ihre Macht nach der Orangen Revolution beschnitten werden. Dies ist nicht gelungen. Nach wie vor beeinflussen sie intransparente politische Entscheidungen und verschaffen sich durch Korruption Wettbewerbsvorteile. Doch da die Oligarchen heute verschiedene politische Lager unterstützen, hat sich ihre Rolle verändert. Die machtpolitische Pattsituation oligarchischer Interessen könnte die Grundlage bilden für eine langfristige Demokratisierung
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENRICHED MIXTURES OF CULTURAL TOURISM, FOR THE REPROMOTION OF GREEK MATURE DESTINATIONS
Creators: name: Sarantakou, Efthymia
name: Kontis, Alexios-Patapios
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2016

description: Like in many international destinations, so follows in Greece that the launching of various forms of cultural tourism has been for many decades one of the basic pillars of the dominating literature as regards the desired touristic development model in fully formed as well as developing destinations of Greece. However, the transition from a heliotropic to a cultural tourism doesn’t seem to be such a feasible, in some cases at least, prospect. In general, the efforts were focused on the country’s rich and scattered archeological as well as cultural stock, systematically setting aside the potential of forming a series of cultural products targeted towards a wider market of a “generic” cultural tourist which could strengthen the differentiation of the touristic offer and become an element of competitive advantage for the destinations. The present article looks into the challenges and prospects which are created through the introduction of newer and more enriched forms of cultural tourism in order to reform and reinforce the provided touristic experience in fully developed Greek destinations, so as to achieve their repromotion towards international markets.
description: tourismos, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2016)
Multimethod and Interpersonal Assessment in Medical Settings: A Case Study from the Dermatology Unit
Creators: name: Vari, Chiara
name: Velotti, Patrizia
name: Zavattini, Giulio Cesare
name: Richetta, Antonio G.
name: Calvieri, Stefano
Publisher: name: University of Messina
Year: 2014

description: Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease with multifactorial aetiology. The psychological impact of skin diseases is increasingly recognised, but only scant attention has been given to the possible role of couple relationships as protective factors for dermatology patients. This article presents a multimethod assessment conducted along with physical examination at a Dermatology Unit. Specifically, the assessment includes measures of emotion regulation and attachment. The first aim of the article is to support an integrated assessment of dermatological and psychological factors together. The second aim is to highlight the possible role of couple relationships in the management of skin diseases.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 1, No 3 (2013)
Binding energy of an off-center shallow donor D- in a spherical quantum dot
Creators: name: Gomez, Sergio S.
name: Romero, Rodolfo H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binding energy of a negatively charged hydrogenic impurity with on- and off-center position in a spherical Gaussian quantum dot was calculated with the configuration interaction method. Our calculations show that $E_b$ is always positive for on-center impurities with a maximum near to the radius for one-electron stability of the potential well $R_c$. For off-center positions the binding energy can assume negative values within a range of the quantum dot radius, thus indicating the instability of the system.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
FAIR Geovisualizations: Definitions, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Creators: name: Degbelo, Auriol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3; H.5.2; D.2.12; D.2.13; I.2.4

description: The availability of open data and of tools to create visualizations on top of these open datasets have led to an ever-growing amount of geovisualizations on the Web. There is thus an increasing need for techniques to make geovisualizations FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This article explores what it would mean for a geovisualization to be FAIR, presents relevant approaches to FAIR geovisualizations and lists open research questions on the road towards FAIR geovisualizations. The discussion is done using three complementary perspectives: the computer, which stores geovisualizations digitally; the analyst, who uses them for sensemaking; and the developer, who creates them. The framework for FAIR geovisualizations proposed, and the open questions identified are relevant to researchers working on findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable online visualizations of geographic information.
description: Article accepted for publication in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science
WORSHIPING PILGRIMAGE AND RELIGIOUS TOURISM IN GREECE AND CYPRUS DURING ANCIENT TIMES
Creators: name: Rodosthenous, Nicos
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2016

description: Pilgrimage travel is not a recent activity of modern civilization. It is a phenomenon, which has existed since ancient times. It has grown over time and evolved into Religious and Pilgrimage tourism, depending upon the various changes that were observed in the course of humanity. Pilgrimage along with the Religious tourism is usually considered the oldest form of non-economic travel and is one of the most understudied areas in tourism research. Every year it is estimated that approximately 240 million people travel to major pilgrimage destinations around the world both ancient, like Greece and Cyprus, as well as modern in origin. Increases in spiritually motivated travel in the modern era, have coincided with the growth of tourism in all eras, especially after the 19th century, where the development of tourism was generally based on the leisure time of people and on their movements to various countries.
description: tourismos, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2016)
Multi-Scale Single Image Dehazing Using Laplacian and Gaussian Pyramids
Creators: name: Li, Zhengguo
name: Shu, Haiyan
name: Zheng, Chaobing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model driven single image dehazing was widely studied on top of different priors due to its extensive applications. Ambiguity between object radiance and haze and noise amplification in sky regions are two inherent problems of model driven single image dehazing. In this paper, a dark direct attenuation prior (DDAP) is proposed to address the former problem. A novel haze line averaging is proposed to reduce the morphological artifacts caused by the DDAP which enables a weighted guided image filter with a smaller radius to further reduce the morphological artifacts while preserve the fine structure in the image. A multi-scale dehazing algorithm is then proposed to address the latter problem by adopting Laplacian and Guassian pyramids to decompose the hazy image into different levels and applying different haze removal and noise reduction approaches to restore the scene radiance at different levels of the pyramid. The resultant pyramid is collapsed to restore a haze-free image. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms state of the art dehazing algorithms and the noise is indeed prevented from being amplified in the sky region.
Some counterexamples in the theory of quantum isometry groups
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Jyotishman
name: Goswami, Debashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: By considering spectral triples on $S^{2}_{μ, c}$ ($c>0$) constructed by Chakraborty and Pal (\cite{chak_pal}), we show that in general the quantum group of volume and orientation preserving isometries (in the sense of \cite{goswami2}) for a spectral triple of compact type may not have a $C^*$-action, and moreover, it can fail to be a matrix quantum group. It is also proved that the category with objects consisting of those volume and orientation preserving quantum isometries which induce $C^*$-action on the $C^*$ algebra underlying the given spectral triple, may not have a universal object.
PILGRIMAGE TOURIST’S PERCEPTION TOWARDS SERVICE QUALITY DIMENSIONS OF HOTELS IN KUMBAKONAM- THE TEMPLE CITY OF INDIA.
Creators: name: Vijayabanu, C.
name: Therasa, C.
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2016

description: Service quality is well thought-out to be a decisive accomplishment factor which is one of the outstanding accomplishment features that sway the core competencies of the hotel industry. The Hotel industry in Temple city of the old Cauvery delta Kumbakonam has been escalating in recent years. In spite of the growth, the industry also countenances problems with regard to service quality. The most imperative rationale of this study is to examine the aspects that determine the service quality with reference to the physical environment, interaction and behavior quality of employees towards customer satisfaction, and brand image. The primary data have been collected by means of a questionnaire tool from the guests visiting Hotels in Temple city Kumbakonam. The data collected has been analyzed using SPSS software, and the tools used are frequency analysis, Correlation and Regression. The major findings of this study are Interaction and behavior quality of employees influences customer satisfaction by 21.6% and customer loyalty by 28% and brand image by 67.2%.
description: tourismos, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2016)