cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Information technology and the level of development of e-commerce in golf: a comparative analysis of the golf course Web pages of the Algarve, Andalusia and Florida
Creators: name: Dias, Joana Afonso
name: López, Francisco José Martínez
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2011

description: This paper presents the results of a study which, using literature on information, communication and tourism technologies as its theoretical basis, aims to evaluate the way in which three golf tourism destinations – the Algarve, Andalusia and Florida – position themselves through their Web pages. Using a methodological approach proposed by the World Tourism Organization (1999, 2001), the main characteristics of each destination were identified and analysed. Following this, recommendations and a set of good practices (including techniques, design and content) are presented in order to improve online strategic performance. The results highlight three fundamental aspects: (i) the Web pages of the golf courses analysed are still underdeveloped on the whole; (ii) the return on the use of this electronic channel is still in its embryonic stage; (iii) the clients, suppliers and partners of the golf industry could be more active. From this, it was concluded that it is essential to exploit the opportunities for development in this area, and in information technologies in a broader sense, in order to be competitive in the golf tourism sector.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, n.º 16 (2011)
Predictive Mechanistic Model of Creep Response of Single-Layered Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) Joints
Creators: name: Huang, Hao
name: Dasgupta, Abhijit
name: Singh, Narendra
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: pressure-sensitive adhesive
creep
mechanistic modeling

description: This paper explores the uniaxial tensile creep response of acrylic-based pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA), which exhibits a unique multi-phase creep response that does not have the classical steady-state region due to multiple transitions caused by several competing mechanisms: (i) cavity nucleation and growth in the interior of the adhesive material of the PSA system, as well as at the interfaces between the PSA and the substrate; (ii) fibrillation of the bulk adhesive, and (iii) interfacial mechanical locking between the adhesive and the bonding substrate. This results in multiple regimes of strain hardening and strain softening, evidenced by multiple regions of steady-state creep, separated by strong transitions in the creep rates. This complex, multi-phase, nonlinear creep response cannot be described by conventional creep constitutive models commonly used for polymers in commercial finite element codes. Accordingly, based on the empirical uniaxial tensile creep response and the mechanisms behind it, a new mechanistic model was proposed. This is capable of quantitatively capturing the characteristic features of the multiphase creep response of single-layered PSA joints as a function of viscoelastic bulk properties and free energy of the PSA material, substrate surface roughness, and interfacial surface energy between the adhesive and substrate. This is the first paper to present the modeling approach for capturing unique multi-phase creep behavior of PSA joint under tensile loading.
Talk: (LEP2023) Psihološke osnove upitnih zdravstvenih praksi: Prvi rezultati projekta Reason4Health
Creators: name: Purić, Danka
name: Lazić, Aleksandra
name: Branković, Marija
name: Zupan, Zorana
name: Zezelj, Iris
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023

description: The abstract and slides of a LEP Colloquia talk (in Serbian).
Transcriptomic Analysis of Inbred Chicken Lines Reveals Infectious Bursal Disease Severity Is Associated with Greater Bursal Inflammation In Vivo and More Rapid Induction of Pro-Inflammatory Responses in Primary Bursal Cells Stimulated Ex Vivo
Creators: name: Asfor, Amin S.
name: Nazki, Salik
name: Reddy, Vishwanatha R.A.P.
name: Campbell, Elle
name: Dulwich, Katherine L.
name: Giotis, Efstathios S.
name: Skinner, Michael A.
name: Broadbent, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: IBDV
infectious bursal disease
bursa of Fabricius
inbred lines
chickens

description: In order to better understand differences in the outcome of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) infection, we inoculated a very virulent (vv) strain into White Leghorn chickens of inbred line W that was previously reported to experience over 24% flock mortality, and three inbred lines (15I, C.B4 and 0) that were previously reported to display no mortality. Within each experimental group, some individuals experienced more severe disease than others but line 15I birds experienced milder disease based on average clinical scores, percentage of birds with gross pathology, average bursal lesion scores and average peak bursal virus titre. RNA-Seq analysis revealed that more severe disease in line W was associated with significant up-regulation of pathways involved in inflammation, cytoskeletal regulation by Rho GTPases, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor signaling, and Wnt signaling in the bursa compared to line 15I. Primary bursal cell populations isolated from uninfected line W birds contained a significantly greater percentage of KUL01+ macrophages than cells isolated from line 15I birds (p < 0.01) and, when stimulated ex vivo with LPS, showed more rapid up-regulation of pro-inflammatory gene expression than those from line 15I birds. We hypothesize that a more rapid induction of pro-inflammatory cytokine responses in bursal cells following IBDV infection leads to more severe disease in line W birds than in line 15I.
Força de gestão de recursos humanos: exploração teórica e validação empírica no setor hoteleiro
Creators: name: Correia, Anabela
name: Bentes, Luísa
name: Gomes, Jorge F. S.
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2011

description: A Gestão Estratégica de Recursos Humanos coloca a tónica na forma como o sistema de GRH é crítico para a eficácia organizacional. Apesar dos estudos teóricos e empíricos sobre o potencial da GRH no aumento do desempenho e eficácia das organizações, ainda há uma significativa falta de conhecimento no que respeita ao funcionamento dessa associação. Atendendo a esta problemática, Bowen e Ostroff (2004) introduziram o conceito de sistemas de GRH fortes. Estes sistemas comunicam mensagens claras e não ambíguas sobre o conteúdo da GRH, que orientam o comportamento dos colaboradores para o alcance dos objetivos organizacionais. São propostos nove atributos, agrupados em três clusters:distintividade, consistência e consenso. Com base em entrevistas semiestruturadas a diretores de recursos humanos de sete grandes cadeias hoteleiras situadas em Portugal, analisou-se a forma como estas empresas encaram a GRH, mais especificamente se nestas empresas a GRH pode ser considerada forte. Os dados foram comparados com as proposições teóricas de Bowen e Ostroff (2004), e verificou-se que dos nove atributos propostos pelos autores, apenas alguns têm apoio empírico. Os atributos que menos se evidenciam são: compreensibilidade, validade, e justiça. Conclui-se que estas empresas ainda têm um papel importante a desenvolver sobretudo no que respeita a estes aspetos menos valorizados.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 16 (2011)
Managing Stormwater by Accident: A Conceptual Study
Creators: name: Maas, Carly M.
name: Anderson, William P.
name: Cockerill, Kristan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: accidental wetland
road salt
urban hydrogeology
headwater stream

description: Stormwater-driven road salt is a chronic and acute issue for streams in cold, urban environments. One promising approach for reducing the impact of road salt contamination in streams and adjacent aquifers is to allow “accidental wetlands” to flourish in urban areas. These wetlands form naturally as a byproduct of human activities. In this study, we quantified the ability of an accidental wetland in northwestern North Carolina, USA, to reduce the timing and peak concentration of road salt in a stream. Monitoring suggests that flow and transport processes through the wetland reduce peak concentrations and delay their arrival at the adjacent stream. We expand these findings with numerical simulations that model multiple meltwater and summer storm event scenarios. The model output demonstrates that small accidental wetland systems can reduce peak salinities by 94% and delay the arrival of saltwater pulses by 45 days. Our findings indicate that accidental wetlands improve stream water quality and they may also reduce peak temperatures during temperature surges in urban streams. Furthermore, because they find their own niche, accidental wetlands may be more effective than some intentionally constructed wetlands, and provide opportunities to explore managing stormwater by letting nature take its course.
title: Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach
Creators: name: Heistermann, Maik
name: Bogena, Heye
name: Francke, Till
name: Güntner, Andreas
name: Jakobi, Jannis
name: Rasche, Daniel
name: Schrön, Martin
name: Döpper, Veronika
name: Fersch, Benjamin
name: Groh, Jannis
name: Patil, Amol
name: Pütz, Thomas
name: Reich, Marvin
name: Zacharias, Steffen
name: Zengerle, Carmen
name: Oswald, Sascha
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) has become an effective method to measure soil moisture at a horizontal scale of hundreds of metres and a depth of decimetres. Recent studies proposed operating CRNS in a network with overlapping footprints in order to cover root-zone water dynamics at the small catchment scale and, at the same time, to represent spatial heterogeneity. In a joint field campaign from September to November 2020 (JFC-2020), five German research institutions deployed 15 CRNS sensors in the 0.4 km2 Wüstebach catchment (Eifel mountains, Germany). The catchment is dominantly forested (but includes a substantial fraction of open vegetation) and features a topographically distinct catchment boundary. In addition to the dense CRNS coverage, the campaign featured a unique combination of additional instruments and techniques: hydro-gravimetry (to detect water storage dynamics also below the root zone); ground-based and, for the first time, airborne CRNS roving; an extensive wireless soil sensor network, supplemented by manual measurements; and six weighable lysimeters. Together with comprehensive data from the long-term local research infrastructure, the published data set (available at https://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.756ca0485800474e9dc7f5949c63b872; Heistermann et al., 2022) will be a valuable asset in various research contexts: to advance the retrieval of landscape water storage from CRNS, wireless soil sensor networks, or hydrogravimetry; to identify scale-specific combinations of sensors and methods to represent soil moisture variability; to improve the understanding and simulation of land–atmosphere exchange as well as hydrological and hydrogeological processes at the hillslope and the catchment scale; and to support the retrieval of soil water content from airborne and spaceborne remote sensing platforms.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1272
El revenue management en la administración de hoteles: un análisis de la percepción gerencial sobre su empleo
Creators: name: Valdez, Raul
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2011

description: El propósito de este trabajo se centra en la percepción de los ejecutivos acerca del Revenue Management (RM) como herramienta de gestión hotelera. Sus objetivos específicos son: a) crear un instrumento para medir la percepción que los ejecutivos de hoteles tienen sobre la utilización de las técnicas del RM y, b) ofrecer a los directivos una herramienta de supervisión y de control que les permita incrementar la eficiencia del RM en la gestión financiera de sus empresas. Partiendo de un marco conceptual sobre el empleo del RM en el sector hotelero, se utilizó una metodología cuantitativa para analizar datos provenientes de una encuesta realizada por internet entre ejecutivos de 520 hoteles que operan en México y otros países de América Latina. Los resultados del estudio demuestran que los ejecutivos conceden una gran importancia al empleo del RM como herramienta para la gestión de hoteles. La principal contribución teórica de este estudio consiste en confirmar que la percepción sobre el empleo del RM en la gestión de hoteles es un constructo integrado por las dimensiones: “desempeño del personal”, “previsión de la demanda” y “gestión”. Este hallazgo es relevante porque reafirma la naturaleza tridimensional del RM, a diferencia de estudios precedentes que le atribuyen una integración conceptual más compleja. Como una aportación hacia la práctica gerencial, el estudio confirma que el “desempeño humano” es un componente esencial de las percepciones que los ejecutivos se forman sobre la aplicación del RM en la gestión financiera de los hoteles y, particularmente, en la búsqueda de mayores niveles de eficiencia productiva.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 16 (2011)
A Hyperbolic Decay of the Dst Index during the Recovery Phase of Intense Geomagnetic Storms
Creators: name: Aguado, J.
name: Cid, C.
name: Saiz, E.
name: Cerrato, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: What one commonly considers for reproducing the recovery phase of magnetosphere, as seen by the Dst index, is exponential function. However, the magnetosphere recovers faster in the first hours than in the late recovery phase. The early steepness followed by the late smoothness in the magnetospheric response is a feature that leads to the proposal of a hyperbolic decay function to reproduce the recovery phase, instead of the exponential function. A superposed epoch analysis of recovery phases of intense storms from 1963-2006 was performed, categorizing the storms by their intensity into five subsets. The hyperbolic decay function reproduces experimental data better than what the exponential function does for any subset of storms, which indicates a non-linear coupling between dDst/dt and Dst. Moreover, this kind of mathematical function, where the degree of reduction of the Dst index depends on time, allows for explaining different lifetimes of the physical mechanisms involved in the recovery phase and provides new insights for the modeling of the Dst index.
description: 3 Figures
Evaluation of Recovery in a Polluted Creek After Installation of New Sewage Treatment Procedures
Creators: name: Kuehne, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975

description: Abstract:
Response of Hickman Creek near Lexington, Kentucky to alleviation from serious sewage pollution was studied from January, 1973 through July, 1974. Wastes are now handled from an efficient secondary treatment facility and four sequential polishing lagoons before chlorination and discharge to West Hickman branch.
Physico-chemical tests gave no strong indication of residual pollution effects at the start of the study, approximately six months after the treatment facility opened. At low flow a slight oxygen sag, probably associated with algal growth in the lagoons, persists downstream from the outfall. Mean values for turbidity, nitrates and COD are somewhat higher at the outfall than at eleven stations within the basin. Orthophosphates are considerably higher in lagoon discharge than elsewhere in the system, which gains some phosphate from bedrock.
While the lagoons place some oxygen demand on West Hickman in the form of unicellular algal growth, they can and do receive surges of input that cannot be accomodated in the treatment plant. They would serve as a buffer to the stream in case of operational malfunction, which could overwhelm the small stream at low flow. The lagoons provide some benefits of tertiary treatment.
The diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates increased at most stations formerly affected by pollution but did not achieve the levels of two control stations on East Hickman Creek. Fishes reinvaded West Hickman more rapidly than did invertebrates but they also failed to achieve the diversity maintained at the control stations and observed in collections from 1960. Fecal and total coliforms 2 miles downstream from the lagoon outfall were as low or lower than elsewhere in the basin.
Changes within the basin were sometimes more clearly seen when stations were grouped by stream order. Urbanization of West Hickman may be causing physico-chemical and biological changes apart from the effects of or alleviation from sewage pollution.
The West Hickman Sewage Treatment Plant affords protection to Hickman Creek and produces a safe effluent that has allowed reestablishment of a variety of fishes, invertebrates and aesthetic qualities formerly associated with the stream. Presence of uncontaminated tributaries is thought to have sped observed recovery.
Funding information: The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the Office of Water Research and Technology, U.S. Department of the Interior, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
Some data and observations on Hickman Creek during the summer of 1972 were obtained on a Biomedical Sciences Support Grant from the University of Kentucky.
A decade of dark matter searches with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes
Creators: name: Doro, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the general scenario of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP), dark matter (DM) can be observed via astrophysical gamma rays because photons are produced in various DM annihilation or decay processes, either as broad-band or line emission, or because of the secondary processes of charged particles in the final stages of the annihilations or the decays. The energy range of the former processes is accessible by current ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs, like H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS). The strengths of this technique are: a) the expected DM gamma-ray spectra show peculiar features like bumps, spikes and cutoff that make them clearly distinguishable from the smoother astrophysical spectra, b) the expected DM spectrum is universal and therefore by observing two or more DM targets with the same spectrum, a clear identification (besides detection) of DM would be enabled. The role of IACTs may gain more importance in the future as the results from the LHC may hint to a DM particle with mass at the TeV or above, where the IACTs sensitivity is unsurpassed by other experiments. In this contribution, a review of the search for DM with the current generation of IACT will be presented.
description: Proceedings of the 4th RICAP Conference (Rome, 2013). This version has some typo corrections with respect to the published version, as well as an updated Fig. 2
The Law of Water Allocation in Kentucky
Creators: name: Ausness, Richard C.
name: Flynn, Bill H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975

description: Abstract:
This study discusses navigability concepts, consumptive rights to surface and ground waters, the disposal of diffused surface waters and the administration of Kentucky's statutory water allocation system.
Federal regulatory powers are based on navigability as is state ownership of submerged lands. Kentucky uses the ebb-and-flow test of navigability to determine title to submerged lands but uses a navigability-in-fact test to determine the scope of state regulatory authority. Consumptive uses of water in Kentucky are governed by the riparian landowner to use as much water as he needs as long as his use does not interfere with the legitimate uses of other riparians. Underground streams are subject to the same consumptive use rules, but an overlying landowner can use as much percolating ground water as he needs even though other users are harmed. Kentucky follows the civil law rule with respect to the disposal of diffused surface water, but recent cases seem to have applied the more modern reasonable use rule.
In addition to these common-law rules, the Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, under the provisions of KRS Chapter 151, administers a permit system under which both riparian and nonriparian users are allowed to make beneficial uses of water. The permit system, however, is not particularly comprehensive, and is subject to various criticisms.
Funding information: The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the Office of Water Research and Technology; United States Department of the Interior, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
Effect of Fast Scale Factor Fluctuations on Cosmological Evolution
Creators: name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: semiclassical descriptions
quantum cosmology
scale factor

description: In this paper, we study the corrections to the Friedmann equations due to fast fluctuations in the universe scale factor. Such fast quantum fluctuations were recently proposed as a potential solution to the cosmological constant problem. They also induce strong changes to the current sign and magnitude of the average cosmological force, thus making them one of the potential probable causes of the modification of Newtonian dynamics in galaxy-scale systems. It appears that quantum fluctuations in the scale factor also modify the Friedmann equations, leading to a considerable modification of cosmological evolution. In particular, they give rise to the late-time accelerated expansion of the universe, and they may also considerably modify the effective universe potential.
Response of Saturated Sands to Cyclic Shear at Earthquake Amplitudes
Creators: name: Drnevich, Vincent P.
name: Jent, John P.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975

description: Abstract:
Both quasi-static and resonant cyclic shear tests were performed on hollow cylindrical specimens of saturated sands at various densities and confining stresses. Shear moduli measured at nondestructive amplitudes were shown to be independent of frequency for the range of 0.1Hz to 50Hz. Application of cyclic shear at larger amplitudes caused effective stresses to decrease and failure. The number of cycles to failure was related to ratio of cyclic shear stress to maximum drained shear stress. Effective confining stress reduces approximately linearly with number of cycles. Shear modulus and shear damping.can be described by the Hardin-Drnevich equations if change in effective stress is properly adjusted. Procedures were developed to use research results in analyzing soil in dam or other profiles to predict factor of safety against liquefaction failure and to estimate shear modulus and damping of soils for subliquefaction conditions when these soils are subjected to earthquakes.
Funding information: The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the Office of Water Research and Technology, United States Department of the Interior, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
Two-sided perspective on tele-speech therapy: Experiences of stuttering patients, and their parents
Creators: name: Jahromi, Maryam Eslami
name: Farokhzadian, Jamileh
name: Ahmadian, Leila
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits and challenges of the tele-speech therapy from the perspective of patients who stutter, and their parents. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 patients and three parents in two rehabilitation centers. Data were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis approach proposed by Graneheim and Lundman. Seven categories were determined: accessible treatment, motivation of comfort in tele-speech therapy, challenges of tele-therapy, satisfaction, virtual competency, lower quality compared to face-to-face therapy, and uncertainty about the effectiveness of tele-speech therapy. The participants had a two-sided perspective regarding tele-speech therapy. Positive experiences included benefitting from more qualified therapists at multiple locations, faster access to treatment, and saving cost and time. Negative experiences and challenges consisted of low-quality of technology infrastructure for rehabilitation including low quality of shared images and videos, ineffective communication, insufficient sympathy, indirect communication, and technology incompetency. Findings showed that the participants were interested in the application of tele-speech therapy, as this method could increase their accessibility and provide the opportunity to choose proper therapists. The determined benefits and challenges can provide the policy-makers with beneficial information to implement tele-speech therapy.
O desenvolvimento do turismo em Portugal pela “política do espírito” de António Ferro (1932-1949)
Creators: name: Mariz, Vera Félix
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2011

description: O pensamento de António Ferro, a sua estimada “política do espírito” manifestada a partir de 1932 e a ação do SPN/SNI entre 1939 e 1949, impulsionaram uma verdadeira revolução no turismo português. Este foi entendido como poderoso instrumento de propaganda e arauto do nacionalismo através da aposta no cariz tradicional, popular e pitoresco, base da diferenciação, fundamental no competitivo mercado do turismo.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 16 (2011)
Development and Limitations of Exposure Biomarkers to Dietary Contaminants Mycotoxins
Creators: name: Turner, Paul C.
name: Snyder, Jessica A.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: aflatoxin
biomarkers
deoxynivalenol
fumonisin
ochratoxin A
urine
blood

description: Mycotoxins are toxic secondary fungal metabolites that frequently contaminate cereal crops globally, presenting exposure hazards to humans and livestock in many settings. The heterogeneous distribution of mycotoxins in food restricts the usefulness of food sampling and intake estimates for epidemiological studies, making validated exposure biomarkers better tools for informing epidemiological investigations. While biomarkers of exposure have served important roles for understanding the public health impact of mycotoxins such as aflatoxins (AF), the science of biomarkers must continue advancing to allow for better understanding of mycotoxins’ roles in the etiology of disease and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. This review will discuss mycotoxin biomarker development approaches over several decades for four toxins of significant public health concerns, AFs, fumonisins (FB), deoxynivalenol (DON), and ochratoxin A (OTA). This review will also highlight some knowledge gaps, key needs and potential pitfalls in mycotoxin biomarker interpretation.
“People Will Continue to Suffer If the Virus Is Around”: A Qualitative Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Children’s Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Kallander, Samantha Watters
name: Gordon, Rebecca
name: Borzekowski, Dina L.G.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
qualitative analysis
child development
health communication
sub-Saharan Africa

description: Children are particularly impressionable and at risk during a global public health crisis, making it important to examine their unique perspectives. To hear and understand sub-Saharan African children’s experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted an exploratory qualitative analysis based on interviews with 51 children, ages 9 to 13, from Nigeria, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone. Applying the organization of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, we reveal how COVID-19 affected children’s daily lives and domestic challenges, schooling and neighborhood issues, media use (and its relationship to knowledge and fear of the disease), perceptions of the country and government response, and thoughts of religion and hope. Children’s responses differed greatly, but patterns emerged across sex, age, household size, religion, and country. This study offers guidance and recommendations for meeting the needs of children, especially in times of crisis.
Rapid design of inclusive wireless technologies: A participatory workshop process
Creators: name: Jones, Brian
name: Gupta, Nandita
name: Persaud, Elizabeth
name: Phillips, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Wireless technology products and services play a significant role in our everyday lives. Great advances in design features have improved the accessibility and utility of these technologies for older adults and people with disabilities. Yet, there is still opportunity to ensure upcoming designers of wireless technologies consider how their design helps or hinders their product’s potential users. In this paper, we describe the evolution of a series of half-day participatory design workshops intended to expose student designers to real-world problem-solving alongside experts in the fields of aging and disability services and end users. Workshop attendees rapidly worked through an inclusive design process identifying and defining problems, considering the design requirements to meet the needs of various individuals, and finally designing and refining concepts to solve those problems. We describe the design of the workshops, iterations intended to improve on the experience, and our recommendations for conducting similar workshops
Reflexões sócio-antropológicas sobre o turismo
Creators: name: Ramos, Francisco Martins
name: Marujo, Maria Noémi
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2011

description: Os autores abordam a temática do turismo numa perspetiva sociocultural, visando a sustentabilidade de práticas tradicionais articuladas com o processo dinâmico da inovação e da mudança. O Turismo mediatiza o processo sócio-antropológico da hospitalidade, da anulação etnocêntrica, do relativismo cultural, da afirmação plena do Homem, simultaneamente singular e igual aos outros homens. Os autores argumentam ainda que a Antropologia e a Sociologia são disciplinas que se encontram numa posição privilegiada para estudar o Turismo como fenómeno cultural, sem, todavia, elas possuírem o exclusivo das abordagens científicas ao objeto turístico.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 16 (2011)
Rural Residential Water Demand in Kentucky: An Econometric and Simulation Analysis
Creators: name: Grunewald, Orlen C.
name: Haan, C. T.
name: Debertin, David L.
name: Carey, D. I.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975

description: Abstract:
This study proposed that demand management through pricing policies can be used in conjunction with supply management to solve water supply problems in Kentucky. Economic principles were shown to apply to rural residential water use. From the economic model, a hyperbolic demand function was theorized. The mathematical form of this function used quantity of water as a function of price, income, value of residence, evaporation, and persons per residence. This function was estimated using ordinary least squares regression. A log-linear model was found to be a satisfactory representation of the demand function. Price was the only independent variable which was significant and had an elasticity of (-.92).
As an application of pricing to demand management, the estimated regression equation was used in a simulation analysis. The simulation was used to determine the reservoir capacity necessary to supply the needs of 4,000 households given three different price levels for water. Reservoir size was determined by simulating reservoir size as a function of outflow as estimated from the demand function plus an assumed low flow rate and inflow from the Thomas-Fiering Model. This technique illustrated that price does affect the quantity of water demanded which in turn effects reservoir capacity requirements.
Funding information: The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the Office of Water Research and Technology, United States Department of Interior, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the Office of Water Research and Technology, and in part by the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
Turismo e o dinamismo económico regional: evidência da região do Algarve
Creators: name: Andraz, Jorge M.
name: Silva, João Albino
name: Viegas, Carlos Manuel
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2011

description: Este trabalho analisa a evolução da estrutura económica da região do Algarve e o posicionamento da atividade turística entre 1995 e 2003 através da aplicação da análise Shift-share aos níveis inter-regional e intrarregional, tendo como objetivo central averiguar se o crescimento da região tem sido beneficiado pela sua estrutura produtiva. Os resultados sugerem que, no contexto nacional, o Algarve tem tirado dividendos positivos da sua estrutura económica, quer pela especialização nos ramos mais dinâmicos da economia nacional, quer pela existência de importantes vantagens comparativas relativamente às restantes regiões nos seus pólos de especialização nos quais se encontram os setores ligados direta e indiretamente à atividade turística. Contudo, ao nível da região são identificadas disparidades regionais motivadas por diferentes níveis de crescimento dos concelhos, tendo-se concluído que os ramos diretamente ligados ao turismo têm-se apresentado como ameaças devido ao seu fraco dinamismo de crescimento.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 16 (2011)
Phase structure of cold magnetized quark matter within the SU(3) NJL model
Creators: name: Grunfeld, A. G.
name: Menezes, D. P.
name: Pinto, M. B.
name: Scoccola, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possible different phases of cold quark matter in the presence of a finite magnetic field and chemical potential are obtained within the SU(3) NJL model for two parameter sets often used in the literature. Although the general pattern is the same in both cases, the number of intermediate phases is parameter dependent. The chiral susceptibilities, as usually defined, are different not only for the s-quark as compared with the two light quarks, but also for the u and d-quarks, yielding non identical crossover lines for the light quark sector.
THE INTELLECTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF AMERICA AND THE EXPANSION OF FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1780-1810.
Creators: name: Dunlap Radigan, Patricia Annette
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1998

description: Since the early 1980s, women's historians have worked to uncover the causes behind the expansion of educational opportunities for women in the early American Republic. Their work delineated how constructs about motherhood, wifehood, religion, and social status influenced the expansion of female education in the late eighteenthcentury. This research adds another powerful construct to the list: the civilization construct. Of all the constructs present in early American thought, beliefs about the meaning of civilization were among the most powerful. Inherited from European perspectives about the nature of civilized human societies, and modified by the American experience, the desire to join the ranks of "civilized" nations permanently changed educational practices. In 1996, a search for evidence of republic motherhood ideology in the records of the Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia laid the groundwork for this thesis. I expected repeated references to motherhood. I was struck by the virtual lack of motherhood rhetoric. Instead, the trustees and students repeatedly cited the needs of their "civilization." Further research showed that civilization was cited by others, too. Ina deliberate search for more references to civilization, writings by Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, Samuel Smith, Robert Coram and others were examined. Beliefs about civilization continually appeared in rhetoric surrounding education reform: in advertisements and prospectuses, poems, songs, essays, and speeches. I searched newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, records of public forums, and reprints of commencement speeches. It was everywhere. The legacy of the civilization construct and its affect on female education is traced here.
GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS' WAR LITHOGRAPHS AND PAINTINGS OF 1918
Creators: name: Wasserman, Krystyna
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1981

description: This thesis analyzes the sources, subject matter and style of George Bellows' seventeen war lithographs, five paintings and five drawings of 1918. Evidence is advanced to prove that the political developments of the First World War were a decisive factor in the creation of the War Series by Bellows who otherwise had no interest in war themes. The development of Bellows' patriotic feelings, culminating in the creation of war lithographs as a response to the changes of United States policy from one of neutrality to one of full involvement in the European conflict and a state of war with Germany in April 1917, is traced in Bellows' art and political statements. For the purpose of analysis Bellows' lithographs and paintings are divided into: scenes of atrocities depicting crimes committed by the German Army in Belgium in August 1914 as described in the Bryce Report published in the New York Times on May 13, 1915; Bellows' illustrations for the war stories published in magazines in 1918; and scenes inspired by war events and war photographs. Thematic and stylistic comparisons with the works of old masters and contemporary European artists are made. The study concludes that Bellows' war lithographs and paintings are not evaluated by modern critics as enthusiastically as most of his other works. It is suggested that one of the reasons why this is so, is the fact that Bellows who painted usually scenes he had known and seen, never went to war, and thus had to rely on articles, correspondence or photographs rather than on personal observations to determine the subjects of his war lithographs and paintings.
Generalized geometry and nonlinear realization of generalized diffeomorphism on D-brane effective action
Creators: name: Asakawa, T.
name: Muraki, H.
name: Sasa, S.
name: Watamura, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characterization of the DBI action of a Dp-brane using the generalized geometry is discussed. It is shown that the DBI action is invariant under the diffeomorphism and B-transformation of the generalized tangent bundle of the target space. The symmetry is realized non-linearly on the fluctuation of the D-brane.
description: 6 pages, based on talk given by S.W. at the Workshop on Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity, Corfu, Greece, September 8-15, 2013
Possible Evidence for Free Precession of a Strongly Magnetized Neutron Star in the Magnetar 4U 0142+61
Creators: name: Makishima, Kazuo
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Hiraga, Junko S.
name: Nakano, Toshio
name: Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
name: Sakurai, Soki
name: Sasano, Makoto
name: Murakami, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetars are a special type of neutron stars, considered to have extreme dipole magnetic fields reaching ~1e+11 T. The magnetar 4U 0142+61, one of prototypes of this class, was studied in broadband X-rays (0.5-70 keV) with the Suzaku observatory. In hard X-rays (15-40 keV), its 8.69 sec pulsations suffered slow phase modulations by +/-0.7 sec, with a period of ~15 hours. When this effect is interpreted as free precession of the neutron star, the object is inferred to deviate from spherical symmetry by ~1.6e-4 in its moments of inertia. This deformation, when ascribed to magnetic pressure, suggests a strong toroidal magnetic field, ~1e+12 T, residing inside the object. This provides one of the first observational approaches towards toroidal magnetic fields of magnetars.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Corrected typos [revsion]; 1) abstract line 4, "~1.5 h" -> "~15 h"; 2) p.2 right col 3rd para, "Q=55 ksec" --> "T=55 ksec"; 3) p.3 left col 2nd para, "over of T=55 --> over T=55"
A semiótica utilizada no marketing turístico na cidade de Curitiba - PR – Brasil
Creators: name: Ramos, Simone
name: Ferreira, Rômulo Vieira
name: Gandara, José
name: Lima, Jordhana
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: O presente trabalho foi desenvolvido com o intuito de apresentar uma análise semiótica dos folders e sites turísticos da cidade de Curitiba. Os folders foram cedidos pelo Instituto de Turismo de Curitiba. Já os sites foram pesquisados através do site de busca Google. Dentre as cinquenta primeiras opções de pesquisa que apareceram, selecionaram-se doze. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório, que utilizou a metodologia bibliográfica e documental. Identificaram-se as cores utilizadas nos respectivos folders e nos sites de turismo, bem como as imagens dos pontos turísticos da cidade. Verificou-se que muitos desses elementos turísticos acabaram se tornando símbolos da cidade, o que se comprova pela quantidade de vezes que estes aparecem nos materiais de comunicação pesquisados.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 1 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Turismo e antropologia: contribuições para um debate plural
Creators: name: Pinto, Roque
name: Pereiro, Xerardo
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Pretende-se aqui indicar alguns dos principais contributos da antropologia para os estudos sobre o turismo, tendo-se em conta suas aportações ao tema nos campos teórico-epistemológico, metodológico e deontológico. A antropologia tem se debruçado sobre o turismo tanto no âmbito da sua compreensão como um fenómeno de amplas consequências do mundo social, quanto na provisão de uma ferramentaria metodológica, auxiliando no refinamento da abordagem qualitativa nos campos de investigação e análise da actividade, especialmente através de etnografias baseadas na pesquisa participante e no uso comparativo destas. E, dentro de uma perspectiva aplicada, estudos antropológicos têm colaborado na implementação de políticas e práticas voltadas para um turismo sustentável, buscando minimizar os impactos negativos da actividade nas comunidades receptoras. Desse modo, considerando que o paradigma de análise e entendimento do turismo segue baseado em premissas de origem económica e mercadológica, a antropologia do turismo vem se projectando nas últimas décadas como um contraponto qualitativo a tais abordagens, provendo uma aproximação holística e integrada a outros campos disciplinares.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 1 n.º 13/14 (2010)
L'art. 351 TFUE e gli accordi degli Stati membri a fronte dell'espansione delle competenze UE
Creators: name: MASSA, CLAUDIA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Claudia Massa, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, L'art. 351 TFUE e gli accordi degli Stati membri a fronte dell'espansione delle competenze UE
V Convegno Annuale AISDUE - Padova 2 e 3 Novembre 2023
Il Diritto dell'Unione europea nei rapporti tra ordinamenti: tra collaborazione, integrazione e identità
Sessione 1: Il fondamento dell'ordinamento dell'Unione: tra primato e controlimiti, tra valori comuni e identità nazionali
Intervento selezionato tramite call for papers - Working Paper
Conference Editor: Bernardo Cortese, Università degli Studi di Padova - DiPIC
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Comitato scientifico AISDUE: Antonio Tizzano, Patrizia De Pasquale, Pietro Manzini, Paola Mori, Francesco Rossi Dal Pozzo, Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, Fabio Spitaleri
Modelação da procura turística em Portugal: regressão linear versus redes neuronais artificiais
Creators: name: Machado, Telmo Nuno Martins
name: Teixeira, João Paulo Ramos
name: Fernandes, Paula Odete
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Nos últimos anos, dada a relevância do sector do turismo para a economia de Portugal, a modelação e previsão de séries económicas relacionadas com o turismo têm tido um crescente interesse. Assim, o principal objectivo do presente trabalho assenta no estudo comparativo entre o modelo baseado na regressão linear e o modelo baseado na tecnologia de redes neuronais artificiais. A inclusão destas duas metodologias de natureza diferente, tem como finalidade, perceber a respectiva potencialidade aplicada às características peculiares que as séries de turismo evidenciam, tais como, a sazonalidade e a tendência. Recorreu-se para o efeito à série mensal que mede a procura turística: “Dormidas Mensais Registadas nos Estabelecimentos Hoteleiros em Portugal”, para o período compreendido entre Janeiro de 1990 e Dezembro de 2008. Os modelos desenvolvidos apresentaram qualidades estatísticas e de ajustamento de precisão elevada, pelo que se procedeu à sua utilização para efeitos previsionais. Neste contexto, efectuou-se uma comparação dos resultados previstos com os reais, para os anos de 2007 e 2008, apresentando, para o período em análise, um EPAM de 4.2% e 4.1%, respectivamente para o método de regressão linear (RL) e Redes Neuronais Artificiais (RNA).
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 1 n.º 13/14 (2010)
The nature of massive black hole binary candidates: II. Spectral energy distribution atlas
Creators: name: Lusso, Elisabeta
name: Decarli, Roberto
name: Dotti, Massimo
name: Montuori, Carmen
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Tsalmantza, Paraskevi
name: Fumagalli, Michele
name: Prochaska, Jason X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recoiling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are considered one plausible physical mechanism to explain high velocity shifts between narrow and broad emission lines sometimes observed in quasar spectra. If the sphere of influence of the recoiling SMBH is such that only the accretion disc is bound, the dusty torus would be left behind, hence the SED should then present distinctive features (i.e. a mid-infrared deficit). Here we present results from fitting the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of 32 Type-1 AGN with high velocity shifts between broad and narrow lines. The aim is to find peculiar properties in the multi-wavelength SEDs of such objects by comparing their physical parameters (torus and disc luminosity, intrinsic reddening, and size of the 12$μ$m emitter) with those estimated from a control sample of $\sim1000$ \emph{typical} quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the same redshift range. We find that all sources, with the possible exception of J1154+0134, analysed here present a significant amount of 12~$μ$m emission. This is in contrast with a scenario of a SMBH displaced from the center of the galaxy, as expected for an undergoing recoil event.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society