Visitors to Two Types of Museums: Do Expenditure Patterns Differ?

Does Twitter Help Museums Engage with Visitors?

Even though Twitter is a fairly new web 2.0 tool, U.S. museum leaders are extoling the platform as a necessary component to any online programming or presence in museums today. Because of the myriad ways museums can use the platform to perform educational, marketing, or engagement-focused programming research on U.S. museums and Twitter is generally very broad, and because of the newness of the...

How international visitors do contribute to management processes of Perhentian Island Marine Park Malaysia?

Energy Expenditure of Two Types of Manual Wheelchair Propulsion

Objective. To compare the energy expenditure of two types of manual wheelchair propulsion. Design. Experimental and comparative design using matched controls. Background. A new manual wheelchair propulsion technique is proposed to minimize the overload exerted on the upper limb during the classical propulsion. The energy cost and other parameters of this new propulsion technique were evaluated....

Patterns of spring arrival dates differ in two hirundines

We examined the first arrival dates in the UK over a 56 yr period of 2 hirundines, sand martin Riparia riparia and barn swallow Hirundo rustica, in relation to temperatures along migration routes and at destination. Changes in arrival dates have been much greater for sand martin than for barn swallow, and the arrival order of the 2 species now appears to have reversed. There appear to be 2 reas...

Analyzing Museum Visitors' Behavior Patterns

Many studies have investigated personalized information presentation in the context of mobile museum guides. In order to provide such a service, information about museum visitors has to be collected and visitors have to be monitored and modelled in a non-intrusive manner. This can be done by using known museum visiting styles to classify the visiting style of visitors as they start their visit....