Along the touristic coastlines, Marine Protected Areas are particularly coveted by an increasing number of visitors. This influx has encouraged implementation monitoring and management measures managers protected areas that promote tourism consistent with biodiversity conservation. However, choices need to be made enforce these complex for they take into account concerns not only a territory pr...

Coastal ecosystems and anthropic activities are prone to be affected by the negative impact of marine-related processes induced climate change, such as erosion, flooding permanent inundation. Studies aiming at defining potential risk scenarios represent a valuable tool for identification most suitable coastal adaptation measures. After outlining sea level rise implications Mediterranean scale, ...

A multi-agent system design-methodology is used to address the highly dynamic, regulated, complex, distributed environment of interconnected services. A framework of three interconnected levels is applied to tackle this issue relying on coordination and organisational techniques, as well as on Web-services and new methodologies to design, deploy and maintain a distributed system. This paper pre...

We report a severe case of imported Japanese encephalitis (JE) in a healthy young Spanish traveller who developed symptoms after spending three weeks in a touristic area of Thailand. The patient was diagnosed in Thailand and subsequently transferred to Barcelona, Spain, where the Thai laboratory results were confirmed based on IgM serology. Although JE is a rare disease in travellers, this case...

There is a strong mutuality between tourism and environment via the creation of feedback mechanisms, since tourism often places adverse effects upon the quality and quantity of natural and cultural resources of the destination, leading to its qualitative and quantitative degradation. Within theEnvironmental Impacts Assessment (EIA) studies, various methods have been proposed to assess and analy...

concentrations of lead (pb) were found in the shells of the oyster saccostrea cucullata and sediments in may 2010. samples were obtained at four sites on qeshm island, at three sites on hormoz island, and at three sites in lengeh port along the intertidal coast of the persian gulf of iran. the levels of pb in sediments and shells were analyzed by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotom...

This paper describes the application of N-best lists to a spoken language translation system. Multiple hypotheses are generated both by the speech recognizer and by the statistical machine translator; they are finally re-ranked by optimally weighting recognition and translation scores, estimated in an integrated scheme. We provide experimental results for the Italian-to-English direction on the...

INTRODUCTION The focus of this chapter is on understanding the tourist experience of Canberra, Australia’s capital city, particularly within its main parliamentary precinct. This precinct possesses both political and touristic significance, as it encompasses a set of major national institutions amongst which are eight of the city’s ten most visited sites. The tourist experience is theorised thr...