Background and Research Wildlife tourism has been considered a useful tool for conservation in some contexts found to cause diverse effects on biodiversity. We investigated the effect of number tourists wild black howler monkeys’ ( Alouatta pigra) behavior at Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (MABR), Lacandona forest Mexico. Methods used 5-min focal animal sampling, during dry rainy seasons. reco...

Opinion congruence, or alignment in legislators’ and citizens’ policy preferences, facilitates democratic representation. Congruence may obtain because shared views lead elites and masses to self-select into an identity category; because identity creates shared interests; or because networks and organizations socialize both into a common worldview. Though political parties are traditionally con...

An active field of research today is the technological enrichment of everyday activities using augmented reality and ambient intelligence technologies. To this end, augmenting dinner tables is a challenging task, requiring a high-quality user experience unobtrusively supporting and enhancing the user’s main goal: eating and socializing. This work presents an augmented restaurant table, facilita...

Headaches in children and adolescents are still under-diagnosed. 75% of children are affected by primary headache by the age of 15 with 28% fitting the ICHD2 criteria of migraine. Migraine is considered a chronic disorder that can severely impact a child's daily activities, including schooling and socializing. Early recognition and aggressive therapy, with acute and prophylactic treatments, as ...

Space is important for learning and socializing. Cyberworlds provide a new space for socialization and communication with a great degree of flexibility, allowing users to create and manipulate virtual land. This suggests considering virtual spaces as artifacts. In this paper we use different theoretical approaches on artifacts and experiences of usage of a virtual world we have created to revis...

Based on a study of 149 parochial-school students enrolled in kindergarten through eighth grade, this article explores children’s outdoor recess activities in an urban setting—with a focus on how age, gender, and size of play group influence their outdoor play preferences—and examines changes in children’s activity preferences over a single recess period. The majority of the children in the stu...