this paper aims to shed the light on how the luxury tourism may serve as a community economic development strategy in the depleted communities. the purpose of the study is to identify the interests and preferences of potential tourists in the 21st century, primarily those individuals who have the time and money to spend a week visiting the 1000 islands region, thereby contributing much more to ...

The success of this year’s meeting is due to hard work and voluntary efforts of many people. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all these individuals, but especially I would like to thank the Program Committee Members for their enormous support to BIBE at all the levels, but especially we thank the reviewers for the quick and valuable process of the BIBE papers. We would like to tha...

Giuseppina Cerrato, University of Torino, Italy Weimin Chen, Linköping University, Sweden Yi Dan, Sichuan University, China Minoru Fujishima, Hiroshima University, Japan Toshiaki Hattori, University of Tsukuba, Japan Jyh-Chiang Jiang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Kazuo Kadowaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan Xufeng Kou, ShanghaiTech University, China Atsushi Kanno...

This paper explores the institutional and cultural aspects of parliamentary politics in the Melanesian states Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji, and in so doing seeks to provide a baseline of information about Melanesian parliamentary politics.1 The paper argues that executive dominance has become entrenched and normalised because of the interplay between parliamentary institu...

Tests were carried out to investigate the cyclic loading performance of chairs constructed Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis). Totally, 30 real size assembled with polyvinyl acetate adhesive. Chairs tested under 3 directions; namely, front back, back front, backrest according American Library Association (ALA) specifications, obtained performances crosschecked ...

No more serious pitfall threatens the student of the European Union than the idea of assessing the EU’s institutions and decision processes using the same criteria that are relevant at the national level. For example, in spite of several superficial analogies, one cannot understand the European Parliament using the same conceptual categories which have proved useful in analyzing national parlia...

James Archibald (Brigham Young University, USA) Riccardo Bellazzi (Università di Pavia, Italy) YangQuan Chen (Utah State University, USA Ruey-Kei Chiu (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Dewar Finlay (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) Reed M. Gardner (University of Utah, USA) Tianzi Jiang (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Science, China) Eamonn Keogh (University of California R...

It is an honor to be appointed as the chair of an academic unit. Chairs play a vital role in the life of the College and the University, connecting the upper administration with the faculty, and vice versa. This is an appointment that provides the incumbent an opportunity to set goals for the next chapter in the department?s history, in collaboration with department members, and to accomplish s...