The present study examined the sociocultural impact of special events based on the cultural festival of GermanFest in Syracuse, Nebraska. A total of 143 (71.5%) local residents responded to the self-administered survey. The dimensions of the sociocultural impact, the important reasons for celebrating the festival, the relationship among festival stakeholders, the levels of community involvement...

The waqf-based Crowdfunding model (WCF-M) is an online pool of funds for social, altruistic, and charitable purposes. WCF-M's campaigns practices benefit the community, endowment foundations, donors. This conceptual research seeks to review literature on WCF-M in context adoption Kuwait. It has also proposed innovative incorporating religiosity as essential determinant Unified Theory Acceptance...

UNLABELLED This questionnaire study tests cognitive failures as a mediator of the potential influence of mental work demands and conscientiousness on risky commuting. Participants were 104 railway-controllers (19% female). Failure of memory, attention regulation and action execution were assessed with the Workplace Cognitive Failure (WCF) scale. Mental work demands were measured by the Instrume...

CT crop–fallow system in the central Great Plains (Shanahan et al., 1988; Halvorson, 1990; Peterson et al., Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)–fallow (WF) using conven1993; Halvorson and Reule, 1994; Farahani et al., 1998). tional stubble mulch tillage (CT) is the predominant production practice in the central Great Plains and has resulted in high erosion potential Winter wheat yields in a WCF...

The paper discusses the implementation of the MultiAgent classification System (MACS) and utilizing it to provide an automated and accurate classification of end users developing applications in the spreadsheet domain. However, different technologies have been brought together to build MACS. The strength of the system is the integration of the agent technology with the FIPA specifications toget...

Within festivals and events, film are among the fastest growing cultural events in world recognised as bringing environmental, sociocultural economic benefits to host tourism destinations including enhanced well-being. These an important marketing strategy for developing destination image attracting interest towards a destination. However, there limited studies on festival experience exploring ...

This essay addresses contemporary migrations of Chamorus tied to the history US military presence in Micronesia and ways Indigenous culture identity are negotiated through Chamorro Cultural Festival (CCF) that has been held annually San Diego, California since 2009. The analysis explores how diasporic maintain close transpacific connections Mariana Islands while also establishing Chamoru commun...

Sound Art festivals have proliferated in developed countries over the last two decades. However, interest in sound and its relationship to art and to the new technologies has also emerged in some Latin American countries like Mexico. In 1999 a new sound art festival was born in Mexico City and this year it had its third edition with grate success. Prominent computer music composers and sound ar...

Particle physics experiments such as those run in the Large Hadron Collider result in huge quantities of data, which are boiled down to a few numbers from which it is hoped that a signal will be detected. We discuss a simple probability model for this and derive frequentist and noninformative Bayesian procedures for inference about the signal. Both are highly accurate in realistic cases, with t...

Human-computer collaboration provides a practical and useful application for plan recognition techniques. We describe a plan recognition algorithm which is tractable by virtue of exploiting properties of the collaborative setting, namely: the focus of attention, the use of partially elaborated hierarchical plans, and the possibility of asking for clarification. We demonstrate how the addition o...