In many theme parks, stores are located within major attractions to sell related merchandise. Sales at such stores form a significant portion of theme park profits. Typically, store sales depend upon visitor flows through the attraction, customer satisfaction with the attraction, and the merchandise at the store. In addition, such stores constitute a unique retail environment, as visitor flows ...

Polyphosphoinositides are among the most highly charged molecules in the cell membrane, and the most common polyphosphoinositide, phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)), is involved in many mechanical and biochemical processes in the cell membrane. Divalent cations such as calcium can cause clustering of the polyanionic PIP(2), but the origin and strength of the effective attractions le...

This study is intended to examine the relationship between tourist attractions (natural, cultural and historical) flows. In study, secondary data for six provinces 110 sub-provinces in Southwestern Anatolia region of Turkey, visited by local foreign tourists, are used. Four these have a coastline Aegean Sea Mediterranean. this context, overnight tourists printed online materials used identify a...

W. J. Eckert [1] has adapted Cowell's method of numerical integration to the determination of orbits on punched card machines. Eckert, Brouwer, and Clémence [2] have used Cowell's method on a large-scale computer. We shall assume that Cowell's method as modified by Eckert is the method of numerical integration best suited for the determination of orbits on large-scale computers. What we are con...

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sources of economic growth at the local level, it is crucial to identify and assess the relevant determinants of tourism flows. This paper investigates this issue by carrying out an econometric analysis of tourism flows for the 107 Italian provinces based on the origin-destination (OD) spatial interaction models, which fully account for the spati...

In this paper, we present the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s ExPoSe team in the TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion Track. The main goal of contextual suggestion track is to evaluate methods for providing suggestions for activities or points of interest to users in a specific location, at a specific time, taking their personal preferences into consideration. One of the key steps of ...

We describe a general model, `experience-weighted attraction' (EWA) learning, which includes reinforcement learning and a class of weighted ctitious play belief models as special cases. In EWA, strategies have attractions which re ect prior predispositions, are updated based on payo experience, and determine choice probabilities according to some rule (e.g., logit). A key feature is a parameter...

The Bristol Bay region of southwestern Alaska is sparsely inhabited, but richly endowed in resources that could support a major tourism industry. Despite an abundance of natural and cultural attractions and a clear need for economic diversification, the tourism industry is still largely undeveloped. Several factors account for this unfulfilled opportunity, including high travel costs, lack of v...

Adaptive learning models that have been tested against experimental data typically share two features: (i) initial attractions (or beliefs) are given exogenously, and (ii) learning is based on the performance of stage-game actions rather than repeated game strategies. We develop a model of learning which endogenizes initial attractions and allows for the learning of repeated game strategies. Le...