Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of...

This exploratory study concerns the evocation of multisensory experiences at travel fairs. In this context, stimulation senses is vital in engendering feelings pleasure, arousal and dominance. The purpose to explore ways which fairs evoke internal responses consumer visitors. To accomplish task we gathered ethnographic data (pictures, videos audio recordings) together with interview from visito...

OBJECTIVE To determine the health care resources and perceived barriers to care of families attending free vaccine fairs. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Twelve free vaccine fairs in Denver, Colorado, in 1994. PARTICIPANTS A total of 533 consecutive parents or guardians of children receiving vaccine at the fairs. Interventions. None. MEASUREMENTS/RESULTS Survey respondents repo...

Background Historically, Blacks have been disproportionately underrepresented in clinical trials. Outcomes associated with low Blacks' participation in research include poor understanding of the predictors and treatment of the disease, increasing health disparities, poor health equity, and suboptimal wellness of the nation as a whole. To address this gap in research participation, we analyzed o...

For the CeBIT 2000, the Fraunhofer IGD Rostock developed the official electronic exhibition guide (eGuide) for palmsized computers and is thereby founding a new generation of personal assistant for fairs and exhibitions. This report describes the concepts and experiences with the application which has already been used by more than 40.000 user.

Deer aren't the only targets when hunting season begins in Ontario each fall. Physician shortages throughout the province mean fall job fairs that bring recruiters and soon-to-be practising physicians together are growing in popularity, with some communities offering incentives to would-be-recruits as competition increases. Barbara Sibbald reports on a fair organized by the University of Ottawa.

The bill of exchange was the most important written instrument in international financial world later middle ages. Using evidence nearly 2,000 bills exchange, protested and letters advice recorded ledgers Filippo Borromei & Partners Bruges London, 1436–8, we argue that it a far more flexible than has previously been thought. maturity could be changed by agreement rather necessarily using standa...

The emerging online Business-to-Business (Liu, Sia and Wei) marketplace in China, with major websites such as Alibaba.com and ECVV.com, has presented a huge opportunity for Small-and-Medium Enterprises (Arend) to reach out to an extensive pool of potential corporate customers. This would not have been possible through conventional strategies such as trade fairs and road shows. Despite the avail...

Many current smartphones are fitted with GPS receivers, which, in combination with a map application form a pedestrian navigation system for outdoor purposes. However, once an area with insufficient satellite signal coverage is entered, these navigation systems cease to function. For indoor positioning, there are already several solutions available which are usually based on measured distances ...

In order to protect and inherit Thai national culture help farmers overcome difficulties, the government launched "One Village, One Product" project, aiming at deep processing products of local natural resources used by villages towns make traditional with cultural connotations related ecological industries. Through opening exhibition windows in tourist areas, overseas trade fairs e-commerce we...