Recent developments in both wireless communications and personal navigation technologies have made the concept of location-aware services both feasible and economical. Indeed, it is widely projected that the market for such services will increase substantially in the coming years. Obviously this market will provide significant opportunities and challenges for the tourism sector. In this article...

Amoebic keratitis, a sight-threatening corneal infection, mainly occurs in contact lens wearers who wash their eyes with tap water. The present research was conducted to identify the occurrence of potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae (FLA) in tap water sources on Kish Island, a tourist region in Iran. Amoebae were detected using a culture-enriched method and by polymerase chain reaction (...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine participation rates of people living in the rural area of Eskisehir in field researches, and the factors influencing this. METHODS This descriptive study was performed with 1,482 people aged 18 and above in two districts of Eskisehir. Data were collected with a 16 question questionnaire using the face-to-face interview technique. Data were analy...

Policy guidelines for regions falling under the new regional competitiveness and employment objective for the 2007-2013 period in the fields of the knowledge economy and the environment, in line with the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives Call for tenders by open procedure N° 2004 CE 16 0 AT 039 Statistical Group: Alessandro Sterlacchini (project coordinator and access to transport indicators), R...

Célia Talma Martins, Américo Azevedo, H. Sofia Pinto, Eugénio Oliveira 1LIACC-NIAD&R, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal 2ISCAP, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, s/n, 4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto INESC Porto, Portugal 5INESC-ID/IST, Rua ALves Redol, 9, 1000-029 Lisboa [email protected]; [email protected]; sofia@...

2 Microrecordings within the posterior nucleus of the hypothalamus in pain and aggressive behaviour Roberto Cordella, Doctor of Phylosophy, 2008, Department of Physiology and Pathology, University of Trieste.

The presence of customer community in tourism websites is an added value service that enable customers to read about other tourists’ experience. This knowledge sharing of other people’s experience is perceived as more neutral and trustworthy and help to reduce tourist’s perceived risk. However, the deployment of tourist knowledge sharing through the Internet has yet to be measured. This paper p...

The aim of this study was to investigate the factor structure of a Spanish version of the Sport Motivation Scale adapted to physical education. A second aim was to test which one of three hypothesized models (three, five and seven-factor) provided best model fit. 758 Spanish high school students completed the Sport Motivation Scale adapted for Physical Education and also completed the Learning ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability on the Persian translation of the Modifiable Activity Questionnaire (MAQ) in a sample of Tehranian adolescents. METHODS Of a total of 52 subjects, a sub-sample of 40 participations (55.0% boys) was used to assess the reliability and the validity of the physical activity questionnaire. The reliability of the two ...

With the recent advances in mobile platform technologies, a variety of studies on contextaware information services for the tourist information domain have been undertaken. Many studies on ontological approaches to tourist information services, moreover, have been conducted. However, most studies have focused on upper-level or domain ontologies; comparatively, few have proceeded from the perspe...