Offering core academic credits (e.g., math, science) for completing agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) coursework at the secondary school level has potential to increase strength of AFNR program as well student interdisciplinary learning. Informed by Career Technical Education Student Typology, we explored scope offerings in Michigan programs, including frequency offerings, course ...

Aqueous suspensions of mixtures of the rodlike virus tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) with globular macromolecules such as polyethylene oxide (PEO) or bovine serum albumin (BSA) phase separate and exhibit rich and strikingly similar phase behavior. Isotropic, nematic, lamellar, and crystalline phases are observed as a function of the concentration of the constituents and ionic strength. The observed ...

In order to manage visitors in tourism attractions in a predicted rather than a reactive way, this paper proposed an agent-based simulation model for visitor management of China tourism attractions. The model integrated Repast Simphony (Repast S) modelling framework with geography information system ArcGIS’s Shape data model and runs on Repast S running platform. Visitors were modelled as artif...

introduction cultural or heritage tourism is a tool of economic development that leads to economic growth by attracting visitors from outside the host community through historic and heritage attractions of destinations. this is a human heritage as cultural traditions of each society and is considered as cultural tourist attractions. hence, yazd is an ancient city with archaic culture and also r...

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