In recent years, tourism in China developed into a massive industry. According to the statistics from the National Tourism Administration of the People’s Republic of China, the number of travelers has reached 16.1 billion in 2007 alone. On public holidays, most of the popular tourist attractions are filled to capacity, receiving 100% or even reaching 300% capacity. This was reported during the ...

POWDERED SAMPLES BY HE-SPME-GC/MS Catarina Petisca, Adriana Farah, Olívia Pinho, and IMPLVO Ferreira REQUIMTE – Department of Bromatology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto R. Aníbal Cunha, 164, 4050-047 Porto, Portugal Laboratory of Food and Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Faculty of Nutrition a...

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Governments typically respond to a run on the banking system by temporarily freezing deposits and by rescheduling payments to depositors. Depositors may even be required to demonstrate an urgent need for funds before being allowed to withdraw. We study ex post efficient policy responses to a bank run and the ex ante incentives these responses create. Given that a run is underway, the efficient ...

Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

This paper explores conceptions of rural-tourist landscapes in late nineteenth century Vermont. Traditionally, scholarly and popular discourse about rural tourism have identified nostalgia and the tourist’s search for harmonious pastoral landscapes as dominant themes in tourist promotions, and as dominant motivations for tourist travel. This paper adds alternative perspectives to this discourse...

There is increasing concern about the environmental sustainability of tourism based on natural attractions. We have developed a preliminary computer-based data management system that integrates information about tourists and their use of natural assets with information about how indicators of asset health respond to increasing visitor numbers. First, we collected data on tourist flows between d...

Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are short, nonautonomous DNA elements that are widespread and abundant in plant genomes. Most of the hundreds of thousands of MITEs identified to date have been divided into two major groups on the basis of shared structural and sequence characteristics: Tourist-like and Stowaway-like. Since MITEs have no coding capacity, they must rely on...

Tourism has witnessed a faster growth (in arrivals) across the globe during last two decades. The market share of developing countries, in tourist arrivals, has increased from 30% in 1980 to 47% in 2012 and is estimated to reach 57% by the year 2030. Tourism has an enormous potential to help promote the economic prosperity in developing countries by creating jobs, generating income and diversif...

Conventional images of tourist sites are trimmed off the unnecessary scenery from the whole scenery in the fixed viewing angle of the cinematographer’s intention. Therefore, when people visit a tourist destination, they are often disappointed about the gap between video image and actual sight. In order to eliminate this gap, we developed the Digital Dome Theatre System in 2009. It can project u...