Ocarina Batam located at Jalan Gajah Mada, Bengkong Sadai, City, is a recreational destination which has not been developed and degradated in long time so as this region needed to be revitalize an effort urban development that potential terms of social, economic, existing concepts attracts local international citizen. This project made establish Entertainment Hub compiles various amusement desi...

Buildings are responsible for a large fraction of the world’s total electrical consumption. Energy awareness of residents, by means of timely electrical consumption feedback through smart metering, aims to reduce the waste of energy. Further savings can be achieved by leveraging social norms and entertainment to drive sustainable behavior. In this paper, we investigate two important pillars in ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the relationship between urban design and physical activity is a high priority. Different representations of land use diversity may impact the association between neighbourhood design and specific walking behaviours. This study examined different entropy based computations of land use mix (LUM) used in the development of walkability indices (WIs) and their association w...

Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice // Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido // 2003 // 320 pages // 1135624550, 9781135624552 // Routledge, 2003 Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of e...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry tests offered via the internet supposedly uncover of those tested. While these might be seen as a means to find biologically inscribed and fixed genealogy, this paper explores how companies customers co-construct through testing. The study draws on review relevant literature, qualitative interviews with experts stakeholders, website analysis, an autoeth...