Science. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published Abstract Two studies were carried out on the effect of visitors on mixe...

Mr. Frederick William Backus Coleman (1874‒1947) was the first Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of United States to Republic Latvia (Estonia, Lithuania) He worked in from November 1922 October 1931. This research is based mainly on such primary sources as a diary letters Coleman. Through prism visitors mentioned diary, author attempts gain insight into activities U.S. Legation R...

It is a discourse on two design strategies, “effective exhibition” (used in the metaphor of modernist museum) and “interpretative exhibition” (used in the metaphor of post-museum), for developing the exhibition and their effects on the visitors’ experience in a Natural History Museum. Both of the strategies are concerned about the communication model (team or visitors), concept hierarchy, visit...

Ten years ago tliere seemed little hope of unanimity of opinion among medical officers of health concerning the qualifications of health visitors. Some administrators in the public-health service considered that general nursing training was necessary, some thought a certificate of the Central Midwives Board sufficient, while others advanced the view that it was essential that candidates for app...

Richness of Croatian folklore, myths and legends presents resources not yet fully exploited in the development of sustainable cultural tourism. Specific cultura l settings call for interpretation and promotion. Vivid examples of tangible heritage as well as the poetics of rarely promoted or interpreted customs, traditions, myths or legends are by no doubt in the scope of tourists' interests; at...

in recent decades, tourism has been considered as a way to decreasing tensions of urban life. this study tried to determine the effective factors in visitors' willingness to pay for asiab kharabeh fall by using tobit model. data set were obtained by completing questionnaires and interviewing with 125 individuals who visit the fall. according to the results 69.6 percent of visitors were rea...

This research aims to investigate the relationship of travel motivation, familiarity, travel constraints, image with the travel intention of Chinese non-visitors to Thailand. A survey questionnaire and a non-probability convenience sampling were used as the research instrument and research technique. A total of 410 respondents, all Chinese non-visitors to Thailand, were selected on the Golden H...

A mobile guide system that integrates art appreciation instruction with augmented reality (AR) was designed as an auxiliary tool for painting appreciation, and the learning performance of three groups of visiting participants was explored: AR-guided, audio-guided, and nonguided (i.e., without carrying auxiliary devices). The participants were 135 college students, and a quasi-experimental resea...

Visitors can affect and reduce the welfare of nonhuman animals. The Belo Horizonte Zoo, Brazil, had a group of greater rheas intended for reintroduction to the wild. Because this group received public visitation, evaluating its effect on the birds' behavior and welfare was important. The study conducted 60 hr of behavioral observations: 30 with, and 30 without, visitors in front of the birds' e...

This study investigated the effect of different scientific inquiry activities on visitors' understanding of the science underlying an interactive exhibit. The exhibit, "colored shadows," creates a pattern of colored shadows on a white wall, due to a person's body blocking the light from colored lamps. The subjects were 392 museum visitors, aged 7 to adult. They were individually guided through ...