An Appropriate and Complete Tourism Lexicon

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Ielenicz ◽  
Adrian Nedelcu
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
The Individual

Activities have been known as starting points in the tourist field since Antiquity. During the millennia, several practical aspects (as types - trips for recreation, sports, specific for the winter season or at the seaside, in aquatic environments, trips for balneal treatments, trips for discovering architectural, artistic treasures, etc., as participation form - from the individual ones to the mass or group ones, as beneficiary or service provider; with general fittings, but also specific ones), as well as theoretical aspects (the progressive achievement of a proper terminology, in order to be used by many participants in the tourist actions; the elaboration of guides, leaflets, encyclopaedias, maps, etc.); complete territorial analyses of tourist resources (considering the revaluation level, approaching tourism issues in treaties, doctoral theses, etc.); the scientific and methodological content of curricula from tourism schools, departments and faculties; setting the meaning of terms and directions in the decisions approved at national and international meetings, etc., have been recorded at the same time with the widening of the concerns in this area. The paper herein approaches the analyses of terms, the extension of the vocabulary basis suitable for the dialogue needs (at least related for the tourist heritage).

scholarly journals Analysis of the impact of plastic on the theme of Environmental Education for application in Brazilian public schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 78-89
Author(s):  
Diovana Napoleão ◽  
Letícia Alvarenga de Paula Eduardo ◽  
Roberta Veloso Garcia ◽  
Estaner Claro Romão
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Environmental issues have been a prominent issue worldwide and the increase in plastic production and the lack of post-consumer waste management programs result in inadequate disposal and deposition in terrestrial and aquatic environments, causing environmental impacts. This paper was developed through the analysis of aspects of pedagogical practice in relation to environmental education with the plastic theme and its environmental impact on the environment. In this perspective, environmental education through the individual and the collectivity builds social values, knowledge, skills and competences aimed at the conservation of the environment. However, it was observed that addressing environmental issues should be considered a challenge for teachers, as it is a broad and diverse subject, as they are not prepared for the development of these activities and schools do not have the infrastructure to meet the needs of approaches to environmental issues.

scholarly journals Predictable and Unpredictable Aspects of U.S. West Coast Rainfall and El Niño: Understanding the 2015/16 Event

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 2843-2868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Cash ◽  
Natalie J. Burls
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
West Coast ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Rainfall Variability ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Seasonal Forecasts ◽  
The North ◽  
Dry Conditions ◽  
The Individual

AbstractCalifornia experienced record-setting drought from 2012 to 2017. Based on both seasonal forecast models and historical associations, there was widespread expectation that the major El Niño event of 2015/16 would result in increased winter-season precipitation and break the drought. However, the 2015/16 winter rainy season ultimately resulted in slightly below-average precipitation and the drought continued. In this work we analyze data from both observations and seasonal forecasts made as part of the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) to better understand the general relationship between El Niño and U.S. West Coast rainfall, focusing on Southern California (SOCAL) rainfall, Pacific Northwest (PNW) rainfall, and the 2015/16 event. We find that while there is a statistically significant positive correlation between El Niño events and the SOCAL and PNW rainfall anomalies, this relationship explains at most one-third of the observed variance. Examination of hindcasts from the NMME demonstrates that the models are capable of accurately reproducing this observed correlation between tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures and California rainfall when information from the individual ensemble members is retained. However, focusing on the multimodel ensemble mean, which deliberately reduces the influence of unpredicted variability, drastically overestimates the strength of this relationship. Our analysis demonstrates that much of the winter rainfall variability along the U.S. West Coast is dominated by unpredicted variations in the 200-hPa height field and that this same unpredicted variability was largely responsible for the unexpectedly dry conditions in 2015/16.

scholarly journals Toward an Integrated Model for Soft-Mobility

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3669 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chapman ◽  
Agneta Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Outdoor Activity ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
Constant State ◽  
The Individual

A key urban design challenge is to create built environments that encourage outdoor activity all year round. This study explores a new model for soft-mobility that places the interaction between the urban form, the seasonal climate and climate change, and the individual at the center of people’s soft-mobility choices, or in more general, their modal choice. The research methods used were comparative studies of documents, surveys, mental mapping, and photo elicitation. These studies were undertaken to research people’s outdoor activity in the built environment during the winter season of a cold climate settlement. The results were analyzed against the three-dimensions of the model. In the discussion it is argued that in places with significant climate variation, the interaction between the urban form, the season, and the individual together influence soft-mobility choices. In turn, these interactions influence people’s level of outdoor activity and the individual health benefits such activity can afford. In conclusion, it is highlighted that all three dimensions of the model are in a constant state of change and evolution, especially in relation to planning and development processes and climate change.

scholarly journals SCoPE: Service Composition and Personalization Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais A. Baldissera ◽  
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Integration Of Services ◽  
Professional Assistance ◽  
The Individual

Current demographic trends suggest that people are living longer, while the ageing process entails many necessities calling for care services tailored to the individual senior’s needs and life style. Personalized provision of care services usually involves a number of stakeholders, including relatives, friends, caregivers, professional assistance organizations, enterprises, and other support entities. Traditional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based care and assistance services for the elderly have been mainly focused on the development of isolated and generic services, considering a single service provider, and excessively featuring a techno-centric approach. In contrast, advances on collaborative networks for elderly care suggest the integration of services from multiple providers, encouraging collaboration as a way to provide better personalized services. This approach requires a support system to manage the personalization process and allow ranking the {service, provider} pairs. In accordance with these requirements, an Elderly Care Ecosystem (ECE) framework and a Service Composition and Personalization Environment (SCoPE) are proposed. ECE provides the context for the personalization method which is based on the match between a taxonomy of care needs and the {service, provider} pairs, and the calculation of a service adherence index to identify suitable services and corresponding providers. To demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of SCoPE, a number of methods and algorithms are presented. Furthermore, an illustrative scenario is introduced in which {service, provider} pairs are ranked based on multidimensional assessment method and composition strategies are based on customer’s profile and requirements.

Search Engine Marketing

2017 ◽  
pp. 843-858
Author(s):  
Azizul Hassan ◽  
Sumesh S. Dadwal
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Search Engine Marketing ◽  
Individual User ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Individual

The most common feature of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the pay-per-click concept that outlines the conceptual understanding of the human-computer interaction (HCI) in marketing. In this type of marketing, the three active actors act simultaneously: the service provider, the search engine as the platform and the individual user base. On the assumption that technology will dominate future marketing channels, this study will explore the conceptualisations of SEM, in relation to HCI in tourism marketing. This paper asserts that strategically, a congenial and accepted level of interaction is much required between the service provider and consumers. Also, this is outlined that the customization of a tourism industry led application and adoption of SEM is possible on ground of the Unified theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) where, factors like age, gender, experience and voluntariness of use are attached with performance expectancy (Venkatesh et al., 2003).

Agent-Based Simulation of Electric Energy Consumers

2014 ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Mota ◽  
Iverton Santos ◽  
Graçaliz Dimuro ◽  
Vagner Rosa ◽  
Silvia Botelho
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Synthetic Data ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Electric Energy Consumption ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Residential Consumption

The electric energy consumption is one of the main indicators of both the economic development and the quality of life of a society. However, the electric energy consumption data of individual home use is hard to obtain due to several reasons, such as privacy issues. In this sense, the social simulation based on multiagent systems comes as a promising option to deal with this difficulty through the production of synthetic electric energy consumption data. In a multiagent system the intelligent global behavior can be achieved from the behavior of the individual agents and their interactions. This chapter proposes a tool for simulation of electric energy consumers, based on multiagent systems concepts using the NetLogo tool. The tool simulates the residential consumption during working days and presented as a result the synthetic data average monthly consumption of residences, which varies according to income. So, the analysis of the produced simulation results show that economic consumers of the income 1 in the summer season had the lowest consumption among all other consumers and consumers noneconomic income 6 in the winter season had the highest.

scholarly journals Contracting Out of the Provision of Welfare Services to Private Actors and Liability Issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibe Ulfbeck ◽  
Marta Andrecka
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vicarious Liability ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Private Service ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Public Entity

AbstractThe article discusses liability issues related to the contracting out of welfare services. It focuses on the possible liability of the private actor and of the public entity towards the individual (the citizen) for non-performance or mal-performance of the welfare service. It is argued that since there is no contract between the individual and the private service provider there may be several obstacles to a claim against the private service provider based on contract. At the same time it is a general tort law principle that there is no vicarious liability for independent contractors, making it difficult also to succeed with a claim against the public entity based on tort law. Thus, a liability gap seems to exist. However, the article demonstrates that there are signs in different jurisdictions that solutions are being found in case law to this problem allowing to some extent for the imposition of some kind of vicarious liability on the public entity. Four different models are identified. The reasoning behind these models varies but they all have in common that the public law nature of the service that has been outsourced somehow plays a role.

scholarly journals The Bacas and the Priests: How Old Adversaries Came Together to Revive and Reinterpret Tradition

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Pawel Sendyka
Keyword(s):  
Winter Season ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Public Event ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Alpine Pastures ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Individual

Abstract In the Polish pastoralist tradition there have always been two seminal community events which bracketed the winter season. There was the autumn event of “Redyk Jesienny” when the sheep brought back from the summer alpine pastures were given back to their owners and there was also a spring “Redyk” also called “Mieszanie Owiec” which literally means the Mixing of Sheep. Historically, it was an important event in which the head shepherd, or the baca had to use his magical knowledge to ensure that the big herd made up of sheep from the individual owners would keep together as one and produce enough milk to make this summer venture profitable. To do that he used magic spells and performed rituals learned from his predecessors. The bacas' magical knowledge was frequently in opposition to the powers of the priests who viewed them with suspicion. Today, this spring event of “Mieszanie Owiec” is much changed. It is no longer a private affair of the baca and the sheep owners. Frequently, it is a public event, a tourist attraction, with the priests often taking centre stage. There is even a new, “invented” tradition of region wide “Mieszanie” at the sanctuary of Ludźmierz. There, a small herd of around 200 sheep is symbolically used to bless all the herds going up the mountain pastures for the season. The paper examines how these traditions changed from old ethnographic descriptions and how they are evolving in a modern economic and social reality.

scholarly journals The Ontogenetic Development Prerequisites of Physical Activities in the Aquatic Environment in Early Childhood

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Tereza Nováková ◽  
Irena Čechovská
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Developmental Principles ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Infancy And Early Childhood ◽  
Insight Into

Summary The text deals with neurophysiological and kinesiological developmental principles associated with the early development of young children as the fundamental prerequisites for physical education in the aquatic environment. Swimming in infancy and early childhood using the developmental principles and understanding of individual variability represent enormous potential to create a positive attitude of the child to exercise in aquatic environments. We believe that the experience with these basic tasks can play a key role in future exercise habits and swimming literacy of the individual. Parents attending infant swimming courses led by an instructor acquire practical skills and deeper insight into principles of their child's motor learning. All activities in the aquatic environment at an early age should allow transfer of child’s experiences to preswimming education and result in full swimming literacy.

Investigation of Winter Atmospheric Aerosol Particles in Downtown Katowice using XPS and SEM

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Wawroś ◽  
E. Talik ◽  
J.S. Pastuszka
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Photoelectron Spectroscopy ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Atmospheric Particles ◽  
Metallic Elements ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Pm 2.5 ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Pm 10 ◽  
Particulate Surface

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to determine the surface chemical composition of atmospheric particles (PM-10 and PM-2.5), collected in downtown Katowice, Upper Silesia, Poland, in the winter season (November and December 2000). Carbon- and oxygen-containing species dominated the particulate surface with traces of N, S, Si, Cl, Na, Zn, Al, Cu, Fe, Ca, K, Mg, Pb, and P present. Additionally, the size, morphology, and chemical composition of about 300 of the individual atmospheric particles were analyzed by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis. A number of aluminosilicates and metallic elements such as Fe, K, Mg, Zn, as well as rare earth elements, were detected by SEM. The results obtained show that the analyzed aerosol is of natural and anthropogenic origin. Particles containing sulfur compounds as well as oxygen and sodium in downtown Katowice come mainly from the east and southeast sectors.

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