Towards a knowledge-hub destination: analysis and recommendation for implementing TOD for Qatar national library metro station

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Tourists‟ Destination Knowledge and Loyalty

A Destination Recommendation System for Virtual Worlds

This paper describes the design and training of a recommendation system that helps the user navigate in Second Life (SL), a massively multi-player online environment. Second Life allows users to create a virtual avatar and explore areas built by other users. However, unlike the real world, virtual attractions can be constructed within hours and previous ones often rapidly fall into disuse. With...

Digital Library and Archiving for Qatar

Crawling and Indexing Qatari Scholarly ContentSeerQ SeerSuite is a collection management system for digital libraries, developed at Penn State. It includes: 1) A Web crawler for scholarly articles; 2) A machine learning based automated system for metadata (title, abstract, author name/affiliation, citations) extraction; 3) A module for ingesting extracted information into a database and Solr; a...

Metro Station Operating Costs: An Econometric Analysis

This article develops an econometric analysis of metro station operating cost to identify factors that create variation in cost efficiency. Stations operating costs can be classified amongst the semifixed costs that a metro faces in the sense that they do not vary proportionately with metro output. They may therefore be important in determining the degree of returns to density. This article see...