In this paper, we describe a field study with a tour guide robot that guided visitors through a historical site. Our focus was to determine how a robot’s orientation behaviour influenced visitors’ orientation and the formations groups of visitors formed around the robot. During the study a remotecontrolled robot gave short guided tours and explained some points of interest in the hall of Festiv...

BACKGROUND In addition to livestock movements, other between-farm contacts such as visitors may contribute to the spread of contagious animal diseases. Knowledge about such contacts is essential for contingency planning. Preventive measures, risk-based surveillance and contact tracing may be facilitated if the frequency and type of between-farm contacts can be assessed for different types of fa...

Even though. since the 1970s,Auschwitl has eclipsed Dachau as the most widely recognized symbol of Nazi atrocities, the Dachau concentration camp museum remains by far the most visited original site associated with Nazi Germany. With the annual number of visitors rising from ca. 100,000 in the early 19505 to peak at just under 1 million in the late 19805. the Dachau memorial site museum ranks a...

In object-oriented programming the visitor design pattern allows for the addition of new operations on a data hierarchy, but lends itself to scattered traversal code and makes visitors difficult to combine. Previous attempts to solve these issues have separated traversal code from the data structure but still face a lack of modularity in visitor computation making it difficult– if not impossibl...

INTRODUCTION Workplace violence against nurses is a serious problem. Nurses from a US urban/community hospital system employing more than 5,000 nurses researched the incidence of workplace violence against nurses perpetrated by patients or visitors in their hospital system. METHODS Survey research and retrospective database review methods were used. Nurse participants (all system-employed nur...

The objectives of this study are to determine the visitors’ willingness to pay for conservation of the resources at Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGP), and to determine the satisfaction of visitors towards the use of the ecotourism resources of the park. The dichotomous choice Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was employed to determine the willingness to pay (WTP). A total of 423 respon...

In a large, geographically defined population of children a number of family factors in addition to social class, determined by the father's occupation, were recorded by health visitors and school nurses with routine responsibility for these children. The quality of the children in normal schools was assessed in terms of nonverbal IQ and height at the ages of 5 and 10 years, and of behavior as ...

Healthcare organizations’ continued restrictions on hospital visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a violation of rights hospitalized patients to receive family visitors. Despite expert opinion related safety and low risk visitor transmission with appropriate monitoring precautions, have beyond initial crisis phase pandemic, little transparency or inclusion key stakeholders ...