Extensive outbreaks of tree-killing insects are increasing across forests in Europe and North America due to climate change and other factors. Yet, little recent research examines visitor response to visual changes in conifer forest recreation settings resulting from forest insect infestations, how visitors weigh trade-offs between physical and social forest environment factors, or how visitor ...

In now-a-days information society, most people use the Web for finding information. The correct modelling and interpretation of this information seeking process (ISP) is an extremely hot topic among web designers. We aim at investigating, analysing and modelling the visitor and the website. These aims are towards establishing a framework of guidelines for web design to enhance visitor goal or t...

Story marketing has been widely applied to modern societies. As a matter of fact, attraction is a critical part of tourism for any visitor attractions throughout the world. A visitor attraction requires sufficient attraction to appeal to customers’ interests. Story marketing is currently the most popular marketing strategy. The success of using stories in visitor attractions as a marketing tact...

This note considers the Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary value problem for the simple vibrating string equation. The detailed study for a special boundary is timely in view of certain categorical statements in the recent literature.* The results obtained below indicate how such statements are to be modified.f Of independent interest is the novel procedure, stemming from Lemma 1, for proving ...

In their recently published textbook on cognitive psychology, Ashcraft and Radvansky (2010) described attention as “one of cognitive psychology’s most important topics and one of our oldest puzzles.” Whether we examine human attention in the context of driving an automobile, completing a workplace task, or engaging in educational and recreational activities, the importance of attention processe...

Success of an exhibit can be judged in two ways—visitor measures and/or critical appraisal by experts. Visitor measures include behavior, knowledge, and affect. Critical appraisal by experts can take any of three perspectives — that of the expert in visitor studies, that of the expert in the subjectmatter, and that of the artist. Each of these criteria is described in Part 2 of this article.