Virtual experience has begun to play a significant role in the marketing and promotion for the tourism industry. This article demonstrates that the advertising effects of traditional brochures vs. virtual experience would be contingent on consumers’ cognitive preferences. The traditional use of brochures in advertising would be more effective for verbalizers, whereas the virtual experience mode...

BACKGROUND Drop-off spots are locations in the proximity of primary schools where parents can drop off or pick up their child. From these drop-off spots children can walk to and from school. This pilot study aimed to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of drop-off spots and to evaluate how drop-off spots are perceived by school principals, teachers and parents of 6-to-12-year old chil...

In this study we consider the frequency of coat color variation among Yakutsk stray dogs. The was carried out at same time in three city districts: Centralniy, Saysarskiy and Stroitelniy. districts differ urban development population density Stroitelniy Districts belong to a one-two-storey residential type building, Centralniy one multi-storey type. 8 types colors were distinguished: black, whi...

A 53-year-old woman had difficulty in walking, raised titres to human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) in serum and cerebrospinal fluid, and yellowish white retinal lesions and vasculitis in the right eye. Her 20-year-old son also had difficulty in walking, raised titres to HTLV-1 in serum and cerebrospinal fluid, and retinal vasculitis and multiple whitish vitreoretinal spots in both eyes.

Accepted 10 May 1996 A 19-year-old white man with known von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis developed anorexia and abdominal pain associated with a mobile lower abdominal mass. Characteristic cafeau-lait spots and subcutaneous neurofibromas were present. Other features associated with von Recklinghausen's disease' -I included mental retardation, a history ofheadaches and seizures, and scolio...

Superficial white onychomycosis is characterized by opaque, friable, whitish superficial spots on the nail plate. We examined an affected halux nail of a 20-year-old male patient with scanning electron microscopy. The mycological examination isolated Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Abundant hyphae with the formation of arthrospores were found on the nail's surface, forming small fungal colonies. T...