An intelligent tour service system including an augmented reality (AR) tour-sharing Application (APP) and a query-answering server was developed in this study to promote tourist attractions involving local Hakka culture in Thailand. Subsequently, use of this APP to navigate Hakka culture tourist attractions in Thailand was observed. The novel random neural networks (RNNs) were proposed to obtai...

one of the most important challenges for researchers is deciding on how to collect their data. there are various views on using telephone interviews. conducting telephone interviews on women of 40 years old and older in isfahan about mammography screening behavior showed that it could be an appropriate method for data collection when there is a combination of effective communication process and...

Mobile tourist guides shall help tourists to discover sights off the beaten tracks and therewith spread them over the destination more equally. Mobile information systems complement more traditional means of information provision, e.g. printed maps, guide booklets or simply signage at the destination. The most important question is: “How are mobile information systems accepted by ordinary touri...

The present study investigates the culture of development in Hawrami proverbs. Analysis of development-related variables is the basis of sociology. As collective phenomena, proverbs are part of the oral culture of a society and their investigation can sociologically explain cultural and social foundations of the society. This research attempts to specify 6 development-related parameters in Hawr...

purpose : to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of severe visual impairment and retinopathy of prematurity (rop)-related blindness in a tertiary eye hospital in iran methods : in a cross-sectional study, clinical data of premature infants screened for rop in farabi eye hospital during 2003-2007 were reviewed. characteristics of advanced stages of rop (stage 4 or 5) were determined and comp...

Fit testing of tight-fitting respiratory protective facepieces has been in use for some years, but there are still widespread misconceptions and misunderstandings about what a fit test pass actually signifies. Various aspects frequently generate research papers, and there are three relevant ones in this issue (Han and Lee, 2005; Kuo et al., 2005; Vaughan and RajanSithamparanadarajah, 2005). In ...