Many studies have investigated personalized information presentation in the context of mobile museum guides. In order to provide such a service, information about museum visitors has to be collected and visitors have to be monitored and modelled in a non-intrusive manner. This can be done by using known museum visiting styles to classify the visiting style of visitors as they start their visit....

Visitors to zoos can be a source of potential disturbance and stress to some captive, nonhuman animals in the wild. To determine the influence of visitor presence on captive bison (Bos gaurus gaurus), the study analyzed the behavior of 4 individuals at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, India. The study often observed the behavior of the animals on visitor-present days and on days when visitors ...

This article describes two business cases and their strategies by using a strategy orientation and typology framework. The framework is built as synthesis from market and product orientation characteristics based on a literature research as well as from the Miles and Snow strategy typology. This framework is used to evaluate to two case strategies from the mobile phone industry. The findings sh...

INTRODUCTION Lesch's typology differentiates alcoholics into different treatment response subgroups. The effects of ethanol are mediated, to an important extent, via the GABA-ergic system. MATERIAL AND METHODS We have evaluated the linkage disequilibrium patterns and haplotype frequencies of GABRG1 and GABRA2 genes in 133 alcoholics divided according to Lesch's typology and in 145 matched con...

This paper presents a proposal for a grammar error typology oriented towards the development of an automatic grammar and style checker. Cognitively– motivated errors have been considered the first and foremost objective. In particular, in the area of grammar checking, the granularity of the error typology greatly influences the adequacy of the error messages shown to the final user during the d...

Executive Summary One thousand telephone interviews were conducted in the six western Washington counties of Clallam, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston. Two research questions addressed in the telephone survey included: 1) the amount of spatial and temporal displacement due to crowding at Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks; and 2) the differences between displaced and non-disp...