More and more, zoos are integrating behavioral enrichment programs into their management routines. Given the newness of such programs on an official level, however, there are an increasing number of enrichment decisions based on assumption. Enrichment is typically not provided on exhibit, especially for exhibits considered to be more naturalistic, because it is assumed to affect visitors’ exper...

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

Rural tourism, a dynamic industry with a promising future, can play a key role in economic improvement of talented countries such as Iran. Abyaneh village is one of the best-known villages in both Iran and the world. The number of annual visitors of this ancient village is approximately 550,000 that is a considerable number. Within a short radius of Abyaneh there are five villages (Barz, Tare, ...

rural tourism, a dynamic industry with a promising future, can play a key role in economic improvement of talented countries such as iran. abyaneh village is one of the best-known villages in both iran and the world. the number of annual visitors of this ancient village is approximately 550,000 that is a considerable number. within a short radius of abyaneh there are five villages (barz, tare, ...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.05.005 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (X. Lin), ca (R. Lu), [email protected] (D. Kwan), xshe (Xuemin (Sherman) Shen). In this paper, we propose an RFID-based privacy-preserving children tracking (REACT) scheme for helping locate missing children in large amusement parks and other public ven...

The recently published article, “Measuring hand hygiene compliance at hospital entrances” by Vaidotas et al1 was very interesting. These authors evaluated the hand hygiene compliance of patients, visitors, and employees upon entry to a hospital and demonstrated abysmally low hand hygiene rates. Using direct observation of patients, visitors, and health care workers at 2 points of entry, they re...

iran with 2500 years ancient culture has been the witness of many changes during the history.the natural context of these habitats has been the victim of some changes during the years, which have roots in people beliefs in each period. but the point which we understand by studding the context of different cultures in iran is, despite the changes in dominions and religions along the history iran...

In this paper we describe our development of an interactive touch tabletop user interface for a landscape design tool. The user interface provides a view of the data, which combines the affordances of a multi-touch tabletop display with a vertical screen for real-time feedback. While the table metaphor fits well with the concepts of a top down view of land-scape, approachable from any direction...