the tourism industry is one of the most important phenomena in this century. to success in this filed, we need to study tourists and their behaviors. the current study aims to investigate the effects of behavioral variables such as variety seeking and novelty seeking on revisit intentions in the short, medium and long term, in order to study the process of return of tourists and identify touris...

On the basis of consolidated requirements from international Polices, Elsag Datamat has developed an integrated tool suite, supporting all the main Homeland Security activities like operations, emergency response, investigation and intelligence analysis. The last support covers the whole “Intelligence Cycle” along its main phases and integrates a wide variety of automatic and semi-automatic too...

Outbred Sprague-Dawley rats can be classified as high responders (HR) or low responders (LR) based on their levels of exploratory locomotion in a novel environment. While this novelty-seeking dimension was originally related to differential vulnerability to substance abuse, behavioral, neuroendocrine and gene expression studies suggest a fundamental difference in emotional reactivity between th...

The relationship of various dimensions of temperament, measured by the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), to polymorphisms of the D2 dopamine receptor (DRD2) and D4 dopamine receptor (DRD4) genes was determined in 119 healthy Caucasian boys who had not yet begun to consume alcohol and other drugs of abuse. Total Novelty Seeking score of the TPQ was significantly higher in boys havi...

Recent evidence suggests that early exposure to mild stress promotes the development of novelty seeking behavior. Here we test this hypothesis in squirrel monkeys and investigate whether novelty seeking behavior is associated with differences in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), the dopamine metabolite homovanillic acid (HVA), the n...

This paper empirically investigates the biogeographic determinants of the human DRD4 exon III locus, a particular gene variant associated with the human personality trait of novelty-seeking behavior. Providing a novel compilation of worldwide DRD4 exon III allele frequencies in a large sample of indigenous populations around the world, this study employs population-specific biogeographic charac...