Clustering is one of the important part in web usage miningfor the purpose of segmenting visitors. This action is very important for web personalization orweb modification. In this paper, we perform clustering of the web visitors using a combination of methods of hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering toward web log data. Hierarchical clustering method used to determine the number of clus...

Engineering design challenges and tinkering activities are increasingly popular in informal learning settings. Thus, these environments can benefit from foundational research on learners’ engineering processes as they engage in these settings. This paper conducts an exploitive analysis of an existing design challenges program at a science center through the investigation of the design processes...

Extensive outbreaks of tree-killing insects are increasing across forests in Europe and North America due to climate change and other factors. Yet, little recent research examines visitor response to visual changes in conifer forest recreation settings resulting from forest insect infestations, how visitors weigh trade-offs between physical and social forest environment factors, or how visitor ...

This study is a formative evaluation of a training seminar for health visitors, who visit mothers to provide them with support in terms of postpartum mental health, and was performed to examine factors that relate to the skills of these health visitors. Subjects were all health visitors (n = 232) from around Japan who participated in a 2-day training seminar. One-hundred and thirty-three valid ...

Most flowers display distinct colour patterns comprising two different areas. The peripheral large-area component of floral colour patterns attracts flower visitors from some distance and the central small-area component guides flower visitors towards landing sites. Whereas the peripheral colour is largely variable among species, the central colour, produced mostly by anthers and pollen or poll...

Research has shown that supporting tinkering and exploration promotes a wide range of STEM related literacies. However, the open-endedness of tinkering environments makes it difficult to know whether learners’ exploration is productive or not. This is especially true in museum spaces, where dwell times are short and facilitators lack a history of engagement with individual visitors. In response...

BACKGROUND Given the significance of reliably detecting cases where mother-infant relationships are not developing successfully, it is important that initial assessment processes are as sensitive and specific as possible. OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the processes by which health visitors identify problems in mother-infant relationships in the post-natal period. DESIGN Mixed meth...

Providing visitors with a valuable experience of the past has become a crucial mission for cultural heritage institutions. The experience of the past is one where visitors understand the museum’s communications about the meaning of artefacts and where visitors undertake an active role in interpretation and reflection on the past. Several studies promote technologies as a good way for museums to...