The guidebooks call Mpumalanga one of the "often overlooked provinces" of South Africa.[1] Northeast of Johannesburg, its grassy hills are just a blur on the highway for foreign visitors heading to the spectacular game reserves of Kruger National Park. They will not often get to Themba Hospital in White River, just 50 miles from the border with Mozambique, serving over three million of Mpumalan...

In this paper, we describe a field study with a tour guide robot that guided visitors through a historical site. Our focus was to determine how a robot’s orientation behaviour influenced visitors’ orientation and the formations groups of visitors formed around the robot. During the study a remotecontrolled robot gave short guided tours and explained some points of interest in the hall of Festiv...

High levels of pathogenic microorganisms have been documented previously in waters of the Lower Passaic River in northern New Jersey. The purpose of this study was to characterize the microbial contamination of river sediments near combined sewer overflows (CSOs), a known source of pathogens. Concentrations of fecal coliform, total coliform, fecal Streptococcus, fecal Enterococcus, Pseudomonas ...

Th e goal of this paper is the assessment of the impact of personal experience on visitors' perceptions of the environments of selected tourist attractions. Th e cognitive paradigm of environmental perception research was chosen and the Mehrabian-Russell general measure of information rate was used. Students from the University of South Bohemia from three diff erent study programmes (faculties)...

The assessment of visitor understanding and perceptions natural landscapes attitudes towards functions a river national park is important for the acceptance success management. study asked 426 visitors to Donau-Auen (Danube Floodplains) National Park in Eastern Austria about their affinity brand, park, what extent perceive Danube Floodplains as at all. results show that large proportion respond...

Museums attract increasing numbers of online visitors along with their conventional physical visitors. This paper presents a study of a mixed reality system that allows web, virtual reality and physical visitors to share a museum visit together in real time. Our system allows visitors to share their location and orientation, communicate over a voice channel, and jointly navigate around a shared...

  Mahisefid is the most popular fish in Iran with the highest economic value. The analysis of mitochondrial DNA has been extensively used as a marker for population genetic studies and is a powerful tool in studies of gene flow and evolutionary biology. Two hundred ninety four samples were collected from Sefid Rud River (100), Lamir River (98), Shir Rud River (48) and Tajan River (4...

this is a year field study to evaluate the recreational needs of visitors bamu national park. bamu national park has the potential ecotourism capabilities to attract ecotourist which should be utilizing of this ability in regional planning. in this study clawson method used that one of the most common methods of evaluation systems resorts in aware of the people comments. about 225 questionnaire...

introduction the khoshk river is originated from golestan and ghalat highlands and flow in a northwest and southeast direction. after traversing a short distance it covers golestan and dukohak from the right and the ghasr ghomshe tributary from the left. then, in a direct cross from the middle of shiraz metro police, it will divide it into half in south and east and at the end it will pour into...