We review scientific research and legal authorities to argue that the immutability of sexual orientation should no longer be invoked as a foundation for the rights of individuals with same-sex attractions and relationships (i.e., sexual minorities). On the basis of scientific research as well as U.S. legal rulings regarding lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) rights, we make three claims: First, a...

Tourist movement is a complex process, but it provides very useful information for park managers and tourist operators. This paper aims to establish a sound methodology for modelling the spatial and temporal movement of tourists, with the objectives of understanding, predicting, controlling and optimising the decisions made by them as they go about choosing the attractions they want to visit.. ...

An intelligent tour service system including an augmented reality (AR) tour-sharing Application (APP) and a query-answering server was developed in this study to promote tourist attractions involving local Hakka culture in Thailand. Subsequently, use of this APP to navigate Hakka culture tourist attractions in Thailand was observed. The novel random neural networks (RNNs) were proposed to obtai...

We show that the exponential length distribution that is typical of actin filaments under physiological conditions dramatically narrows in the presence of (i) crosslinker proteins (ii) polyvalent counterions or (iii) depletion mediated attractions. A simple theoretical model shows that in equilibrium, short-range attractions enhance the tendency of filaments to align parallel to each other, eve...

Although several itinerary recommender systems have been proposed in the literature, they usually don’t allow users to further improve the available set of tourist attractions by submitting information in a collaborative manner. In this paper we present a collaborative itinerary recommender system that relies on crowd sourcing to both expand and maintain current the dataset of attractions. The ...

We have performed experiments on mixtures of sterically stabilised silica particles and large poly(styrene) polymers in benzene. Using this model system, we were able to independently vary short and long ranged attractive interactions by changing the temperature and/or the polymer concentration. We show that the addition of long ranged attractions to particles with initially only short ranged a...