The Covid-19 pandemic brought changes to every country’s economy. increasing number of cases, the lack equipment and supplies, disruption production services, led strong measures stop spread virus. also had a significant impact on stability existing businesses. announcement lockdown resulting restrictions influenced consumer behaviour, companies have adapt quickly current in order maintain econ...

Abstract Following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. The current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. Traditionally, patie...

BACKGROUND The neighborhood environment, as a determinant of walking, has been assessed in several developed countries. However, few studies have investigated these associations in Chinese populations. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between the perceived neighborhood environment and walking for recreation or transportation purposes among Chinese community residents. METHODS We used a ...

The evolution of the Internet has been spectacular in recent decades. However, the Internet is still a linear scenario, focused on showing contents and dissociated from the physical world. On the other hand, there are many social groups that don’t know how to use the opportunities that ICT can offer them, such as children. In this scenario, Project Enjoy.IT! designs, develops, and validates an ...

Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enable the daily activities and interests such as dining, medicine, lifestyle, traffic, education and entertainment has recently become a world wide trend. Moreover, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is nowadays one of the most important techniques to realize services in industry. Therefore, we would attempt to give attention to what t...

A multiple hierarchy stratification perspective was adopted to investigate outdoor recreation constraints for 3,000 Texans interviewed by telephone in 1998. This theoretical perspective contends that individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics are accorded a position in society relative to others and that this position effects the individual’s access to services. Logistic regression models t...

This paper provides a framework for addressing recreation as an example of Cultural Ecosystem Services and a methodology to support landscape management based on recreation activities at a regional scale. A GIS-based approach was used to estimate and map ecological and social factors illustrating recreation supply and demand in the Basque Country (northern Spain). The proposed methodology for r...

We examined the relationship between self-rated health and use of parks and recreation program participation by using logistic regression to analyze data from representative national surveys conducted in 1991 and 2015. Neither park use nor program participation were significantly related to self-rated health in 1991; however, both were significantly related in 2015. The growing relationship bet...

This paper examines the professionalism of tourism in Sudurpaschim province Nepal. Tourism is a multidimensional discipline which covers various tourism-related phenomenon- accommodation, food and beverage services, recreation entertainment, transportation, travel services. All these sectors require competent, efficient skilled human resources to provide better In order gain all skills for empl...

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified queries, view few Web pages, and rarely use advanced search features. A small number of search terms are used with high frequency, and a great many terms are unique; the language of Web queries is dis...