Objectives: This paper uses transportation data to estimate how daily spatio-temporal shifts in population influence the distribution of crime over a city’s census tracts (CTs). A “funnel hypothesis” states that these daily flows are central for crime concentrations within a city. We present arguments for and against funneling prior to empirical analysis. Methods: A municipal transport agency i...

visitor management is considered important for the sustainable development of protected areas as the presence of visitors may cause negative impacts on wildlife and vegetation. within this framework, visitor impacts and perceptions are considered critical for decision-making and planning of future management regimes. this paper resumes opinions of visitors of the valley of butterflies in rhodes...

We consider a one-dimensional, transient random walk in a random i.i.d. environment. The asymptotic behaviour of such random walk depends to a large extent on a crucial parameter κ > 0 that determines the fluctuations of the process. When 0 < κ < 2, the averaged distributions of the hitting times of the random walk converge to a κ-stable distribution. However, it was shown recently that in this...

public authorities should assess what recreational services can be offered citizens visitingaprotected natural area. therefore, the characterisation of visitors as well as the economic valuation of apark’srecreational use would allow the proposal of management strategies to satisfy visitors. for this purpose,410 surveys were taken of visitors to the calaresdelmundoandsimanatural park (spain). t...

background: the variable numbers of tandem-repeat (vntr) alleles at the phenylalanine hydroxylase (pah) gene have been used in carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis in phenylketonuria families. this study was carried out to analyze vntr alleles at the pah gene in iranian azeri turkish population. methods: in this study, 200 alleles from general population were studied by pcr. results: the fr...

religious scientists opinion about the numbers meaning in quran is different. some of them including shahab-o-ddin ebne edris reject that the numbers shall go out of their main original meaning and shall be applied in their virtual meaning and some others agree that some numbers like seven, seventy, and thousands are indicative of figurative meanings and say about them: the meaning of these num...

the purpose of this paper is to generalize the concepts of statisticalconvergence of sequences of fuzzy numbers defined by a modulus functionusing difference operator $delta$ and give some inclusion relations.

Every organization has several stakeholders including customers and vendors, who often visit frequently, in many cases have to stay overnight some for days. Enterprise hospitality management (EHM) a large business firm accordingly becomes an important organizational function as customers, other trading partners the company every now then. In view of importance EHM, firms generally maintain thei...

in recent decades, tourism has been considered as a way to decreasing tensions of urban life. this study tried to determine the effective factors in visitors&apos; willingness to pay for asiab kharabeh fall by using tobit model. data set were obtained by completing questionnaires and interviewing with 125 individuals who visit the fall. according to the results 69.6 percent of visitors were rea...