Despite the fact that scientific and political consideration for ecosystem services has dramatically increased over the past decade, few studies have focused on marine and coastal ecosystem services for conservation strategies. We used an ecosystem services approach to assess spatial distributions of habitat risks and four ecosystem services (coastal protection, carbon storage, recreation, and ...

Coastal tourism refers to land-based tourism activities including swimming, surfing, sunbathing and other coastal recreation activities taking place on the coast for which the proximity to the sea is a condition including also their respective services. Maritime tourism refers to sea-based activities such as boating, yachting, cruising, nautical sports as well as their land-based services and i...

A system for mobile office and entertainment applications was developed. The input modalities include touch screen and automatic speech recognition, the output modalities screen output and speech synthesis. Services comprise an e-mail reading and responding application, a configurable news feed reader and, as entertainment, a license plate information application. Android Technology with web se...

Human resources are the most valuable capital of an organization, and managers are trying to provide motivation and productivity along with preserving the workforce. One way to motivate and increase productivity is to provide welfare services to employees. Using Adams' theory of equality, the current research attempts to design a desirable model for providing welfare services in the organizatio...

Service quality is a major issue because is the result of a judgmental value that involves both the expectations as well as the perceptions of the customers. Despite its tremendous growth in Portugal, little is known about service quality neither in rural areas nor how it is perceived in the Terra Quente Transmontana. This article has two main purposes. Firstly, to compare the service provided ...

1 The goods and services are broken into eight major categories: 1. Food and beverages, including full-service meals and snacks; 2. Housing; 3. Apparel, including jewelry; 4. Transportation, including air fares, fuels, and vehicle insurance; 5. Medical care; 6. Recreation, including sports equipment and pets; 7. Education and Communication, including tuition and telephone services; 8. Other goo...

The paper presents an implementation and tests of a simple home entertainment distribution architecture (server + multiple clients) implemented using two conventional cabling architectures: CATV coaxial cable and conventional Ethernet. This architecture is created taking into account the “Home gateway” concept present in most attempts to solve the problem of the “Intelligent home”. A short pres...

Health and human services are gradually moving from a medical, deficitsbased model of practice toward an orientation that emphasizes participant strengths and capacities. This article presents theories relevant to therapeutic recreation that reflect this shift toward accentuating strengths. The theories are presented in two categories: (a) theories that support well-being within the individual ...

The growth of available entertainment information services, such as movies and CD listings, or travels and recreational activities, raises a need for personalization techniques for filtering and adapting contents to customer's interest and needs. Personalization technologies rely on users data, represented as User Models (UMs). UMs built by specific services are usually not transferable due to ...

In the last decade the demand for rural recreation has increased in Ireland as the population has become increasingly urbanised. Increased affluence, mobility and changing values have also brought new demands with respect to landscape, conservation, heritage and recreation, with a greater emphasis on consumption demands for goods and services in rural areas. This paper’s contribution to the und...