this study aimed to identify and rank the most important environmental factors for the popularity of recreational sports in iran. only those sensitive aspects of the environment to which recreational sports should react were considered in order to survive. this study was performed consecutively in two qualitative and quantitative phases by mixed heuristic method. for this purpose the experts of...

The main objective of this work is to select the optimum city from five touristic Egyptian cities (Luxor, Giza, Alexandria, Qena and Aswan) to establish an environmentally-friendly tourist village. The selection of the city, according to the economic cost (cost of energy (COE), net present cost (NPC)) and the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted, is carried out with respect to four cases, b...

This paper takes a broad perspective on ambient, intelligent technologies in the context of contemporary European society at the turn of the 21 century. The underlying ideas and expectations of ambient intelligence in a period when Europe focuses progressively on the various social, economic, and ethical challenges facing the Information Society are discussed. The use of information and communi...

BACKGROUND Keelung City has the highest suicide rate in Taiwan. This study aimed to determine whether meteorological and socio-economic factors are associated with suicide mortality in Keelung City, by gender and by means of suicide. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Data on suicides between January 2006 and December 2010 were provided by the Department of Health, Keelung City Government. The suicide vict...

In recent years, the topic of noise in the sea and its effects on marine mammals has attracted considerable attention from both the scientific community and the general public. Since marine mammals rely heavily on acoustics as a primary means of communicating, navigating, and foraging in the ocean, any change in their acoustic environment may have an impact on their behavior. Specifically, a gr...

Data from 43 countries were used to examine the negative association between ambient temperature and economic prosperity during the 1965±1994 period from a cross-cultural perspective. Surprisingly, the inhabitants' overall level of cultural competitiveness does not a€ect economic growth. However, positive temperature±competitiveness and negative competitiveness±wealth relations do account for t...

The book “Safeguards in a world of ambient intelligence” is unique in its kind. It discusses social, economic, legal, technological and ethical issues related to identity, privacy and security in Ambient Intelligence (AmI). It introduces AmI and, subsequently, makes it vivid by describing four scenarios. Threats and vulnerabilities as well as safeguards are identified, which stress the already ...