Hasil untuk "Recreation leadership. Administration of recreation services"

J. F. DeCarolis, S. Siddiqui, A. LaRose et al.

Given the rapid pace of energy system development, the time has come to reimagine the U.S. Government's capability to model the long-term evolution of the domestic and global energy system. As a primary custodian of these capabilities, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is embarking on the development of a long-term, modular, flexible, transparent, and robust modeling framework that can capture the key dynamics driving the energy system and economy under a wide range of future scenarios. This new capability will leverage the current state of the art in modeling to produce critical insight for researchers, decision makers, and the public. We describe the evolving demands on energy-economy modeling, the capacity and limitations of existing models, and the key features we see as necessary for addressing these demands in our new framework, which is under active development.

Laszlo Gyongyosi, Sandor Imre

The intense growth of quantum computation and communication allows the development of advanced solutions and services. Networked quantum services are provided for the users via quantum computers and quantum networking. Here, we review the fundamental concepts and recent achievements of networked quantum services. We present a comprehensive study of the state of the art, the different technologies, platforms and applications. We analyze the implementation basis and identify key challenges.

Milena Sanchez Castellanos

Este artículo se basa especialmente en la apropiación de tres herramientas diagnósticas que permiten analizar los siguientes factores: las potencialidades del destino con el mapa de territorio, el estado de la infraestructura turística y complementaria con el DOFA y los componentes estructurales del producto con el análisis de la imagen. Herramientas aplicadas al destino San Antonio en Tolima – Colombia como destino turístico emergente, Municipio que, desde un primer rastreo evidencia potencialidades en el desarrollo del turismo de naturaleza, pero no ha sido visibilizado especialmente por las condiciones de acceso seguido por el desconocimiento en gran parte de la dimensión rural total del municipio.   Temas como destino turístico emergente, desarrollo local y elementos del diagnóstico de la planificación acompañados con la denominación de territorio desde el turismo se unen en el análisis de un estudio de caso que espera otorgar elementos a considerar relevantes en el desarrollo de destinos que inician su proceso de planificación turística convencional en busca de visibilizar la actividad de forma organizada y participativa.

Abdullah Ülkü

There is an increasing concern regarding the potential misuse of ChatGPT-4 in compromising the integrity of examinations and assignments. This study aims to examine the capabilities of ChatGPT-4 in critical thinking abilities, whether it poses a threat to examinations and assignments in higher education, and create a discussion agenda on this issue. ChatGPT-4 was asked to generate, answer, and criticize questions in tourism marketing, tourism management, tourism economics, tourist guidance, and gastronomy. The answers were evaluated according to universal critical thinking standards. The findings obtained from this study showed that ChatGPT-4 had commendable competence in several critical thinking standards and could produce human-like texts. However, there are certain domains that might be improved to comply more effectively with the expectations and norms of academia. Educators were recommended to use comprehensive approaches that combine technological and educational techniques to address the issue of cheating enabled by tools, such as ChatGPT-4, during assessment and exam processes.

Maria-Alexandra Sandu

This article focuses on the most important aspects of dark tourism and deals with the Romanian population's perception of the Bellu Cemetery of Bucharest, a must-see dark tourism attraction. The main purpose of this research was to collect and analyze the opinions of Romanians regarding dark tourism, especially their opinion about the practice of tourism in this cemetery. The objectives to be achieved were (1) to determine the main motives for visiting the cemetery, (2) to determine the most popular gravestones, (3) to determine if and why people believe the cemetery is haunted, and (4) to determine the ethical concerns of being a tourist there. Accordingly, a survey was conducted for the defined scope. It was found that Romanians of all ages are positive about the concept of dark tourism and are willing to practice it.

Kibaek Kim, Sarah Stokowski, Alison Fridley et al.

Previous studies focused on the role of leisure activities, such as physical activity participation, to analyze how international students can receive social support from their communities to better acculturate in the U.S. This study focused on the role of college sports in providing social support and its effect on international student’s acculturation. Four hundred eighty-seven international students enrolled in 25 Power-5 affiliated colleges participated in this study to analyze the acculturation path model suggested by the primary researcher. The initial path model did not show a statistically significant model fit, which led to modifying the model once following the available theory in academia. As a result, the proposed model resulted in a good model fit (RMSEA = .03, SRMR = .01, CFI = 1.00, TLI = .98). Discussions on utilizing spectator sports to promote international students’ acculturation, suggestions for future study options, and limitations of the study were provided.

Renato Cortinovis, Devender Goyal, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Software and information technologies are becoming increasingly integrated and pervasive in human society and range from automated decision making and social media and entertainment, to running critical social and physical infrastructures like government programs, utilities, and financial institutions. As a result, there is a growing awareness of the need to develop professionals who will harness these technologies in fair and inclusive ways and use them to address global issues like health, water management, poverty, and human rights. In this regard, many academic researchers have expressed the need to complement traditional teaching of CS technical skills with computer and information ethics (computing for social good), as well as communication and leadership skills. In this paper, we describe our goals and some possible class activities we have developed and refined over the past few years with encouraging results, to help CS students understand the potential uses of computing for social good. In these carefully planned project assignments, we seamlessly integrate traditional approaches to develop technical skills with broader professional responsibility and soft skills. We then discuss the lessons learned from these activities and briefly outline future plans.

Chad Seifried, Tiffany Demiris

The present study seeks to understand more about the contribution the United States’ New Deal Depression-era programs had on college sport stadia. To complete this research, we examined projects used by the schools and communities connected to the National College Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Division I and provide answers to the following research questions: 1) What New Deal programs (i.e., 1933-1942) are connected to college football stadia construction; 2) What regions took advantage of these programs to support the development of their football product; and 3) How can any differences found between regions and New Deal programs be explained? Within the present work, we differentiate the various NEW Deal programs from one another. Next, we make a case for why sport stadia attracted New Deal monies. The results of our study show a substantial commitment to sport stadia, present an explanation on regional differences, and offer a rationale on why there were differences in funding commitments by the various New Deal programs along with the types of innovations incorporated into the new structures or renovations.

Bentley James Oakes, Ali Parsai, Bart Meyers et al.

The pace of reporting on Digital Twin (DT) projects continues to accelerate both in industry and academia. However, these experience reports often leave out essential characteristics of the DT, such as the scope of the system-under-study, the insights and actions enabled, and the time-scale of processing. A lack of these details could therefore hamper both understanding of these DTs and development of DT tools and techniques. Our previous work developed a DT description framework with fourteen characteristics as a checklist for experience report authors to better describe the capabilities of their DT projects. This report provides an extended example of reporting to highlight the utility of this description framework, focusing on the DT of an industrial drilling machine. Furthermore, we provide a mapping from our description framework to the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) which is an emerging standard for Industry 4.0 system integration. This mapping aids practitioners in understanding how our description framework relates to AAS, potentially aiding in description or implementation activities.

Xihao Xie, Jia Zhang, Rahul Ramachandran et al.

As increasingly more software services have been published onto the Internet, it remains a significant challenge to recommend suitable services to facilitate scientific workflow composition. This paper proposes a novel NLP-inspired approach to recommending services throughout a workflow development process, based on incrementally learning latent service representation from workflow provenance. A workflow composition process is formalized as a step-wise, context-aware service generation procedure, which is mapped to next-word prediction in a natural language sentence. Historical service dependencies are extracted from workflow provenance to build and enrich a knowledge graph. Each path in the knowledge graph reflects a scenario in a data analytics experiment, which is analogous to a sentence in a conversation. All paths are thus formalized as composable service sequences and are mined, using various patterns, from the established knowledge graph to construct a corpus. Service embeddings are then learned by applying deep learning model from the NLP field. Extensive experiments on the real-world dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the approach.

Brendan O'Hallarn, Craig Morehead, Mark Slavich et al.

Modern-day political discord has led to a recent spate of athletes using their platform to make statements about America. One under-researched aspect to modern sport activism is the study of the symbols themselves, such as the controversial kneeling during the national anthem by National Football League players, statement-making pregame apparel worn by National Basketball Association stars, and other political statements. This case study examines a 2016 activist display by Old Dominion University’s football team, known as the Circle of Unity. The display, performed before most games that season, began as a form of protest by team captains, and morphed into a gesture that was celebrated across the political spectrum. Through the lens of both Symbolic Interactionism (SI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT), the current study seeks to uncover the impetus, meaning, and ultimate impact of the symbol on a variety of stakeholders. Examining the symbol used—players and coaches standing in a circle, facing out, holding hands and raising them to the sky—can further contextualize the challenging role that student-athletes have in finding their voice to speak on issues they care about in a divided America.

Fabián Claudio Flores

La presencia de devociones marianas es una constante histórica en la realidad de América latina; y la Argentina no es la excepción al caso. La cartografía mariana y el mapa de las rutas peregrinas a destinos donde la Virgen tiene presencia se fue configurando a través de los siglos XVIII y XIX con un fuerte sesgo regional. Sin embargo, este esquema territorial sufrió algunas modificaciones a lo largo del siglo XX, y sobre todo en sus dos últimas décadas a través de la irrupción de nuevos focos de religiosidad mariana: la Virgen del Rosario de San Nicolás (1983) y la Virgen del Cerro de Salta (1990) generando una redefinición de los circuitos peregrinos y de las prácticas de turismo religioso vinculadas a ellas. El artículo analiza comparativamente la emergencia de estas dos nuevas espacialidades marianas y su proyección como centros de turismo religioso.

Y.V. Kyrpenko, M.I. Budur, S.V. Palevych et al.

<p><strong>The purpose of the work</strong><strong>: </strong>to determine the impact of Kyokushinkai Karate classes on the ability to adapt to different physical activities of boys of 10-12 years of age during classes.</p><p><strong>Material and methods</strong><strong>. </strong>78 boys of 10-12 years were surveyed, 27 of them expressed their desire to participate in the sports section of Kyokushinkai Karate (EG). CG (29) includes guys who do not have contraindications for playing sports. The essence of the forming experiment was to compare the growth rates of individual indicators of physical qualities, functional preparedness of children who attended the Kyokushinkai Karate training program (experimental group - EG) with children who were engaged in physical education only during physical culture lessons (control group - CG). During the year a monitoring examination of children is carried out to assess physical development, adaptation to exercise, adaptive potential of the circulatory system, the functional state of the apparatus of external respiration, the energy potential of the organism, physical fitness and methods of mathematical statistics.</p><p><strong>Results</strong><strong>. </strong>The plan of preparation of training groups on the basis of rational sequence of use of a set and volume of means and methods of physical education of normative part of the сurriculum "Kyokushinkai Karate" is presented. Adaptation processes occurring in the body of boys, during the acquisition of knowledge and skills within the walls of the school are determined by a number of educational, behavioral, everyday and other factors, each of which has a specific purposefulness to achieve a useful end result of learning. The course of study at school is undoubtedly accompanied by the adaptation of children to the new mode of study, rest, psychological and physical activity, and the question of the dynamics of indicators of functional systems of the child's organism came to the plane of our research.</p><p><strong>Conclusion. </strong>In the course of the research, we came to the conclusion that the plan developed and implemented in the sports circles improves the adaptation capabilities of the boys of this age group during Kyokoshinkai karate classes.</p>

Pernilla Bergmark, Vlad C. Coroamă, Mattias Höjer et al.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) can make existing products and activities more efficient or substitute them altogether and could thus become crucial for the mitigation of climate change. In this context, individual ICT companies, industry organizations and international initiatives have started to estimate the environmental effects of ICT services. Often such assessments rely on crude assumptions and methods, yielding inaccurate or even misleading results. The few existing methodological attempts are too general to provide guidance to practitioners. The starting points of this paper are i) a high level standard from the European Telecommunication Standardisation Institute (ETSI) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and ii) its suggested enhancements for single service assessment outlined in "A Methodology for Assessing the Environmental Effects Induced by ICT Services Part I: Single services" (Part I in short). Building on the assessment of single services, the current article identifies and addresses shortcomings of existing methodologies and industry practices with regard to multiple services assessment. For a collection of services, it addresses the goal and scope definition, the so far ignored aggregation of effects among several services, and the allocation between several companies contributing to one or more services. The article finally brings these considerations together with those of Part I into a workflow for performing such assessments in practice.

Xiaoyun Li, Zibin Zheng, Hong-Ning Dai

Services computing can offer a high-level abstraction to support diverse applications via encapsulating various computing infrastructures. Though services computing has greatly boosted the productivity of developers, it is faced with three main challenges: privacy and security risks, information silo, and pricing mechanisms and incentives. The recent advances of blockchain bring opportunities to address the challenges of services computing due to its build-in encryption as well as digital signature schemes, decentralization feature, and intrinsic incentive mechanisms. In this paper, we present a survey to investigate the integration of blockchain with services computing. The integration of blockchain with services computing mainly exhibits merits in two aspects: i) blockchain can potentially address key challenges of services computing and ii) services computing can also promote blockchain development. In particular, we categorize the current literature of services computing based on blockchain into five types: services creation, services discovery, services recommendation, services composition, and services arbitration. Moreover, we generalize Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) architecture and summarize the representative BaaS platforms. In addition, we also outline open issues of blockchain-based services computing and BaaS.

Cristina Chaves Goldschmidt , Kely César Martins de Paiva , Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray

This theoretical essay seeks to shed light on and synthesise the concept of resilience in relation to employees and organisations and to propose an integrated analysis model. The results include a research agenda embracing methodological aspects and thematic connections, which can contribute to an expanded debate on the construct of resilience that involves differentiated levels of analysis. A historic review of the concept’s discussion and its specificities are presented, including the following organisational resilience constructs. The first is the procedural, dynamic and ecosystemic capacity activated by people (i.e. individual resilience) and processes (i.e. systemic resilience) in the face of adversity. The second is the generation of responses that facilitate the recovery of balance. The last construct is healthy adaptation through key elements’ activation through subjective (i.e. internal) and objective (i.e. external) plans, which can be reinforced or renewed during the entire process. This approach thus ensures the sustainability of resilience-related results and/or the expansion of individuals and organisations’ capacity for resilience.

E.A. Slastina, T.M. Kravchuk, S.A. Bybel

<p><em>The purpose</em> - to determine the effectiveness of the use of outdoor games for the development of basic physical abilities at the stage of initial training in cheerleading. <em>Material and methods.</em> The study involved 30 girls 7-8 years, engaged in cheerleading at the Children's school of arts №6 (Kharkiv). <em>Research methods: </em>study and analysis of pedagogical and scientific-methodical literature; analysis of the rules and videos of competitions; pedagogical observations; pedagogical experiment; pedagogical control tests (testing); methods of mathematical statistics. <em>Results.</em> As a result of the study, it was found that for successful competitive activity in cheerleading at the initial stage of preparation, it is necessary to evenly develop such physical abilities as flexibility, agility, speed, strength, speed-strength abilities and the ability to rhythmic activity. To optimize the development of these abilities, mobile games were proposed, divided into groups, according to the predominant influence on physical abilities. After that, for three months, these games were introduced in the experimental group during the preparatory and final parts of the classes. Analysis of indicators of physical fitness in the subjects of the experimental group before and after the pedagogical experiment showed significant dynamics towards improvement. <em>Conclusions.</em> Analysis of competitive activity of cheerleaders, the success of which depends on the skills of young athletes to perform a large number of jumps, rotational movements, stants, pyramids and supports, as well as rapid movements, limited area of a certain size, allowed to identify the physical abilities necessary for the effective preparation of athletes in this sport: flexibility, speed, agility, strength and speed-strength abilities and the ability to rhythmic activity. Experimental verification of the effectiveness of the use of gaming tools in the training of young cheerleaders showed that methodically correctly selected outdoor games with their systematic introduction into the training process can contribute to a significant increase in all the necessary young cheerleaders physical abilities.</p>

José María Marcos Pujol , Carme Martínez, Anastasi Perez

The paper estart from the fact that commercial establishments with a luxury commercial offer, affordable luxury and "mass market" are established in the main commercial streets of European tourist cities. Likewise, the concept "Prime High Streets” are defined and justified as those streets with the highest rental prices for commercial premises in the city and for having maximum tourist demand and pedestrian traffic. In the case of Barcelona, the streets that meet the above criteria are Passeig de Gràcia and Av. Portal de l'Àngel. In addition, the research shows that the rental prices of commercial premises impact on the profit and loss account of commercial establishments through the effort rate and impact on the profitability of commercial premises investors in the main shopping streets For the first time in the scientific literature, the impact of the commercial real estate market is analysed in the articulation of the commercial offer of the prime high streets of the main European tourist cities, causing a sectoral, business and property concentration. The analysis focuses on the city of Barcelona.

Greg Richards

This paper aims to review the development of creativity in tourism, and analyses the potential role of smaller places in creative development. In the past, the role of creativity has been primarily analysed in larger cities. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the creative development of smaller cities and regions. We argue that smaller places should not attempt to emulate big city models of creative development, such as attracting the creative class, but should find their own creative mode based on using their endogenous resources, capacity building and bottom-up creativity. In this way they can avoid the ‘creativity trap’ of following generic creativity models and develop modes of creative tourism more appropriate to their size and capabilities.

Naibo Wang, Zhiling Luo, Xiya Lyu et al.

Web services are widely used in many areas via callable APIs, however, data are not always available in this way. We always need to get some data from web pages whose structure is not in order. Many developers use web data extraction methods to generate wrappers to get useful contents from websites and convert them into well-structured files. These methods, however, are designed specifically for professional wrapper program developers and not friendly to users without expertise in this domain. In this work, we construct a service wrapper system to convert available data in web pages into web services. Additionally, a set of algorithms are introduced to solve problems in the whole conversion process. People can use our system to convert web data into web services with fool-style operations and invoke these services by one simple step, which greatly expands the use of web data. Our cases show the ease of use, high availability, and stability of our system.