Hasil untuk "Recreation leadership. Administration of recreation services"

Boris Sedlak, Víctor Casamayor Pujol, Schahram Dustdar

Processing sensory data close to the data source, often involving Edge devices, promises low latency for pervasive applications, like smart cities. This commonly involves a multitude of processing services, executed with limited resources; this setup faces three problems: first, the application demand and the resource availability fluctuate, so the service execution must scale dynamically to sustain processing requirements (e.g., latency); second, each service permits different actions to adjust its operation, so they require individual scaling policies; third, without a higher-level mediator, services would cannibalize any resources of services co-located on the same device. This demo first presents a platform for context-aware autoscaling of stream processing services that allows developers to monitor and adjust the service execution across multiple service-specific parameters. We then connect a scaling agent to these interfaces that gradually builds an understanding of the processing environment by exploring each service's action space; the agent then optimizes the service execution according to this knowledge. Participants can revisit the demo contents as video summary and introductory poster, or build a custom agent by extending the artifact repository.

María Constanza Ceruti

Santa Tecla es un monte gallego cuya sacralidad se remonta a la antigüedad celta y mantiene vigencia hasta nuestros días, a través del turismo religioso. Esta investigación tuvo por objetivo analizar e interpretar la importancia de esta colina sagrada en el contexto del paisaje cultural costero en el extremo sur de Galicia. Metodológicamente, se basó en la observación participante durante un ascenso a pie a la cima desde el poblado de La Guarda, visitando el castro galaico-romano de Santa Trega, el museo arqueológico homónimo, los miradores en el Pico San Francisco y la ermita dedicada a la santa; así como en la recolección de testimonios espontáneos de visitantes, peregrinos y lugareños; una entrevista informal a la encargada del santuario y el registro fotográfico de cruzeiros, exvotos, imágenes religiosas y suvenires. Como resultado de las observaciones, la colina se revela como un palimpsesto de materialidades de importancia simbólica, desde el arte rupestre calcolítico asociado al castro prerromano hasta un posible lugar de culto galaico-romano dedicado a la fertilidad. El peregrinaje y el turismo contemporáneo en Santa Tecla acercan a visitantes locales y foráneos a una vivencia directa de la dimensión simbólica de la montaña atlántica en Galicia.

Fabrizio Augusto Alberca-Sialer

El turismo internacional aún se encuentra en recuperación1 tras la pandemia de la COVID-19. Este proceso gradual y de escala global sigue planteando desafíos que los destinos, empresas y personas deben afrontar. En ese marco, en el número 22 de la revista Turismo y Patrimonio, presentamos ocho artículos que tratan temas vinculados a la resiliencia, la cultura e identidad, la calidad del servicio, la gastronomía y la sostenibilidad. Es decir, desarrollan aquellas temáticas relacionadas con los desafíos por encarar (generales y particulares) antes mencionados.

Anastasia-Cristiana Dumitru, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

This research aimed to investigate the relationship between work climate, sustainability practises and perceived economic performance in sustainable companies, focusing on the impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. The main objective is to assess how workplace climate influence economic performance and how sustainability practices contribute to employee satisfaction. The study uses a quantitative methodology based on a questionnaire consisting of 15 questions distributed to employees of sustainable companies. The collected data were statistically analysed using SPSS software, with correlation and linear regression tests to validate the hypotheses. Three main hypotheses were tested in the study: (H1) the positive relationship between a favourable work climate and economic performance, (H2) the contribution of sustainability practises to improving work climate, and (H3) the correlation between involvement in ESG initiatives and employee satisfaction. The results indicate a significant correlation between a positive work climate and perceived economic performance as well as a correlation between the implementation of ESG initiatives and employee satisfaction. This research contributes to the understanding of how sustainability practises can influence both employee satisfaction and overall business performance and provides guidance for improving organisational strategies in sustainable companies.

Khadija Khatun, Chen Shen, Jun Tanimoto et al.

Understanding how cooperation emerges in public goods games is crucial for addressing societal challenges. While optional participation can establish cooperation without identifying cooperators, it relies on specific assumptions -- that individuals abstain and receive a non-negative payoff, or that non-participants cause damage to public goods -- which limits our understanding of its broader role. We generalize this mechanism by considering non-participants' payoffs and their potential direct influence on public goods, allowing us to examine how various strategic motives for non-participation affect cooperation. Using replicator dynamics, we find that cooperation thrives only when non-participants are motivated by individualistic or prosocial values, with individualistic motivations yielding optimal cooperation. These findings are robust to mutation, which slightly enlarges the region where cooperation can be maintained through cyclic dominance among strategies. Our results suggest that while optional participation can benefit cooperation, its effectiveness is limited and highlights the limitations of bottom-up schemes in supporting public goods.

Theodoros Theodoropoulos, Luis Rosa, Abderrahmane Boudi et al.

Extented Reality (XR) refers to a class of contemporary services that are intertwined with a plethora of rather demanding Quality of Service (QoS) and functional requirements. Despite Kubernetes being the de-facto standard in terms of deploying and managing contemporary containerized microservices, it lacks adequate support for cross-cluster networking, hindering service-to-service communication across diverse cloud domains. Although there are tools that may be leveraged alongside Kubernetes in order to establish multi-cluster deployments, each one of them comes with its drawbacks and limitations. The purpose of this article is to explore the various potential technologies that may facilitate multi-cluster deployments and to propose how they may be leveraged to provide a cross-cluster connectivity solution that caters to the intricacies of XR services. The proposed solution is based on the use of two open source frameworks, namely Cluster API for multi-cluster management, and Liqo for multi-cluster interconnectivity. The efficiency of this approach is evaluated in the context of two experiments. This work is the first attempt at proposing a solution for supporting multi-cluster deployments in a manner that is aligned with the requirements of XR services

Alfonso José Fernández

La pandemia Covid-19 permitió un cambio de paradigma a todos los destinos del mundo, donde el sistema turístico aprovecho la brecha de la presencialidad en las instituciones o centros educativos, integrar los entornos virtuales de enseñanza de aprendizajes (EVEA) para la capacitación en turismo agroecológico. Este artículo busca como objetivo divulgar los indicadores de gestión de las capacitaciones en turismo agroecológico desde la plataforma Moodle,  a su vez se realizó una investigación cualitativo con el método de sistematización de experiencia educativas, con un  diseño de descriptivo – campo y técnicas documental.  Además, Venturagro Unellez VPDS logro capacitar a 2518 participantes, un 70% mujeres y 30% hombres, utilizando plataforma Moodle como una herramienta de fácil acceso y manejo, fortaleciendo sus conocimientos a través de las EVEA, proporcionando habilidades y destrezas en manejo de las TIC, a través de la capacitación y formación en materia de turismo agroecológico. De manera de conclusión, el turismo agroecológico desde una mirada de la plataforma Moodle, genera una sinergia entre el docente – participantes, a través del cambio de la planificación docente presencial a un diseño instruccional que es aplicado a los entornos virtuales de la enseñanza del aprendizaje, el cual mejorara los contenidos educativos implementando como estrategias las herramientas tecnológicas como Moodle, el cual presenta recursos y actividades dinámicas de fácil dominio, donde vincula un proceso de construcción de las actividades a través de la vinculación sociocomunitaria con los tres elementos sustantivos de la docencia, comunidad e investigación, generando estándares de calidad en las diferentes formaciones en materia de turismo agroecológico.

Diego Salazar Duque, Daniela Espinoza Muñoz

Combinar determinadas actividades recreativas junto con la producción agrícola contribuye favorablemente al turismo; razón por la que, en esta investigación, se analiza la competitividad del destino turístico y el desarrollo de las rutas del cacao ecuatoriano. Se emplea un enfoque cuantitativo con diseño de tipo no experimental, de nivel descriptivo y transversal para levantar la información de 9 rutas turísticas, de las 16 identificadas en Ecuador, donde se cultiva variedades de cacao, en especial el cacao fino de aroma con denominación de origen. El objetivo es analizar la competitividad del destino turístico y el desarrollo de las rutas del cacao ecuatoriano con relación a los factores que contribuyen al desarrollo de una actividad turística: producto, desempeño, futuro y apoyo al turismo comunitario y, de esta manera, entender la oportunidad de crecimiento turístico y productivo del cacao para ser sostenible. Existe un desequilibrio entre las variables evaluadas que no favorecen al destino para alcanzar un nivel de competitividad frente a otros que ofertan un producto igual o similar; además, carecen de estrategias, acciones o un proceso de seguimiento y control, lo que no contribuye al desarrollo turístico.

Grant McDonald, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Nikolaos Pitropakis et al.

Ransomware has become an increasingly popular type of malware across the past decade and continues to rise in popularity due to its high profitability. Organisations and enterprises have become prime targets for ransomware as they are more likely to succumb to ransom demands as part of operating expenses to counter the cost incurred from downtime. Despite the prevalence of ransomware as a threat towards organisations, there is very little information outlining how ransomware affects Windows Server environments, and particularly its proprietary domain services such as Active Directory. Hence, we aim to increase the cyber situational awareness of organisations and corporations that utilise these environments. Dynamic analysis was performed using three ransomware variants to uncover how crypto-ransomware affects Windows Server-specific services and processes. Our work outlines the practical investigation undertaken as WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Jigsaw were acquired and tested against several domain services. The findings showed that none of the three variants stopped the processes and decidedly left all domain services untouched. However, although the services remained operational, they became uniquely dysfunctional as ransomware encrypted the files pertaining to those services

Anirudha Rayasam, Siddhartha R Thota, Avinash N Bukkittu et al.

Efficiently discovering relevant Web services with respect to a specific user query has become a growing challenge owing to the incredible growth in the field of web technologies. In previous works, different clustering models have been used to address these issues. But, most of the traditional clustering techniques are computationally intensive and fail to address all the problems involved. Also, the current standards fail to incorporate the semantic relatedness of Web services during clustering and retrieval resulting in decreased performance. In this paper, we propose a framework for web services retrieval that uses a bottom-up, decentralized and self organising approach to cluster available services. It also provides online, dynamic computation of clusters thus overcoming the drawbacks of traditional clustering methods. We also use the semantic similarity between Web services for the clustering process to enhance the precision and lower the recall.

Constantin Adam, Abdulhamid Adebayo, Hubertus Franke et al.

Zero Trust is a novel cybersecurity model that focuses on continually evaluating trust to prevent the initiation and horizontal spreading of attacks. A cloud-native Service Mesh is an example of Zero Trust Architecture that can filter out external threats. However, the Service Mesh does not shield the Application Owner from internal threats, such as a rogue administrator of the cluster where their application is deployed. In this work, we are enhancing the Service Mesh to allow the definition and reinforcement of a Verifiable Configuration that is defined and signed off by the Application Owner. Backed by automated digital signing solutions and confidential computing technologies, the Verifiable Configuration allows changing the trust model of the Service Mesh, from the data plane fully trusting the control plane to partially trusting it. This lets the application benefit from all the functions provided by the Service Mesh (resource discovery, traffic management, mutual authentication, access control, observability), while ensuring that the Cluster Administrator cannot change the state of the application in a way that was not intended by the Application Owner.

Molly Harry

Institutions are required to conduct exit interviews and surveys (EIS) with departing athletes, however, these instruments are currently an untapped data source for further understanding the college athlete experience. This study examined 17 FBS institutions’ exit interviews and surveys with 528 athletes, focusing on athletes’ academic experiences. Analyses revealed that EIS questions pertaining to educational experiences focused on the following areas: academic services, overall academic experiences, time demands, coach support of academics, and faculty support. Athletes in this sample expressed overall positive academic experiences and gratitude for the academic services provided. Additionally, the majority of athletes noted few issues with time demands, strong coach support for their academic progress, and positive faculty interactions. These findings challenge some of the current literature noting negative educational experiences and opportunities for college athletes. Implications and recommendations for the field are discussed.

Welch Suggs, Jennifer Lee Hoffman

One of Myles Brand’s key contributions as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association was the development of what he called the “theoretical model of college sports.” In this paper, we present the theoretical antecedents of the collegiate model in the histories of both sport and higher education. We go on to articulate the definition of the collegiate model of sport as Brand presented it iteratively in public comments. Finally, we situate the relevance of the collegiate model as a policy prescription in twenty-first century college sports.

Jing Jing Zheng , Hua wen Shen , Ka Yin Chau et al.

Although the concepts of loyalty, service quality and customer satisfaction have frequently been discussed by scholars, their connections with emotional factors have rarely been investigated in the field of museum tourism. The Anthropology Museum of Guangxi focuses on unique ethnic minorities, which is used as a case study in this paper. The key question is whether visitors are driven by certain emotional factors. This paper examines the relationships among the factors that influence visitors’ emotional attachment, satisfaction, conative loyalty and perceived quality. Structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is used to model the relations among these four constructs, which include formative and reflective constructs. The structural model was tested on a sample of 184 visitors to the Anthropology Museum of Guangxi, and empirical study of the conceptual model supports all of the paper’s hypotheses. The results show positive influences among emotional attachment, visitor satisfaction and perceived quality, which may indeed affect visitors’ conative loyalty to a specific museum. The practical applications are suggested based on the finding that emotional attachment plays an important role in predicting visitor loyalty.

Sotiris Skaperas, Nasim Ferdosian, Arsenia Chorti et al.

Fifth generation (5G) new radio introduced flexible numerology to provide the necessary flexibility for accommodating heterogeneous services. However, optimizing the scheduling of heterogeneous services with differing delay and throughput requirements over 5G new radio is a challenging task. In this paper, we investigate near optimal, low complexity scheduling of radio resources for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) when coexisting with enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services. We demonstrate that maximizing the sum throughput of eMBB services while servicing URLLC users, is, in the long-term, equivalent to minimizing the number of URLLC placements in the time-frequency grid; this result stems from reducing the number of infeasible placements for eMBB, to which we refer to as "conflicts". To meet this new objective, we propose and investigate new conflict-aware heuristics; a family of "greedy" and a lightweight heuristic inspired by bin packing optimization, all of near optimal performance. Moreover, having shed light on the impact of conflict in layer-2 scheduling, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) emerges as a competitive approach for conflict resolution, in addition to the well established increased spectral efficiency with respect to OMA. The superior performance of NOMA, thanks to alleviating conflicts,is showcased by extensive numerical results.

Yilmaz Akgunduz , Ovunc Bardakoglu , Yesim Koba

This study investigates the motivational factors underlying participation in trade fairs, and their effects on participant satisfaction and behavioural intentions. Data were collected through a questionnaire to 608 participants, selected by convenience sampling, at the International Natural Stone and Technologies Fair (MARBLE), held on 22-25 March 2017 in ?zmir, Turkey. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to verify the convergent and discriminant validity of the scales while multiple regression analyses were used to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that the trade fair participants were motivated by commercial attractiveness, financial attractiveness, information search, and city attractiveness. Participant satisfaction was significantly influenced by commercial attractiveness, financial attractiveness, and information search while behavioural intentions were determined by city attractiveness and information search.

Anna Levin, Shelly Garion, Elliot K. Kolodner et al.

With the growing reliance on the ubiquitous availability of IT systems and services, these systems become more global, scaled, and complex to operate. To maintain business viability, IT service providers must put in place reliable and cost efficient operations support. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) is a promising technology for alleviating operational complexity of IT systems and services. AIOps platforms utilize big data, machine learning and other advanced analytics technologies to enhance IT operations with proactive actionable dynamic insight. In this paper we share our experience applying the AIOps approach to a production cloud object storage service to get actionable insights into system's behavior and health. We describe a real-life production cloud scale service and its operational data, present the AIOps platform we have created, and show how it has helped us resolving operational pain points.

Zh.L. Kozina, S.B. Khrapov, S. Yevstratov et al.

<p><em>The purpose</em> of the study was to develop individual factor models of physical preparedness of high-level volleyball players of different game roles. <em>Matherial and methods</em>. The study was attended by 12 players of the Kharkiv woman women team in Kharkiv Volleyball players were tested for 10 indicators of pedagogical pedagogical testing: Running to 4 points; Running for determining the speed of movement along the volleyball court at a distance of 30 m (9-3-6-3-9 m); Jump in height from place; Jump in height from run; Throwing a stuffed ball from the starting position sitting; Throwing a stuffed ball from the starting position is lying; Lifting of the body from the position lying on the back for 20 s (number of times); Elevation of body from the position of lying on the stomach for 20 s (number of times); The flexion-extension of the hands in the emphasis lying for 20 s (number of times); Leap length from space. The obtained data were mathematically processed using factor analysis methods, on the basis of which the individual factor models of players were constructed. <em>Results</em>. On the basis of factor analysis, the structure of qualified volleyball players' preparedness was determined, in which four expressed factors were expressed: speed-strength training, relative strength, special endurance, high endurance. The model of the belonging of the players to the role is determined according to the determined factor structure: in the attackers of the first pace, the following factors are factors such as speed-power preparedness and relative strength, at attackers of the second pace - speed-power preparedness and fast endurance, fast endurance and special endurance, in Libero - relative strength and special endurance. <em>Conclusion.</em> Using the developed scheme, the individual factor models of players and the developed scale of assessments of the test indicators, one can determine the individual potential opportunities of different players to the game in different roles.</p>

Deborah Moraes Zouain, Paola Lohmann, Kaarina Virkki et al.

Between 2014 and 2016, Rio de Janeiro hosted two mega sport events – the Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup and the Olympic Games – which generated changes in the city. This study sought to analyse Rio residents’ perceptions in the lead-up to the latter games. A quantitative survey was conducted face-to-face with a sample of 404 residents, exactly one year before the Olympics. The data indicated that the residents found the pre-game period troubling because of uncertainties regarding the city’s desired Olympic legacy. Residents’ routines were impacted by either traffic issues or media reports that generated expectations and apprehension. The preOlympic period was marked by protests, concerns about overspending, construction delays and fears about the mega-events’ success. However, residents’ perceptions included clear expectations regarding the event legacy’s implications for tourism businesses and the destination’s visibility, as well as lasting improvements affecting tourism and sport activities

S.V. Palevych, О.G. Poddubny, О.А. Tkachuk et al.

<em>Objective</em>: substantiation of the expediency of using mathematical evaluation criteria for determining the means of diagnosing a set of knowledge, skills and other competences acquired during the training of military men in the emotional (affective) sphere. <em>Material: </em>the study was attended by 67 cadets of the Air Force University, who are not the pilots and are at the 3rd year of study. For assessing the ability to manage their behavior through management of emotions, a technique of studying the emotional intelligence of military personnel at different stages of training and physical tests are  related to overcoming objective and subjective obstacles. For the processing of the results was used the method of correlation, discriminant analysis and decision tree methods for the classification problem. The significance level for all statistics was established at p &lt;0.05. <em>Results: </em>A positive linear relationship between the levels of performance of special exercises and the level of emotional stability were established. The models of discriminant analysis and the rule of classification of the recognition of the level of emotional stability according special physical preparedness level are determined. It was established that exercises in the obstacles course and turns in the gymnastics wheel are the main variables that allow classifying the students according to the level of emotional stability. <em>Conclusions: </em>The using of mathematical criteria for evaluating the results of the implementation of special exercises can differentiate according to the objective characteristics of cadets in category and simplifies the methodological work on recognition in the dynamics of physical improvement of military personnel, a local assessment of emotional and volitional resistance to the negative impact of the factors of modern combat.