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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik +8 more
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Pour une typologie de l'expérience backpacker [PDF]
Papeles del CEIC: International Journal on Collective Identity Research, 2011 La socio-antropología del backpacking y del turismo nunca se ha preocupado realmente del sentido sociológico de la práctica backpacker. Este artículo pretende paliar este problema, presentando una tipología de experiencias backpacker, tomando en cuenta ...
Jean-Christophe Demers
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Chasing a myth? Searching for ‘self’ through lifestyle travel. [PDF]
, 2010 This paper problematises the concept of searching for self in the context of lifestyle travellers – individuals for whom extended leisure travel is a preferred lifestyle that they return to repeatedly.
Cohen, Scott
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The Transformative Power of the International Sojourn: an Ethnographic Study of the International Student Experience [PDF]
, 2009 The findings from an ethnographic study of international postgraduate students’ adjustment journey through life in England illustrates the transformative potential of the international student sojourn.
Brown, Lorraine
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023 We present Backpacks: a new neural architecture that marries strong modeling performance with an interface for interpretability and control. Backpacks learn multiple non-contextual sense vectors for each word in a vocabulary, and represent a word in a sequence as a context-dependent, non-negative linear combination of sense vectors in this sequence. We
John Hewitt +3 more
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The Presence of Backpacking Tourism in Europe [PDF]
Turizam, 2013 Global tourism is characterized by constant change. New forms of tourism and various types of tourist movements are emerging, while the number of tourists is constantly increasing and now it surpasses one billion.
Vukica Majstorović +2 more
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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2018 Hagit Bonny-Noach notes the challenging history of illicit substance use among Israeli backpackers. Few Israeli practices are more normative than the backpacking-trip as a rite of passage.
Harold A. Pollack
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Zwischen Khao San und Lonely Planet: Aspekte der postmodernen Backpacking-Identität in Südostasien [Between Khao San and Lonely Planet: Aspects of Postmodern Backpacking Identity in South-East Asia] [PDF]
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2008 This paper is an attempt to highlight some aspects of postmodern backpacking, which has come to be more appreciated by South-East Asian governments as a development tool after the decrease of package tourist arrivals due to terrorism, diseases and ...
Günter Spreitzhofer
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Luffarturisten och längtan efter det autentiska
Kulturella Perspektiv, 1994 To travel around the world as a lone tourist — as a "backpacker" or a "vagabond" — for a few months or maybe years, has become like a rite of passage for many young women and men in Sweden.
Erika Andersson
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Letter to the Editor Regarding “The Vigil of Medicine”
International Journal of Medical Students, 2021 This letter to the editor is regarding “The Vigil of Medicine”, which is a reflection on the author’s personal experiences backpacking the John Muir Trail.
Casey P. Schukow
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