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Alignment of Agile and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) Principles in Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations have consistently sought faster and more efficient methods for producing and delivering products. Agile principles offer essential guidance for shaping their policies and practices. The Agile Manifesto (AM) outlines 12 core principles for guiding software development but can also be applied in other contexts.
Terry Plonsky, Daniel R. Herber
wiley   +1 more source

Cruise tourism demand forecasting - the case of Dubrovnik

Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2013
The purpose – Cruising is nowadays a mass phenomenon since an increasing number of passengers worldwide have been taking part in this form of tourism.
Ivana Pavlić
doaj   +1 more source

Micronuclei and Other Nuclear Abnormalities in Patella Limpet as Biomarkers of Cytogenotoxicity in Recreational Port Waters

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past decades, the growth in human population and economic activities has led to an increase in maritime traffic. This rise puts additional pressure on marine environments, vessel fuel spills being considered to have a major impact on the ecosystem.
Carlos Valiente‐Diaz, Eva Garcia‐Vazquez, Verónica Soto‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Den attendance by Arctic foxes experiencing 10 years of increasing tourism

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wildlife tourism is a growing industry, and an increasing number of people seek to observe and interact with wild animals in their natural surroundings. In Iceland, the native Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus is widespread and has been under heavy hunting pressure for centuries.
Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir, Borgný Katrínardóttir, Bruce J. McAdam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Offshore wind farm avoidance by a discard‐feeding seabird is independent of local fishing activity

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Fishing is not allowed within wind farms; therefore, discard‐feeding seabirds may appear to avoid wind farm areas. We found that most Lesser Black‐backed Gulls avoided the wind farm area, but not each individual in each period. Avoidance of the wind farm was not driven by fishing exclusion within its perimeter.
Rosemarie Kentie, Rob S. A. van Bemmelen, Judy Shamoun‐Baranes, Eric W. M. Stienen, Ruben C. Fijn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

Cities Under Pressure: Evidence on Tourism Growth and Neighbourhood Change in Europe

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Across European cities, the rapid growth of tourism is reshaping urban life in increasingly contested ways. While the sector continues to support local economies, it is also increasingly associated with the sense that neighbourhoods are becoming less liveable for residents.
Mafalda Batalha
wiley   +1 more source

From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Features of Providing Services on Cruise Ships

Ресторанний і готельний консалтинг: Інновації, 2019
Actuality. The study of the features of the services development of HoReCa cruise tourism product gives an opportunity to evaluate and destinguish the determinants of the active growth of this segment in the world tourist market. The assortment and level
Iryna Antonenko, Iryna Melnyk
doaj   +1 more source