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Multimodal Technologies and InteractionVirtual reality (VR) exercise has been used as a strategy to promote physical health in older adults. Studies have revealed that the effects of exercise interventions vary across age groups.
Li-Ting Wang +3 more
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Intercultural Competence Development Through Tourism: A Study of Czech Visitors to France
International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines international travel as a context for informal intercultural learning and the development of intercultural competence, aligning with the broader goals of training and development. Using the Cross‐Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), this research assesses changes in four dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility ...
Renata Cuhlova +2 more
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Journal of Small Animal Practice, EarlyView.Objectives Preparing clients for their pet to undergo general anaesthesia is an important and common task for veterinary professionals. The aims of this study were to better understand referral client anxiety relating to general anaesthesia and to determine their level of knowledge in this area.
A. Shuttleworth, C. Adami
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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Research in Hospitality ManagementThis research note examines the purpose and role of the ATLAS special interest group (SIG) Animals in Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure and its contribution to advancing animal justice in tourism studies and practice. Drawing on the case of this recently
Lucia Tomassini +12 more
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The Scientific World Journal, 2014 This study combines cluster analysis and LRFM (length, recency, frequency, and monetary) model in a pediatric dental clinic in Taiwan to analyze patients’ values. A two-stage approach by self-organizing maps and K-means method is applied to segment 1,462
Hsin-Hung Wu, Shih-Yen Lin, Chih-Wei Liu
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Residents’ attitudes toward island tourism development in Taiwan
Island Studies Journal, 2020 This study examined a proposed model of resident support for tourism development among selected tourism development stages. The proposed model depicts the relationships among perceptions of tourism impact, tourism-related community quality of life (TCQOL)
Chia-Pin Yu +3 more
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Assessing destination images of an Olympic host city using social media
European Journal of Tourism Research, 2012 The purpose of this study was to assess destination image components of Vancouver post 2010 Olympic Winter Games. To fulfill this aim, the present investigation examined comments posted on Tourism Vancouver’s official Facebook website.
Maria Banyai +1 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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