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Screen Tourism: Worlds Within the Screen, Moving the Economy
International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT The number of tourists traveling to attractions and destinations they had seen on screen continues to increase. Screen tourism is a marketing tool that encourages tourism demand as well as promotes economic development, with governments and destination marketing organizations attracting tourists through conventional and digital media. However,
Yunkyoung Jo +3 more
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Fafnir, 2018 Characters are important for the audience reception of films, but little empirical research on actual audiences has been conducted on the topic of character reception. Are characters important for all audiences, and if not, what are the possible reasons
Tanja Välisalo
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Femininity and Its Transformations in Subsequent Adaptations
Crossroads, 2015 The aim of the following paper is to examine the portrayal of female characters and femininity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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There and there again: Hydrothermal vent communities at Mokuyo Seamount, 30 years apart
Ecological Research, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 389-402, July 2025.Revisiting the little‐known deep‐sea hydrothermal vent field on Mokuyo Seamount, Izu‐Ogasawara Arc 30 years apart revealed decadal changes in venting activity and faunal distributions. We also update the species list of chemosynthetic ecosystem at Mokuyo from three to 18, a key baseline data for the management of this ecologically significant site ...
Chong Chen +4 more
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, 2008 The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2008 performance of The Hobbit based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien adapted for theater by Patricia Gray. The Hobbit is the story of hobbit Bilbo Baggins who is enlisted by the wizard Gandalf to aid a band of ...
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Konteksty Pedagogiczne, 2018 This article focuses on the dragon character in literature, taking Tol-kien’s Hobbit as an example while employing a pedagogical perspective. The dra-gon, as the antagonist, is a recurring motif in literary fiction, especially in fantasy, and together ...
Anna Hyla
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Robotic mowing technology in turfgrass management: Past, present, and future
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 3, May/June 2025.Abstract Robotic mowing equipment has rapidly increased in availability worldwide, but the first developed concepts for automating the mowing process are nearly 100 years old. The first attempt to commercialize a robotic mower was in the 1950s, with continued attempts to launch commercial products over subsequent decades.
J. Scott McElroy +6 more
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There and Back Again J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit [PDF]
, 2012 'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlórien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are just as pertinent to J R R Tolkien's own fiction.
Atherton, Mark
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Communicative dynamism and prosodic prominence in presentation sentences with initial rhematic subjects [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2017 Within the framework of the theory of functional sentence perspective (Firbas 1992), the distinction between presentation and quality scale sentences plays a vital role.
Martin Adam +1 more
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Grasping Objects From the Floor in Assistive Robotics: Real World Implications and Lessons Learned
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper presents a system enabling a mobile robot to autonomously pick-up objects a human is pointing at from the floor. The system does not require object models and is designed to grasp unknown objects.
Paloma De La Puente +4 more
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