Beach Vacation Research Articles

Longevity

The value of a person’s life is not reducible to the satisfaction of one’s desires or interests, including the interest in living longer.  A person who takes pleasure in beach vacations each summer may look forward to another stay at the shore next year, but this is not the kind of interest that gives her a reason to continue living.  Assuming she has lived a normal life, one beach vacation more or less will not affect the value of her life, even in the slightest degree. Similarly, we wouldn’t say of a person who has lived a full life that his life would have been more valuable if he hadn’t suffered that wretched toothache several decades ago. The value of a person’s life is not simply a function of the good and bad experiences it contains. More controversially, neither is it simply an aggregate of a person’s accomplishments. Discovering another great self-portrait by Rembrandt (who created nearly 100 of them, so far as we know) would not affect to any degree our assessment of his greatness as an artist.  Rather, the value of a human life is determined by what adds meaning to life, what – and not simply how much – she achieves, or how well she lived up to her ideals.  If this is right, then for most people who live to a reasonable age, living longer will not add value to their lives. The social value of longevity is a question of whether a society in which the median age is higher or human life over time is packaged in fewer individuals is better than a society in which the median age is lower and the same amount of life is packaged in more individuals living shorter lives.  I see no reason for thinking the former society is better and hence no justification for nations like the United States or Great Britain to spend health care resources on promoting longevity of its citizens by adding to the normal lifespan.

Is sunscreen alone effective at preventing sunburn on a high-solar beach vacation: A modeling study?

Beach holidays in areas of strong sunlight are popular and sunscreen is often the primary means of photoprotection favored by many people. The object of this study was to estimate how effective sunscreen is in preventing sunburn under high ultraviolet (UV) levels. We used a computational model to determine how the quantity, frequency, substantivity, and labeled SPF of applied sunscreens impact on the predicted erythemal response in unacclimatized skin over the course of a 7-day holiday in a high-solar environment. Our results indicated that sunscreen on its own may be insufficient to prevent sunburn in white skin on a sun-seeking holiday that combines prolonged exposure with high UV levels. Nevertheless, sunscreens have a valuable role to play on a beach holiday especially if an SPF30 or higher is chosen, the product is applied liberally and uniformly, application is started early into the sun exposure period and repeated at 2-hourly intervals throughout the day, and the product binds well to the skin. The main limitation of our investigation is that it is not an observational study but rather a computational model and while all models are wrong, some, including this one, are useful.

33131 Modeling acute and cumulative erythemal sun exposure on vulnerable body sites during beach vacations using behavior encoded 3D body models

Vacationers in a high solar intensity beach setting often put themselves at risk of ultraviolet light (UV) overexposure that can lead to detrimental skin health consequences. However, existing dosimetry work does not fully capture the extent or anatomical distribution of UV exposure in the beach vacation setting. In this study, a radiative transfer model of the solar conditions of Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA (27.8°N, 82.8°W) is combined with an in silico 3D-body model and typical beach vacation behaviors to calculate acute and cumulative body site-specific UV exposure risk during a beach vacation.

Modeling acute and cumulative erythemal sun exposure on vulnerable body sites during beach vacations utilizing behavior-encoded 3D body models

Vacationers in a high-solar-intensity beach setting put themselves at risk of ultraviolet radiation (UV) over-exposure that can lead to acute and chronic health consequences including erythema, photoaging, and skin cancer. There is a current gap in existing dosimetry work on capturing detailed time-resolved anatomical distributions of UV exposure in the beach vacation setting. In this study, a radiative transfer model of the solar conditions of Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA (27.8°N, 82.8°W) is combined with an in silico three-dimensional body model and data on typical beach vacation behaviors to calculate acute and cumulative body-site-specific UV exposure risk during a beach vacation. The resulting cumulative UV exposure calculated for a typical mix of clothing choices, settings, and activities during a week-long (7-day) beach vacation is 172.2 standard erythemal doses (SED) at the forearm, which is comparable with the average total annual UV exposure of European and North American residents and consistent with existing dosimetry studies. This model further estimates that vacationers choosing to spend a full day exclusively in the beach or pool setting can experience UV exposure in excess of 50 SED a day at multiple body sites. Such exposure indicates that significant sun protective measures would be required to prevent sunburn across all skin types in this setting. This work clarifies the significant role that beach vacations play in UV exposure and corresponding acute and cumulative health risks and highlights the importance of behavioral choices (including clothing, activity and photoprotection) as crucial factors in differentiating personal solar exposure risks.Graphical abstract

TRANSFORMATION OF MARKETING IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY OF RUSSIA BASED ON ANALYSIS OF CONSUMER DEMAND DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The tourist sphere of activity in Russia was among the areas of the economy that were quite severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many major chain tour operators and hotels have closed for the first time in decades. Revenues from the sale of tours and hotel rooms fell sharply. Travel industry companies have embarked on the difficult task of figuring out how to deal with the new reality created by the pandemic. Therefore, this study is devoted to identifying changes in consumer attitudes towards tourism products in the Russian Federation. The article assesses the opinions of Russian consumers of tourist services. The result of the study is the proposed recommendations for conducting marketing strategies in the tourism industry. The most numerous segment is family beach vacations, so the main marketing investments should be directed specifically to this group of consumers. Advertising campaigns should focus on the comfort of hotels and infrastructure for families with children. Social networks and the Internet in general should become the main advertising channels. This strategy will attract both young people, using advertising on social networks, attracting bloggers and famous personalities. To increase loyalty to Russian tourism, youth tours should be developed, which will help to attract people to domestic travel. These actions will have a long-term impact on the tourism industry in Russia, as they can attract people to domestic tourism in the future.

Alfred M. Anzalone

Alfred M. “Fred” Anzalone, 93, died March 20, 2020, in Mendham, New Jersey. “Fred worked as a chemist, then as a technical research librarian for Armament Research and Development Center at Picatinny Arsenal for 30 years before retiring in 1983. Fred was a longtime active member of St. Joseph Church in Mendham. He enjoyed the Fellowship of the Feast Committee and the seniors group. Fred’s favorite pastime was working in his yard. It gave him great joy. He loved taking family beach vacations, particularly to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. His family will remember him for passing on his passion for great food, the joy of gathering at the table, and for our Italian heritage.”—Family of Alfred M. Anzalone Most recent title: Technical research librarian, Armament Research and Development Center, Picatinny Arsenal Education: BS, chemistry, Seton Hall University; MLS, Rutgers University Survivors: Daughters, Linda O’Brien and Susan; son, Mark

LOST (1.5 m) by Cordula Däuper and Johannes Müller

Reviewed by: LOST (1.5 m) by Cordula Däuper and Johannes Müller Olivia Maria Schaaf LOST (1.5 m). By Cordula Däuper and Johannes Müller. Directed by Cordula Däuper. Neuköllner Oper, Berlin. October 22, 2020. In times of a crisis, a bourgeoise struggle with radical change and its necessity exposes inequalities in distribution of finite resources and the social construction of the Establishment. With the very concept of finality in musical form, German composer Franz Schubert’s final song cycle Schwanengesang (1828) provided the musical foundation of LOST (1.5 m) at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. The small theatre in Berlin’s Neukölln district stages original music theatre performance and has become home to some of Germany’s most original and exciting productions of opera, operetta, musical theatre, and everything in-between since opening its doors on Karl-Marx-Straße in 1988. As for all Berlin performance venues, 2020 was a year of uncertainty, restrictions, and compromise for the Neuköllner Oper, with its season shortened to just three months due to COVID-19. As one of two productions realized during this short period of live performances from August through October of 2020, LOST (1.5 m) directly [End Page 573] responded to the feelings of stagnation and anxiety weighing on a collective performing arts community and tackled the ultimate fear: never performing again. Click for larger view View full resolution Fernanda Farah with gas mask in LOST (1.5 m). At its premiere on October 22, 2020, the dark and dystopian stage (design by Sylvia Rieger) awakened with Schubert’s interpretation of Ludwig Rellstab’s poem Ständchen from Schwanengesang. In a distorted arrangement by Tobias Schwenke for the band of five instrumentalists, the song’s eerie intro and first phrase promised an evening rich with feelings of desperation: “Leise flehen meine Lieder / Durch die Nacht zu dir” [My songs plead softly / through the night to you]. The singer and piano accompaniment initiated the play in sotto voce, mirrored by a creeping and slow transition from pitch-black darkness to dim, sickly light. The elevated stage showed a wasteland of black foam mulch. Three elegant women sat on small cubes, listening to Schubert’s song. The singer, in an extravagant black-tie concert event ballgown, continuously interrupted herself and started over. The other women—her audience— half-heartedly skimmed their programs, looking around, attempting applause. They acted with palpable discomfort; relief restricted by peer pressure: no one could leave, and no one wanted to be the person who wants to leave. The loop of attempted singing emptied into the exasperated screech of one woman in the “audience”: the seal of pretense and etiquette was broken. More and more frantically the women started looking around, standing up, sitting back down, trying to connect by getting each other’s attention, but awkwardly failing. Inside the world of the play, the 1.5-meter social distancing required of performers functioned as a tool for complete emotional isolation. The women onstage could not touch. Whenever they tried and failed, their lack of physical contact transformed into a complete inability to communicate. Two women began taking turns in chasing each other across stage, tumbling over in the uneven mulch. They did not speak to each other, and they ignored each other’s pain. LOST (1.5 m) commented on the Coronavirus pandemic most directly through its title, and not so much in its content. Instead, the crisis more directly addressed by Cordula Däuper and Johannes Müller’s concept and adapted libretto was the sluggish response to climate change in a world where the ruling class is superbly distracted by their own comfort. The increasing disarray and chaos onstage clashed recalcitrantly with the characters’ need to maintain their version of normalcy, and their own decay into insanity creeped onto their unaware attempts. As the women tried enjoying a beach vacation in the mulch after being sprayed down by an ominous figure in a hazmat suit, buckets of trash fell down onto them from above. Except for mild discontent, the heaps of plastic bags, bottles, and crumpled soda cans did not greatly seem to...

Online reviews and travel magazine awards: their influence on willingness-to-pay

When guests book a hotel room, user-generated content (UGC) has a significant impact on willingness-to-pay. Prior to advent of the internet, however, guidebooks and travel magazines were resources for guest information. The current study conducted a choice-based conjoint analysis survey of 803 US travelers to examine the current impact of travel magazines on hotel guests’ willingness-to-pay. The participants were given a scenario in which they choose a hotel for beach vacation with the variables of pool, location, star rating, number of online reviews, and inclusion in a “best of” list. This study found that while the number of online reviews and star rating did have a statistically significant impact on willingness-to-pay, inclusion in a “best of” list did not. For researchers, the current study expands the research in UGC, travel magazines, and willingness-to-pay. For hoteliers, this paper quantified the impact of number of reviews and star rating on guest willingness-to-pay.

Greater efficacy of SPF 100+ sunscreen compared with SPF 50+ in sunburn prevention during 5 consecutive days of sunlight exposure: A randomized, double-blind clinical trial

Beach vacations are high-risk settings for overexposure to ultraviolet radiation. To compare the sunburn protective efficacy of SPF 50+and SPF 100+sunscreens under actual use at the beach. A prospective, randomized, double-blind, single-center, split-body/face study of 55 healthy individuals. Each participant applied both sunscreens to randomized sides of the face/body for up to 5 consecutive days. Blinded clinical evaluation of erythema by a single grader and objective instrumental assessments, colorimetry, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy were performed the morning after each sun exposure. After 5days, 31 (56%) participants had more sunburn on the SPF 50+side compared to 4 (7%) on the SPF 100+side. Overall, mean erythema intensity showed statistically significantly less erythema on the SPF 100+side compared with the SPF 50+side. The first observation of sunburn exclusively on the SPF 50+side occurred after 1day of sun exposure, whereas that for SPF 100+occurred after 3days of sun exposure. Only initial sunscreen application was monitored, only 1 participant with skin phototype I was recruited, and participants were recruited from a local beach area. SPF 100+was significantly more effective in protecting against ultraviolet radiation-induced erythema and sunburn than SPF 50+in actual use in a beach vacation setting.

Miracles, misconceptions and scotomas in the theory of solitary waves

ABSTRACTIn an age of billion dollar particle accelerators and Mars rovers, it is surprising that solitary waves were first discovered by a man on horseback with no tools but his own eyes. A century and a half later, more complicated patterns of ridges, so-called hyperelliptic two-polycnoidal waves, were discovered in the ocean during a beach vacation. The inverse scattering method, which solves nonlinear partial differential equations through a sequence of solving purely linear equations, is a blend of quantum theory and hydrodynamics that arose from informal, unstructured conversations (i.e. goofing off) among a group of postdocs from different disciplines who were randomly assigned to the same office. The cnoidal wave in the lemniscate case is well-approximated by a nonlinear solitary wave and equally well approximated by a linear sine wave. It is always and exactly the superposition of solitary waves even in the limit in which it is an infinitesimal sine wave. The history and science of solitary waves has the disorienting quality of an M. C. Escher drawing. Here, we cannot give an understanding of these deep subjects in so brief an article; rather we strive to unveil the beauty and unexpectedness of these topics to give the reader a reason to pursue these in the much more comprehensive reviews and books we cite. Further, we stress the “scotomas” (blind spots), misconceptions and surprises, the sociology and epistemology of science. It is true that failed theories, scotomas, serendipity and cognitive saltation (progress in jumps) is characteristic of science. It is also true that the invention of the train was the invention of the train wreck. Engineering learns from each disaster and science should do the same. The highly nonlinear history of nonlinear waves is reported not to disrespect the past but to replace scientific fatalism with a constructive wariness. We are not smarter or more enlightened than Scott Russell or Stokes or Landau, but we can learn from their scotomas and misconceptions as much as from their triumphs.

Film Review | Watching “Us” in the Middle East

“Us,” Jordan Peele’s newly released horror film, raises questions about American identity that will appear very different to viewers outside the United States. Peele has claimed that “Us” aims to hold up a mirror to American society, showing “us” how “we are our worst enemies.” But for international viewers, especially those who have experienced overseas oppression from the United States, the questions of violence and otherness that this film raises will have a special resonance. The film begins in 1986, when a young Adelaide (Madison Currie) wanders off into a haunted house called “Vision Quest” while on a beach vacation with her parents. The sign at the entrance of the attraction invites the visitor to “find yourself.” Wandering in a hall of magic mirrors, Adelaide finds a living reflection of herself, and is traumatized.

Behavioral Economics and the Service Organization

This note summarizes some important learnings from the study of behavioral economics of which service organizations should be aware in order to enhance customers' emotional experiences and help direct their decision making—in an ethical manner. Excerpt UVA-OM-1548 Dec. 20, 2017 Behavioral Economics and the Service Organization Imagine you are searching online for an island beach vacation for your family this winter. You notice an ad for an all-inclusive resort with a 65% off special. You click the link and the pictures of smiling people running barefoot on the beach and the site's background reggae music transport your senses. You call and the incredibly friendly sales agent asks for your name and teases you with the current weather and the ocean temperatures, but then informs you that the special deal is not available during the dates you are interested in. Not to worry, she says, because there are several other choices that week, including another great package running at 25% off, though that one doesn't include complimentary breakfast. She mentions that this is the most popular package for guests in your situation. It still is 25% off, you figure. Near the end of the call, you are considering your choices. The agent searches a bit more and realizes she can offer you the free breakfast after all. You are overjoyed and decide to book the 25% off deal! Count another win for behavioral economics (BE), which uses psychological testing to determine typical biases people have that can drive their decision making. In the perfect world of classical economic theory, we would not alter our decisions based on the framing of options, the choices of others, or the order of the service experience. We would weigh the costs and benefits rationally and choose the optimal value. But we don't—at least, not all the time. Our emotions often guide us in ways we can't even articulate, or we make snap decisions based on rules of thumb—cognitive shortcuts called heuristics. This note summarizes some of the important learnings from the study of BE of which service organizations should be aware in order to enhance customers' emotional experiences and help direct their decision making—in an ethical manner. The Beginnings of Behavioral Economics . . .

Contextualization of Children’s Drawings in the Perspective of Shape and Adaptation of Creation and the Model of Implementation on Learning Art at Elementary School

Abstract The research focused on the contextual problem contained in children’s drawing activity. The subjects of the research are the forms (themes, objects, media, and techniques) of drawings made by elementary school-aged children spread over four regencies of Yogyakarta Special Region. In addition, the research also discussed adaptation that influenced the selection of themes, objects, media, and techniques in the work. The study on form and adaptation were subsequently formulated into concepts that can be implemented in art education in elementary schools. The research implemented naturalistic inquiry approach with consideration of the social situation of children when drawing, which is the aspect of places, actors, and activities that interact synergistically. In addition, it also used qualitative method that is an interpretive approach that aims to gain an in-depth knowledge of a phenomenon that occurs at the time the research took place from various point of view of the known subject. The research found that objects drawn by children were drawn from direct and indirect experiences of mountains, beaches, planes, homes, trees, and humans. The themes that appear in children’s drawing are themes that are sourced from their daily life (micro cultural) such as playing at a friend’s house, fighting, taking a beach vacation, wildfire, and playing at the garden. This happens because of the various backgrounds of residential areas, preferences, television influences and electronic games. Based on these findings, the micro cultural concept becomes a part that should be prioritized in art education for elementary school students to maintain the child’s individualism attitude and instill local cultural values.

Watching wildlife in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay: tourist control or auto-control?

ABSTRACTCabo Polonio (Uruguay) is a popular but atypical centre for beach vacations, because tourists spend days without electricity, running water and vehicle. There is a continental pinniped colony that acts as secondary attraction, but there is not direct control over tourist visits to the rookery. Our objective was to evaluate the experience of visitors to this pinniped colony. We used questionnaires to determine the information used by tourists and to analyse their attitudes towards the colony conservation. To validate questionnaires, we also conducted direct observations of the tourist-pinniped interactions. Less than 15% of tourists received information, which was provided by local people. Most tourists saw the rookery as an important touristic attraction. There was total consensus about the requirement for wildlife information. Despite the lack of active supervision, most people behaved properly and complied with conservation measures: the probability that a tourist crossed the fence during a visit was only 0.002 (17 crosses in 902 hours). This positive attitude is possible related to the fact that tourists in Cabo Polonio, accept the discomfort of living without social commodities and welcome the closeness with nature. It is expected that most people will have a spontaneous predisposition to take care of nature.

Unique Rash After Beach Vacation

Unique Rash After Beach Vacation

Plbsearch: Growing with Linkedin

This case is used in Darden's Digital Marketing course elective. It explores the experience of a niche search firm whose founder attributed her ability to open her recruiting firm to LinkedIn and the new model of recruiting it created. LinkedIn Corporation had been one of the most successful companies in the digital media space, with more than 4,000 employees and a market capitalization of over $25.5 billion in August 2013. But few people knew how LinkedIn had grown and how it had become profitable. LinkedIn had multiple unique aspects to explore: its focus on professional--not simply personal--social interaction, the company's B2B components, and also its marketing positioning from user experience to targeting and growth strategy. Excerpt UVA-M-0858 Rev. Feb. 18, 2015 PLBsearch: Growing with LinkedIn Friday, August 2, 2012, was a hot summer afternoon in Washington, DC. Pepper Lunsford Binner updated her LinkedIn profile before clearing out the office for a beach vacation. She indicated that her employment as a recruiter at Korn/Ferry International had ended. She entered the name of her new firm: PLBsearch. By Saturday morning, she had four clients. She hadn't even bought her own laptop yet. (See Exhibit 1 for sample messages.) Before leaving her previous employer to open her own shop, Binner had prepared several things. She had budgeted for a drop in household income; she had planned for office space and the administrative needs of her own firm; she had also established a corporate identity and paid a marketing company $ 900 to prepare an announcement e-mail that she would send to her contacts when she and her family returned from vacation. She never sent the announcement e-mail. By simply updating her own employment status on LinkedIn, Binner had more clients than she was ready to take on. She remembered, “I was building this ship and flying it at the same time.” And Binner attributed her ability to open her own boutique recruiting firm to the very tool she used to announce her firm's founding. LinkedIn had transformed the recruiting process for everyone in the industry. Although Binner was a recruiter, she didn't take advantage of all of the features LinkedIn had designed for search firms. Even after operating her business for a full year, she still hadn't purchased LinkedIn's premium online tools. She had started a niche firm—and, at least so far, LinkedIn was serving her niche very affordably. The sales team contacted Binner at least once every quarter to upsell her, but wasn't having success. . . .

Факторный анализ показателей развития туризма в дестинациях Республики Крым


 Tourism is traditionally a priority sphere of Crimean economy development. This work is aimed to carry out a factor analysis of tourism development indicators of in coastal destinations in the Republic of Crimea and to identify the most significant parameters having a significant influence on the formation of the tourist flow. 
 This research is relevant because the financial and economic crisis, the decline in foreign investment volumes and prolongation of sanctions force to look for new approaches to the development of the state economy and its separate territories. Estimation of development prospects of international tourism allowed to establish that tourism - one of the most dynamic activities of the global economy. The authors give results of analysis of development trends of Crimean tourism. They show that tourism, despite the negative dynamics of individual indicators of financial and economic activity of the sanatorium and tourism enterprises in 2014, has great potential and is a priority activity of the Crimean economy. The authors propose to consider a destination as the ecological and economic system that prove the possibility of engaging tourist flows in the recreational area without compromising the sustainability of the natural environment. The indicators of tourism development in Crimea destinations are analyzed. They are grouped into two blocks - resulting and factor. The results of factor analysis revealed a high level of correlation between natural resources of destinations and the viability of the tourist business in the Republic of Crimea. It is also showed a high level of coherence between the result indicator "number of organized tourists" and the indicator "number of sites of cultural heritage". Conclusions of previously conducted market research of tourist preferences are confirmed. Vacationers visit the Crimea with one dominant purpose (mainly beach vacation and treatment), and other possibilities of destinations are secondary or have no role in their preferences. 

A Sea Sickness? Ecthyma Gangrenosum

A beach vacation in North Carolina was followed swiftly by a trip to the hospital. The patient, a 65-year-old woman who had spent a significant amount of time in the ocean, presented after several days of worsening fever, rash, and altered mental status. These symptoms began immediately after her stay at the seashore. She was being treated for recurrent endometrial carcinoma, stage IIIC1. Three weeks earlier, she had undergone her sixth cycle of docetaxel and carboplatin infusions and was at the time of presentation taking dexamethasone, 4 mg by mouth, twice daily.

Pediatricians Can Learn to Play Well With Others

Pediatricians Can Learn to Play Well With Others

Ultraviolet radiation exposure and HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk

(95% CI =0.15-0.86) for ≥5 times versus never, and HR=0.45 (95% CI=0.20-1.0) for 1-4 times versus never. Compared to men who have rarely taken a beach vacation in the last five years, men who occasionally have were at a significantly reduced risk of NHL (HR = 0.36, 95% CI=0.15-0.86). With respect to sunburn tendency, men who never blister were at reduced risk of NHL compared to men who occasionally blister, although this did not reach statistical significance (HR=0.45, 95% CI=0.191.06). Men with green or hazel eyes were at reduced risk of NHL compared to men with blue eyes, although this did not reach statistical significance (HR=0.38, 95% CI= 0.14-1.05). Conclusions Consistent with the NHL literature on HIV uninfected populations, we found that a high level of recreational sun exposure and a low level of sun sensitivity are associated with a decreased risk of NHL in the setting of HIV. Studies are currently underway to elucidate possible mechanisms for these associations, including a possible role of vitamin D.