Places Of Interest Research Articles

Projekty tras turystycznych prowadzących przez obszary zieleni miejskiej Krakowa jako przykłady rozwoju turystyki i ekspozycji dziedzictwa kulturowego – dydaktyka, praktyka

Krakow is one of Poland’s most important cultural heritage treasures, but many tourists only visit the city’s iconinc and world-famous monuments. Far fewer people take a walk around the entire Old Town, visit the former suburbs of Krakow, not to mention the parts further afield. The reason for this can be attributed, among other things, to an insufficient number of marked tourist routes that would, on the one hand, encourage people to visit these areas and, on the other hand, be a motivating factor for better exposition of valuable landscape forms. Such measures are already becoming increasingly popular in Poland, also in rural areas, where newly designed tourist routes serve to exhibit even the smallest forms of cultural heritage and encourage tourists to visit a given region. This paper presents student designs of tourist routes running along the northern and southern sides of Krakow’s Old Town, together with the result of the pre-design research on which they were based. From a didactic point of view, they provided an opportunity to sensitise future landscape architects to the beauty and necessity of protecting and displaying Poland’s cultural heritage, both within and outside historic cities. When made available to the public, these routes can encourage people to visit more places of interest in and around the old town of Krakow, with a particular attention to the various forms of urban greenery, as well as their better exhibition and, in turn, the revalorisation of non-existent or forgotten landscape elements.

Multi-Source Data-Driven Quality Assessment of Waterfront Public Spaces in Urban Contexts

Quality assessment of public spaces is critical in sustainably enhancing urban spatial quality. Existing studies focus on fundamental indicators (e.g., geographic accessibility, planning rationality, and social benefits) and often rely on geographic big data as the primary research input. However, multidimensional interactive analyses that integrate users, places, and spatial configurations are often lacking, making it hard to capture actual user needs and satisfaction levels precisely. To address this issue, we propose a multi-source data-driven approach for spatial quality evaluation, where three types of data (user satisfaction (people), points of interest (places), and urban morphology (space)) are combined. Through a comprehensive comparison of nine representative high-quality waterfront public spaces with multi-source data, common characteristics that are crucial for assessing waterfront public space quality in urban contexts have been analyzed and discussed. The results reveal three key factors significantly influencing waterfront public space quality: the spatial distribution, land-use attributes, and proportion of types of service facilities. First, service facilities with the highest user satisfaction tend to exhibit clustered spatial patterns. Second, municipal and commercial functions play a leading role in spatial quality. Thirdly, a suitable ratio of service facility types is advantageous for enhancing user satisfaction. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation requires consideration of facility distributions, urban morphologies, and surrounding land-use functions. The proposed multi-source data-driven approach holds great potential for developing innovative and sustainable waterfront design strategies.

Becoming a Data Scientist: An Impractical Guide

I remember being an undergrad math major, knowing that math was a simultaneously fun and powerful tool, but not quite understanding how I could be a “professional mathematician,” or what that even meant. Sure, math is everywhere, but at the time I needed something a bit more concrete than a vague gesture in the direction of everywhere. Today, I still don’t know everywhere that math is, but I’ve found a few interesting places. This is a story about those places. It’s the story of life on the tenure track, around the newsroom, and in industry. It’s also the story of some of the meaningful people and ideas I met with along the way. But mostly, this is the story of how I became a data scientist.

Validation Tool for Chemistry Teaching Innovations: Polytomous Rasch, Confirmatory Factor, and Reliability Analyses

The study developed and validated the Chemistry Teaching Innovations Validation (CTIV) tool to meet the changing needs of chemistry teaching and enhance student engagement and understanding. The CTIV tool, built on the ADDIE concept, has five main components: pedagogical approach, content relevance, technology integration, assessment strategies, and teacher support and professional development. Item creation, scale formulation, and scale evaluation were all part of the validation process, including thorough testing for validity and reliability. Seven experts validated the created items, fifteen in-service teachers further improved and verified the items as included in the scale, and 264 in-service teachers participated in the pilot-testing of the revised tool. The CTIV was evaluated using various statistical analyses, including the infit and outfit values, which confirmed its reliability. The robustness of the instrument was validated by strong Cronbach’s alpha values and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), which showed good internal consistency and precise measurement of the desired components. The CTIV tool offers teachers a systematic way to assess and use teaching innovations, guaranteeing conformity to curricular requirements and improving the quality of Chemistry education. With the help of this comprehensive validation tool, which connects theory and practice in education, Chemistry and Science classrooms can become more productive and interesting places to learn.

The Potential for Religious Tourism in the Panchakoshi Area of Dailekh

Religious tourism has been gaining increasing attention as a potential contributor to the local economy. This study explores the potential for religious tourism in the Panchakoshi area of Dailekh district, Nepal. The study exploits mixed research design, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups, to examine the current situation of religious tourism in the area, identify its potential strengths and weaknesses, and explore strategies for promoting its growth. This study is based on primary data collected in 2024 using purposive sampling methods. A total no of 57 respondents were surveyed from three local municipalities in the Panchakoshi area, and priests and monks from the pilgrimage sites. Religious tourism preserves valuable natural, architectural, religious, and cultural heritages that are unknown to outside societies. The potential of inaccessible places is closely linked to dimensional social aspects such as art, culture, and architecture. The opportunities for associated residents through a rational combination of nature, human skills, and social capital, with an accumulation of several entices the visitors so that the rational management of the tourist sites, cultural heritages, and places of interest could foster pilgrimage tourism and contribute to state development. The findings suggest the significant potential as a religious tourism destination. However, the area faces inadequate infrastructure, limited marketing and promotion, and a lack of coordination among stakeholders. This includes investments in infrastructure, improved marketing and promotion, and greater collaboration among stakeholders. Overall, the study highlights the potential of religious tourism as a tool for promoting economic development and cultural preservation in the Panchakoshi area and beyond.

A motor rally across Transbaikalia

A motor rally across Transbaikalia was held 5-11 July 2022 by the crew consisting of Anastasia Repina, Elena Grigoryeva and Anna Loginova. The aim of the rally was small towns of the region, participation in the festival of these towns, author’s supervision of the implementation of the projects by the Siberian Laboratory of Urbanistics, several places of interest and personal reasons.

К вопросу повышения эффективности использования земельных ресурсов сельских территорий Апшеронского района Краснодарского края

The article presents the results of research on the level of realization of the land potential of rural areas of the Absheron district, Krasnodar Territory. The results of the Methodology for assessing the land potential of the Absheron district of the Krasnodar Territory, developed by a group of employees of the Kuban State Agrarian University, are considered and analyzed. The dynamics of changes in the land fund of the district over the past 4 years is given, a reduction in the area of agricultural land is revealed. The problems of using agricultural land have been identified, which have developed due to the inconvenient location of agricultural land that does not have a single solid land mass. It is concluded that the configuration, areas and locations of agricultural land have determined the main directions in the specialization of agricultural production in the district. The dynamics of changes in the acreage of fruit and berry plantations in the Absheron municipal district in the period from 2012 to 2023 is considered. A significant decrease in the sown area of pome, stone and nut-bearing fruit and berry plantations has been revealed. The directions of activity of the settlements of the Absheron district are considered. The assessment of the influence of natural and climatic factors on the specialization of the agricultural complex and the development of the rural economy of the Absheron municipal district is given. The main directions for the optimal use of the land potential of rural areas in the Absheron municipal district are proposed. It is concluded that for an objective assessment of the land potential of rural areas, it is necessary to consider not only the factor of the availability of agricultural land, but also the features of the geographical location, structure of the land fund and places of interest of the district, which should be the basis for a promising direction of socio-economic development of the district.

Sustainable Management of Cities with a Focus on the Spread of Pollution in the Built Environment Using Information Modeling

The sustainable development of settlements is increasingly linked to the development of information technologies, which can help identify critical and risky locations based on already detected information. By properly utilizing the advantages of individual systems, effective simulations can be created that will help municipal administrators ensure the expected quality of the environment or mitigate the impacts of the negative effects of the external environment. This article presents an example of the synthesis of several systems used in building information modeling and uses them for modeling and simulating external factors in the built environment. By appropriate application of the methods, places of interest that are affected by the negative effects of air flow, or the spread of pollution through the built environment, were illustratively visualized. The presented study was created based on publicly available data on air pollution in the territory of Ostrava city.

The Role of English language in global tourism and navigating international destination

English is now a popular language to learn by travelers who want to interact with local communities, as its knowledge has become fundamental for the tourism sector. A lot of scholars are trying to explore how English as a lingua franca can elevate the experience for the visitors who are new in a country and improve how tourism and culture are interdependent. The research focuses on English language usage in the tourism sector such as welcoming and orienting visitors, managing trips, or inter-regional relations. This is done by narrowing down to the languages, places of interests and the cultures that underpin the research. Using different scholarly researches, industry statistics, and project examples, this study seeks to stress the importance of the English language in global tourism and tug at the idea of deploying that international language for tourism to promote language and societal change. , It is concerned with impacting English language skills on the experience of the tourists. It looks at how good knowledge of the English language enables tourism players to reach more clients and improve the experience of tourism to the clients. Thus through better interaction in English, tourists’ overall experiences are improved in terms of satisfaction with the places and services.

Анализ обеспеченности регионов Российской Федерации туристскими картами

Russia is a vast country with a wide variety of natural, cultural and historic places of interest. Therefore, domestic tourism is a favorite leisure activity for many citizens, and an appreciable source of income in many regions of the country. An important means of developing domestic tourism are maps. A good tourist map broadens the user`s horizons and attracts his attention to new previously unfamiliar places. In this regard, development of domestic tourism involves, among other things, increasing the volume of cartographic production and improving its quality. However, for further successful development of the industry, it is necessary to analyze its present and past experience. So, the authors assessed the provision of the RF entities with tourist maps. Hard copies from The Cartographic Collection of The Russian State Library were used as initial data. The number of published maps compiled for different regions were compared with the official reports of Federal State Statistics Service on the number of visiting tourists. The results showed that a significant part of the mentioned product in the territories was published in the 1980-1990s. Modern maps (published after 2010) cover approximately one third of them. So it turns out, that such maps are often compiled not for the entire area, but for its parts most interesting for tourists. In the opinion of the authors, such an approach contributes to artificial reduction of people’s horizons and underestimation of the region’s potential. No direct relationship was found between the volume of the tourist flow and the provision of the entity with maps. In conclusion, the authors propose a procedure for quantitative assessment of the matter considered, which will allow ranking the territories by the level of solving it. Fulfillment of this task is the immediate prospect of the study. In our plans there is an analysis of provision of the RF regions with digital and electronic tourist maps, including web ones

PROMOTION OF INDONESIAN WOMEN JAZZ MUSICIANS WITH E-ZINES: STRATEGIES AND BEST PRACTICES

Apart from being an education city, Malang City is famous for educational tourism. The city of Malang has an interesting place that can be a reference for studying the history, development and variety of music in the country, namely the Indonesian Music Museum (MMI) which is located which holds a collection of more than 26,000 musical works. This museum is the only music museum in the country. The obstacle encountered by MMI as a service partner is the limited museum promotional content uploaded on digital platforms. So far, the content usually produced is limited to museum collections, such as collections of cassettes, vinyl, and books about musicians as well as photos of activities. This paper explores the use of e-zines as a strategic tool for promoting Indonesian women jazz musicians, focusing on effective strategies and best practices for maximizing their impact. The study examines how e-zines, leveraging their multimedia capabilities and interactive features, can provide a dynamic platform for showcasing the talent and achievements of these artists. By analyzing various case studies and successful examples, the paper identifies key strategies such as engaging storytelling, high-quality content production, and targeted audience outreach. These strategies are crucial for enhancing visibility, building a dedicated fan base, and fostering greater appreciation for Indonesian women in the jazz genre. In addition to outlining effective promotional tactics, the paper delves into best practices for e-zine development and distribution. It emphasizes the importance of consistent content updates, professional presentation, and integration with social media channels to maximize reach and engagement. The findings offer valuable insights for e-zine creators, music promoters, and the artists themselves, providing a comprehensive framework for leveraging digital platforms to support and elevate the profiles of Indonesian women jazz musicians. This approach not only aids in the individual advancement of these artists but also contributes to the broader recognition and growth of Indonesia’s jazz scene on the global stage.

Effective warm‐ups in the German‐language classroom: Form and function

AbstractThis article explores three questions developed to be central to the creation and implementation of an effective classroom warm‐up: Does it help jumpstart students’ use of German? Can it capture students’ attention? And does it encourage building rapport through providing opportunities for personal expression or relevance? Based on my experience as an instructor for the first and second semesters of the German language sequence at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, I argue that a well‐constructed warm‐up in a German language course is more than a low stakes invitation to cultivate a mindset conducive to the demands of language learning; it is an opportunity to begin learning from a place of genuine interest, trust, and confidence. By implementing warm‐ups with the guidelines outlined in this article in mind, mnemonically referred to as JARR (Jumpstarting language use, capturing Attention, and building Rapport through Relevance) warm‐ups, instructors can set students up for success not only for the next hour of learning, but also for their entire language journey—all in the first 5 minutes of class.

A spatial analysis of mental health-related calls for service in Atlantic City, New Jersey

ABSTRACT Objective Police officers often find themselves responding to calls that do not involve criminal behavior, but calls related to individuals experiencing emotional distress or mental illness that requires police response. This research aims to identify high-risk places of mental health calls for service (MHCFS) in an urban setting and compare place features of these locations by police response (locations where a CIT-trained officer is dispatched versus a non-trained officer dispatched). Data/Methods Our research uses Atlantic City Police Department’s calls for service data from 1 January 2019 through 30 December 2022, including the incidents of mental incompetence with location components. After removing the calls that were not coded as mental health, a total of 2229 incidents involving perceived mental illness were geocoded and compared. We used RTMDx software to generate risk terrain models for MHCFS in Atlantic City, NJ. Findings The RTM analysis yielded no association between places of interest and MHCFS for calls involving non-CIT-trained officers. Yet, we identified five high-risk activity spaces of MHCFS where officers with CIT training were involved. Grocery stores (RRV = 2.873), places of leisure (RRV = 2.764), Health & Wellness Facilities (RRV = 2.624), Eateries & Restaurants (RRV = 2.547), and Convenience & Variety Stores (RRV = 2.280) are the risk factors identified by the RTM analysis. Given the characteristics of places identified by risk-terrain modeling, we reason that the characteristics of these places indicate that individuals experiencing perceived or actual mental health problems hang out in spaces with ease of access and in spaces where they can stay relatively longer with minimal attention. Conclusion Our research suggests that there is an association between spatial factors and MHCFS that are responded to by CIT-trained officers. City officials should consider deploying additional resources and mental health staff to these places to address the issue of mental health in urban settings. Future research should consider testing whether the places we identified in our analysis are also high-risk places for MHCFS in other urban environments.

Использование робот-ассистированных трепан-биопсий забрюшинных опухолевидных образований под контролем мультиспиральной компьютерной томографии

Various types of tumors, both benign and malignant, can be localized in the retroperitoneal space, which can develop not only in retroperitoneal organs, but also originate from nerves, connective or lymphatic tissue. Their pathomorphological diagnosis is relevant for the appointment of adequate treatment. There is a technique of percutaneous core-biopsy of such formations under the control of multispiral computed tomography, most often carried out by the "free hand" method. However, high radiation exposure not only to the patient, but also to the interventionist doctor are its negative sides. The author has developed a robotic device that automatically inserts a biopsy needle into the "place of interest". It was used for diagnostic punctures in the retroperitoneal space in 24 patients. In the control retrospective group, punctures were performed using the "free hand" method in 20 patients. The authors reveal an enhancement of the accuracy of puncture in the main group, a reduction in the amount of complications and of the duration of manipulation. The latter, along with the exclusion of radiation exposure to medical personnel, made it possible to reduce it on the subject.

Comparison of the definite article in Gothic and Greek: a case study of the Gospel of Mark

This paper examines the usage of the definite article in the Gothic version of the Gospel of Mark and its parallel Greek counterpart, which served as the foundation for the Gothic translation. While the Gothic text is often considered a literal reflection of the Greek text, our analysis reveals significant differences between the two languages, particularly concerning the definite article. These disparities extend beyond mere quantity and encompass variations in grammatical cases, namely nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative. The analysis of the Gospel of Mark yields the following overall perspective. In 421 instances (equivalent to 20.83% of the total 2021 attested places of interest), Gothic mirrors Greek by employing definite articles in the same positions as Greek. Moreover, in 737 instances (equivalent to 36.46% of the total 2021 attested places of interest), Gothic aligns with Greek by omitting definite articles where Greek does not use them. Notably, out of the total 2021 instances of interest in the Gospel of Mark, Gothic omits the definite article 863 times where Greek includes it, accounting for 42.70% of the total instances. Specifically, at Gothic parts of speech (usually nouns) appearing in the nominative case, the article is omitted 241 times (27.92% out of 863), in the genitive case 117 times (13.55% out of 863), in the dative case 248 times (28.73% out of 863), and in the accusative case 257 times (29.77% out of 863). Taken together, in 1158 instances (57.29% of 2021) Gothic faithfully follows Greek, either by employing definite articles (421 instances) or by omitting them (737 instances) in corresponding positions, whereas in 863 instances (42.70% of 2021) Gothic deviates from Greek by not using definite articles in corresponding positions. To facilitate our study, we have created a manually annotated corpus of the Gothic Bible since existing corpora of Gothic do not adequately address this phenomenon. Thus, like our previous investigations, this empirical study relies on a corpus-based analysis.

Affinities and Complementarities of Methods and Information Sets in the Estimation of Prices in Real Estate Markets

ABSTRACTIn this article, we evaluate the predictive power of multiple machine learning methods using different sets of information, such as location, amenities, socioeconomic characteristics, and available infrastructure nearby, in both residential and commercial real estate markets. This analysis allows us to understand what type of information is the most relevant for each market, which methods are best suited for certain explanatory variables, and the degree of complementarity among different covariates. Our results indicate that the combination of multiple data sources consistently leads to better forecasting and that flexible machine learning models outperform linear regression or spatial methods by taking advantage of the complex interactions between explanatory variables of different sources. From a substantive point of view, we found that residential sale markets have a higher prediction error compared with their rent counterparts, with house sales being the market with the largest estimation error. In terms of the explanatory power of different information sets in different markets, we observe that socioeconomic and location variables have the highest impact on the prediction for sale markets and that, in relative terms, amenities and proximity to places of interest are more important for rental than sale residential markets.

Issues on Tourism and Destination Management in Karnali Province, Nepal

This paper argues that numerous tourist destinations exist in the developing zone of Nepal, particularly in the Karnali province. Many florae and fauna are available in the zone that the panoramic tourist products ever tempt the visitors, which demand for intensive studies of culture, livelihood and public dynamics. Several hills, peaks and mountains in this zone attract tourists and create pressure to the concerned authority to take right actions on time. Several places of interests in different parts of the area still need appropriate management, which would produce the best income resources for the state to invest in the development sectors. This is the productive realm of medicinal herbs that the users still use it irrationally throughout the territory without appropriate workforce. The data were collected from 33 respondents with key informant interview, focus group discussion and personal communications. The invaluable resources available in this area are of multiple significance which export would bring huge amount for financial reservoir of a country. For comprehensive development of the region tourism, hydropower, medicinal herbs, rafting, paragliding, nature, ethnic tourism are the best means for knowledge creation there as well. The responsible state authorities must take appropriate steps in managing the multiple issues through public participation in order to convert the recent status of the territory.

Factors Influence of Residents to Work Abroad (Case Study: Klungkung Regency, Bali Province, Indonesia)

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that influence residents to work abroad. The data used in this study are primary data obtained by distributing questionnaires to residents of Klungkung Regency who work abroad. Factor analysis is used to analyze the research data. The research variables include: limited employment opportunities, low in-come in the area of origin, opportunities to get better income, wide and diverse employment opportunities, encouragement from parents, getting better education/skills opportunities, the existence of interesting activities or places in the destination area, invitations from relatives or siblings, many family members in the destination country, transportation costs, living costs, and other costs that are obstacles to the destination area, the distance between the area of origin and the destination area is an option in choosing the destination country. The results of the study showed that there were three factors that in-fluenced respondents to work abroad, these factors were: 1) economic factors with an eigenvalue of 2.373 and a variance of 29.665%, 2) individual factors with an eigenvalue of 1.956 and a variance of 24.445%, 3) destination factors with an eigenvalue of 1.281 and a variance of 16.013. The total variance that could be explained from the three factors formed was 70.124%. The most influential dominant factor was the economic factor which was able to explain 29.665%.

Assessing the Distinctive Character of a Sign Referencing a Place of Interest

Assessing the Distinctive Character of a Sign Referencing a Place of Interest

Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Tourism in Outer Space

Purpose: This article primarily explores the benefits and challenges of outer space tourism and also makes the case that a new international convention is desperately needed since the space tourism business cannot be supported by the current legal framework. Methodology: This research will be carefully conducted by providing an overview of the history space tourism. The concept will be understood by a survey of the literature on the types of space tourism, and the theories of space tourism. A thorough analysis will be carried to analyze the benefits and legal challenges of space tourism and also identify the gaps in the international space law framework that pertain to space tourism. The essay used papers from conferences, academic books, and articles. Findings: Man has always been a curious creature, eager to discover and visit new and interesting places. Since the beginning of the space age, the prospect of conducting open space missions has been a secret agenda item for the spacefaring nations. The next logical step for tourism might be space travel. Space tourism seeks to provide easy access to thrilling destinations for leisure and adventure. People are constantly seeking for new places to visit. People aspire to transcend boundaries and travel beyond, even to the heavens. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy (Recommendations): Even though space tourism has many advantages, getting to space presents new commercial, legal, and technical difficulties as well as advances. The booming space tourism business cannot be supported by the current space law regime because "the backbone of international space law” is too inflexible to be a stabile basis for space tourism The advantages of space tourism, the difficulties it presents in the age of commercialization, and the policies and governance that must be in place for space travel to be effective are all covered in this article.