Mystery Tour Research Articles

Closer to the Reality: An Opinion on Africa’s Industrialization Drive

The return to economic normalcy is predicted to be a mystery tour. Economies must be intentional about their effort to restore economic recovery and must be done expeditiously. A common channel to maintain a resilient economy and promote growth is industrialization. Unfortunately, the story is Africa on the subject, despite wide coverage in research, seems stunted. In this paper, we express our opinion on the subject highlighting the essence of “intentional” effort as key to the industrialization process. We raise awareness that the most successful path to economic development is through industrialization and that it is only achievable through conscious efforts. We limit our discussions to a few selected policies and strategies premised on their unique importance to the debate, in our opinion. We show that numerous policies have been unsuccessful due to a “lack of intentional and deliberate efforts” and a failure to give ample time to the process. For each policy we discuss, we demonstrate that a bold, aggressive, and “whatever-it-takes” approach will yield thriving results.

Staging mediatized tourism places as imagined playscapes: The crucial role of a tour designer

This study examines how a mediatized space becomes a “staged” place to play with, and provides a symbolic platform for performance-based, tourism experiences from a tour program design perspective. It focuses on the Detective Conan Mystery Tour, a derivative tourism product of Detective Conan, a Japanese mystery fiction media franchise. Applying the concept of “playscapes” as the theoretical lens, the findings indicate that creating fiction-driven places forms “imagined playscapes” through the endless negotiation process that occurs between tourists as consumers and tour designers and/or operators as producers. In this regard, tour designers play a crucial role in creating the imagined playscapes of the mediatized spaces, inviting tourist performance as a metaphor for an utterly authentic experience.

Magical mystery tour: The enigma of Indonesia education service during COVID-19 outbreak

The job competence and discipline are the important factors to improve the performance of individual who is attached with organization. However, few studies provide a better explanation in terms of the role of job competence and discipline in the education sector, especially the lecturers’ performance during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. This study applies the quantitative research methodology and has received 132 responded online questionnaires from the lecturers in Makassar area, Indonesia. This study finds that there is a significant relationship with a positive direction between job competence and discipline on the lecturers’ performance, and interestingly, the organization’s performance as well. The result of this study suggests that although the health crisis caused by the Corona virus recently impacts many sectors around the world, including service field in education, the lecturers, however, the job competence and discipline are still vital in every aspect of lecturers’ performance in both online and offline way during the social distancing procedure. Keywords: lecturer, education, job competence, job discipline, Covid-19;

Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 54, Issue 6 p. 1355-1370 Original Article Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour Kyungjae Jang, Corresponding Author Kyungjae Jang [email protected] Search for more papers by this author Kyungjae Jang, Corresponding Author Kyungjae Jang [email protected] Search for more papers by this author First published: 30 November 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13089Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume54, Issue6December 2021Pages 1355-1370 RelatedInformation

On a Magical Mystery Tour with 8-Bromo-Cyclic ADP-Ribose: From All-or-None Block to Nanojunctions and the Cell-Wide Web.

A plethora of cellular functions are controlled by calcium signals, that are greatly coordinated by calcium release from intracellular stores, the principal component of which is the sarco/endooplasmic reticulum (S/ER). In 1997 it was generally accepted that activation of various G protein-coupled receptors facilitated inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) production, activation of IP3 receptors and thus calcium release from S/ER. Adding to this, it was evident that S/ER resident ryanodine receptors (RyRs) could support two opposing cellular functions by delivering either highly localised calcium signals, such as calcium sparks, or by carrying propagating, global calcium waves. Coincidentally, it was reported that RyRs in mammalian cardiac myocytes might be regulated by a novel calcium mobilising messenger, cyclic adenosine diphosphate-ribose (cADPR), that had recently been discovered by HC Lee in sea urchin eggs. A reputedly selective and competitive cADPR antagonist, 8-bromo-cADPR, had been developed and was made available to us. We used 8-bromo-cADPR to further explore our observation that S/ER calcium release via RyRs could mediate two opposing functions, namely pulmonary artery dilation and constriction, in a manner seemingly independent of IP3Rs or calcium influx pathways. Importantly, the work of others had shown that, unlike skeletal and cardiac muscles, smooth muscles might express all three RyR subtypes. If this were the case in our experimental system and cADPR played a role, then 8-bromo-cADPR would surely block one of the opposing RyR-dependent functions identified, or the other, but certainly not both. The latter seemingly implausible scenario was confirmed. How could this be, do cells hold multiple, segregated SR stores that incorporate different RyR subtypes in receipt of spatially segregated signals carried by cADPR? The pharmacological profile of 8-bromo-cADPR action supported not only this, but also indicated that intracellular calcium signals were delivered across intracellular junctions formed by the S/ER. Not just one, at least two. This article retraces the steps along this journey, from the curious pharmacological profile of 8-bromo-cADPR to the discovery of the cell-wide web, a diverse network of cytoplasmic nanocourses demarcated by S/ER nanojunctions, which direct site-specific calcium flux and may thus coordinate the full panoply of cellular processes.

Get ready for your very own magical mystery tour

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Liverpool's Urban Imaginary: The Beatles and Tourism Fanscapes

Destinations continually seek creative ways to market their destination by celebrating popular histories or individuals. For Liverpool, there is one band with such international recognition that the city seeks to capitalize on. Popular Beatles fanscapes are woven into the fabric and narrative of Liverpool and they are part of the city’s unique music identity. Geographers (Kruse), destination marketers (Whang, Yong, and Ko), popular culture experts (Julien), and cultural historians (Stark) have conducted previous academic research acknowledging the Beatles. However, no study has positioned the Beatles alongside literatures that unite tourism with authenticity and fanscapes using co-constructed autoethnography. This paper utilizes a method of autoethnography to critically position meanings that align with place identity and authenticity, along with tangible and intangible heritage—thereby creating sentiment of popular memory. The four members of the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are from Liverpool and in many ways are synonymous with the city as they are embedded in the story of Liverpool since they became famous in the 1960s (Cohen). To attract Beatles fans from around the globe, destination managers, planners, and private stakeholders have found creative ways to display and disseminate sites and places of and for the Beatles. Notable spaces and places around Liverpool include: The Cavern Quarter, Hard Days Night Hotel, The Beatles Story (in the Albert Dock), John, Paul, Ringo, and George Statues in Pier Head, Magical Mystery Tour, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, John Lennon Airport, as well as numerous features hidden in the city, each memorialize the Beatles as part of the city’s urban imaginary and popular music culture. This study critically explores these spaces and places of popular fandom, developed as an autoethnography (of the authors who are Beatles fans and new Liverpool residents). I (first-author) critically reflect on experiences as they relate to tourism and Liverpool’s urban imaginary. The co-authors (second-author and third-author) help reinforce, confirm, and challenge place meanings, popular imaginaries, and the consumption of the Beatles. Conceptually this paper contributes to the popular culture studies literature by focusing on a band, fanscapes and the urban imaginary, using a critical self-reflective approach and personal experiences while referring to academic literature on placemaking and authenticity.

New books & media

Supernova EraSection:ChooseTop of pageSupernova Era <<How To: Absurd Scientific...The Cosmic Mystery Tour: ...The Women of the Moon: Ta... Supernova Era, Cixin Liu, trans. Joel Martinsen, Tor, 2019, $27.99 Science fiction author Cixin Liu won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Three-Body Problem, which combined a gripping science-fiction mystery with a haunting meditation on the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. A similar eerie melancholy winds its way through his new novel Supernova Era, which imagines a world in which a supernova causes irreparable damage to the cells of anyone over 13, meaning that within a year only the world’s children will be left alive. The novel critiques existing national and international political systems, but Liu’s post-adult world is no “children are the future” utopia; conflict and violence endure even with the grown-ups gone. It’s not soothing bedtime reading, but fans of The Three-Body Problem will be eager to get their hands on Liu’s latest. —mb How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World ProblemsSection:ChooseTop of pageSupernova EraHow To: Absurd Scientific... <<The Cosmic Mystery Tour: ...The Women of the Moon: Ta... How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Randall Munroe, Riverhead Books, 2019, $28.00 Former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe is the mind behind xkcd.com, arguably the internet’s most popular science-related comic strip. Munroe brings his distinctive stick-figure art into the delightful How To. Each chapter considers the physics-related obstacles associated with an unlikely undertaking—say, returning an online order from outer space or flying your house to a new location by quadcopter. Munroe even puts some of his scenarios to the test—for example, he recruits tennis legend Serena Williams to determine how effective a tennis serve would be at hitting a small drone out of the air. The book is a great coffee-table read, and Munroe’s use of physics calculations also makes it a potential source of teaching material for introductory physics classes. —mb The Cosmic Mystery Tour: A High-Speed Journey through Space and TimeSection:ChooseTop of pageSupernova EraHow To: Absurd Scientific...The Cosmic Mystery Tour: ... <<The Women of the Moon: Ta... The Cosmic Mystery Tour: A High-Speed Journey through Space and Time, Nicholas Mee, Oxford U. Press, 2019, $24.95 “Mystery tour”—a short trip that people take for pleasure without knowing where they are going—aptly describes this brief introduction to the universe by theoretical physicist Nicholas Mee. In fewer than 200 pages, Mee covers a lot of ground: He discusses the history of the cosmos and the laws governing it, recent cutting-edge research and instrumentation, and the giants of science who have worked to make sense of it all. The information is delivered in sections of just a few paragraphs each and illustrated by more than 100 photos, diagrams, and images. Rather than study it cover to cover, readers can open it up anywhere and plunge in. —cc The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and CourageSection:ChooseTop of pageSupernova EraHow To: Absurd Scientific...The Cosmic Mystery Tour: ...The Women of the Moon: Ta... << The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage, Daniel R. Altschuler and Fernando J. Ballesteros, Oxford U. Press, 2019, $26.95 Of the 1586 lunar craters named after philosophers and scientists, just 28 are named for women, write physics professor Daniel Altschuler and astronomer Fernando Ballesteros. The Women of the Moon centers on those 28, their lives, and scientific contributions. Beginning with a history of the Moon, the authors dedicate each of the subsequent chapters to a different woman, starting with Hypatia, a mathematician and astronomer born circa 355 CE, and continuing chronologically to modern-day Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Although many of the subjects are well known, such as astronomer Caroline Herschel, others are more obscure, like Anne Sheepshanks, an astronomical philanthropist. The biographical sketches include black-and-white images of the women and their namesake craters. —cc © 2019 American Institute of Physics.

Adolescents and Cancer Clinical Trials: A MaGIC Mystery Tour.

Adolescents and Cancer Clinical Trials: A MaGIC Mystery Tour.

Ten key features of the future medical school—not an impossible dream

Significant developments in medical education are necessary if medical schools are to respond to the pressures from advances in medicine, changes in health care delivery, and patient and public expectations. This article describes 10 key features of the medical school of the future: the move from the ivory tower to the real world, from just-in-case learning to just-in-time learning, from the basic science clinical divide to full integration, from undervalued teaching and the teacher to recognition of their importance, from the student as a client to the student as partner, from a mystery tour to a mapped journey, from standard uniform practice to an adaptive curriculum, from a failure to exploit learning technology to its effective and creative use, from assessment of learning to assessment for learning, and from working in isolation to greater collaboration. A move in the directions specified is necessary and possible. With some of the changes proposed already happening, it is not an impossible dream.

Carlos L. Ballaré.

Carlos L. Ballaré.

Las Heras: An Imagined Future. Stories of an Emerging World

The estate Las Heras lies close to Girona in Spain. I was taken there by my client, in the form of a mystery tour. We arrived at a large house within 350 hectares. I felt instant affinity to this place before leaving the car. I asked my client: “Why did you buy this?” He answered: “…that is YOUR project – to tell ME!” The land exuded a sense of place which appeared irrational. Time and neglect had taken its toll on the main house and work began to repair the building. The estate has a long and tumultuous history; the past informs the present and creates context for the experience of the place. The future required a possible description. A narrative (novella) was an indulgence that allowed exploration of what might happen in the formation of the place. The book exists as a plan, a gazetteer volume of information, and a cookbook, intended to stimulate and encourage. The emerging project’s starting point is as an educational resource for anyone; particularly for architectural and art institutions.

The Gunning of America as Magical Mystery Tour: Talking to the Dead

Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (Basic Books, 2015) does something that no other serious book has done: it causes me to question the rationality of the author based on her apparent belief in the ability of mediums to communicate with the dead. Almost as disturbing is her belief that her religious beliefs are a legitimate basis for public policy.

SAGES presidential address: a SAGES Magical Mystery Tour.

The last time SAGES met in Nashville was in 1994—in this same venue in fact. The SAGES President was George Berci and so it is a special privilege to be standing here where Dr Berci gave his address 21 years ago almost to the day. Moreover, when I consider the icons of minimally invasive surgery and fathers of the laparoscopic revolution who have been in this position, I am indeed humbled and incredibly honored to have had the opportunity to serve as your SAGES President this past year.

Interprofessional education: The magical mystery tour now less of a mystery.

Interprofessional education (IPE) is on today's agenda in medical education as a response to advances in medicine, the changes that have taken place in healthcare delivery, and pressures from the public and the profession. Although attention has focused on IPE in the later stages of the education program, there are benefits to be gained from the introduction of IPE in the early years. Curriculum developments supporting this include the adoption of outcome-based education and vertical integration. There is also a recognition that students' attitudes and biases are formed early in their education and the appropriate learning environment in the early years is important. Interprofessional education in the early years can also be seen as a part of a more general trend to greater collaboration in the delivery of an education program in the healthcare professions. Anatomy by incorporating IPE can help shape the future of medical education as well as being shaped by it. The possibility of success or failure with IPE can be captured with the equation IPE = (V × I)/N, where V = the IPE vision, I = the implementation strategy and N = negative perceptions of the approach. Success is more likely where there is a well thought out and shared vision for what is to be achieved, an appropriate implementation strategy and a plan to counteract a negative mind-set.

Magical Mystery Tour: Failures From The Beatles’ Self-Managed Era and Lessons for Today’s DIY Musicians

IntroductionThe Beatles, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, are arguably the most popular musical group of all time. Based upon music sales, cultural and musical influence, and posthumous interest (Lennon and Harrison are dead), one can argue that the Beatles have meant more to popular music than Benny Goodman, John Coltrane, or Elvis Presley. This doesn't mean the Beatles themselves were infallible. As artists, they were close to infallible. But as businessmen, their poor decisions and lack of experience clearly showed their weaknesses as individuals and as group.The purpose of this paper is to describe the mistakes the Beatles made in the era between the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in August 1967 and May 1969 when John Lennon, George Harrison, and Richard Starkey (but not Paul McCartney) contracted the services of new manager, Allen Klein.While this 21-month period was musically creative whirlwind for the band, it was also the beginning of its demise. From egos to depression, personal growth to poor communication, drugs, ignorance, passing whims, and general lethargy, this stretch of time taxed these four men in more ways than they could understand. When it was over, Klein presided over disbanded collection of individuals who proceeded to sue and counter-sue each other (and Klein) for years.Today's DIY (do-it-yourself) musician culture can learn more from the Beatles than how to write, arrange, and record memorable song. This study will delineate those lessons so musicians and artists can learn from the blunders and misjudgments made by the most popular musical group of all time.The Brian Epstein YearsTrivial Pursuit fans and hardcore Beatles purists probably know that the first manager of the Beatles was not Brian Epstein, the son of furniture shop owner and operator of NEMS, Liverpool's biggest record store.1 The band's first manager was Allan Williams, a hard-drinking figure who flourished on the fringes of Liverpool's rough-and-tumble night life.2 Williams booked early gigs for the Beatles, the most important being their first lengthy stay in Hamburg, Germany, at the Indra club and then the Kaiserkeller.3 After the Beatles were deported for working underage, Williams helped obtain work permits for the group in early 1961.4 The group returned to residency in Germany at The Top Ten Club, playing six to seven hours of music each night.5 Williams stayed loosely in touch but ceased running the group's affairs.Upon the band's return to Liverpool, they began playing lunchtime concerts at The Cavern Club. Sporting new haircuts fashioned by former bassist Stuart Sutcliffe's girlfriend, Astrid Kirchherr,6 and live performance style honed from hundreds of hours playing in front of what Paul McCartney described as fat Germans,7 the group soon earned the attention of Brian Epstein in October 1961. Epstein didn't fall in love with the music he heard, but he did sense something special among the foursome. He considered managing the group and asked the opinion of Williams, who suggested they'd ultimately let him down,8 especially since the Beatles still owed Williams commission for the Hamburg shows.9Regardless of what Williams thought, Epstein decided to forge his own path. They are awful, but I think they're fabulous, he said.10 The awfulness to which he was referring was the band's attire, including black leather jackets and high black boots.When Epstein explained his intentions to the band, there was initially no contract. He was twenty-seven year old, well-dressed Jewish man with what the group thought was wealthy background. Based upon the band's lower to lower-middle class backgrounds, Epstein's station in life meant something. He met with them few times, including once with their families. When he finally told the band he wanted to manage them, the answer came from John: Right then, Brian, he said. …

Validation of a 24 h recall questionnaire culturally modified for use in rural south Indian populations

Validation of a 24 h recall questionnaire culturally modified for use in rural south Indian populations

Magical mystery tour: MLO proteins in plant immunity and beyond.

Stable heritable restriction of the ubiquitous powdery mildew disease is a desirable trait for agri and horticulture. In barley (Hordeum vulgare), loss-of-function mutant alleles of the Mildew resistance locus o (Mlo) gene confer broad-spectrum resistance to almost all known isolates of the fungal barley powdery mildew pathogen, Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei. Despite extensive cultivation of barley mlo genotypes, mlo resistance has been durable in the field. Mlo genes are present as small families in the genomes of all higher plant species. The presumed negative regulatory role of particular members in plant immunity is evolutionarily conserved, as powdery mildew resistant mlo mutants have also been described in Arabidopsis thaliana, tomato(Solanum lycopersicum) and pea (Pisum sativum). Barley Mlo encodes a plasma membrane-localized seven-transmembrane domain protein of unknown biochemical activity. Here, we review the known requirements for mlo-mediated disease resistance in barley and Arabidopsis and reflect current views regarding Mlo function. We discuss additional mlo mutant phenotypes recently discovered in Arabidopsis and present a meta-analysis of the phylogenetic relationships within the Mlo family. Finally, we consider the novel versatile tools for functional analysis and targeted genome modification that can be used to induce mlo-based powdery mildew resistance in virtually any plant species.

Crowd-Sourcing Romantic Alienation: Following The Following

Crowd-Sourcing Romantic Alienation: Following <i>The Following</i>

Why is the class number of $\mathbb Q(\root 3\of {11})$ even?

In this article we will describe a surprising observation that occurred in the construction of quadratic unramified extensions of a family of pure cubic number fields. Attempting to find an explanation will lead us on a magical mystery tour through the land of pure cubic number fields, Hilbert class fields, and elliptic curves.