Random Visitors Research Articles

The Role of Pharmacists and Community Pharmacies in the Screening, Knowledge, and Awareness of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in Jordanian People Visiting Community Pharmacies.

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes is increasing exponentially worldwide and will become more prevalent than ever in the Middle East by 2045, with a 110% increase. This study aims to clarify the role of pharmacists and community pharmacies in the screening, knowledge, and awareness of Type 2 diabetes among Jordanian people who visit community pharmacies in Amman, Jordan. Study design: This was a cross-sectional prospective study that was conducted from September to December 2021 in Amman, Jordan. Data were collected using a standardized questionnaire that was composed of multiple parts. The first part collected information on demographics, residence, educational level, and insurance status; the second part was composed of 14 knowledge assessing questions; the last part was composed of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) diabetes risk score card test. Additionally, after confirming that each participant had returned their completed sheets, participants who scored greater than 5 had their blood sugar levels checked using a finger-prick blood test. The questionnaire was administered in person by a trained researcher. Using Slovin's formula, a 95% confidence interval (CI), and a 0.05 margin of error, the sample size was determined to be 267 participants. The study included 305 participants. Descriptive and regression analyses were performed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) with a significance level of p < 0.05. A significant relationship was found between specialty (medical education) and the knowledge of risk factors for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), (p < 0.012). In terms of knowledge, from a total of 13 correct knowledge points (13 marks for correct answers out of 14), some subjects scored slightly higher than others (n = 175; 57.4% of participants scored above 7, nearly over half of the correct answers, compared to n = 130; 42.6% scoring below 7). We found 132 individuals (44%) with risk scores of five or above (high risk for developing T2DM according to ADA). Smokers comprised n = 138, 45%, and nonsmokers comprised n = 148, 48%. Although 50.5% of the participants (n = 154) held a bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree, these degrees did not improve the participants' overall general knowledge levels. The association was tested using chi-squared analysis, but no significance was found. Random visitors to Jordanian community pharmacies are expected to benefit from awareness and educational campaigns. These test results revealed a lack of knowledge, indicating the need for education to dispel myths and highlight the serious risks associated with T2DM. The study discovered that participants' understanding of diabetes disease prevention through lifestyle and dietary changes was inadequate. A specialist-led educational program may increase knowledge among visitors who participate. In order to prevent the spread of diabetes, more campaigns and health-promoting and prevention educational activities are required.

МЕТОДИКА ОЦЕНКИ ТУРИСТСКО-РЕКРЕАЦИОННОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА РОДНИКОВ РЕГИОНА

Springs are an important object in human economic activity and a place of attraction for regular and random visitors. The tourist and recreational potential of springs in Russia is poorly exploited, and only at individual sites. This research provides a methodology for determining the tourist and recreational potential of springs in regions, which can be helpful in choosing the most promising springs for the purposes of tourism. The study was based on field research at 202 springs of the Republic of Mordovia carried out in 2021. The authors identified 25 criteria combined into 5 blocks: natural attractiveness, cultural and educational attractiveness, infrastructure, landscaping, sanitary and ecological condition. The criteria are rated and given 3–5 points, and the blocks of criteria up to 10 points. The significance of the criteria in the blocks is different and varies from 0.1 to 0.3. The most important criteria are landscape composition and diversity, remoteness from large settlements, federal and regional roads, captage arrangement, physical and chemical properties of the water. For each criterion, description and ranking by characteristic properties are provided. The results of the general assessment of springs are ranked by the sum of points from low to very high tourist and recreational attractiveness. The paper provides detailed examples of the evaluation of springs according to the proposed methodology.

Linear Regression Feature and Frog Leaping Algorithm based Web Page Recommendation

Website content and services attract surfers to visit page. Random visitor or first time visitor need more user suggestion for increasing the retaining of user. This work has worked in field of web page prediction as per user previous visits. Web mining logs and content features were further processed to extract the linear regression feature from the work. Extracted features were used for the page prediction in testing phase. Frog leaping genetic algorithm was used for the population generation and possible page prediction. Experiment was done on real dataset extracted from projecttunnel.com website. Results were compared with existing page prediction models and it was obtained that Web Page Prediction Frog Leaping Algorithm (WPPFLA) model has improved the work performance with respect to precision value, accuracy, Fitness measure and Metric values.

Factors that influence tourists' satisfaction in China; evidence from selected tourist destinations in Nanjing city

Tourism is a growing industry around the world. The tourism industry plays a significant role in the economy of developing and developed countries. This study aims to understand the factors that influence tourists' satisfaction with selected tourism destinations in Nanjing city. This study collected data from 100 random visitors' by designing a survey questionnaire. For data collection, a simple random sampling method was applied. For analyzing data, frequency analysis and descriptive statistics were employed. Results of the study show that product, Price, and place are the vital factors that significantly affect tourists' satisfaction. Therefore, Empirical evidence suggests that all the related parties such as tourists, the tourism industry, and local government authorities can use this study to know the factors that influence tourists' satisfaction. In addition, this study can also help businesses understand tourists' satisfaction factors and advance along with tourism destinations' products offered to prospective tourists.

‘…Who saw his own sunset while still living…’ From the journal of the doctor Anton Dietrich

A publication of journal entries left by the German psychiatrist A. Dietrich, who for years studied the poet K. Batyushkov’s mental illness (caused by multiple intermarriages in the family) and supervised his treatment at the Sonnenstein psychiatric asylum. The publication is compiled and supplied with a preface and comments by the poet and literary historian G. Shulpyakov. The level of detail in the doctor’s notes gives an idea of the sick poet’s condition and helps to reconstruct the hospital routine that surrounded Batyushkov in the 1820s. The comments shed light on the poet’s family life and his relationship with sisters Aleksandra and Yulia, his brother Pompey, and contemporaries such as V. Zhukovsky and N. Karamzin. Batyushkov mentions their names in his every interaction with the clinic’s staff — evidence of an unrelenting loss of sanity: at one point, he insists that Zhukovsky ‘has visited him accompanied by his wife’; at another, he takes a random visitor for his paternal half-brother.

Relationship On Education Level and Environmental Attitude With Tourist Behavior in Kebun Teh Kabawetan

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the level of education and the attitude of concern for the environment with the behavior of tourists in maintaining environmental cleanliness in the area of ​​the Kabawetan Tea Plantation tourism object, Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu Province. Research that has been carried out using a quantitative approach, with descriptive methods. Based on data on average annual visits, the total population visited was 138 people. The sample of this research is random visitors who meet researchers who are willing to fill out a complete questionnaire. Behavior that can be observed as many as 53 people. Based on the results of the study, it shows that the relationship between knowledge about environmental protection and the behavior of maintaining environmental hygiene is very close, with a product torque correlation value of 0.787. This proves that the proposed hypothesis is accepted. Therefore, the authors draw the following conclusions: 1) There is a positive relationship between the level of education in maintaining environmental hygiene and behavior; 2) There is a positive relationship between environmental care and environmental protection behavior. environmental Hygiene; There is a positive correlation between attentiveness and hygiene behavior.

Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

Enhancing tourist visits to cultural heritage sites by making use of mobile augmented reality has been a tendency in the last few years, presenting mainly audiovisual experiences. However, these explorations using only visuals and sounds, or narratives, do not allow users to be presented with, for example, a particular smell that can be important to feel engaged or to better understand the history of the site. This article pursues the goal of creating an experience that puts the user in a scene planned to evoke several stimuli with SensiMAR prototype - a Multisensory Augmented Reality system that aims to be used in cultural heritage outdoors. When using SensiMAR, the user will be involved with visual reconstructions, surrounded by the soundscape of ancient times, and is exposed to a particular smell very common that time. Given the novelty of this proposal, ascertaining the usability of such a system was raised as a foremost demand. Thus, in addition to its development and implementation specifications, an experimental study was conducted to evaluate the usability of the system in end-users' perspective. The results obtained from random visitors of an archaeological site were analysed according to their sex, age, previous experience with augmented reality technology, and provided condition - audiovisual condition, and multisensory condition, with visual, audio, and smell stimuli. Results were collected from a total of 67 participants and show that this multisensory prototype achieved good usability results across all groups. No statistically differences were found, demonstrating good usability of the SensiMAR system regardless of their sex, age, previous experience with the technology or provided condition.

SOCIOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS BASED ON SURVEY AT THE YEREVAN AMERICAN CORNER

Rapid social, economic, technological changes in the country leave their mark on each member of the society; alter their tastes, expectations, and needs. The visitors of the Yerevan American Corner are not an exception. Thus, a necessity of a detailed analysis of the visitors’ demands and behavior arises, in order to amend or expand the realm of the service, to raise the popularity of the corner and to attract more visitors. With this purpose, we offer to conduct polls and interviews among users of the American Corner, to do a specific social analysis of programs and services. Overall, 550 people will take part in the survey. The analyses will help to understand the attitude of patrons, non-patrons and random visitors towards the Yerevan American Corner (its space, resources, activities, projects, services, technical devices, and staff). This will also help to evaluate the effectiveness of current activities and services, such as clubs, courses, public talks and various meetings.

The Effect of Housing Conditions on Social Distancing During A Pandemic in Selected Urban Slums in North Central Nigeria

Social distancing is one of the prescribed means of preventing the spread of deadly diseases such as COVID-19. This study aims at examining how the concepts of social distancing and self-isolation are affected by housing spatial conditions among the urban poor which comprise a demographic exposed to community spread in less-than-standard housing conditions. Through a qualitative assessment of the problem which comprised theoretical reviews and field observations, the study identifies overcrowding, multi-generational homestead composition, extreme poverty and unchecked mixed-usage of residential spaces as major challenges to effective social distancing (and self-isolation) in the Lohwol-Topp settlement in Rayfield, Jos South LGA of Plateau state, Nigeria. The study proposes firstly documentation and refined assessment of local overcrowding standards by professionals in the built environment in order to determine the extent in domestic situations as well as the standardisation of buildings using low cost materials of construction for health and well-being. The study also justifies the incorporation of possible isolation spaces in multi-generation homesteads for high risk residents in the layout of urban slum homesteads and the comprehensive documentation and monitoring of mixed use home based enterprises in urban slums which could hinder contact-tracing of random visitors. Keywords: housing conditions, social distancing, urban slums DOI: 10.7176/CER/12-7-04 Publication date: July 31 st 2020

Features and trends of the Chernobyl tourism development

The author defines Chernobyl tourism as a visit to the exclusion zone, which was formed as a result of a large-scale technological disaster, i.e., an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in 1986, for educational, scientific, business, recreational and other tourism purposes. The complexity of Chernobyl tourism is proved and schematically presented. The main types of tourism which can be promoted in the Chernobyl Zone (ChZ) such as cultural, cinema, active, scientific, conference, dark, sentimental, adventure, extreme, industrial, business, event, diplomatic and ecotourism had been analyzed. Four stages of the development of Chernobyl tourism are disclosed: 1) illegal visits to the exclusion zone (starting from the late 1980s); 2) official visits (starting from the late 1990s); 3) emergence of Chernobyl tourism companies (starting from the first decade of the 2000s); 4) mass tourism (starting from the second decade of the 2000s). The statistics of visiting the ChZ for the last five years had been analyzed. The number of foreigners visiting ChZ was compared with the total number of foreigners visiting Ukraine. The results of the marketing research of the profile of 1000 random visitors to the ChZ, conducted in November 2019, are presented. The formula of the economic contribution of Chernobyl tourism to the development of the tourism sector of Ukraine and the national economy as a whole has been derived. As a result of generalization of statistical data, as well as the results of marketing research, a number of features of Chernobyl tourism was formulated and analyzed: uniqueness of this tourism product; phasing of development; tours organization; availability of various types of tourism; dominance of foreign tourists; relatively high cost of the product; narrow segmentation of the product; purposefulness of the tours; the game, television and film industry influence; short trips duration; three-level self-organization of Chernobyl tourism; an increase in the number of illegal tourists; the lack of developed tourism infrastructure; the high interest of foreign investors; the lack of a systematic scientific and strategic approach. The recommendations for authorities and representatives of Chernobyl tourism promotion companies were formulated to increase the economic contribution of this type of tourism.

A study on the influence of consumer lifestyle over the buying behaviour towards FMCG products: Special reference to dabur

Consumer Lifestyle has gone through changes in the most recent decades and considered as an individual variable known to impact the Buyer Decision Process. Life style has been considered to be the fundamental idea for understanding consumer behaviour and exhibiting the attributes that are more modernized than personality and more far reaching than individual values. The purpose of the study is to inspect the shopper way of life towards Fast-Moving Consumer Goods items specifically Dabur comprising of different sections, for example, Dabur Dental care, Dabur hair care, Dabur child care and Dabur Home care items. The sample size considered in the study was taken to be 200 who were the random visitors at Big Bazaar outlets across Delhi/NCR and the questionnaire was administered to collect the primary data to study the consumer lifestyle towards Fast-Moving Consumer Goods products only Dabur. Based on the study, the consumers have been classified as per Values Attitude and Lifestyle (VALS) Framework. VALS Model, one of the fundamental structures for categorizing customers in agreement to their lifestyle which has been utilized in this exploration for consumer segmentation essentially on three types of intangible aspects i.e. values, attitude and lifestyle

Multisensory Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage: Impact of Different Stimuli on Presence, Enjoyment, Knowledge and Value of the Experience

Little is known about the impact of the addition of each stimulus in multisensory augmented reality experiences in cultural heritage contexts. This paper investigates the impact of different sensory conditions on a user's sense of presence, enjoyment, knowledge about the cultural site, and value of the experience. Five different multisensory conditions, namely, Visual, Visual + Audio, Visual + Smell, and Visual + Audio + Smell conditions, and regular visit referred to as None condition, were evaluated by a total of 60 random visitors distributed across the specified conditions. According to the results, the addition of particular types of stimuli created a different impact on the sense of presence subscale scores, namely, on spatial presence, involvement, and experienced realism, but did not influence the overall presence score. Overall, the results revealed that the addition of stimuli improved enjoyment and knowledge scores and did not affect the value of the experience scores. We concluded that each stimulus has a differential impact on the studied variables, demonstrating that its usage should depend on the goal of the experience: smell should be used to privilege realism and spatial presence, while audio should be adopted when the goal is to elicit involvement.

ANALISA KLASIFIKASI DATA MINING PADA TINGKAT KEPUASAN PENGUNJUNG TAMAN HEWAN PEMATANG SIANTAR DENGAN ALGORITMA

The purpose of the study is to provide recommendations for the satisfaction of visitors to the animal park using the C4.5 datamining classification data laminating technique. Data sources were obtained from interviews with the management of the Pematangsiantar City Animal Park and the giving of questionnaires to random visitors as many as 150 people. Attributes used as parameters for assessing visitor satisfaction include: Ease of access to locations (C1), Infrastructure Facilities (C2), Parking lots (C3), Security (C4), Service Officers (C5) and Cleanliness (C6). The results of processing the C4.5 method using the help of RapidMiner software are the attributes of infrastructure (C2) and service officers (C5) being the attributes that most influence the level of satisfaction of visitors to the park. And the performance data shown on the suitability of the C4.5 method with the satisfaction of visitors to the animal park is 95%Keywords: Datamining, Classification, C4.5 Method, Visitors, Satisfaction, Animal Park

The attractiveness of a post-mining city as a tourist destination from the perspective of visitors: a study of Sawahlunto old coal mining town in Indonesia

Mining has been a basis of development for industrial societies. A mining city was an engine of economic growth for a region by providing employment and gaining revenue from the mining industry. Nevertheless, in the post-mining period, a city such as this suffers from a lot of problems inherited from the mining era, ranging from economic incapability, social structure change, and environmental degradation. Transforming mining-heritage values for tourism applications has become a prevalent choice for many post-mining cities around the world. The attractiveness of mining-related resources is one of the determinants in the success of tourism development in these cities. This study measures the attractiveness of tourism resources within a smaller post-mining city from the perspective of the visitors. Twenty-two types of resources are identified and categorized into three groups: core resources, created resources, and supporting resources. Questionnaire surveys were distributed to 100 random visitors in Sawahlunto, an old coal mining city in Indonesia. Using a five-point Likert scale, these measured the levels of attractiveness respondents had for each resource. Study results reveal that natural beauty, mining heritage sites, museums, and architectural features are the most attractive resources found in a post-mining city by visitors. These resources become the primary motivation for their visit. It also confirms that visitors will likely arrange return trips in the future.

Design and development of a spatial mixed reality touring guide to the Egyptian museum

Many public services and entertainment industries utilise Mixed Reality (MR) devices to develop highly immersive and interactive applications. However, recent advancements in MR processing has prompted the tourist and events industry to invest and develop commercial applications. The museum environment provides an accessible platform for MR guidance systems by taking advantage of the ergonomic freedom of spatial holographical Head-mounted Displays (HMD). The application of MR systems in museums can enhance the typical visitor experience by amalgamating historical interactive visualisations simultaneously with related physical artefacts and displays. Current approaches in MR guidance research primarily focus on visitor engagement with specific content. This paper describes the design and development of a novel museum guidance system based on the immersion and presence theory. This approach examines the influence of interactivity, spatial mobility, and perceptual awareness of individuals within MR environments. The developmental framework of a prototype MR tour guide program named MuseumEye incorporates the sociological needs, behavioural patterns, and accessibility of the user. This study aims to create an alternative tour guidance system to enhance customer experience and reduce the number of human tour guides in museums. The data gathering procedure examines the functionality of the MuseumEye application in conjunction with pre-existing pharaonic exhibits in a museum environment. This methodology includes a qualitative questionnaire sampling 102 random visitors to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Results of this research study indicate a high rate of positive responses to the MR tour guide system, and the functionality of AR HMD in a museum environment. This outcome reinforces the suitability of the touring system to increase visitor experience in museums, galleries and cultural heritage sites.

Деньги на телеграммы? Об экономическом эффекте международных спортивных событий

&lt;span&gt;В статье рассмотрена проблема оценки экономического эффекта международных спортивных соревнований, мегасобытий и франшиз. Указывается наличие двух полюсов информации об экономическом эффекте спортивных событий: позитивного и скептического. Как правило, позитивные оценки характерны для отчётов организаторов событий и привлечённых консультантов. Приведены примеры позитивных расчётов эффекта массовых триатлонов, основанных на выявлении прямых расходов участников. Скептические оценки больше характерны для независимых экономистов в англоязычных рецензируемых научных изданиях. Описаны эффекты замещения, вытеснения, временного сдвига, случайных посетителей и утечек, не учитываемые в позитивных отчетах и представляющие методическую проблему для корректной оценки. Показано наличие консенсуса среди западных экономистов против субсидий в пользу мегастадионов, спортивных мегасобытий и франшиз. Почему субсидирование существует, несмотря на отсутствие позитивного экономического эффекта? Этот вопрос обсуждается через описание случаев стадиона Ballpark и Олимпиады 2012, где указывается на рентоориентированное поведение и эксплуатацию социально-политических выгод от спорта. Делается вывод: утверждения об экономическом эффекте спортивных мегасобытий и франшиз зачастую являются нарративом заинтересованных групп.&lt;/span&gt;

O Instituto Museu Jaguaribano em Aracati-CE: história, memória e educação

Compreender a razão na história das ações humanas no mundo é condição essencial para o desenvolvimento de uma visão crítica construtiva e postura emancipadora. Nesta ótica, é primordial entender determinadas realizações humanas em diferentes contextos através do patrimônio material e/ou imaterial e seu momento de inserção social a qual pertenceu. O legado dessas realizações humanas está, sobretudo nos lugares de memória, como: cemitérios, templos, arquivos, bibliotecas, museus dentre tantos outros. São nesses lugares que visitantes ou pesquisadores podem encontrar explicações ou reflexões sobre a estada e o fazer humanos em diferentes e diversificados contextos.

Knowledge and attitude profile of hospital visitors towards blood donation in Central India

Introduction: Safe blood is defined as blood from voluntary and non- remunerated blood donors.1 Today, 6.22 million units (73%) of the 8.5 million units required in India annually, are from relative and professional donors who under pressure, can hide their high-risk status, including diseases in window period.[2],[3] Unawareness, misconceptions and myths act as hindering factors in voluntary blood donation.[4],[5] This pilot research project was carried out to explore knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of hospital visitors towards blood donation in central India. Objectives: The objectives of this study were: 1. To know the motivating factors and misconceptions regarding blood donation in a selective population i.e., the hospital visitors. 2. To examine the basis of their decisions regarding participation in blood donation activities in the hospital and community. 3. To develop basic data for large population based survey of the region, for the same. Settings and Design: This was a case control pilot study carried out at Kasturba Hospital Sevagram, a rural tertiary care center of central India. Methodology: For this study 100 hospital visitors were recruited, of which 50 had donated blood in their life (consecutive donor cases) and 50 were non-donors (Age, gender and education matched controls). A questionnaire was developed by taking partial help of previous studies in Asia region4-6 and it was validated for our needs, by testing it on medical colleagues and then on random hospital visitors. A written interview was done with all the participants to assess their KAP. Statistical Analysis: SPSS 15 and Microsoft excel software were used to compare KAP of two sets of study population by using univariate and multivariate analytical tools mainly percentages. Evaluation of P value was also done by Fisher exact test/Chi square test/Phi value/Z test where ever appropriate. Results: The majority of participants were in age group of 20-29 years (44%) and only 2% participants were females. A total of 72% had attained education up to intermediate level and above that. Both of the populations had good knowledge regarding qualities of blood donors, process of donation and attributes of stored blood units, like required body weight, age limit, amount of blood drawn, shelf-life of blood and also some causes of donor deferral. But there was a general lack of awareness regarding minimum hemoglobin level required, types and uses of blood products, screening tests done after collection of blood. While donors had better knowledge of duration of donation process, non-donors had better knowledge of transmission of various infectious diseases through blood transfusion. Although, positive attitudes were found in both groups, however both groups believed that patients' relatives should be asked first, for blood donation. 62% donors donated blood only once, which too in relative-donor category, however there was a significant difference in both populations on willingness to donate. The most effective motivational factor for repeated blood donation was found to be possibility of future need of blood for oneself and own family; others being inspiration by television and friends, or a blood bank/hospital campaign. The most common reason for not donating blood was nobody approached them to realize the need of blood donation. Conclusions: Good knowledge and positive attitudes in both the study-populations are unable to motivate for actual blood donation. Use of social and mass media, creating donation opportunities and removing wrong beliefs in general population emerged out as workable strategies for increasing voluntary blood donation. Implication: Report of this pilot project will be helpful in designing a more elaborate survey of general population and thus a more efficient and targeted motivational campaign for voluntary blood donation.

A new algorithm to extract hidden rules of gastric cancer data based on ontology.

Cancer is the leading cause of death in economically developed countries and the second leading cause of death in developing countries. Gastric cancers are among the most devastating and incurable forms of cancer and their treatment may be excessively complex and costly. Data mining, a technology that is used to produce analytically useful information, has been employed successfully with medical data. Although the use of traditional data mining techniques such as association rules helps to extract knowledge from large data sets, sometimes the results obtained from a data set are so large that it is a major problem. In fact, one of the disadvantages of this technique is a lot of nonsense and redundant rules due to the lack of attention to the concept and meaning of items or the samples. This paper presents a new method to discover association rules using ontology to solve the expressed problems. This paper reports a data mining based on ontology on a medical database containing clinical data on patients referring to the Imam Reza Hospital at Tabriz. The data set used in this paper is gathered from 490 random visitors to the Imam Reza Hospital at Tabriz, who had been suspicions of having gastric cancer. The proposed data mining algorithm based on ontology makes rules more intuitive, appealing and understandable, eliminates waste and useless rules, and as a minor result, significantly reduces Apriori algorithm running time. The experimental results confirm the efficiency and advantages of this algorithm.

Takedown Notice: A Conversation with Paolo Cirio

Paolo Cirio is conceptual whose work, while often based on digital networks and presented on the internet, is more concerned with underlying social structures than with the affect and aesthetics of the internet. Cirio's work tends to be text- and data-intensive. He targets the biggest multinational corporations out there: Amazon, Facebook, Visa, Google Maps, Twitter. And Cirio has gone for the jugular with each of them--he has scraped one million profiles from Facebook and posted them to fake dating site (Face to Facebook, 2011); released tens of thousands of pay-per-view articles from major financial news outlets around the world, offering cash rewards to readers who successfully answered quizzes about them (Daily Paywall, 2014); and unveiled the legal identities of over two hundred thousand global companies using the Cayman Islands as tax haven (Loophole for All, 2013). The pieces are often exhibited in some physical manifestation, as well as published online, where they enjoy half-life during which the targets in question issue legal cease-and-desist letters and industry journals try to make sense of an information performance artist destroying the credibility and security reputations of major brands. Within the world of interventionist media art, Cirio is probably best known for the project Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI)--Hacking Monopolism Trilogy created in 2005 in collaboration with Alessandro Ludovico and collective Ubermorgen. For this project he purchased Google text ads, placed them on hidden websites, and used bots to click the ads, which created revenue that was then used to purchase Google shares. In conflation of Robin Hood and Ouroboros, the funds from this recursive process were distributed back to random visitors to the website for GTTP Ltd. (Google To The People Public Company). Cirio and I met in 2013 while I was installing the exhibition component of the MediaCity conference in Buffalo, New York. His Street Ghosts (2012) project was being included in the show, and we spent two days printing life-size color images of local people captured via Google Street View onto large format paper in SUNY Buffalo's Department of Architecture print lab, and then driving around the city sticking them to walls in the physical locations where the pictures were taken. It is testament to the kind of weird synchronicity that tends to happen in Buffalo that when installing the work, we randomly encountered one of the people whose image we selected and printed from Google Street View--a first for Cirio, who's been presenting different iterations of this project in cities all over the world for several years now. In keeping with the themes of globalized networks and communication, we spoke via Skype on December 12, 2014, although we both live in New York City now. LIZ FLYNTZ: I thought we could start by talking about Global Direct (2014). I think the most succinct way I could describe this project is a creative revisioning of the potential for global democratic decision-making, using networked connectivity. The project consists of fifteen diagrams you created that illustrate different forms of government, and concepts related to governance such as citizenship and accountability, as well as website, public poster campaign, and number of short video statements by thinkers and theorists working on global democracy concepts. There are many organizations and think tanks trying to leverage communications technology and data sharing to create more accessible and horizontal modes of decision-making. What is different about Global Direct as an art project with the same aims? What are you trying to accomplish? PAOLO CIRIO: If 's true there are several new organizations working around open government data, decision-making applications, or participatory budgeting. All of them require rethinking how politics have created human civilization, now with very different tools and problems to solve. …