Role Of Visitors Research Articles

The Insects Visitor on Wild Israeli Grass Flowers (Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson)

Insects are invertebrate fauna that are important in various ecosystems and have high diversity and adaptability to various habitats. Insect diversity plays an important role (pollinator, pest control, or natural enemy) in several sectors, such as agriculture, ecology, human health, and natural resources. Apart from their beneficial role, the presence of insects can also be detrimental to humans; for example, insects can cause damage to agricultural products. Therefore, this research aimed to determine the diversity and role of insect visitors to the flowers of the Israeli grass plant (Asystasia gangetica). The research was carried out using a scan sampling survey method around community settlements, especially locations that various wild plants still cover. The research results showed that ten species and 255 individual insects visited Israeli grass flowers, which were divided into five orders, namely Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, and Hymenoptera. The order Lepidoptera is a flower-visiting insect species with the highest abundance and is a pollinator. Flowering plants that grow wild, such as Israel grass, benefit society indirectly by being used as traditional medicine. However, they also positively impact the diversity of flower-visiting insects. The presence of flower-visiting insects that work around grass indirectly has the potential to conserve beneficial grass plants but is underestimated by the community.

Weed Role for Pollinator in the Agroecosystem: Plant-Insect Interactions and Agronomic Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation.

The growing interest in safeguarding agroecosystem biodiversity has led to interest in studying ecological interactions among the various organisms present within the agroecosystem. Indeed, mutualisms between weeds and pollinators are of crucial importance as they influence the respective survival dynamics. In this review, the mutualistic role of flower visitors and the possible (often predominant) abiotic alternatives to insect pollination (self- and wind-pollination) are investigated. Mutualistic relations are discussed in terms of reward (pollen and/or nectar) and attractiveness (color, shape, scent, nectar quality and quantity), analyzing whether and to what extent typical weeds are linked to pollinators by rigid (specialization) or flexible (generalization) mutualistic relations. The entomofauna involved is composed mainly of solitary and social bees, bumblebees, Diptera, and Lepidoptera. While some of these pollinators are polylectic, others are oligolectic, depending on the shape of their mouthparts, which can be suited to explore the flower corollas as function of their depths. Consequently, the persistence dynamics of weed species show more successful survival in plants that are basically (occasional insect pollination) or totally (self and/or wind pollination) unspecialized in mutualistic relations. However, even weed species with typical abiotic pollination are at times visited during periods such as late summer, in which plants with more abundant rewards are insufficiently present or completely absent. Many typically insect-pollinated weeds can represent a valid indicator of the ecological sustainability of crop management techniques, as their survival dynamics are closely dependent on the biodiversity of the surrounding entomofauna. In particular, the presence of plant communities of species pollinated above all by butterflies (e.g., several Caryophyllaceae) gives evidence to the ecological compatibility of the previous agronomic management, in the sense that butterflies require certain weed species for oviposition and subsequent larva rearing and, therefore, provide further evidence of plant biodiversity in the environment.

Religion as Atmosphere: The Material Mediation and Aesthetical Ambiguity of a Contemporary Night Church Atmosphere

ABSTRACT In this article, I offer an ethnographic exploration of how Fatboys (a type of bean bag chair) and visuals co-constitute the atmosphere and religion inside a Copenhagen Night Church. By exploring the atmosphere as a distribution of agency – primarily from the visitors’ perspective – I focus on how the Fatboys and visuals help constitute the atmosphere as an affective force by mediating visitors’ engagement. Moreover, I claim that the Fatboys and visuals also contribute to an aesthetic of ambiguity that emphasises the role of visitors as producers and consumers of an affective religious atmosphere. Closely related to the cultural emphasis on individuality that pervades contemporary consumer society, this aesthetic of ambiguity enables different conceptual frames to inform visitors’ atmospheric experiences and thus amplifies the existence of multiple atmospheres inside the Night Church. In this sense, religion is not only materially mediated but also co-created and carried out by the visitors.

Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors. More-than-humans shaping the architecture and technology of birdfeeders in twentieth-century Finland

In this article, we investigate the evolution of the birdfeeder and analyze it as a multispecies technology, a technological artefact that has co-evolved between multispecies interactions of humans, the target species of the feeding, and unwanted visitors. We use close reading as a method to examine pictures, design descriptions, photos and text sources published in Finnish magazines and newspapers from the late nineteenth century, when birdfeeders were first discussed, until the late twentieth century, with the aim of analyzing how birdfeeder designs and models have changed in relation to various (and especially unwanted) visitor species. Birdfeeders are visited not only by species that humans want to feed but also by several unwanted visitors, such as birds, mammals, bacteria and the weather. Being inspired by posthumanism and Science and Technology Studies (STS), we ask what the role of unwanted visitors has been as co-designers of technological artefacts, here the birdfeeder. Our article discusses the broader subject of how people welcome or exclude other beings from shared environments. We argue that it is vital for environmental humanities scholars to study artefacts and technology and vice versa, for design studies and STS scholars to examine non-humans. We hope to encourage other researchers to ponder how animals, and unwanted users in general, participate in designing technology and artefacts.

Effects of short- and long-term experimental warming on plant–pollinator interactions and floral rewards in the Low Arctic

Plant phenological and growth responses to experimental warming are widely documented, but less is known about warming effects on plant–pollinator interactions. We investigated the effects of short- and long-term passive warming on flowering phenology, insect visitation, fruit production, and floral rewards in the Low Arctic in northern Alaska. To better understand the role of insect visitors in plant reproductive success, we quantified pollen loads on floral visitors and tested for pollen limitation in four species. Long-term warming advanced flowering onset in evergreen shrubs and forbs. Warming, in general, increased the duration of flowering for forbs, evergreen shrubs, and deciduous shrubs. Considering all growth forms together, long-term warming increased floral density. This pattern was primarily driven by deciduous and evergreen shrubs. Dipterans accounted for more visits than Hymenopterans, although Hymenopterans had higher pollen loads. Insect exclusion and warming decreased fruit set in the forb, Bistorta officinalis Delarbre. Nectar volume in the deciduous shrub, Vaccinium uliginosum, was higher in the warmed plots than the control, but nectar quality did not differ. Advanced flowering onset, longer flowering duration, and increased flower density and nectar volume may have important implications for the pollinator community, warranting further research on long-term warming effects on tundra ecosystems.

Ternopil region museums in the age of social media: From preservation to interaction

Purpose of the research. The article is devoted to the current topic of museums’ role in modern society, which is characterised by the widespread use of social media as the main communication and information channel. The research methodology is based on the use of general scientific and special research methods: analysis, synthesis, generalisation, systematisation of materials, induction, and deduction. The novelty of the study lies in the comprehensiveness of the research on the social media activity of museums in the Ternopil region. The authors investigate how museums adapt to new audience requirements and use social media as a tool to attract visitors, promote cultural heritage, and create a dialogue with the public. The article is based on a comparative analysis of the experience of different museums that use social media to achieve their mission. The authors put forward a hypothesis that museums in the era of social media are moving from preservation to interaction, becoming not only cultural but also social institutions. Conclusions. The author emphasises that museums are important carriers of cultural memory and identity, but their role is changing due to the spread of digital technologies and social media. Social media provide museums with opportunities to increase visibility, attractiveness, and accessibility, as well as to collect feedback, take into account the needs and interests of the audience, and form communities and partnerships. The author analyses how museums use social media for various purposes, such as informing, educating, entertaining, promoting, engaging, collaborating, and socialising. The authors also consider the challenges and benefits of using social media for museums, such as the changing role of visitors, competition with other sources of information and entertainment, and the need to maintain relevance and quality of content. The article concludes that museums in the era of social media should reconsider their mission and strategy to meet current trends and audience expectations. It is determined that museums should move from preservation to interaction, i.e. put not only exhibits in the centre but also people who visit them, creating opportunities for them to learn, communicate, participate, and co-create

Influence of distinct social contexts of long-term care facilities on the dynamics of spread of COVID-19 under predefine epidemiological scenarios

Abstract More than half of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) related mortality rates in the United States and Europe are associated with long-term-care facilities (LTCFs) such as old-age organizations, nursing homes, and disability centers. These facilities are considered most vulnerable to spread of an pandemic like COVID-19 because of multiple reasons including high density of elderly population with a diverse range of medical requirements, limited resources, nursing activities/medications, and the role of external visitors. In this study, we aim to understand the role of visitor’s family members and specific interventions (such as use of face masks and restriction of visiting hours) on the dynamics of infection in a community using a mathematical model. The model considers two types of social contexts (community and LTCFs) with three different groups of interacting populations (non-mobile community individuals, mobile community individuals, and long-term facility residents). The goal of this work is to compare the outbreak burden between different centre of disease control (CDC) planning scenarios, which capture distinct types of intensity of diseases spread in LTCF observed during COVID-19 outbreak. The movement of community mobile members is captured via their average relative times in and out of the long-term facilities to understand the strategies that would work well in these facilities the CDC planning scenarios. Our results suggest that heterogeneous mixing worsens epidemic scenario as compared to homogeneous mixing and the epidemic burden is hundreds times greater for community spread than within the facility population.

Museumskommunikation als Dimension der Kunstkommunikation.

Art communication is a functional and specialized form of social communication constituting the meaning of art. It includes museum communication, understood not only as a transfer of individual and social knowledge about exhibits, but also as an opportunity to encounter art. The museum is thus a learning place as well as a space for experiences, emotions and relational exchanges. This thematic issue deals with the role of language in museum communication concerning figurative art, in its relation both to other expression modes and to the target audiences with their different languages and cultures. Within this framework the active role of museum visitors in the reception of exhibited works, stimulated by the use of new technological formats, is discussed too. In particular, the papers focus on three main aspects: the interaction between iconic and verbal language, the need for a target-oriented (multimodal) museum communication, and the investigation of multilingual and culture-specific knowledge transmission strategies.

A spotlight on early childhood caries: The health visitor role

Despite the well documented risk factors for dental caries, the condition is common, affecting just under a quarter of 5-year-old children in England. Dental caries can have a significant impact on a child's oral health and general wellbeing. However, the condition is largely preventable, and healthy dietary choices and good oral hygiene practices are key to preventing development of dental caries. Often, risk factors are well established prior to a child being seen by a dental professional. Promoting healthy choices from infancy is key in reducing prevalence of the condition. However, with difficulty accessing dental care in the UK increasingly reported, other health professionals, such as health visitors, have a pivotal role in raising awareness of the condition, providing advice and signposting to dental care.

The need for health visitors to act as change agents

The health visitor role encompasses providing services in a variety of settings, and health visitors are in the privileged position of being able to identify and endorse change, says Amy Noakes

“The Raven” and the Antebellum Culture of Bereavement

Abstract Despite the worldwide familiarity of “The Raven,” few readers are aware of the antebellum era’s elaborate cultural prescriptions for mourning that shape the poem and its thematic significance. For a missing perspective on Poe’s poem concerns the speaker’s representative behavior as genteel middle-class mourner, with the mysterious bird taking on the role of consolatory visitor, but a visitor who implicitly mocks the prescribed role of spiritual sympathizer by suggesting demonic doubts about the era’s evangelical hope of reunion in the afterlife with the beloved. Such a thematic emphasis is enhanced by the intertextual relationship of “The Raven” with relevant passages in the Bible as well as poems by Elizabeth Barrett, Gottfried August Bürger, and Felicia Hemans. While the scene enacted in “The Raven” anticipates the mourning that Poe would undergo following the death of his twenty-four-year-old wife Virginia in January 1847, it also illustrates the desperate hope for spiritual reunion notably seen in the bereavement behavior of Rufus W. Griswold, Poe’s notorious literary executor, whose young wife died in November 1842.

Designing for diverse museum visitors’ identity exploration around inventiveness

IntroductionThis paper describes an initial phase of research to inform the design of Change YOUR Game—an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) that aims to promote visitors’ inventiveness in STEM and in other life domains. The exhibition’s content focused on the history of inventions and innovations in sports. The research was framed by the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) and by a set of design principles for promoting visitors’ agentic identity exploration: The PRESS Principles.MethodsFive data collection sessions engaged participants in a virtual, simulated visit to an early rendition of the exhibition. Diverse groups of participants were prompted to consider the self-relevance of the exhibition content to their identities and how they have been and can be inventive in their lives.ResultsFour themes captured participants’ museum visitor role identities, varied readiness to engage in identity exploration of their inventiveness, and how these provided affordances and hindrances to participants’ engagement in identity exploration in the context of the simulated visit. The themes served as bases for design recommendations.DiscussionThe study highlights the potential of the DSMRI and PRESS design principles to address conceptual and methodological challenges of research that aims to inform environmental design of a context that is not yet in existence and that will be relatively fixed. The findings suggest recommendations for design as well as theoretical insights about museum visitor role identities and the contexts that may promote visitors’ active and agentic engagement in exploring their identities.

The dark side of travel: the effect of tourist harassment on destination image and destination revisit intent: a moderated mediation approach

PurposeThe authors’ examination aims to offer a quantitative perspective on the interrelationships between tourist harassment, the destination image, emotions and destination revisit intent. Furthermore, it explores the moderating role of travelers' experiences and tolerance in the link between tourist harassment, the destination image and revisit intentions.Design/methodology/approachThe authors’ examination seeks to fill this research gap by utilizing a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to test eight hypotheses using AMOS 23 and PROCESS MARCO.FindingsThe findings showed that tourist harassment negatively impacts the destination image and revisit intentions. Moreover, it indicated that tourists' experiences and tolerance moderate the link between harassment, the destination image and revisit intentions for travelers with high levels of experience and tolerance compared to those with low levels.Originality/valueThis article contributes to travel research and service failure recovery research on tourist harassment and its consequences. To this end, it developed and validated a new tourist harassment scale. Moreover, it is the first study that examines the moderating role of visitors' experiences and tolerance on the link between tourist harassment, the destination image and revisit intentions. Finally, this article is the first to empirically offer destination harassment reduction techniques.

Hubungan Pola Perilaku Pengunjung dengan Karakteristik Arsitektur Istana Datu Luwu Kota Palopo

Title: The Relationship between Visitor Behavior Patterns and the Architectural Characteristics of Datu Luwu Palace, Palopo City The research aims to find the relationship between visitor behavior patterns and the architectural characteristics of the Datu Luwu Palace in Palopo City. Datu Luwu Palace has important historical and cultural significance as a historical building complex in South Sulawesi. Factors such as the layout, visual design, and architectural elements within the palace can influence visitor behavior patterns. The research used a qualitative approach with a survey of visitors. Data were analyzed using spatial techniques to identify visitor behavior patterns and their relationship to the architectural characteristics of the palace. The results show a significant relationship between visitor behavior patterns, visit time, activities, and space preferences with the architectural characteristics of the Datu Luwu Palace. Architectural characteristics, such as traditional ornamentation, room layout, and materials, play an important role in shaping visitors' experiences and their activities within the palace. Research provides new insights into the management and development of historic tourist destinations. By better understanding the influence of architectural characteristics on visitor behavior patterns, tourism authorities and managers can take more effective steps to maintain, preserve, and enhance the visitor experience. The results of the research can be the basis for better planning in maintaining historical and cultural values, and on the other hand, fulfilling visitors' expectations in exploring tourist destinations. Research has a positive impact on the development and promotion of South Sulawesi's cultural heritage.

Influence of Cultural Landscapes on Visitors’ Behavior in the Context of COVID-19 Social Distancing Policies: A Case Study of Open Public Spaces Inside Gyeongbok Palace

Background and objective: Many studies have highlighted the psychological benefits of natural outdoor environments and cultural heritage sites for visitors. However, few studies have investigated the combined impact of natural outdoor settings and cultural heritage sites considering contextual factors such as gender, age, time of day, and period on visiting patterns. This study aims to identify the impact of cultural landscapes on visiting patterns, focusing on the open public spaces of Gyeongbok Palace, Seoul.Methods: A mixed-method approach was used to examine the association between cultural landscape elements and visiting patterns. Descriptive statistics and correlation analyses were employed to assess how the cultural landscape affected visiting patterns from 2019 to 2021, considering the impact of COVID-19 social distancing policies. An on-site visit observation and analysis of previous case studies were conducted to further investigate the impacts of cultural landscape elements on visitors' behavior patterns.Results: The findings indicated that the cultural landscape played a role in shaping visitors' behaviors and revealed significant variations in visitation patterns based on visitors' age and the day of the week. A strong positive correlation was observed between teenagers and weekday visits, especially in 2020 when COVID-19 restrictions were in place and students were taking online classes. Furthermore, the results showed a noticeable increase in correlation scores in 2021 compared with those in 2019, supporting the notion of heritage sites serving as healing and relaxing places for people to enjoy as they age.Conclusion: The study findings provide an empirical basis for studying cultural heritage assets and other natural outdoor environments as a type of cultural landscape to enhance visitor satisfaction and provide positive benefits to visitors. It highlights the importance of preserving and promoting cultural landscapes as integrated systems of natural and cultural resources, which can be applied to heritage policies and management strategies.

The Moderating Role of Visitors’ Nationality on the Relationship between Service Quality and Behavioural intentions in Star Rated Game Lodges

Purpose: Tourists from different nationalities manifest differing cultural values that influence service quality perceptions that subsequently elicit their behavioural intentions. However, the moderating role of nationality in the relationship between service quality and behavioural intention from the game lodges’ perspective has not been sufficiently examined. Hence, this study aims to examine the moderating role of nationality on the relationship between service quality and behavioural intentions.
 Methodology: The study adopted a cross- section survey and data was collected using structured questionnaires from 312 tourists from 29 different nationalities residing in star rated game lodges at Masai Mara national reserve and its conservancies in Kenya. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. To test whether or not the nationality of the respondents influenced the study hypothesis, structural equation modelling (SEM) and a multi-group analysis approach were conducted. Data was presented in the form of tables and figures.
 Findings: The study found that there was a positive and significant relationship between service quality and behavioural intentions. Similarly, the results indicated that the tourists’ nationality moderates the relation between service quality and behavioural intentions.
 Recommendations: The study findings contribute to the body of knowledge in service marketing and more specifically on the role of customers’ nationality on service quality perceptions and behavioural intentions. The research findings provide a strong foundation for policy support in governance to the tourism stakeholders for the growth of different tourism markets in Kenya. Further, the study findings inform the stakeholders on the nature of service quality needed based on tourists’ cultural differences to maximise the potential from the existing and emerging tourism market.

School readiness and the health visitor role

Supporting children to be school ready starts before birth, and the health visiting service has a crucial role in supporting, promoting health, identifying risks and referring for early help and support, says Bethany Boddy

The health visitor's role in narrowing the word gap

Bethany Boddy reflects on speech, language and communication needs and the areas in which health visitors can make every contact count to promote communication skills in children

지역문화콘텐츠의 공간 요소와 스토리텔링 서사 분석

Local cultural resources are accompanied by economic and cultural values as well as social values. Therefore, this study focused on storytelling among cultural content development strategies to secure regional competitiveness. To this end, the core role of storytelling was examined through literature research. In addition, the physical elements of the local space and the narrative structure of storytelling were explored for the Gangneung area, and the relational characteristics between the two elements were analyzed. The direction of Gangneung's spatial storytelling derived through analysis is as follows. First, the density of spatial experience is strengthened by storytelling accompanied by interactivity. Therefore, the necessity of discovering and developing various storytelling to revitalize the local space was confirmed. Second, physical and temporal constraints of spatial experience are inevitable. Therefore, it is necessary to develop various contents using digital media to overcome place limitations. Third, various discourse on space strengthens the connection between space and people and content while aggregating space and visitors, and induces visitors' participation and immersion in space. In addition, communication and immersion in space expand the role of visitors as the subject and communicator of experience production. Therefore, it is required to develop long-term and systematic local cultural contents using storytelling and establish strategies for utilization.

The Impact of Visitor Profile on Effective Management of Protected Areas: A Case of Atatürk Arboretum

Protected areas are important for education and scientific research, in addition to making a significant contribution to the economy in terms of tourism and recreation. One of the most important factors in the effective management of these areas are the visitors. In this article, the effect of visitors on the effective planning and management of arboretums, which is one of the protected areas used for scientific research, education, and observation concerning various species of plants, was investigated. This study focused on the visitors to Atatürk Arboretum, segmented into specific subgroups by applying cluster analysis according to their activities. The data were obtained via conducting face-to-face questionnaires with the visitors (n = 383) in the area. The cluster groups were characterized by the perceived importance of their desired benefit, and socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics. The socio-demographic characteristics of the visitors were determined using descriptive statistics, and the relations among visitor characteristics were determined through linear regression analysis. The visitor segments which differed from each other significantly were identified as recreationalists and photographers and learners. This study has practical and managerial implications for understanding the role of visitors in the management of the arboretum. The study revealed that the arboretum was visited for reasons outside of its establishment purposes. These findings might directly help the arboretum managers in improving more effective visitor and resource management strategies.