MOVIES AS A TOOL OF MODERN TOURIST MARKETING The contemporary tourist market hosts intense competition amongst countries and particularly amongst those that their economy is supported, to a rather critical extent, by tourism business. All countries try to promote their tourist products using various marketing techniques. International experience reveals that movies constitute an important marketing tool which can effectively serve the strategy for promotion of tourism destinations. Landscapes, significant heritage sites, festivals, attractions and historical monuments have quite often been selected as film shooting locations. Evidence shows that such films may, under certain circumstances, induce “film tourism”, a phenomenon where local economies eventually enjoy an increase in visitor numbers and related benefits after the circulation of the relevant movie. Keywords: Film tourism, film induced tourism, destination marketing, tourism marketing INTRODUCTION Among

Exploiting Symmetries in Logistics Distribution Planning L. Marsh a and D. Gossink a Abstract: Logistics distribution and movements planning involves developing an efficient plan to move all of the required supplies, equipment and personnel to desired locations in a timely manner. It is an inherently difficult problem to solve and given the complexity of the problem, scenarios of a realistic size can take a significant amount of time to compute. A greedy distribution algorithm has been created for the task of developing transport schedules to satisfy the movement requirements. At each phase of the simulation the algorithm assigns the most capable transport to deliver the highest priority resources. Although it is observed that the distribution algorithm performs faster than exact algorithms based on integer programming or brute force, even greedy based approaches can have performance issues as the scenario size increases. In this paper, a technique is examined whi

Deferred Executive Compensation Policies in Chinese State-owned Enterprises Deferred Compensation in China Deferred executive compensation policies are well-established in developed countries.Deferred executive compensation is any arrangement providing payment to an executive in a year or years subsequent to the year in which profit is earned, different from a standard compensation policy in which payment is based on current revenue. Lazear (1998) evaluates deferred executive compensation policies, and states that workers who are paid less than they are worth when young and paid more than they are worth when old appear to be more active in companies. Therefore, the deferred compensation policy is a long-term incentive policy, which keeps qualified managers in the current company, induces them to perform at a higher level of effort, and ultimately benefits the firmrsquo;s long-term performance. The application of deferred executive compensation policies in China is st

Development of Chinese cinema line The Author of this article is Petter Jackson and Allan Hubbard. This article is from new line Cinema-warneros.com Cinema of China line Hereinafter referred to as 'cinema'. The film industry a monopoly of the operating system. Operators for the development and protection of their business interests, and in some cities or regions, would have a number of cinemas, establish screening network, whereby a State monopoly or on a new release of the film studios. China first appeared of cinema line, is century early to 20 generation medium-term, by Spain movie businessman a. Ramos in Shanghai established of, by Hongkou, and summer distribution grams, and Victoria, seven home cinema composition of cinema line; subsequently China cinema company in flat, and Jin, and Shanghai, to also built quite scale of cinema line; 20 early China movie capitalists Luo Mingyou in North, and Northeast established cinema line; 30 generation, days a film company

Changing roles of the clients,architects and contractors through BIM Rizal Sebastian TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Delft, The Netherlands Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to present a general review of the practical implications of building information modelling (BIM) based on literature and case studies. It seeks to address the necessity for applying BIM and re-organising the processes and roles in hospital building projects. This type of project is complex due to complicated functional and technical requirements, decision making involving a large number of stakeholders, and long-term development processes. Design/methodology/approach – Through desk research and referring to the ongoing European research project InPro, the framework for integrated collaboration and the use of BIM are analysed. Through several real cases, the changing roles of clients, architects, and contractors through BIM application are investigated. Findings – One of the

Overview of cold chain development in China and methods of studying its environmental impacts Yabin Dong, Ming Xu,and Shelie A Miller Abstract The cold chain (refrigerated supply chain)is an important application of refrigeration technologies.The capacity of the cold chain industry is growing rapidly in emerging economies such as China, leading to significant environmental impacts, especially greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions. By conducting the literature review, this study begins with presenting a comprehensive overview of the cold chain industry in China. We observed that China has a large total cold warehouse capacity but low capacity per capita. Then, we directly link the example of the cold chain in China to the methods of evaluating the GHG emissions from the cold chain industry. It is observed that existing studies either primarily focus on the lifecycle of food with less consideration on the cold chain facilities or primarily focus on the lifetime of a certain stage

Anomaly detection and event mining in cold forming manufacturing processes Abstract Predictive maintenance is one of the main goals within the Industry 4.0 trend. Advances in data-driven techniques offer new opportunities in terms of cost reduction, improved quality control, and increased work safety. This work brings data-driven techniques for two predictive maintenance tasks: anomaly detection and event prediction, applied in the real-world use case of a cold forming manufacturing line for consumer lifestyle products by using acoustic emissions sensors in proximity of the dies of the press module. The proposed models are robust and able to cope with problems such as noise, missing values, and irregular sampling. The detected anomalies are investigated by experts and confirmed to correspond to deviations in the normal operation of the machine. Moreover, we are able to find patterns which are related to the events of interest. Keywords Predictive maintenance · Anomaly d

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion Untethered small-scale (from several millimetres down to a few micrometres in all dimensions) robots that can non-invasively access confined, enclosed spaces may enable applications in microfactories such as the construction of tissue scaffolds by robotic assembly1, in bioengineering such as single-cell manipulation and biosensing2, and in healthcare3–6 such as targeted drug delivery4 and minimally invasive surgery3,5. Existing small-scale robots of these small-scale robots, soft robots have greater potential to realize high mobility via multimodal locomotion, because such machines have higher degrees of freedom than their rigid counterparts14–16. Here we demonstrate magneto-elastic soft millimetre-scale robots that can swim inside and on the surface of liquids, climb liquid menisci, roll and walk on solid surfaces, jump over obstacles, and crawl within narrow tunnels. These robots can transit reversibly between differ

The Effects of Exhibition Service Quality on Exhibitor Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions Abstract This empirical study explored the determinants of exhibition service quality that affect exhibitor satisfaction and behavioral intentions.Four dimensions of exhibition service quality were delineated from the literature. Those exhibition service factors were then included in a structural equation framework to explicate causal relationships between exhibition service quality and exhibitor satisfaction and behavioral intentions.A total of 350 usable responses were collected from exhibitors attending various exhibitions in Hong Kong. The collected data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling.The findings indicate that three of the four exhibition service quality factors significantly affect exhibitor satisfaction, and exhibitor satisfaction then leads to exhibitorsrsquo; behavioral intentions. Detailed findings and implications

A systematic review of deep transfer learning for machinery fault diagnosis A b s t r a c t With the popularization of the intelligent manufacturing, much attention has been paid in such intelligent computing methods as deep learning ones for machinery fault diagnosis. Thanks to the development of deep learning models, the interference of the human experience can be greatly reduced, and the fault diagnosis accuracy can also be increased under certain conditions. To improve the generalization ability of the intelligent fault diagnostics, the deep transfer learning consisting of both transfer learning and deep learning components was accordingly developed. This paper reviews the research progress of the deep transfer learning for the machinery fault diagnosis in recently years. It is summarizing. Classifying and explaining many publications on this topic with discussing various deep transfer architectures and related theories. On this basis, this review expounds main achieveme