Qualitative interviews in the Isle of Man uncovered local perceptions of a tourism industry in late stage decline.Social impacts Shortening of decline are pronounced including facilities loss, cultural changes and a heightening of perceived peripherality: which taken together undermine local identity.Tourists are welcomed as they help to affirm the
OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree to which the Chinese people are protected from catastrophic household expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses and to explore the health system and structural factors influencing the first of these outcomes.METHODS: Data were derived from the Fourth National Health Service Survey.An analysis of catastroph
A practicable model and program CLIMT is put forward for determining the hourly values of indoor air temperature and the interior air humidity in relation to the external climate, the building parameters (geometry, material properties), the ventilation and the use of the Shortening internal space (interior heat sources, moisture sources and heating
In order to satisfy the large-scale access of visible light communication (VLC) users, as well as the demand for user request rate, the resource allocation problem of visible light communication with drone-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique is investigated.An efficient scheme for joint optimization of power allocation and acce
Marine sediments from Footwear the western coast of southern Africa record the origin of the Benguela Upwelling System, one of the most productive in the world.High productivity, in turn, is reflected in a diverse marine mammal fossil assemblage, comprising whales, dolphins and a phocid seal.Here, we describe new records of baleen whale (mysticete)