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Exploring topology preservation of SOMs with a graph based visualization
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2008)
The Self-Organizing Map (SOM), which projects a (high-dimensional) data manifold onto a lower-dimensional (usually 2-d) rigid lattice, is a commonly used manifold learning algorithm. However, a postprocessing - that is ...
Event and network management: Application of EFQM for tourist destinations
(International Journal of Tourism Policy, 2009)
Given the importance of event organisations within a specific tourism destination, the main objective of this paper is to introduce the 2005 Universiade Summer Games held in Izmir, Turkey, as a case study, which will be ...
Managerial perspective on regional marketing activities of destination management organizations (DMOs)
(Tourism Analysis, 2009)
Destination management is an important competitive marketing method for global tourism destinations. Especially, when cooperated with image and brand management, it helps destinations to stand out from today's severe crowd ...
Evaluating popular city destinations' websites: A framework for website assessment
(Tourism Analysis, 2009)
Information gathering has fundamental effects on travel-related decision-making process. When destinations use the Internet effectively, they possibly enjoy more successful destination marketing processes, more concentrated ...
Formalizing epistemological constituents of emergence
(AISB 2008 Convention: Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence - Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Agent Cognitive Ability and Orders of Emergence, 2008)
Social action depends on the knowledge about all levels of emergent structure and this knowledge is not limited to but produced by the local binary interactions, thus requiring reflexivity and intentionality. This knowledge ...
How corporate social responsibility influences organizational commitment
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2009)
A growing number of studies have investigated the various dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the literature. However, relatively few studies have considered its impacts on employees. The purpose of this ...
Satisfaction and loyalty of festival visitors
(Anatolia, 2009)
Public authorities and the private tourism sector at the destinations have long recognized the benefits of diversifying the portfolio of attractions with special events and festivals. Therefore, the special events and ...
Hypoglycemic effect of Lentinus strigosus (Schwein.) Fr. crude exopolysaccharide in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
(Journal of Medicinal Food, 2008)
This study reports the hypoglycemic effects of the crude exopolysaccharide (EPS) produced from submerged mycelial culture of Lentinus strigosus (Schwein.) Fr. (Family Polyporaceae) in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic ...
Lagrangian formulation of electromagnetic fields in nondispersive medium by means of the extended Euler-Lagrange differential equation
(International Journal of Engineering Science, 2008)
This work is concerned with the Lagrangian formulation of electromagnetic fields. Here, the extended Euler-Lagrange differential equation for continuous, nondispersive media is employed. The Lagrangian density for ...
Hue, saturation, lightness, and building exterior preference: An empirical study in Turkey comparing architects' and nonarchitects' evaluative and cognitive judgments
(Color Research and Application, 2008)
This study investigated architects' and nonarchitects' evaluative and cognitive judgments of color on building exteriors. Thirty architects and 30 high school teachers living in Izmir, Turkey participated in the study. The ...
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