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    Competitive comparison in music: influences upon self-efficacy beliefs by gender

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    This study profiles gender differences in instrumental performance self-efficacy perceptions of high school students (N = 87) over the course of a three-day orchestra festival in which students competed against one another for rank-based seating and then rehearsed and performed as a group. Reported self-beliefs rose significantly for the sample over the course of the festival. Self-efficacy beliefs of females were significantly lower than those of males before the seating audition and first rehearsal, but were no longer different by the midpoint of the festival. Survey free-response data were coded according to Bandura's (1997 Bandura, A. 1997. Self-efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York: W. H. Freeman.) four sources of self-efficacy. A 52% drop in the frequency of student comments regarding competitive comparison appeared at the same point in which female self-efficacy beliefs were no longer different from those of males. Results support past research to suggest that males and females may respond differently to rank-based competition versus social support

    Expressions, Spring 2014

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    Thematic Tourist Programme, Essential Element of the Romanian Tourism Promotion

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    Tourism is the brilliant and efficient combination of the natural elements existing in a geographical space, of the general components of human existence (language, culture, traditions, folklore, hospitality), of the human factor and of the infrastructure. If one of these elements is inefficient, then their combination will be an unfortunate one. What Romanian tourism needs is the infrastructure and efficiency in the exploitation of its rich natural elements. If to all these we add an unhealthy mentality of tourism performers, then we may say we sketched the image of the Romanian tourism. A special natural foundation is an absolutely wonderful thing, but without the rest of the components, without attractive tourist programmes to highlight those natural beauties, and without material basis at European standards, tourism will remain one of the national economy fields insufficiently exploited.tourist programme, tourist motivation, promotion

    Information spreading during emergencies and anomalous events

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    The most critical time for information to spread is in the aftermath of a serious emergency, crisis, or disaster. Individuals affected by such situations can now turn to an array of communication channels, from mobile phone calls and text messages to social media posts, when alerting social ties. These channels drastically improve the speed of information in a time-sensitive event, and provide extant records of human dynamics during and afterward the event. Retrospective analysis of such anomalous events provides researchers with a class of "found experiments" that may be used to better understand social spreading. In this chapter, we study information spreading due to a number of emergency events, including the Boston Marathon Bombing and a plane crash at a western European airport. We also contrast the different information which may be gleaned by social media data compared with mobile phone data and we estimate the rate of anomalous events in a mobile phone dataset using a proposed anomaly detection method.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figure

    Extracting meanings of event tourist experiences: A phenomenological exploration of Limassol carnival

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    The common examination of the event and tourism experience can reveal the attached meanings that exemplify the valued characteristics of a destination in the perceptions of tourists. From this standpoint, this study employed a phenomenological approach conducting eight unstructured interviews to explore the experience and assigned meanings of tourists who attended the carnival in Limassol, Cyprus. Results indicate that the meanings of tourist experiences in the carnival were extracted as continuously evolving products shaped by the interaction of two interrelated dramaturgical states, namely the generalized sociality and perceived community metamorphosis, and the interfering dimension of obstruction referring to organizational aspects constraining the tourist experience. The findings of this exploratory phenomenological study bring into the fore the need for more effectively incorporating events into a destination's product mix by designing experiences that leverage event meanings in synergy with unique destination features, thereby enhancing their impact on tourists. On these grounds, it is argued that the phenomenological perspective applied on the study of event tourism can enable destination marketing and management to develop a joint framework for cross-leveraging events and destination assets, hence, synergistically optimizing both social and tourism ends for host destinations. To this end, the study highlights the need for future research to start exploring systematically the relationship between the meanings of tourist experiences and the characteristics of a destination's product mix

    User-centered development of a Virtual Research Environment to support collaborative research events

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    This paper discusses the user-centred development process within the Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) project, funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments (VRE) programme. After presenting the project, its aims and the functionality of the CREW VRE, we focus on the user engagement approach, grounded in the method of co-realisation. We describe the different research settings and requirements of our three embedded user groups and the respective activities conducted so far. Finally we elaborate on the main challenges of our user engagement approach and end with the project’s next steps

    STUDI DESKRIPTIF ANALISIS FAKTOR FESTIVAL QUALITY DJAKARTA WAREHOUSE PROJECT 2014

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    Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkonfirmasi faktor-faktor Festival Quality pada penelitian sebelumnya yang masih relevan digunakan pada saat ini. Obyek yang diambil adalah festival Djakarta Warehouse Project 2014 (DWP 2014).  Pengolahan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan SPSS 16 for windows. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan adalah non probability sampling dengan jenis convinience sampling. Jumlah sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah 100 responden. Data di olah menggunakan mean, standar deviasi, dan Confirmatory Faktor Analisis. Penelitian ini menyatakan dari 6 dimensi Festival Quality yaitu (1)Facilities, (2)staff, (3)Comfort Aminities, (4)information, (5)Convenience, (6)Program yang terbagi dalam 31 pertanyaan pada penelitian sebelumnya masih relevan digunakan untuk penelitian. Dari keenam faktor festival quality faktor staff dapat dijelaskan paling baik dengan eigenvalue sebasar 5,450 dan varian explain 82,710 dinyatakan dalam 6 item pernyataan
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