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Attributes affecting the level of tourist satisfaction with and loyalty towards theatrical performance in China: Evidence from a qualitative study
This study seeks to explore attributes affecting the level of tourist satisfaction with and loyalty towards theatrical performance in China. Based on four focus group discussions with 31 participants, the study identifies 34 attributes that affect the level of tourist satisfaction with theatrical performance, and groups them into five categories: stage, performance, venue, service, and tourist-related attributes. The findings on tourist loyalty reveal that most of the respondents would not watch the same theatrical performance alone in the future; however, they would recommend it to others. The study concludes with a discussion of the rich and insightful findings and their implications for tourism industry practitioners
The attachment system and physiology in adulthood: normative processes, individual differences, and implications for health.
Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding intersections between personality and close relationships in adulthood. Moreover, attachment has implications for stress-related physiology and physical health. We review work on normative processes and individual differences in the attachment behavioral system, as well as their associations with biological mechanisms related to health outcomes. We highlight the need for more basic research on normative processes and physiology and discuss our own research on individual differences in attachment and links with physiology. We then describe a novel perspective on attachment and physiology, wherein stress-related physiological changes may also be viewed as supporting the social-cognitive and emotion regulatory functions of the attachment system through providing additional energy to the brain, which has implications for eating behavior and health. We close by discussing our work on individual differences in attachment and restorative processes, including sleep and skin repair, and by stressing the importance of developing biologically plausible models for describing how attachment may impact chronic illness
Introduction to Quantum Algorithms for Physics and Chemistry
In this introductory review, we focus on applications of quantum computation
to problems of interest in physics and chemistry. We describe quantum
simulation algorithms that have been developed for electronic-structure
problems, thermal-state preparation, simulation of time dynamics, adiabatic
quantum simulation, and density functional theory.Comment: 44 pages, 5 figures; comments or suggestions for improvement are
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Open Petri Nets
The reachability semantics for Petri nets can be studied using open Petri
nets. For us an "open" Petri net is one with certain places designated as
inputs and outputs via a cospan of sets. We can compose open Petri nets by
gluing the outputs of one to the inputs of another. Open Petri nets can be
treated as morphisms of a category , which
becomes symmetric monoidal under disjoint union. However, since the composite
of open Petri nets is defined only up to isomorphism, it is better to treat
them as morphisms of a symmetric monoidal double category
. We describe two forms of semantics
for open Petri nets using symmetric monoidal double functors out of
. The first, an operational semantics,
gives for each open Petri net a category whose morphisms are the processes that
this net can carry out. This is done in a compositional way, so that these
categories can be computed on smaller subnets and then glued together. The
second, a reachability semantics, simply says which markings of the outputs can
be reached from a given marking of the inputs.Comment: 30 pages, TikZ figure
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