Residents’ perceptions of wine tourism on the rural destinations development

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of wine tourism on rural destination development. Consequently, this study attempts to develop contemporary insights on this under-researched area such as residents’ perceptions of wine tourism and its impact on the rural destination development. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, the authors used a structured survey questionnaire from a random sample of 318 respondents based on the Fruška Gora Mountain in Serbia. Research also used structural equational modeling for empirical econometric testing in this data sample. This technique is appropriate for multivariate analysis. Findings – Personal resident benefit associated with wineries is positively related to resident perceived economic impact (H1) R2 ¼ 0.624; socio-cultural impact (H2) R2 ¼ 0.685 and environmental impact (H3) R2 ¼ 0.716 of wineries on local communities. Looking at the path diagram, the authors concluded that personal resident benefit associated with wineries is strongly related to resident perceived impact of wineries on local communities as regression weights are higher. Other findings relate those residents’ positive perceptions of wine tourism to increases in sales revenue, environmental protection, intrapersonal and interpersonal communication. Research limitations/implications – The positive attitude of the local population is an essential link of development. Such understanding of residents’ perceptions optimizes destination management in the future and, more importantly, local sustainable development. This has high policy implications. Originality/value – The present study contributes to the scientific circles by connecting perception research with wine tourism

Fan Footing Soil Foundation to Safeguard High and Low Rise Buildings from Seismic Waves

Foundations may experience serious misery during an earthquake. Earthquake consequences for shallow and profound foundations are represented by planning them fundamentally to give important quality and ensure serviceability. Quality contemplations basically includes ensuring that the foundation loads stay well underneath that directed by the suitable bearing limit under seismic conditions and serviceability is ensured by outlining the substructure for the evaluated perpetual ground distortion. This paper talked about different aspects of earthquake ground motion influence on structures and furthermore how certain building qualities alter the manners by which the building reacts to the ground motion. The association of these attributes decide the general seismic response of the building: regardless of whether it is undamaged; endures minor harm; ends up unusable for quite a long time, weeks, or months; or crumples with extraordinary death toll. Clarifications of a few qualities of ground motion are trailed by portrayals of a few material, auxiliary, and building characteristics that, by communicating with ground motion, decide the building\u27s seismic execution the degree and nature of its harm. The fundamental motivation behind the examination is to break down the seismic bearing limit of foundations and seismic weight and talk about the different issues and issue related into it. Fan Footing Soil Foundation (FPSF) technique was presented for reinforcing

Metal-insulator transition in an aperiodic ladder network: an exact result

We show, in a completely analytical way, that a tight binding ladder network composed of atomic sites with on-site potentials distributed according to the quasiperiodic Aubry model can exhibit a metal-insulator transition at multiple values of the Fermi energy. For specific values of the first and second neighbor electron hopping, the result is obtained exactly. With a more general model, we calculate the two-terminal conductance numerically. The numerical results corroborate the analytical findings and yield a richer variety of spectrum showing multiple mobility edges.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

Micellar Aggregates of Gemini Surfactants: Monte Carlo Simulation of a Microscopic Model

We propose a "microscopic" model of gemini surfactants in aqueous solution. Carrying out extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we study the variation of the critical micellar concentration (CMC) of these model gemini surfactants with the variation of the (a) length of the spacer connecting the two hydrophilic heads, (b) length of the hydrophobic tail and (c) the bending rigidity of the hydrocarbon chains forming the spacer and the tail; some of the trends of variation are counter-intuitive but are in excellent agreement with the available experimental results. Our simulations also elucidate the dependence of the shapes of the micellar aggregates and the magnitude of the CMC on the geometrical shape and size of the surfactant molecules and the electrical charge on the hydrophilic heads

Some Penta-coordinated Adducts of Cu(II)-β-Isopropyltropolonate with ɑ- & γ-Picolines, pyridine, Diethylamine & Imidazole

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Composition and Methods of Using the \u3cem\u3eMirabilis Mosaic\u3c/em\u3e Caulimovirus Sub-Genomic Transcript (SGT) Promoter for Plant Genetic Engineering

The isolation of and methods of using a sub-genomic transcript (Sgt) promoter from Mirabilis mosaic virus (MMV) are described. A 333 bp MMV Sgt promoter fragment (sequence−306 to +27 from the transcription start site, TSS) was found to be sufficient for strongest promoter activity. This MMV Sgt promoter fragment shows comparable promoter activity to the MMV FLt promoter both in transgenic plants and in protoplasts. The MMV Sgt promoter also demonstrates much greater activity compared to Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 19S promoter and 35S promoter. The MMV Sgt promoter fragment and any chimeric gene to which it may be linked are usefull for plant geneic engineering to obtain transgenic plants, plant cells and seeds

A single form of metallothionein is present in both heavy metal induced and neonatal chicken liver

Multiplicity of metallothionein and their genes in higher animals are documented extensively in recent literature. In contrast, chicken liver Produced apparently a single form of metallothionein upon heavy metal exposure. This protein was purified by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography and another technique based on heat treatment and acetone fractionation, followed by ion exchange chromatography. In adult uninduced chicken liver the presence of metallothionein was below the detection limit. But, like mammalian system, chicken liver was found to contain high amount of metallothionein at neonatal stage. This naturally occurring neonatal chicken hepatic metallothionein was purified and compared with the heavy metal induced adult hepatic metallothionein. The biochemical and immunobiological comparative analysis of adult and neonatal hepatic metallothionein showed identical characteristics. The neonatal metaltothionein expressed naturally was a zinc metallothionein and unlike few other mammalian neonatal metallothionein did not contain any copper. Metallothionein was undectable in unfertilized eggs, in early embryos, and in postnatal chicken, from 4 weeks after birth. The highest level of this naturally occurring neonatal metallothionein was found in 1-4 day old neonatal liver, which was about 1.5% of the total cytosolic protein. This is the first reported evidence for the presence of ontogenically modulated expression of metallothionein in avian system. Possible biological role of neonatal metallothionein and their cellular interactions has been discussed

Unique Nucleic Acid Promoter Formed from Two or More Promoter Sequences

Non-naturally occurring DNA promoters, include MSGT-PFlt, PFlt-UAS-2X and FSgt-PFlt. The MSGT-PFlt was developed and has expression shown to be equivalent to that of CaMV35S promoter. DNA promoters PFlt-UAS-2X and FSgt-PFlt were developed and tested in transient and transgenic system and found to be stronger than the CaMV35S promoter

Full Length Transcript Promotor from Figwort Mosaic Caulimovirus (FMV) and Use to Express Chimeric Genes in Plant Cells

Use of wild type and modified viral FLt promoters of FMV in the expression of chimeric genes in plant cells. The FLt promoter from FMV is modified with duplicated enhancer domains. The FLt promoter with its single or double enhancer domains is linked to heterologous coding sequences to form chimeric gene constructs. These genes have been shown to be expressed well in plant cells

Protection of swimming-induced oxidative stress in some vital organs by the treatment of composite extract of Withania somnifera, Ocimum sanctum and Zingiber officinalis in male rat

Composite methanolic extract of roots of Withania somnifera, leaves of Ocimum sanctum, and rhizomes of Zingiber officinalis was administered by gavage at the dose of 40 mg 100 g−1 body weight day−1 to rat orally for 15 days prior to experimentation followed by co-administration of above extract at the same dose for 28 days of swimming to find out the remedial effect of this extract on exhaustive physical exercise-induced oxidative damage. Swimming resulted significant diminution (