The Relationship Among Parenting Practice Creativity and Parents Mental Health With Intelligence Quotient and Behavioral Disorder of 7-8 Years Old Children in Qaemshahr City

Background: The aim of this study was the survey of the relationship of parenting practice, creativity and parent’s mental health with intelligence quotient and behavioral disorder of 7-8 years old children in Qaemshahr city.Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study. The statistical population consisted of seven and eight years old children in Qaemshahr city in 2017. Three hundred children among them selected with stratified random sampling. Data gathered by Baumrind parenting practices questionnaire, Thurstone and Mellinger creativity questionnaire, Derogatis mental health, Wechsler intelligence scale for children and Rutter children’s behavioral disorder. Data analysis executed by one-way ANOVA test and Pearson correlation with SPSS 22.Results: The results showed that there is no significant difference between behavioral disorder rate of boys & girls (P < 0.05). Also, there is the significant relationship among parenting practices with intelligence quotient and children behavioral disorder (P < 0.05), while there was no significant relationship between intelligence quotient and children’s behavioral disorder with creativity (P < 0.05). Moreover, there was a significant relationship between mental health with behavioral disorder among children (P < 0.05), however, there was no significant relationship with intelligence quotient (P < 0.05).Conclusion: According to research results we can conclude that welfare and educational equipment’s by short-term, medium-term and long-term planning may enhance health and mental comfort among families with their children’s behavioral disorders

Flow enhancement in and around buildings for wind energy harvesting

Decentralised small-scale wind energy harvesting in urban environments, as one of the potential solutions to tackle the energy crisis and climate change, requires the development of flow enhancement techniques in a fairly turbulent urban wind condition. This study proposes two types of building and façade configurations, including adaptive Double Skin Façade (DSF) and aerodynamic through-building openings, to enhance wind energy harvesting in and around buildings. Depending on their layout configuration, the two proposals form various types of confined aerodynamic duct-shape corridors suitable for installing wind turbines. The desirable wind flow characteristics for wind energy harvesting including speed, uniformity and unidirectionality of the wind flow and undesirable wind turbulence were investigated inside the different layout configurations of the corridors. The effect of wind speed and direction, urban terrain, aerodynamic modifications of layout configurations and wind turbines on the flow characteristics, and the effect of local wind data on annual energy production of the two proposed designs were studied. A series of wind tunnel tests in two phases were conducted utilising flow measurement techniques including hot-wire anemometry, Cobra probe measurements, tuft visualizations and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Several Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using steady and unsteady RANS were also performed to investigate the mechanisms and characteristics of the flow inside different layout configurations of DSF and through-building openings. CFD results were properly validated against the wind tunnel data using statistical performance analysis, which showed the capability of the steady RANS, SST k-ω in particular, to estimate the mean flow characteristics inside the corridors. The results showed that the DSF with proper aerodynamic modifications including recessed regions and curved walls effectively channel and enhance the wind flow inside corridors for a wide range of wind directions, and hence, is a potential technique for enhancing wind flow in urban environments. It was found that proper aerodynamic modifications of the DSF maintain the amplified wind velocity inside the corridors up to the wind direction of ±45° to the corridor’s axis. Within this range of wind directions, the mean velocity inside the leading side corridors of the layout with the proper modifications got almost doubled as compared with the free-stream velocity. The results showed that the aerodynamic modifications and the confined area of the corridors contribute substantially to the reduction of turbulence intensity by about 25%. Considering wind coming in any direction, the middle region of the corridors, where wind flow is relatively uniform and unidirectional, is a suitable location for installing wind turbines

The role of trip purpose and hotel star rating on guests’ satisfaction and WOM

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to understand how guests’ trip purpose and hotel star rating influence the effects of the value for money perceived at hotels and service quality on guest satisfaction and word of mouth (WOM) recommendation. Design/methodology/approach: Using TripAdvisor, 25 Singaporean hotels were randomly selected for the study, which yielded hotel reviews from 2,040 respondents. Hierarchical and logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate the relationships proposed in the study. Findings: Results indicate significant differences between leisure and business guests’ perception of value for money and service quality at hotels with various star ratings. While perceived value for money and service quality were found as significant predictors for both leisure and business guests’ satisfaction and WOM, the effects were moderated by the hotel star rating. Despite the significant effect of hotel star rating on guest satisfaction, the study found no significant relationships between hotel star rating and WOM for leisure and business guests. Practical implications: The findings suggest that managers in the hotel industry should understand the purpose of guests’ trip and offer services based on their expectations. As the star rating of a hotel creates certain expectations for both leisure and business guests, providing an appropriate level of services and assuring value for money in accordance with the hotel rating contributes to guest satisfaction and WOM recommendation. Originality/value: This study contributes to the hospitality literature by investigating how hotel star rating moderates the relationship of value for money and service quality on leisure and business guests’ satisfaction and WOM recommendation

Local infrastructure in Australian tourist destinations: modelling tourism demand and estimating casts of water provisions and operation

With so many tourist activities in Australia, consideration must be given to the impact of the tourist on the environments in which they are located. Sustainable practices and in particular those associated with water use and wastewater production are important in planning for current tourist activity and future growth of visitors in urban and rural areas. The objectives of this research include an investigation and review of the options available to provide, operate and fund water and wastewater infrastructure to meet growing tourism needs in a sustainable manner. This has led to the development of a modelling framework for facilitating a range of analysis related to water use at Australian tourism destinations. The adopted modelling methodology includes procedures for estimating base year and forecasted tourist population at the tourist destination, water and wastewater demands associated with the visitor population, infrastructure required to satisfy water demands at the tourism region and the cost of such infrastructure provisions. This is achieved by incorporating tourist and residential population estimation for a base year and for a series of forecast future years. Population estimations are based on current and available survey data including regional tourism surveys, international and national visitor surveys and Australian census data. Water and wastewater requirements for these combined populations at the tourist destination are calculated with inclusions for irrigation based on CROPWAT software outputs. The corresponding costs of water provision and wastewater collection can then be summarised, based on the preceding estimations. To allow for application to all Australian tourism localities, the modelling process is adapted to suit data that is readily available or easily collected and involves principles that can be readily applied by the user. This methodology outlines some urban water use and wastewater production statistics across Australian capital cities, useful in later calculations. Case study applications of the model are developed for the Australian tourist destinations of Daylesford in Victoria and Byron Bay in New South Wales. Analysis includes full calculations for the water and wastewater needs and associated costs for the forecast year of 2031. Some key findings from the analysis are that for the year 2031, the costs associated with Daylesford’s residential and tourist population demand will be $32,289,650 for the total water demand and$11,128,000 for wastewater treatment. For the town of Byron Bay in 2031, these costs will be $53,601,500 for the total water demand and$18,644,000 for wastewater treatment. Major benefits of this research include better knowledge and understanding of tourist demands, and the need for water and wastewater infrastructure and analytical tools, enabling councils and other authorities to quantify present and future tourist demands, infrastructure requirements to meet demand, and the associated costs of infrastructure provision and operation

An assessment of the drainage quality and quantity associated with recycled wastewater irrigation in an urban park

8 p.International audienceQuantification of drainage to remove excess water from the soil profile and provide a suitable environment for vegetation has been developed over the years. Drainage estimation is fairly challenging particularly in the heterogeneous urban environs. This research studied the temporal variation of drainage rate and nutrient leaching in Veale Gardens of Adelaide Parklands, Australia. A zero tension pan lysimeter was installed in an urban mixed vegetation park to study the quantity and quality of leachate solute. EM38 soil mapping and spatial analysis allowed mapping of two EC zones. Temporal changes of volume and characteristics of drained water were studied in the low EC zone for two seasons of summer and winter. The outcomes showed that the volume of drained water in the summer time was considerably less than in the winter time. This is likely to be the cause of the winter dormancy in most plants and evapotranspiration reduction in winter time. Chemical analyses of leachate solute showed a significant drop in the values of EC, potassium, total N, total P, and ionic balance from summer to winter despite a large increase in SAR. In terms of nutrient loading during the study period, this work has shown that there would be very little impact from using recycled waste water compared to conventional water sources