This contribution investigates under which conditions consumers can identify a product's country of origin when confronted with conflicting information on the product package. Our study draws on current literature on the country-of-origin effect and on foreign branding, a naming strategy...

A new solar boiling water system with conventional vacuum-tube solar collector as primary heater and the holistic solar funnel concentrator as secondary heater had been designed. In this paper, the system was measured out door and its performance was analyzed. The configuration and operation...

Agent-based simulation is a decision support tool that has recently been used by park managers to better plan the development of tourist infrastructure such as paths, buildings and viewing platforms and to understand the relationships between visitor flows and acceptable levels of crowding. The...