Search results for " Cruise"
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The marine activities performed within the TOMO-ETNA experiment
2016
<p>The TOMO-ETNA experiment was planned in order to obtain a detailed geological and structural model of the continental and oceanic crust beneath Mt. Etna volcano and northeastern Sicily up to the Aeolian Islands (southern Italy), by integrating data from active and passive refraction and reflection seismic methodologies, magnetic and gravity surveys. This paper focuses on the marine activities performed within the experiment, which have been carried out in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, during three multidisciplinary oceanographic cruises, involving three research vessels (“Sarmiento de Gamboa”, “Galatea” and “Aegaeo”) belonging to different countries and institutions. During the o…
Automated Content Analysis of Destination Image: a Case Study
2020
Automated content analysis has become one of the most used approaches to extract “hidden” dimensions from text corpora over the last years. One of the data analysis techniques belonging to this approach is topic modeling, which can be fruitfully used to analyse complex phenomena like tourist destination image. With this aim in mind, this paper discusses the use of topic modeling to identify the main components of the image of cruise holidays spread through a specific type of visual text, i.e. the Television commercial. In order to achieve this goal, the paper presents the methodology and main results of a study carried out over a sample of TV commercials, which have recently been broadcast …
Speed control design for a vehicle system using fuzzy logic and PID controller
2015
This paper consists of designing fuzzy and PID controllers for controlling the vehicle speed. The dynamic of the system is modeled to provide a transfer function for the plant. Fuzzy and PID controller are designed for linear model. The external disturbances such road grade is considered to stabilizing the system. Both controllers are modeled using MATLAB Simulink software. Finally, a comparative assessment of each simulated result is done based on the response characteristics.
Die mediterrane Faszination. Die erste deutsche Mittelmeer- und Orientkreuzfahrt
2022
El 22 de enero de 1891, el emperador Guillermo II despidió en Cuxhaven el barco de pasajeros Augusta Victoria, que recorrería durante dos meses el Mediterráneo y algunas de sus ciudades más importantes, inaugurando así la era de los cruceros de placer. A bordo viajaban 241 acaudalados pasajeros, entre ellos el dibujante Ch. W. Allers, que escribió sus memorias de viaje en Ba-ckschisch. El primer crucero alemán por el Mediterráneo, ofreciendo con ello un testimonio único de la fascinación mediterránea en la época imperialista. Basado en un sentimiento eurocéntrico y nacional, el Mediterráneo es percibido por el microcosmos de viajeros alemanes como una unidad geográfica e ideológica. Los ras…
Una convergenza oggettiva tra mafia, terrorismo e forze eversive
2017
«Il vero nodo da sciogliere oggi è perciò quello della mafia inserita nell’attuale sistema di potere. Affrontare questo tema significa entrare nell’ordine di idee di costruire un nuovo sistema di potere, basato veramente sulla democrazia politica e sulla democrazia economica in Sicilia». Così, nel lontano 1964, e in poche sintetiche frasi, Pio La Torre offre ai deputati dell’Assemblea Regionale siciliana una lucida analisi del fenomeno mafioso; nella quale la militanza politica è indisgiungibile da una precisa idea di società e di democrazia. La mafia è un problema politico e della politica; poiché mina alla base il principio di uguaglianza e di giustizia sociale. Lo scontro con i gabelloti…
Analysing Tourist Destination Image through Topic Modeling
2019
Topic modeling has become one of the most used methods to analyse textual data, proving able to “discover” hidden dimensions (topics) which characterise a corpus. This methodology can be used fruitfully to analyse complex phenomena like tourist destination image. With this aim in mind, this paper discusses the use of topic modeling over TV commercials which have been broadcast by four of the major cruise lines operating in Italy in recent years.
Tracking cruise passengers' consumption: An analysis of the relationships between onshore mobility and expenditure
2022
This paper analyzes the relationships between the spatial behaviour and destination expenditures of cruise tourists by integrating customer surveys and GPS tracking technology. Based on data collated in 2018 and 2019 in Copenhagen, cruise passenger expenditure was modelled via logistic regression, using socio-demographic characteristics and mobility-related variables. In order to map the spatial behaviour and the key characteristics of the itinerary followed, tracking data were synthesized into meaningful mobility variables. An analysis of stops was performed to identify locations with the potential highest expenditure density. The results indicated that spatial movement and, in particular,…
A survival approach for the analysis of cruise passengers’ behavior at the destination
2016
The present work aims at proposing an analysis of cruise passengers’ behavior at the destination through a survival analysis approach. Data collected through GPS devices on cruise passengers’ behavior in the port of Palermo and Dubrovnik are analyzed in order to show similarities and differences among behaviors at the destination, according to socio-demographic characteristics. Results are of interest from both a methodological perspective, related with the processing and the analysis of GPS data, and from the destination management perspective.
Physical oceanography, sea-bed photographs and videos of benthos from the Weddell Sea taken with remote operated vehicle CHEROKEE during POLARSTERN c…
2010
The marine ecosystem on the eastern shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula was surveyed 5 and 12 years after the climate-induced collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves. An impoverished benthic fauna was discovered, that included deep-sea species presumed to be remnants from ice-covered conditions. The current structure of various ecosystem components appears to result from extremely different response rates to the change from an oligotrophic sub-ice-shelf ecosystem to a productive shelf ecosystem. Meiobenthic communities remained impoverished only inside the embayments. On local scales, macro- and mega-epibenthic diversity was generally low, with pioneer species and typical Antarctic megabent…
Promoting cruise ship as 'tourist destination' on Television: the case of Italy
2019
Destination image is one of the elements that most affect tourists’ decision-making processes (Baloglu and McCleary, 1999). Since a distinctive image can differentiate a destination from its competitors, destinations usually compete also via images (Urry, 1990). In this regard, cruise tourism is no exception, since “image is what sells cruises” (Klein, 2002). Over the past 30 years this has led to significant growth in advertising activities aiming to promote the cruise ship “as the destination in itself” (Wood, 2004). Similar trends can be observed among Italian cruise lines as well. Among different types of promotional texts, the importance of the visual ones in shaping the ways tourist r…