Why do our travel wishes change as we travel more? This guide explains Philip Pearce's Travel Career Ladder, its five levels of motivation, how travelers move up and down the ladde
Plog’s Psychographic Model places travelers on a spectrum from adventurous allocentrics to familiarity-seeking psychocentrics and links them to the rise and fall of destinations. T
This time, I would like to prepare material on the PDCA cycle for achieving goals and improving organizations. PDCA (plan–do–check–act) is a method for managing production, quality
Flexicurity pairs a labour market in which firms can hire and dismiss with generous social protection for those who lose a job. This article covers Denmark's “golden triangle,” its
Liposomes are artificial vesicles with a bilayer structure similar to biological membranes and have potential for a wide range of biological applications. These vesicles are attrac
Bootstrapping treats the sample you already have as if it were the population and resamples from it over and over to estimate error and confidence intervals. This article covers ho
Montessori education sees children as born with the drive to learn and helps them grow by choosing activities and learning with their hands in a prepared environment. Learn how it
Major accidents rarely happen “suddenly”; they are usually preceded by many small warning signs. This article explains Heinrich’s Law (the 1:29:300 rule), its domino theory, later
This time, I would like to write about MARC, which is used in libraries. MARC and cataloging cover such an extensive range of material that I plan to divide the discussion into sev
Can you still protect your livelihood when illness or job loss keeps you from working? This article explains decommodification as defined by Gøsta Esping-Andersen, the criteria use
Parasocial interaction is the one-sided sense of face-to-face closeness we feel with media figures who don’t know us. This piece covers Horton and Wohl’s 1956 concept, the differen
Probability sampling randomly selects cases so that every member of a population has a known probability greater than zero of being chosen for the sample; these probabilities need