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Tourism studies

Who Finds a Destination First? Plog’s Psychographic Model

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

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Business administration

The PDCA Cycle for Achieving Goals

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

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Social welfare

Easy to Change, Secure to Live: Flexicurity

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

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Education

Helping Children Grow on Their Own: Montessori Education

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

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General knowledge

A Preview of Major Accidents: Heinrich’s Law

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

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Library & information science

KORMARC (Korean Machine-Readable Cataloging) Tag Reference

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

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Social welfare

A Life Outside the Market: Decommodification

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

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Journalism & communication

Making Friends on the Screen: Parasocial Interaction

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

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Statistics

An Easy Guide to Probability Sampling Methods

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