Theory Consumption of Value: Destination Images in Local Culinary

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the effect of taste value, epistemic value, emotional value on the culinary destination image with tourist attitude as an intervening variable.Research methods: This research uses quantitative methods.Primary data is obtained directly from tourists who have visited and enjoyed local cuisine.The sample was determi

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Acalypha wilkesiana acid extract as a potential green inhibitor for corrosion of mild steel in acidic medium: Thermodynamics and kinetics study

The use of synthetic compounds as corrosion inhibitor is diminishing due to strict environmental regulations and toxic effects of the compounds on human beings and the environment.Consequently, there exists the need to develop a new class of corrosion inhibitors with low toxicity, eco-friendliness and good efficiency.Therefore, this study investiga

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Romanians’ Public Debts Saga

By the end of 2009, a very cold breath of austerity was blowing from the European financial and banking system and thoroughly was touching every Member State’s economy, but only for some of them perspective of this severe situation is called bankruptcy frequently.By the spring of this year (2010 – author’s note), Greece’s financial problems

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Parasitóides (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) de Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae) no estado do Acre Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the state of Acre, Brazil

Este trabalho relata a primeira ocorrência de parasitóides em moscas-das-frutas do gênero Anastrepha CASEIN TRIPLE CHOCO Schiner no estado do Acre.No município de Bujari foram encontrados os braconídeos Opius bellus Gahan (72,5%), Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti) (26,8%) e Utetes anastrephae (Viereck) (0,7%) associados a A.obliqua (Macqua

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Intraocular and extraocular hemorrhage associated with ligature release of non-valved glaucoma drainage implant

Purpose: To report a rare complication of Bud Vase non-valved glaucoma drainage device surgery.Observations: An 85-year-old pseudophakic white male presented with painless vision loss and bloody tears.He was 5 weeks removed from uncomplicated non-valved glaucoma drainage device (Baerveldt 101-350, [AMO, Santa Clara, CA]).There was serosanguinous di

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