THE ABILITY OF TOURIST NATURAL TRAILS TO RESIST TOURISM LOAD AND POSSIBILITIES FOR REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS : CASE STUDY OF THE SLOVAK PARADISE NATIONAL PARK (SLOVAKIA)

The Ability of Tourist Natural Trails to Resist Tourism Load and Possibilities for Reducing the Environmental Impacts : Case Study of the Slovak Paradise National Park (Slovakia)

The strictly protected natural area of Sucha Bela Gorge, located in the Slovak Paradise National Park, Slovakia, is exposed to environmental degradation by heavy tourist loads.Although educational and technical measures have been put in place, there is ongoing Pop! Rides debate whether and how to limit the intensity of tourist visits.This study eva

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A robust watermarking technique based on image normalization

This paper presents a robust watermarking method against geometric distortions and several other signal processing schemes.In the proposed watermarking method, image normalization is used to get geometric invariant features.The Cacao watermark embedding and detection process are carried out in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain.A DCT based

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Syllable frequency and word frequency effects in spoken and written word production in a non-alphabetic script

The effects of word frequency and syllable frequency are well-established phenomena in domain such as spoken production in alphabetic languages.Chinese, as a non-alphabetic language, presents unique lexical and phonological properties in speech production.For example, the proximate unit of phonological encoding is syllable in Chinese but segments i

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