This paper presents comparisons of labour productivity (value added per hour worked) in market services for the UK, the US, France and Germany in 1993. Market services, defined as (1) Distribution, Hotels and Catering, (2) Transport and Communications and (3) Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, make...

Mägedesse ehitatud mäekristalli kujulisest puithoonest Monte Rosa Hut Šveitsis, arhitekt Andrea Deplazes. Kuuest seenekujulisest kuplist koosnevast puitehitisest Metropol Parasol Seville Hispaanias, arhitekt Jürgen Hermann Mayer

The purpose of the paper is to examine the performance of small UK service-sector firms during a period of poor economic conditions in relation to entrepreneurial behaviour and knowledge management. A mail survey of small rural hotels was undertaken. Hotels achieving higher sales growth exhibited an entrepreneurial orientation and have created effective knowledge management systems. The practical implications of the study are that service firms seeking to survive in turbulent times should focus upon adopting entrepreneurial solutions and the creation of effective knowledge management systems. The originality of this study is in providing empirical evidence of the advantages of small UK service-sector firms during the current economic downturn adopting an entrepreneurial orientation in orde...

Topics discussed in this European Power News include the role of combined heat and power (CHP) systems in the domestic market, the installation of a Nedalo CHP unit at a UK leisure centre, the interest of the health sector in CHP schemes, the UK Department of Energy`s grant programme for promotion of small-scale industrial CHP units, and use of Stirling engines for cost effective small scale (<30 kWe) CHP systems. Use of heat from a gas fired CHP system and export of power to the grid in the maltings and brewery industry, installation of 14 800kW CHP units at the Land Rover production site in Solihull, the market for small scale (30-150 kWe) systems, the slow take up of small scale CHP possibly due to lack of awareness and reluctance to commit investment, and finally the refurbishment of a boiler house at a hotel at Heathrow Airport with a packaged CHP unit are discussed. (UK)

Eelmisel aastal moodustatud hotellikett Barons Hotels OÜ opereerib Tallinnas kolme hotelli, need on eksklusiivne butiikhotell Barons, moodne äri-, konverentsi- ja puhkereisijate hotell Euroopa ja mugav kahetärnihotell Braavo!

Abstract Der aus Sicht der Tragwerksplaner interessanteste und auch fr die Besucher spektakulrste Teil des Projekts Metropol Parasol ist die 150 m lange und bis zu 28 m hohe, begehbare Holzkonstruktion aus mehrlagig verklebten Furnierschichtholzscheiben. Die Realisierung gelang nur dank einiger konstruktiver Innovationen, wie der 2 bis 3 mm dicken Polyurethan-Beschichtung, montageoptimierten Verbindungsdetails und der weltweit erstmals im Holzbau eingesetzten Temperung des fr das Einkleben der Gewindestangen verwendeten Epoxid-Harzes. Auerdem erlutert der Bericht besondere Fragestellungen zur statischen Berechnung, der Herstellung und der Montage. New concepts in timber structures with LVL plates - The timber structure of Metropol Parasol in Seville. The most impressive part of the Metropo...

Iiri kunstnike rühmituse Outrider Artists (Jackie Askew, Maeve Collins, Fiona Woods, Maria Kerin, Fiona O'Dwyer, Fergus Tighe) näitus "Salt" ("Sool") Tallinnas East Galeriis 20. märtsini 2011. Eesti kunstnike rühmitusest Vedelik, 6. märtsil peetud 9. märtsi tegevuskunsti festivalist Tallinnas galeriis Metropol (Vana-Kalamaja 46)

Abstract The 15th International Conference on II-VI Compounds was held in the Mayan Riviera located in the Yucatn Peninsula, Mexico, on 21-26 August 2011. The meeting continued a series of biennial conferences, which was started in Durham, UK, in April of 1982. The previous conference was held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, in 2009. The 15th conference was organized by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav-IPN) whose main campus is in Mexico City. The conference site was located within the Cancun-Tulum corridor called Mayan Riviera, where the majestic turquoise Caribbean Sea meets white, cool, soft sand beaches. All the attendants stayed in the same five-star hotel, with all included services; these conditions contributed to create a stimulating and friendly atmosphere for ...

MAY 2004 GARP's 3rd Credit & Counterparty Risk Summit, London, UK 21-23 May 2004 Andreas Simou (andreas.simou@garp.com), +44 (0)20 7626 9301, www.garp.com/events/3rdcred IMA Workshop 9: Financial Data Analysis and Applications, University of Minnesota, MN, USA 24-28 May 2004 www.ima.umn.edu/complex/spring/c9.html Global Derivatives & Risk Management 2004, NH Eurobuilding, Madrid, Spain 25-28 May 2004 Aden Watkins, ICBI (awatkins@iirltd.co.uk), +44 (0)20 7915 5198, www.icbi-uk.com/globalderivatives/ WEHIA'04 9th Workshop on Economics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, Kyodai-Kaikan, Kyoto, Japan 27-29 May 2004 www.nda.ac.jp/cs/AI/wehia04/ JUNE 2004 Semimartingale Theory and Practice in Finance, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada 5-10 June 2004 www.pims.math.ca/birs/workshops/2004/04w5032/ MC2QMC 2004 International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods, Juan-les-Pins, Côte d'Azur, France 7-10 June 2004 Monique Simonetti (Monique.Simonetti@sophia.inria.fr), +33 4 92 38 78 64, www-sop.inria.fr/omega/MC2QMC2004/ GAIM'04 10th Annual Global Alternative Investment Management Forum, The Beaulieu Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland 8-11 June 2004 +44 (0)20 7915 5103, www.icbi-uk.com/gaim/ 3rd Annual Conference Ri$k Management 2004, Fairmont Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 12-15 June 2004 www.iirme.com/risk/ 10th Annual Risk USA Congress, Boston, MA, USA 21-24 June 2004 Aristotle Liu (aliu@riskwaters.com), +44 (0)207 484 9700, www.riskusa.com Mannheim Empirical Research Summer School, Mannheim University, Germany 22 June-2 July 2004 oliver@kirchkamp.de, www.sfb504.uni-mannheim.de/merss 9th Annual Conference on Econometric Modelling for Africa, Cape Town, South Africa 30 June-2 July 2004 aesinfo@commerce.uct.ac.za, www.commerce.uct.ac.za/economics/AES2004Conference/ 4th Congress of Nonlinear Analysts. Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Finance, Hyatt Grand Cypress Resort, Orlando, FL, USA 30 June-7 July 2004 dkermani@fit.edu, +1 321 674 7412, http://kermani.math.fit.edu/ JULY 2004 2nd World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Faculty of Luminy, Marseille, France 5-9 July 2004 Europa Organisation (europa@europa-organisation.com), +33 5 34 45 26 45, www.gts2004.org Budapest Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 5-10 July 2004 Eva Dotzi (behavecon@ceu.hu), www.iza.org/en/calls_conferences/CallCEU_04.pdf FDA'04 1st IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Bordeaux, France 19-20 July 2004 IFAC secretariat (fda04@lap.u-bordeaux1.fr), www.lap.u-bordeaux.fr/fda04/ Bachelier Finance Society Third World Congress, InterContinental Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA 21-24 July 2004 bfs2004@uic.edu, www.uic.edu/orgs/bachelier/ BS/IMS 2004 6th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Barcelona, Spain 26-31 July 2004 wc2004@pacifico-meetings.com, +34 93 402 13 85, www.imub.ub.es/events/wc2004 AUGUST 2004 Summer School in Econometrics. The Cointegrated VAR Model: Econometric Methodology and Macroeconomic Applications, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2-22 August 2004 Summerschool@econ.ku.dk, www.econ.ku.dk/summerschool SEPTEMBER 2004 First Bonzenfreies Colloquium on Market Dynamics and Quantitative Economics, Alessandria, Palazzo Borsalino, Italy 9-10 September 2004 colloquium@unipmn.it, www.mfn.unipmn.it/~colloqui/ Risk Analysis 2004. 4th International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation, Aldemar Paradise Royal Mare Hotel, Rhodes, Greece 27-29 September 2004 enquiries@wessex.ac.uk, +44 (0)238 029 3223, www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2004/risk04/ OCTOBER 2004 IRC Hedge 2004, InterContinental Hotel, London, UK 10, 11 October 2004 enquiries@irc-conferences.com, www.irc-conferences.com/show_conference.php?id=10 NOVEMBER 2004 IRC DICE 2004, InterContinental Hotel, London, UK 22, 23 November 2004 enquiries@irc-conferences.com, www.irc-conferences.com/show_conference.php?id=13 DECEMBER 2004 Quantitative Methods in Finance 2004, Sydney, Australia 15-18 December 2004 Andrea Schnaufer (qmf@uts.edu.au), +61 2 9514 7737, www.business.uts.edu.au/finance/resources/qmf2004/

Uutest heliplaatidest Lightspeed Champion "Falling Off The Lavender Bridge", Sebastian Bach "Angel Down", Juanes "La Vida...", raadi Maria "Siin Tallinn", Erich Krieger "Live", Rock Hotel "Rock Hotel Rock Cafes"

The 1982 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union and the Winter Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) will be held in San Francisco from December 7—15 at the Cathedral Hill Hotel (Formerly the Jack Tar Hotel) and Holiday Inn/Golden Gateway Hotel.

The Chinese hotel industry is undergoing brisk growth, particularly in the budget hotel segment. Thus, an exploratory study was conducted to determine the factors facilitating growth of the budget hotel market. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat analysis was undertaken to identify future trends and to assess market potential. Relevant implications and suggestions were made to the industry so as to remedy the identified weaknesses and overcome the threats. Some regression models about the expansion of different star-rated hotels in China were also developed. It was found that overall disposable income was the most significant factor in explaining and predicting the number of budget hotel rooms.

This paper examines hotel guests' willingness to pay a premium for environmentally friendly and sustainable practices of the U.S. hotel industry. Specifically, the goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between the level of U.S. hotel guests' environmental concern, measured by the New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP) and their willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for hotels' ''green practices.'' This study found that U.S. hotel guests with higher degrees of environmental concerns declare a higher willingness to pay premiums for hotels' green initiatives. This avowed willingness supports the social identity theory and the means-end theory. In addition, based on the affect-based complementarity proposition, this study also examined the effect of hotel type on WTP in the U.S. h...

In 1938, two meetings took place that were to become significant in their effects in UK education. One took place in the imposing Hotel Royal at Dinard, near St Malo, and the other in a small flat in Finsbury, north London. In their own ways, these two meetings provide a context in which Brian Simon was to work postwar. The meetings were focused on evaluation and the discussion method - both of which were significant new ideas in education. The meetings produced effects that shaped postwar education either in the hegemonic notions of intelligence and its testing or in the common school and its methods. The Dinard meeting was the final one for an important group of American and European educational researchers, working on aspects of examinations and intelligence testing, a project that had occupied them for some years. They had begun their work in the early 1930s and, although the group varied in number, they represented several European countries (Sweden, Germany, France, Finland and Switzerland), as well as Scotland and England. They were led by Paul Monroe, the historian and comparativist from the International Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, and the first two meetings were chaired by Sir Michael Sadler, the great English comparativist of the early twentieth century, at that time in Oxford. Many of the participants in the meetings, and organizers of their linked, national research projects, were leading scholars at the edge of the new technology of intelligence testing.

This study examines the perceived importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) attributes of Hong Kong hotel employees and their hotels' performance on those attributes, and to determine underlying performance factors that ultimately lead to the perceived overall CSR effectiveness of hotels. The importance-performance analysis results show that Hong Kong hotels generally performed well on 17 out of the indicated 30 CSR attributes. Furthermore, the attribute ''promote innovation in products and services'' was considered to be overkill, and another attribute, ''demonstrates a commitment to the environment,'' requires the immediate attention of hotels. Six performance factors were extracted and Hong Kong hotels performed best in the area of finance. The factors ''state of affairs'' and...

When is a hotel a green hotel? An accurately defined limit for this does not exist. However, as a guideline the well-known real estate sustainability certificates LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) can be considered as well as, in particular, the 'German seal of quality for sustainable building for hotels' existing since the end of 2010 and developed by the German Sustainable Building Council DGNB (Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany). On the fair BAU 2011 in Munich (Federal Republic of Germany) the first hotel buildings were honoured with pre-certificates of the DGNB.

Nordic Hotel Forum Viru väljak 3 Tallinnas. Arhitekt Indrek Allmann. Ehituse peatöövõtja AS Merko Ehitus. Indrek Allmann hoone arhitektuurist, fassaadigraafikast, linnaruumist hotelli ümber. 7 värv. välisvaadet, foto arhitektist

...Hotel, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, Florida. January 30, 2012..................... NIGC Consultation-- Agua Caliente, Casino/ 1, 2, 4, 5 California. Conference Center, 100 North Indian Drive, Palm Springs,...

Uutest heliplaatidest. Eesti plaadid : Ivo Linna & Rock Hotel "Kõva ketas", Väikeste Lõõtspillide Ühing "See terve ilm on imelik", Kuldsed Lindid "Ootamatud sõnad", Laine Mustasaar "Naise elu ja armastus"

Abstract The present paper is devoted to the features of agglomeration processes in Russia that are connected with the transfer from central planning in economics and urban planning to spontaneous processes of urban and agglomeration development. Much attention is paid to the features of the Perm and Yekaterinburg agglomerations that are in the process of transformation from the industrial to dynamic stage of development. Conclusions about the relation between competitiveness of large cities and specific social capital of the city which aims at the active metropolization policy are depicted. Methodic approaches to the assessment of agglomeration transformation for reducing negative external effects and increasing competitiveness are under consideration. Territorial capital theory with cons...

Abstract The most widely used tools in statistical quality control are control charts. However, the main problem of multivariate control charts, including the Hotelling‘s T2 control chart, lies in that they indicate that a change in the process has happened, but do not show which variable or...

The purpose of this project-based thesis was to design an eco-booklet for hotel customers of a Turkish eco hotel for increasing their environmental awareness. The booklet is divided into three parts. It first describes the main environmental impacts of tourism globally, in Turkey and in the Bodrum P...

Abstract in portuguese Novas espécies de Onciderini são descritas da Bolívia, Santa Cruz, Buena Vista (Hotel Flora & Fauna): Trestoncideres albiventris sp. nov., Trestonia morrisi sp. nov. e Oncideres wappesi sp. nov. Abstract in english New species described from Santa Cruz, Buena Vista (Flora & Fauna Hotel): Trestoncideres albiventris sp. nov., Trestonia morrisi sp. nov. and Oncideres wappesi sp. nov.

The aim of this action based thesis was to create new sales material in English for international sales of Holiday Club Katinkulta. The material concentrates on the services offered in the spa hotel side. The spa hotel was sold to its former owner Holiday Club Resorts ltd during the thesis writing p...

The purpose of the present study is to create valuable information for the Spanish hotel Sol Tenerife about characteristics of e-marketing in Russia. The study investigates main opportunities and threats which a foreign hotel has to consider when implementing the Internet marketing strategy in the c...

Recycling of resources is part of social responsibility of any business enterprise. With this thought in mind, since 1992 Hotel had wrestled with the task of recycling its kitchen refuse and restaurant leftovers until 1997, when the hotel succeeded in making manure from hotel refuse very much ahead of other hotels. In 1998 vegetables which were raised with such organic manure were successfully served at hotel restaurants, completing a full cycle of recources recycling. The effort continues to expand the base of recycling to other waste areas one from another. The text will snow how the motivation initiated by the top management was shared by all the staff, how the importance of assorting refuse into recyclable and non-recyclable groups came to be realized, how the processing machine for fermentation was adopted, and how the organic manure thus produced was put to an effective use. (author)

Taiwan hotels need to focus on international eMarketing because these cater to international travelers, especially with leisure travelers expected to increase in the coming years. Facebook offers a wide range of opportunities for the international eMarketing of hotels. Investigation of the current use of Facebook, as an international eMarketing tool, by six large hotels in Taiwan showed presence in Facebook and use of basic features. However, the use of different Facebook features varied. While the hotels were able to connect with international leisure travelers via Facebook for the communication of marketing messages, the reach is limited to Chinese-speaking users using Chinese as the primary language, even for hotel pages accessible through English accounts. Language use also limited int...

This paper reviews the considerable literature on hotel selection. It demonstrates that this body of literature has been developed, for the most part, outside of the context of a widely endorsed consumer decision-making model based on set formulation. It then reports on a study that uses an experimental design aimed at understanding hotel consumer consideration set formation and modification, rather than the previous traditional emphasis on choice sets and attributes. For a specific market segment selecting a hotel for a leisure stay the paper reports on the size of the consideration and choice set, and identifies the different factors that influence choice at these two stages in the process.

Purpose - This paper aims to address an identified gap in hospitality literature. It examines hotel key accounts' perceptions towards revenue management practice and its impact on key account relationship development. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative research approach was adopted for the investigation through in-depth interviews with account managers from an international hotel company and its key accounts from nine international companies across three main market segments: airlines, corporate and leisure. Findings - The findings of this study show that revenue management practice has reduced relationship stability and the trust between hotels and their key accounts due to a number of reasons. These include: opportunistic behaviour such as unexpected contract rate increases and/...

To accommodate the large size of the 1986 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., it was necessary to split activities between the Civic Auditorium, Brooks Hall, Holiday Inn-Golden Gateway Hotel, and the Cathedral Hill Hotel. The ASLO sessions and most joint ASLO/AGU ocean sciences sessions were held at the Cathedral Hill Hotel. This created some problems in that it took time for people to move between one location and another using the shuttle service provided. In general, it was felt that the arrangement avoided the tremendous crowding that would have occurred if all the meetings had been in the Civic Auditorium and Brooks Hall locations.

As power system costs rise and capacity is strained demand response can provide a significant system reliability benefit at a potentially attractive cost. The 162 room Music Road Hotel in Pigeon Forge Tennessee agreed to host a spinning reserve test. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) supplied real-time metering and monitoring expertise to record total hotel load during both normal operations and testing. Preliminary testing showed that hotel load can be curtailed by 22% to 37% depending on the outdoor temperature and the time of day. The load drop was very rapid, essentially as fast as the 2 second metering could detect.

While researchers have explored the relationship between customer orientation, entrepreneurship and innovativeness with business performance in different organizations, few such studies exist on the hotel industry. This current work investigates the potential influences of these variables on hotel industry performance. Data for this study was collected through personal questionnaires collected from 156 hotel managers and owners from German and French speaking cantons located in Switzerland in order to examine the interrelation between innovativeness, customer orientation, entrepreneurship and service business performance dimensions (i.e., profit goal achievement, sales goal achievement and ROI achievement). The findings support aspects of prior research, but also provide some new insights ...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have positively contributed to the hospitality industry. In Spain, the third tourism destination in the world, hotels have widely adopted computers and the Internet for the internal processes as well as in their relationships with their providers and customers. While some ICT solutions are common in hotels regardless of their category, others may allow to differentiate across upscale hotels and those of inferior level. This study identifies the most discriminating ICT solutions across 3-, 4-, and 5-star hotels, and discusses their potential for improving efficiency and service quality. In particular, digital technology, loyalty programs, and ambient intelligence are some of the most differentiating technologies, which may be implemented by ...

Intervjuu novembri alguses 2008 Rakvere linna kultuuriosakonna juhataja kohale asunud Mihkel Trumaniga kultuurielust Rakveres, ansambli Rock-Hotel 30. juubeliks ilmunud raamatust "Aeg meid muutnud on", mille autoriks on intervjueeritav ning ajakirjast "Värske Rõhk", mille kolleegiumisse ta kuulub

Abstract Currently, there are a large number of hotel Web sites that develop their own seals of quality based on customer feedback. As a result, a hotel can be classified differently by various Web sites at the same time, creating confusion in the consumer perceptions about the quality of a given hotel. Moreover, there are attempts to standardize such service quality evaluation, such as the SERVQUAL instrument, which is a multiple-item scale for measuring service quality with several dimensions. In this context, we present a two-stage linguistic multicriteria decision-making model to integrate the hotel guests' opinions included in several Web sites, with two objectives: on the one hand, obtaining a SERVQUAL scale evaluation value of service quality with the integrated answers of the input...

...educators who develop curricula and teach occupational safety and health...Employer Data,'' ``Emergency Contacts,'' and ``Student...Personal Data'' and ``Emergency Contacts'' categories permits...local hotels/motels if an emergency arises at their home or...

Novembris 1998 La Galerie Passage'is kunstnike ja laste jõulukaardikavandite näitus, mille võidutööde järgi trükitud kaarte on võimalik sealtsamast osta. Kunstnikest parimad Orest Kormashov, Pille Lehis, Kamille Saabre. Laste kavandite järgi trükitud kaarte saab näha ja osta hotell 'Olümpia' galeriis

Med udgangspunkt i principielle overvejelser af skalaer for design og tanken om at lave totaldesign eller Gesamtkunstwerk gennem alle skalaer laves et designhistorisk rids med analyse af eksempler som SAS Hotel Royal, TWA-terminalen og Odense Universitet.

...Place: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, Bethesda, MD 20852. Contact Person: Eun Ah Cho, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Special Review & Logistics Branch, Division of Extramural Activities, National...

Järgi nr. 2 lk. 27. Infot maailmas hotelli- ja restoranimajanduses valitsevate trendide kohta saadakse põhiliselt IH&RA ja HOTREC-i vahendusel, mille liige EHRL on. International Hotel & Restaurant Association. HOTREC

Background Immigration to the United States has been associated with obesity, yet the relationship of acculturation to obesity and energy balance (ie, physical activity/dietary intake) in adults is a complex issue. Limited longitudinal data are available on immigrant Asians and Pacific Islanders. Design Analyses were conducted on baseline data and change data from baseline to 24 months in the hotel-based cluster-randomized Work, Weight and Wellness trial involving 15 control and 15 intervention hotels on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Sample Participants were adult employees of predominantly Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry who were assessed one or more times over the course of 24 months. The full sample consisted of 4,236 hotel workers (about 40% of hotel workforce) at baseline, 3,502 hot...

In assessing the impact of global tourism on climate change, emissions from transport receive the most attention although emissions associated with accommodation account for more than 20% of the total. A plethora of hotel certification schemes have been establish...

SRV Kinnisvara arendusjuht leiab, et mitmete poliitikute vastuseis hotell Viru juurdeehituse vastu ei ole põhjendatud, sest Viru väljaku detailplaneeringu koos hotelli laiendusega kinnitas Tallinna linnavalitus juba 1999. aastal ja selle kooskõlastas ka tolleaegne Riigi Muinsuskaitseinspektsiooni peadirektor Jaan Tamm

...will be held in the Sage Room of The Oxford Hotel, 1600--17th Street, Denver...Lois Wilson House), Katonah, NY. University Heights Campus (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York), Bronx, NY. Ohio...

...telecommunications, hotels, banking, media and tourism. Most U.S. companies, with offices...officials on the economic and commercial climates. Site visit(s) to see first-hand...opportunities/ sizestandardstopics/index.html). Parent companies,...

This paper firstly presents a case study on analyzing the electrical load profiles recorded in a Hong Kong hotel over a period of 12 months to examine the potential energy saving opportunities (ESOs) in its building services installations. The case study is followed by a report of the survey results of energy and water use in 36 quality hotels in Hong Kong. Finally, a regression analysis where the surveyed energy and water use data were correlated to a number of hotel background or operational parameters to search for suitable energy and water use performance explanatory indicators is presented. The survey results depict a diversified energy and water use situation in Hong Kong's hotels, but the regression analysis indicates that, while some of the correlations obtained are weak, there do exist a few strong energy and water explanatory indicators. (Author)

Uute heliplaatide Los Angeles Guitar Quartet "Air & Ground", Merz "Merz", The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Pay Attention", Nasa "Remembering The Future", Nits "Wool", "The Million Dollar hotel - Music From The Motion Picture" tutvustus

In this paper, the authors propose a new model for identifying the critical input-output combinations for each DMU. A real-world application case of 21 international tourist hotels (ITHs) is used to illustrate the proposed approach.

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceived importance of soft skills for hotel employees, their willingness to use electronic learning (e-learning) as a training tool to improve their soft skills, and the impact of hotel employees' individual characteristics (i.e. motivation, self-efficacy, technology anxiety) on their intentions to use e-learning across different age groups. Design/methodology/approach - The sample was randomly selected from hotel employees working at various upscale international chain hotels in South Korea. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) to simultaneously measure the impact of four independent variables on the intention to use e-learning for both younger and older learners. Findings - The analysis revealed that r...

The book comprises four contributions on heat recovery in a hotel and in milk cooling aggregates, on a heat pump with waste heat recovery on a farm, and microcomputer-controlled defrosting in industrial cooling systems. (KW).

In the absence of the international coverage of the Rwandan genocide, most international audiences came to know the Rwandan tragedy through the film, Hotel Rwanda, which was directed by Terry George, and which came out in 2004 - ten years after the genocide of 1994. The film is a chilling visual account of how nearly one million Tutsis were massacred by Hutu extremists in the span of nearly 100 days. However, following on the “heels” of the production of Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner published An ordinary man: the true story behind “Hotel Rwanda” (2006) a book that claims to tell the “truth” behind the film. The question then is: How much of what happened in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 was Hotel Rwanda authorized to tell and not...

Lauljast ja harfimängijast Cecile Corbelist ja keldi harfist telennist. Cecile Corbeli ja Cyril Maurini kontserdid: 21. märts Aravete kultuurimajas, 22. märts. Narva raekojas, 23. märts Pärnus Ammende Villas, 24. märts Tallinn Reval Park Hotel & Casinos, 25. märts Tartu Sadamateatris

Jeff Taylor. 17:00 ... name badges), we request that all participants RSVP by TBD to Debbie Calderón at Debbie. ... If we over-subscribe this hotel, there are others within walking distance (in this contingency, contact Debbie if you need help).

to double the onboard memory. Both of ...... my bags in my hotel, and I walked up on the chassis. I just started ...... that was not discovered until thermal-vacuum testing. The ...... domains including technology infusion, margin management, ...

...approximately 98,442 square feet of gaming floor and a 300-room hotel...mixed-use development; (3) non-gaming mixed-use development; and...of Indians, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington State...The DEIS is also available online at:...

...SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery Management...be held at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, 371 Riverview Drive, Jekyll Island, GA 31527; Telephone...Information Officer, South Atlantic Fishery Management...management for the black sea bass pot fishery,...

Projekteerija Arhitektuuribüroo Künnapu & Padrik. Arhitektid Vilen Künnapu, Ain Padrik, Eero Palm, Tarmo Maiste. Sisekujundajad Christian Lundwall, Jan Öberg. Konstruktsioonid: Teuvo Meriläinen, Jyrki Rautamäki. Projekt ja hotell valmis 2000. 12 ill.: korruste plaanid, sise- ja välisvaated

Vt. ka Postimees : na russkom jazõke 23. jaan. lk. 2-3. Tallinki laevafirma tuumikaktsionäri Infortar tegevjuht Ain Hanschmidt plaanib Tallinna ehitada meelelahutuskeskuse Tallink City, kuhu tuleb mäesuusahall, troopiline veekeskus, kobarkino, kaubanduskeskus, tivoli, hotell ja palju muud

ResumeObjectifDeterminer les facteurs communs qui influent sur la qualite des radiographies dans les centres de radiodiagnostic de l'etat de Lagos, au Nigeria. MethodologieUn questionnaire autoadministre contenant des questions ouvertes et fermees a ete distribue aux radiographes superviseurs dans les centres de radiodiagnostic de la metropole de Lagos. Les questions portaient notamment sur le taux de rejet des films dans chaque centre et les motifs du rejet de chaque film. ResultatsDes machines defectueuses, un mouvement du patient, un traitement inadequat en chambre noire et des techniques radiographiques sous-optimales sont les principaux motifs invoques par les repondants pour la production de films defectueux. Dans certains cas, il y avait une combinaison de facteurs. ConclusionIl imp...

Objectif: Cette etude decrit l'activite physique (AP) d'adultes diabetiques de type 2 (DT2) car ses caracteristiques sont mal connues et n'ont jamais ete decrites en France. Patients et methodes: Nous avons administre par telephone la version longue du > aux adultes DT2 de l'etude ENTRED 2007-2010 vivant en metropole ayant accepte d'etre recontactes (n=917, hommes 65 %, 62+/-10 ans, IMC 29+/-5kg.m-2, HbA1c 7,1+/-1,1 %). Nous avons recherche les caracteristiques sociodemographiques et cliniques associees a 3 categories d'AP (1 : faible; 2 : 150 minutes hebdomadaires d'AP au moins moderee; 3 : elevee, 3 000 MET-min*sem-1 d'AP au moins moderee ou 1 500 MET-min*sem-1 d'AP intense). Resultats: L'AP mediane totale etait de 2079 [Q1=892; Q3=3 915] MET-min*sem-1. L'AP etait essentiellement domesti...

Why did French metropole merchants invest `considerable credit' in the late eighteenth-century West Indian economy? Was the plantation system not on the brink of collapse? This study of the patterns of investment in Saint-Domingue of one of the wealthiest merchant families in 1780s Nantes, the Chaurands, shows that the large sums invested in the West Indian economy on the eve of the Haitian Revolution resulted from the economic opportunities created by the post-war upswing that followed the end of the war of American Independence, and from the expansion of market production in the western and southern parts of Saint-Domingue. As latecomers into the West Indian trade, the Chaurands chose to invest large sums in planters and their estates in hopes of high returns. The Chaurands believed enou...

The hotels in the Antalya Region of Turkey have become a major consumer of energy, water and other resources. However, at present, there are no existing guidelines for the efficient use and management of these resources. Energy management includes increasing in profitability due to the reduced operational costs and it is also a potential for improved market share. Many different evaluation models have been published in energy management literature. However there have been not so many systematic approaches to compare the relative efficiency of the systems. Data envelopment analysis is a special linear programming model for deriving the comparative efficiency of multiple-input multiple-output decision-making units. An evaluation of energy efficiency in 32 five-star hotels in the Antalya Region has been carried out and the results are discussed in this paper. According to this study eight hotels are efficient and twenty-four hotels are inefficient. Also for these 24 inefficient hotels, ideal energy consumptions (electricity, water and liquefied petroleum gas consumptions) are proposed to make these hotels efficient. In this study data envelopment analysis models are evaluated by using a linear programming package LINGO 5.0. (author)

The formulation of a quantum theory of gravity seems to be the unavoidable endpoint of modern theoretical physics. Yet the quantum description of the gravitational field remains elusive. The year 2005 marks the tenth anniversary of the First Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, held in Dubna (Russia) due to the efforts of Alexandre T. Filippov (JINR, Dubna) and Vittorio de Alfaro (University of Torino, Italy). At the heart of this initiative was the desire for an international forum where the status and perspectives of research in quantum gravity could be discussed from the broader viewpoint of modern gauge field theories. Since the Dubna meeting, an increasing number of scientists has joined this quest. Progress was reported in two other conferences in this series: in Santa Margherita Ligure (Italy) in 1996 and in Villasimius (Sardinia, Italy) in 1999. After a few years of ``working silence'' the time was now mature for a new gathering. The Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (QG05) was held in Cala Gonone (Sardinia, Italy) from Monday 12th to Friday 16th September 2005. Surrounded by beautiful scenery, 100 scientists from 23 countries working in field theory, general relativity and related areas discussed the latest developments in the quantum treatment of gravitational systems. The QG05 edition covered many of the issues that had been addressed in the previous meetings and new interesting developments in the field, such as brane world models, large extra dimensions, analogue models of gravity, non-commutative techniques etc. The format of the meeting was similar to the previous ones. The programme consisted of invited plenary talks and parallel sessions on cosmology, quantum gravity, strings and phenomenology, gauge theories and quantisation and black holes. A major goal was to bring together senior scientists and younger people at the beginning of their scientific career. We were able to give financial support to both groups. In particular, help was provided to students and scientists from non-EU countries. It is our great pleasure to thank those people and institutions whose help and support was crucial to the success of the meeting. We appreciate the enthusiastic support of our colleagues of the academic community, especially those from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the Universities of Cagliari, Pisa, Torino and Mississippi. Financial support was provided by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the Universities of Cagliari, Torino, Pisa and Mississippi. This was used largely to support participants, especially younger people. Special thanks go to Pietro Menotti (University of Pisa) and Stefano Sciuto (University of Torino) for their friendship and their universities' financial contributions. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge financial support from the Regione Autonoma della Sardegna and from Tiscali, the communications and Internet company, for providing free telephone cards. Technical support and local organisation was provided by the Sezione di Cagliari of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. Warmest thanks go to our administrative and technical staff - Maria Assunta Lecca and Simona Renieri, for their untiring assistance, and to Palmasera Village and Hotel Smeraldo for their splendid hospitality. And finally, our gratitude goes to all the participants and especially the many experienced scientists. Their contributions highlighted the meeting and were largely without support. The success of the meeting is due to them and to the enthusiasm of the younger participants. The Editors January 2006 COMMITTEES Organising Committee Mariano Cadoni (Università and INFN Cagliari) Marco Cavaglià (University of Mississippi) Jeanette E. Nelson (Università and INFN Torino) Advisory Committee Orfeu Bertolami (IST Lisboa, Portugal) Luca Bombelli (Univ. Mississippi) Steve Carlip (UC Davis, USA) Alessandro D'Adda (INFN Torino, Italy) Stanley Deser (Brandeis, USA) Georgi Dvali (NYU, USA) Sergio Ferrara (CERN) Gian Francesco Giudice (CERN) Roman Jackiw (MIT, USA) Edward W. Kolb (Fermilab, USA) Luca Lusanna (INFN Firenze, Italy) Roy Maartens (Univ. Portsmouth, UK) Hermann Nicolai (AEI, Potsdam, Germany) Tullio Regge (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Augusto Sagnotti (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Kellogg S. Stelle (Imperial College London, UK) Ruth Williams (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) SPONSORS Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Università di Cagliari Università di Torino University of Mississippi Università di Pisa Regione autonoma della Sardegna Tiscali LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Eun-Joo Ahn (University of Chicago, USA) David Alba (Università di Firenze, Italy) Stanislav Alexeyev (Lomonosov Moscow State U., Russia) Damiano Anselmi (Università di Pisa, Italy) Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Maria Da Conceicao Bento (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal) Orfeu Bertolami (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal) Massimo Bianchi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez (University of Portsmouth, UK) Raphael Bousso (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Mariano Cadoni (Università di Cagliari, Italy) Steven Carlip (University of California at Davis, USA) Roberto Casadio (Università di Bologna, Italy) Marco Cavaglià (University of Mississippi, USA) Demian Cho (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India) Theodosios Christodoulakis (University of Athens, Greece) Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos (Inst. de Ciencias Nucleares - UNAM, Mexico) Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo (JINR, Dubna, Russia) Denis Comelli INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, Italy ) Ruben Cordero-Elizalde (Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico) Lorenzo Cornalba (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Branislav Cvetkovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia ) Maro Cvitan (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Alessandro D'Adda (Università di Torino, Italy) Claudio Dappiaggi (Università di Pavia, Italy) Roberto De Leo (Università di Cagliari, Italy) Roberto De Pietri (Università di Parma, Italy) Giuseppe De Risi (Università di Bari, Italy) Hans-Thomas Elze (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) Alessandro Fabbri (Università di Bologna, Italy) Sergey Fadeev (VNIIMS, Moscow, Russia) Serena Fagnocchi (Università di Bologna, Italy) Sara Farese (Universidad de Valencia, Spain) Alessandra Feo (Università di Parma, Italy) Dario Francia (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Francesco Fucito (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Dmitri Fursaev (JINR, Dubna, Russia) Daniel Galehouse (University of Akron, Ohio, USA) Remo Garattini (Università di Bergamo, Italy) Florian Girelli (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada) Luca Griguolo (Università di Parma, Italy) Daniel Grumiller (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Shinichi Horata (Hayama Center of Advanced Research, Japan) Giorgio Immirzi (Università di Perugia, Italy) Roman Jackiw (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Matyas Karadi (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Mikhail Katanaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia) Claus Kiefer (Universität Koln, Germany) John Klauder (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA) Pavel Klepac (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Jen-Chi Lee (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) Carlos Leiva (Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile) Stefano Liberati (SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, Italy) Jorma Louko (University of Nottingham, UK) Luca Lusanna (INFN, Sezione di Firenze, Italy) Roy Maartens (University of Portsmouth, UK) Fotini Markopoulou (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada) Annalisa Marzuoli (Università di Pavia, Italy) Evangelos Melas (QMW, University of London, UK) Maurizio Melis (Università di Cagliary, Italy) Vitaly Melnikov (VNIIMS, Moscow, Russia) Guillermo A. Mena Marugan (CSIC, Madrid, Spain) Pietro Menotti (Università di Pisa, Italy) Salvatore Mignemi (Università di Cagliari, Italy) Aleksandar Mikovic (Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal) Leonardo Modesto (Université de la Mediterranée, Marseille, France) Michael Mueller (Sardinien.com, Cagliari, Italy) Mario Nadalini (Università di Trento, Italy) José Navarro-Salas (Universidad de Valencia, Spain) Jeanette E. Nelson (Università di Torino, Italy) Alexander Nesterov (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico) Hermann Nicolai (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany) Daniele Oriti (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Marcello Ortaggio (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Silvio Pallua (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Matej Pavsic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Wlodzimierz Piechocki (Soltan Inst. for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland) Nicola Pinamonti (Università di Trento, Italy) J. Brian Pitts (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA) Vojtech Pravda (Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Rep.) Gianpaolo Procopio (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Alice Rogers (King's College London, UK) Efrain Rojas (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico) James Ryan (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Augusto Sagnotti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Wenceslao Santiago-German (University of California at Davis, USA) Stefano Sciuto (Università di Torino, Italy) Domenico Seminara (Università di Firenze, Italy) Lorenzo Sindoni (Università di Udine, Italy) Kellogg S. Stelle (Imperial College, London, UK) Cosimo Stornaiolo (INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy) Ward Struyve (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada) Makoto Tanabe (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) Daniel Terno (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada) Charles Wang (Lancaster University, UK) Silke Weinfurtner (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) Hans Westman (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada) Ruth Williams (DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK) Tetsuyuki Yukawa (Graduate U. for Adv. Studies, Kanagawa, Japan) Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Santiago, Chile)

This chapter provides a UK perspective in the context of the European energy market. It covers the main issues on the energy agenda, the main priorities as seen by the UK and sets out in some detail the principal arguments in the debate on the internal energy market with particular reference to gas. A brief history of energy production and consumption in the UK is given. The UK`s energy objectives and the key European energy issues are outlined and discussed. (UK)

Abstract in spanish Este artículo muestra los resultados de una investigación que intentó evaluar si los sitios Web de los hoteles utilizan las nuevas tecnologías para mejorar la comunicación con los clientes. Se trabajó con todos los sitios Web de los hoteles localizados en el centro y norte de la ciudad de Florianópolis, Brasil, pertenecientes a la ABIH (Asociación Brasileña de la Industria Hotelera). El presente trabajo busca contribuir a resaltar la importancia del uso de nuevas (more) tecnologías como Internet, no sólo para vender productos sino también para atender a los clientes potenciales. Abstract in english This article is the result of a research whose aim was to evaluate if web sites of hotels using new technologies improved their communication skills with customers. Websites of hotels members of the ABIH (Brazilian Association of Hotels) and located in the center and north of the city of Florianopolis (SC - Brazil) were chosen. This article aims to make a contribution standing out the importance of the use of new technologies as the Internet to not only selling products, but also to providing service to possible customers.

This study presents insights into the determinants of tourists’ intention to pay a premium for accommodation in a hotel with renewable energy sources. The empirical analysis is based on the estimation of binary logistic regression models. Four subsets of independent variables were used in this empirical analysis, namely: (i) demographic factors, (ii) economic variables, (iii) past experience with regard to renewable energy sources, and (iv) variables regarding environmental awareness and information dissemination. Empirical results suggest that middle-aged people are probably more willing to pay for their stay in a hotel using renewable energy. In general, men are more likely than women to pay extra money for accommodation in a "green" hotel. However, the results suggest that marita...

Abstract in spanish El turismo de eventos es uno de los segmentos que más se ha destacado en el sector turístico. El sector de eventos viene ganando espacio en la hotelería, considerando que los eventos pueden dinamizar el sector hotelero, principalmente minimizando los efectos de la estacionalidad. Así, este trabajo analizó la contribución del sector de eventos a la hotelería de la ciudad de João Pessoa. Se trata de un trabajo descriptivo y el instrumento de recolección de datos ut (more) ilizado fue una entrevista con preguntas abiertas y cerradas, realizada en los hoteles asociados al Convention & Visitors Bureau de João Pessoa, que poseían sector de eventos. Al final del estudio se constató que el sector de eventos es estratégico para los establecimientos y contribuye a aumentar el lucro y combatir la estacionalidad en los hospedajes. Se destaca que los hoteles presentaban una buena estructura para la realización de eventos, tanto en lo que concierne a los recursos humanos como a los espacios físicos para llevar a cabo los mismos. Se observó que en lo que hace al servicio de A&B la mayoría de los hoteles de João Pessoa deja de generar ingresos al permitir al cliente la tercerización de ese servicio. Sería interesante que esos hoteles establezcan normas en sus contratos para asegurarse que el servicio de buffet sólo pueda ser realizado por el propio hotel. Para finalizar, se recomienda que este estudio sea el punto de partida para otros estudios cuyo objetivo sea desarrollar la hotelería de João Pessoa, en especial, el sector de eventos. Abstract in english The event tourism is a segment that has most distinguished itself in the tourism sector. The events sector is becoming more popular in hotels in order that events can boost the hotel sector in particular as regards the search for minimizing the effects of seasonality. Thus, this study examined the contribution of the event for the hospitality of the city of Joao Pessoa. This is a descriptive and as an instrument of data collection was used a questionnaire with open and cl (more) osed, with the hotels associated with the Convention & Visitors Bureau John Person who had the events sector. At the end of the study concluded that the events sector is a strategic sector for properties and helps to increase profitability and to combat seasonality of lodging facilities. It is also noticed that the hotels had a good structure for holding events both as regards human resources and physical space to achieve them. However, it became clear that the service of A & B most of the hotels in the city of Joao Pessoa fails to generate more revenue for the establishment to allow the client to outsource this service, in this case it is interesting that these means of accommodation standards established in its contract ensuring that the caterer could only be performed by the hotel. To finish it is recommended that this study is the starting point for further studies that could contribute to the development of hotels in Joao Pessoa, and in particular the events sector.

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to bring a new scientific theory into practice in the hotel industry. Design/methodology/approach - In-depth open-ended interviews were used with eight hospitality practitioners, consumers, and academic researchers. Findings - The article lays out current practices of security and privacy measurements in the hospitality industry and points out the related limitations. More importantly, it provides insights to hotel operators on possible future applications of a new scientific invention and how it could help alleviate the limitations found in the existing security and privacy measures. Practical implications - The paper raises the awareness of a new scientific breakthrough that sheds new lights to security and privacy strategies in hotel operations. Ho...

The fire safety of existing buildings decreases over time. Based on factors such as space limitation and high construction costs, upgrading hardware construction is difficult, especially in existing hotel buildings due to their 24-h operation. This paper proposes a simple fire safety evaluation system for existing multi-purpose hotel buildings. Fire safety management is the most important section in the evaluation system, which includes fire prevention, and evacuation and mitigation strategies, accounting for a 54.95% weighting. In this study, an empirical evaluation was conducted on 16 multi-purpose hotel buildings. Of these test cases, five were determined to be unsafe. After reviewing the scores for each fire safety management plan factor, necessary improvement plans were proposed. This...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine a typology of competitive strategies, which has not been extensively researched in the context of the accommodation sector in Barbados, a small developing island state in the Caribbean. Design/methodology/approach - Data is collected through self-administered questionnaires from 51 per cent of the hotels in Barbados. Respondents are Human Resource Managers, General Managers or Managing Directors. Findings - Hotels in the five-star and higher category place substantial strategic focus in the area of defining service standards and performance, as compared with hotels in the one-star category. This study suggests that hoteliers should focus on a combination of different strategies advanced by Vandermerwe et al. as a means of securing a competi...

After performing a technical study, during the month of September of 1998, in the facilities of Villas Solaris, S.A. de C.V., specifically in the Royal Solaris Hotel, towers Royal and Caribe, important opportunities of saving were found, which were evaluated technical and economically to be able to present to Villa Solaris, S.A. of C.V., an energy saving project highly profitable that allows to obtain great economic benefits, a better service for the hosts and an important step to the reduction of the operative expenses (energy), that guaranteed the future competitiveness of the hotel in the zone. The base of the energy saving opportunities is the substitution of the air conditioning equipment, since the installed ones in the Hotel, are very deficient equipment (piston in Caribbean Tower) or because of by International ecological Norms they will be obsolete in short time (centrifugal R-11 Torre Royal). In addition the service machine area of the Hotel was centralized in a single site. The substitution measure of the air conditioning systems, contemplated the installation of centrifugal equipment of high efficiency (0.65kW/Ton at full load) cooled with brackish water, that is a very abundant resource in the zone and does not represent any cost for the Hotel. The waste heat of the refrigeration machines is contemplated to be used to preheat the service water and the swimming pool water by means of heat exchange equipment. In order to arrive to the desired optimal temperatures the advantage of the installation of the already existing in the Hotel thermo solar systems was taken into consideration. When implementing this global system, the use of cooling towers was eliminated, that was the equipment that cools the condensation water of the air conditioning equipment. In addition the use of the steam boilers was eliminated that made the function of warming up the service water, reason why an important saving of fuel was generated. [Spanish] Despues de haber realizado un estudio tecnico, durante el mes de septiembre de 1998, en las instalaciones de Villas Solaris, S.A. de C.V., especificamente en el Hotel Royal Solaris, torres Royal y Caribe, se encontraron importantes oportunidades de ahorro, mismas que fueron evaluadas tecnica y economicamente para poder presentar a Villa Solaris, S.A. de C.V., un proyecto de Ahorro de Energia altamente rentable que permita obtener grandes beneficios economicos, un mejor servicio para los huespedes y un importante paso para la reduccion de los gastos operativos (energeticos), que garantizara la futura competitividad del hotel en la zona. La base de las oportunidades de ahorro es la sustitucion de los equipos de aire acondicionado, puesto que los instalados en el Hotel, son equipos muy deficientes (piston en Torre Caribe) o que por normas ecologicas internacionales quedaran obsoletos en poco tiempo (centrifugos R-11 Torre Royal). Ademas se centralizo en un solo sitio el area de maquinas de servicio del Hotel. La medida de sustitucion de los sistemas de aire acondicionado, contemplo el instalar equipos centrifugos de alta eficiencia (0.65kW/Ton a plena carga) enfriados con agua salada, que es un recurso muy abundante en la zona y no representa costo alguno para el Hotel. El resto del calor de las maquinas de refrigeracion se contempla utilizar para precalentar el agua de servicio y el agua de alberca mediante equipos de intercambio de calor. Para llegar a las temperaturas optimas deseadas se aprovecho la instalacion de sistemas termosolares que ya existe en el Hotel. Al implementar este sistema global, se elimino la utilizacion de torres de enfriamiento que era el equipo que enfria el agua de condensacion de los equipos de aire acondicionado. Ademas se elimino la utilizacion de las calderas de vapor que hacian la funcion de calentar el agua de servicios, por lo que se genero un ahorro de combustible importante.

The 2002 Trading Agent Competition (TAC) presented a challenging market game in the domain of travel shopping. One of the pivotal issues in this domain is uncertainty about hotel prices, which have a significant influence on the relative cost of alternative trip schedules. Thus, virtually all participants employ some method for predicting hotel prices. We survey approaches employed in the tournament, finding that agents apply an interesting diversity of techniques, taking into account differing sources of evidence bearing on prices. Based on data provided by entrants on their agents' actual predictions in the TAC-02 finals and semifinals, we analyze the relative efficacy of these approaches. The results show that taking into account game-specific information about flight prices is a major distinguishing factor. Machine learning methods effectively induce the relationship between flight and hotel prices from game data, and a purely analytical approach based on competitive equilibrium analysis achieves equal ac...

Abstract in english Tourism service providers are more and more under pressure to offer producís of greater complexity and diversity to meet the ever-changing demands of travelers; the individualistic consumption patterns and lifestyles makes it increasingly difficult for tourist service providers to anticípate consumer behavior and configure their services accordingly, i.e. the tourist industry must focus more on a "hybrid consumer" whose travel choice will be more complex. Álthough curr (more) ent online travel systems aim to support the customer in finding a suitable hotel or even a whole trip, most of the work is still up to the customer, who has to consider several sources of information before deciding which hotel to book. Furthermore, since the quality of a hotel room w.r.t the requirements of the end-user are multi-dimensional and cannot be easily expressed on discrete scales, the main critical issue in such cases is a price/benefit ratio which is defined by what is known, as the "best" booking. To tackle these problems an advanced search technology that considers the ratio and ranks results accordingly to the user requirements is needed. In this paper we propose a framework which uses Semantic Web technologies for an improved exploration and rating of hotels for business customers in order to reduce the search time and costs, which, in turn, results in a huge benefit for the end-users. The framework provides methods for modeling domain specific expert knowledge and integration of diverse heterogeneous data sources. Semantic technologies enable business customer to formalize their requirements and to combine those requirements with aggregated hotel information like location or features, thus achieving a selection of the hotels ranked according to the customer's requirements.

The paper deals with the UK natural gas market and the future for Norwegian gas in the UK. The role of the British Gas in the domestic and European markets is discussed. Topics are: The UK gas supply market; the UK upstream gas market and the Interconnector; the European market, competition and deregulation; the prospects for Norwegian gas

Building on the resource-based view, we develop a model of drivers and outcomes of environmentally friendly marketing strategies in the Greek hotel sector. Data collected from 152 hotels reveal that possessing sufficient physical and financial resources is instrumental in achieving effective green marketing strategies. In addition, shared vision and technology sensing/response capabilities help develop a sound environmentally friendly marketing strategy. In turn, the adoption of such a strategy is conducive to obtaining competitive advantage, which subsequently increases the potential to achieve superior market and financial performance. Furthermore, the study finds that the effect of environmental marketing strategy on competitive advantage is stronger in the case of intense competitive s...

In this paper, we consider the effects of nonnormality on the upper percentiles of T2max statistic in elliptical distributions. Some approximations based on the Bonferroni inequalities and asymptotic expansion procedure are given under the elliptical distribution setup. In order to achieve the purpose, asymptotic expansions for the distributions of univariate and bivariate Hotelling’s T2 type statistics are derived by a perturbation method when each population has the elliptical distribution. Finally, the accuracy of the approximations is investigated by Monte Carlo simulations for selected vales of parameters.   

If a finite stock of a nonrenewable resource is exhausted at some time in the future in an optimal extraction program, resource rent at time t involves the discounted value of rent at the instant of exhaustion (a Hotelling rent). However if a stock is made obsolete because costs have risen to the price of a perfect substitute before exhaustion, there is no Hotelling rent, only a differential rent of a Ricardian type at time t. The author investigates these rents in a discrete-time model involving deposits of successively poorer quality. 7 references, 2 figures.

Paper presented at the 2nd Africa Libraries & Information Management Systems Conference 2007, The Grace Hotel, Johannesburg (8 February 2007) , Commented by delegate: "The most energetic presentation of the conference" - Prof Peter G. Underwood (Professor of Librarianship, University of Cape Town)

Heliplaatidest Darren Hayes "Spin". John Paul Jones "The Thunderthief". Chessie "Overnight". Jennifer Lopez "J To Tha L-O! The Remixes". Destiny's Child "This Is The Remix". Prince "The Rainbow Children. Celine Dion "A New Day Has Come". Cray "Undo". Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"

NU Performance Festival IV: Külalislahkusest / On Hospitality Tallinnas Viru hotellis 7.-10.11. 2011, kuraatorid Silke Bake ja Peter Stamer (Saksamaa). Lähemalt rühmituse deepblue (Heine Rødal Avdal, Yukiko Shinozaki) etendusest "Field Works - hotel", grupi toxic dreams (Yosi Wanunu, Michael Strohmann) õhtusöök-performance'ist, 10 kunstniku etendusest "The Love Piece", kanadalaste trupi PME-ART-i etendusest "Külalislahkus 3: individualism oli viga"

2006. a. käivitus Eesti-Soome koostööprojekt "Estonian and Finnish Design Challenge". Koostöös ettevõtjatega sündis DesignStart programmi piloot "Smart Hotell", milles osalesid disainerid Tarmo Luisk, Ivari Männi, Monika Järg, Keret Altpere, Igor Volkov, Jan Graps, Ken Ruut, Jukka Halttunen, Tapio Anttila ja Ilona Gurjanova ning mis valiti St. Etienneþi disainibiennaali projektide hulka

Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpias 28. aprillil korraldatud konverentsist "Läänemere regiooni turismiteadmuse toetus turismimajandusele ja -ettevõtlusele 2011-2026", millega tähistati Eesti Hotelli- ja Turismikõrgkooli EHTE 15. sünnipäeva. Thomas Mielke, Maritta Hiltuneni, Kristian Sieversi, Pauli Santala, Inese Š?rava, Maija Rozite ja Kestutis Ambrozaitise konverentsil peetud ettekannetest ja paneeldiskussioonist

Läti Esimese Partei/Läti Tee esimees Ainars Slesers ütles telekanali LNT 5. mai saates 900 sekundit, et Läti hotellis Radisson Blu Ridzene on tõenäoliselt pealt kuulatud välismaiste ametiisikute kõnesid. Hotelli esindaja Aiga Lapina kinnitas, et hotell ei tea sellest midagi ja on nõus asja kontrollima

In the international health care literature there is a broad discussion on impacts of competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regional health care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention. We use a typical Hotelling-framework (reference ...

Heliplaatidest: "The Future Is Unwritten. Joe Strummer", The Nightwatchman "One Man Revolution", Def Räädu & J.O.C. "Succiety2", The Joshi Butler Trio "Grand National", "Biitparaadid 2", The Police "The Police", Laurie Anderson "Big Science", Dreamtheater "Systematic chaos", Ghosts "The World is Outside", Tokio Hotel "Scream", Bon Jovi "Lost Highway", Megadeth "United Abominations", Marilyn Manson "Eat Me, Drink Me"

EPA held a 2-day workshop on December 8 and 9, 2010 at the Doubletree Hotel Washington DC-Crystal City in Arlington, Viriginia. The goal of this workshop was to evaulate methods of determining cumulative risk associated with exposure to mulitple phthalates for inclusion in the EP...

This report includes the history of Arab architecture and how it declined with the impact of Western architecture. A full analysis of the passive cooling concept is discussed and the effect of various devices on it. An example of air-conditioning loads for large hotels is given together with various buildings which are discussed from the energy consumption point of view.

A number of recent papers extend traditional Hotelling frameworks by the topical issue of climate change. They study the effects of different environmental taxes on the resource extraction paths and derive important and far-reaching policy implications. In particular the most recent strain of litera...

We model the choice of transportation mode in a simplified Hotelling-like city, with a fixed number of total travellers, fixed road capacity and with no trade-off between when to travel and the time spent in a queue. A person that chooses to take her own car will inflict a congestion cost on all tra...

...within AI/AN communities. Dates and Locations: The meeting will be held on the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians at the Agua Caliente Spa Hotel, located at E. Tahquitz Canyon Way and N. Calle Encilia, Palm Springs,...

This paper is based on a presentation given at the conference “A child in an alcohol affected family: how to help?” on 23 September at Reval Hotel Neris in Kaunas, Lithuania. , Šio straipsnio tikslas dvejopas: glaustai pateikti focus grupi? „gerosios patirties“ tyrim? rezultatus ir aptarti rezultat? sv...

2007. a. ühiskondliku interjööri preemia: Tea Tammelaan, Malle Jürgenson, Krista Lepland (Lotte lasteaed), ajaloolise interjööri preemia: Külli Salum, Riina Harik (hotell Telegraaf), büroointerjööri preemia: Urmo Vaikla, Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla (Sakubü büroo), publitsistika preemia: Karen Jagodin, Tiit Jürna (näitusekataloog "Tamm ja Asi", eripreemia: Margus Mänd (klubi Underground). Žürii koosseis

This proceedings is the compilation of all papers presented at the 11th PV Performance and Reliability Workshop held at the Doubletree Hotel in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on November 3-5, 1998. The workshop was hosted by the Florida Solar Energy Center. This year's workshop included presentations from 29 speakers and had 110 attendees.

CERN Accelerator School and Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) Groningen, the Netherlands announce a course on "Small Accelerators", Hotel Golden Tulip Drenthe, Zeegse, the Netherlands, 24 May - 2 June 2005. This specialised course is dedicated to the physics and the main applications of small accelerators. The course will review the different accelerator types as well as their specificities in terms of accelerator physics.

This study aims at identifying the time of advent of the concrete floor and the development of both steel girders and concrete floor structures in the early 20th century in Korea. The subjects of this study include the Seokjojeon in Deoksu Palace, the Bank of Chosen, and the Chosen Hotel which was destroyed. It seems that the advent of concrete floor structures in Korea started with construction of the Seokjojeon in Deoksu Palace at the end of the 1890s. The concrete floor structure was also attempted with steel girders in the Bank of Chosen and Chosen Hotel, which were constructed around the same time. Seokjojeon and the Bank of Chosen used concrete of 12cm thickness with spacing of 75cm after placing corrugated steel plates of 3.6mm thickness between the beams (J.B). The Chosen Hotel used corrugated steel plates between beams at a spacing of 170-200cm, inserted flat bars of 2.54cm width and 0.16cm thickness at a spacing of 23cm, and then laid concrete from 12cm to 24cm in thickness. The Chosen Hotel shows floor structure details including the insertion of flat bars at a specific spacing instead of unreinforced concrete, which could be seen as the initial stage for subsequent reinforced concrete structures.   

Previously, we developed a simple Laguerre–Gauss (LG) channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) for incorporation into our mass computer-aided detection (CAD) system. This LG-CHO was trained using initial detection suspicious region data and was empirically optimized for free parameters. For the study pr...

Estimates of the relative sampling variability of budget percentiles for building type HDD/CDD matrices are presented for small and large offices, elementary and secondary schools, clinics, gyms, community centers, theaters, stores, shopping centers, storage, nursing homes, hotels, motels, high- and low-rise apartments. (MCW)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's site on household hazardous waste stresses the importance of household waste awareness. Household waste may come from single or multiple family dwellings, hotels and motels, and other types of residences. This site answers frequently asked questions about the problem of discarding potentially hazardous wastes.

Aastatel 2004-2008 Pärnus ja aastatel 2006-2008 Tartus tegutsenud Rael Artel Galeriist, mille looja ja moderaator oli Rael Artel. Galerii tegevus lõppes kunstialbumi "Hotell Pärnu : Rael Arel Gallery : Non Profit Project Space 2004-2008 / kontseptsioon ja toimetamine: Rael Artel" ilmumisega 2009. aastal

Arvustus: McCullers, Carson. Laulatuse lummas / tõlk. Malle Talvet. Tallinn : Perioodika, 1988. (Loomingu Raamatukogu ; 1988, 3-5) ; Duras, Marguerite. Armuke / tõlk. Malle Talvet. Tallinn : Perioodika, 1988. (Loomingu Raamatukogu ; 1988, 11-12) ; Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac / tõlk. Malle Talvet. Tallinn : Perioodika, 1990. (Loomingu Raamatukogu ; 1990, 45-46). Varem ilmunud: Eesti Elu nr. 1 (13), 1. veebruar 1991

May 31, 2007 ... The Astronaut Crew Quarters has served as a hotel and business ... Sally Ride, John Young, Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins. ... accommodations before each of his record seven space shuttle missions. ... Mostly, though, it's a chance to relax after more than a year-and-a-half of intense mission training.

Through a close analysis of the links between nineteenth-century Protestant missionary thought and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) this article suggests that to distinguish Enlightenment educational and social reform from evangelism is mistaken. Emblematic of the social reform projects which emerged in England as responses to the challenges of the French Revolution and rapid urbanisation, the BFSS was the outgrowth of Joseph Lancaster's efforts at spreading the method of education he pioneered, the monitorial system, throughout the British Isles and, ultimately, the world. Despite the strong association between the BFSS and various utilitarian thinkers, evangelicals of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century England came to view the Society and the monitorial system as means by which to integrate all the peoples of the world into the Lord's dominion. Becoming part of that dominion entailed subjecting oneself to constant moral scrutiny, and monitorial schools were regarded as a means by which to ensure such self-examination. In short, missionaries seized upon monitorial schools because their aims were parallel to those of educational reformers in the metropole. Where home reformers aimed at the normalisation of the body of English political subjects, the development of the English social body, missionary reformers aimed at the normalisation of the body of God's children. (Contains 65 footnotes.)

Abstract in portuguese Nunca foram bem definidos os limites entre as jurisdições da Igreja e do Estado. As questões tornaram-se ainda mais conflituosas quando, no século XVIII, ascendeu ao poder o ministro marquês de Pombal com sua política regalista que tentava cada dia mais secularizar o Estado português. Mesmo distante da metrópole, o bispado do Maranhão vivia igualmente esses conflitos. As relações tensas entre as autoridades que representavam a Igreja e o Estado no norte da col? (more) ?nia são o foco principal deste artigo. Através do cruzamento de fontes do Tribunal Episcopal, do Juízo da Coroa e até da Inquisição de Lisboa é possível acompanhar os motivos dessa disputa de jurisdição e como se dava o desrespeito às imunidades eclesiásticas. Abstract in english The jurisdictional boundaries between Church and state were never well defined. In the 18th century they became even more contentious following the rise to power of the Marquis of Pombal and his regalist policy which attempted to secularize the Portuguese state. Despite being distant from the metropole, the bishopric of Maranhão also experienced these conflicts. The tense relations between the authorities representing the Church and state in the north of the colony are t (more) he principal focus of this article. By looking at sources from the episcopal court, the crown court and the Inquisition the reasons for these jurisdictional conflicts will be looked at, as well as how ecclesiastical immunities were treated with contempt.

Cerro Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert that hosts ESO's Very Large Telescope, will be the stage for scenes in the next James Bond movie, "Quantum of Solace". ESO PR Photo 07a/08 ESO PR Photo 07a/08 The Paranal Residencia Looking akin to Mars, with its red sand and lack of vegetation, the Atacama Desert is thought to be the driest place on Earth. Cerro Paranal is home to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), which, with its array of four giant 8.2-m individual telescopes, is the world's most advanced optical observatory. The high-altitude site and extreme dryness make excellent conditions for astronomical observations. "We needed a unique site for a unique set of telescopes, and we found it at Paranal," said Andreas Kaufer, ESO's Paranal Director. "We are very excited that the Bond production team have also chosen this location." The excellent astronomical conditions at Paranal come at a price, however. In this forbidding desert environment, virtually nothing can grow outside. The humidity drops below 10%, there are intense ultraviolet rays from the sun, and the high altitude leaves people short of breath. Living in this extremely isolated place feels like visiting another planet. To make it possible for people to live and work here, a hotel or "Residencia" was built in the base camp, allowing them to escape from the arid outside environment. Here, returning from long shifts at the VLT and other installations on the mountain, they can breathe moist air and relax, sheltered from the harsh conditions outside. The Residencia's award-winning design, including an enclosed tropical garden and pool under a futuristic domed roof, gives its interior a feeling of open space within the protective walls - this is a true "haven in the desert". It is this unique building that serves as the backdrop for the James Bond filming. View Larger Map QUANTUM OF SOLACE producer, Michael G. Wilson said: "The Residencia of Paranal Observatory caught the attention of our director, Marc Forster and production designer, Dennis Gassner, both for its exceptional design and its remote location in the Atacama desert. It is a true oasis and the perfect hide-out for Dominic Greene, our villain, whom 007 is tracking in our new James Bond film." In addition to the shooting at the Residencia, further action will take place at the Paranal airstrip. The film crew present on Paranal includes Englishman Daniel Craig, taking again the role of James Bond, French actor Mathieu Amalric, leading lady Olga Kurylenko, from the Ukraine, as well as acclaimed Mexican actors, Joaquin Cosio and Jesus Ochoa. This cast from across Europe and Latin America mirrors the international staff that works for ESO at Paranal. After leaving Paranal at the end of the week, the film crew will shoot in other locations close to Antofagasta. Other sequences have been filmed in Panama and, following the Chilean locations, the unit will be travelling to Italy and Austria before returning to Pinewood Studios near London in May. QUANTUM OF SOLACE will be released in the UK on 31 October 2008, and in the US and internationally on 7 November 2008.

...Navico Holdings AS of Lysaker, Norway; Navico UK, Ltd. of Romsey Hampshire, United Kingdom; Navico, Inc. of Nashua, NH; Flir Systems, Inc. of Wilsonville, OR; Raymarine UK Ltd., of Portsmouth Hampshire, United Kingdom; and Raymarine Inc....

The annual UK SR User meeting at Diamond Light Source welcomed 250 members of the international synchrotron community to the site in South Oxfordshire, UK. This is the first time that Diamond has hosted this event as an operational facility.

"Science computing in the UK has been boosted with the annoucement by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) of 30 million BP further funding for the UK's largest scientific Grid." (1 page)

"Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt today launched 'Research Councils UK' - a new strategic partnership that will champion research in science, engineering and technology across the UK" (1 page).

Results from a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of two men on the UK North Sea Brent Bravo platform prompted a huge response from official organisations. The UK operators could improve their HSE performance in the wake of the inquiry report, concludes the UK's Offshore Safety Division within the Health and Safety Executive (ml)

Jeremy Tait of BVG Associates brings readers up-to-date with the vision for the UK offshore wind industry and offers perspectives on what this might mean as a business opportunity for the UK composites sector. Information has been compiled by DECCs UK Renewables Service.

The London Food Commission summarizes its concerns about the use of food irradiation in the U.K. resulting from its working group surveys of general public opinion, trading standard officers and the food industry in the U.K., and from experience in countries already permitting irradiation to a variety of foods. (U.K.).

The role and strategy of the energy sector in Britain is discussed from an economic viewpoint. Subjects covered include the United Kingdom energy framework; aspects of UK energy supply; aspects of UK energy demand; taxation and finance; energy forecasting; contingency planning; interfuel substitution; impact of energy on the economy; and history of economic issues in UK energy. Six chapters have been abstracted separately.

Abstract in spanish OBJETIVOS: identificar las principales competencias que deben tener los médicos que laboren en hoteles cinco estrellas, determinar el nivel de prioridad para cada competencia y valorar su grado de desarrollo en un grupo de ellos. MÉTODO: investigación descriptiva. Se emplearon las técnicas revisión bibliográfica y Delphi. Se aplicó el método de comparaciones pareadas Triángulo de Fuller y se construyó y validó un cuestionario que se aplicó a todos los médicos (more) que en el 2007 laboraban en hoteles de tal categoría en Varadero. RESULTADOS: se proponen 21 competencias. Se les asignó mayor prioridad a: atención con calidad, uso de la ética médica y del secreto profesional, dominio de las enfermedades emergentes y reemergentes, desarrollo profesional continuo, atención médica integral y uso de dos idiomas. Se identificaron 8 competencias como bien desarrolladas, el resto mostró deficiente grado de desarrollo. Cinco de las competencias se reconocieron como fortalezas y otras tantas como áreas de mejora continua. CONCLUSIONES: se proponen competencias para el desempeño laboral de los médicos que trabajan en hoteles cinco estrellas en aras de contribuir a un mejor proceso de selección de los recursos humanos y a perfeccionar las estrategias de educación continua para los médicos de este sector. Conocer la auto-percepción del desarrollo de dichas competencias permitió la visualización de las fortalezas y detectar las debilidades hacia las cuales dirigir las estrategias de superación. Abstract in english OBJECTIVE: to identify the main competences characteristic of physician working in five stars hotels, to determine the priority level for each competence and to value the development level in some of them. METHOD: a descriptive research. Wu used the bibliographic review techniques and Delphi. We applied the Fuller Triangle paired comparisons method, and we designed and validated a questionnaire in all physicians that in 2007 worked in hotels of such category in Varadero b (more) each. RESULTS: we propose 21 competences. We gave more priority to: quality care, use of medical ethics and the professional privacy, emergent and re-emergent diseases domain, a continuous professional development, integral medical care, and use of two languages. We identified 8 competences as well developed, remainder showed a deficient development level. Five of competences were recognized as strengths, and others, as continuous improvement areas. CONCLUSIONS: we propose the competences for the work performance of physicians working in five stars hotels to contribute to a better selection process of human resources, and to improve the continuous education strategies for physicians from this sector. To know the self-perception of the development of such competences, allow us to visualize the strengths and to detect the weakness to direct the training strategies.

Purpose - This study seeks to focus on front-line service employees and their views of internal branding and the extent to which personal and job-specific factors impact on the success of internal branding in the reinforcement of brand identification and brand loyalty among service employees. Design/methodology/approach - The research, based on a multiple case study representing the hotel industry in Thailand, involved the completion of 30 in-depth qualitative interviews with customer-interface employees followed by a quantitative survey with 680 customer-interface employees located in five major hotels. Findings - Corporate service brands need to coordinate internal branding activity to enhance their employees' identification with, commitment to, and loyalty to, the brand. The relationshi...

This paper gives an overview about waste management in holiday resorts. The objective is to determine the composition of waste and the specific waste quantities per guest. This data represents the basis for planning recycling measures and corresponding treatment facilities. The sorting analyses show the great potential of organic material suitable for biological treatment. Because of the characteristics (water content, structure) of these organic materials, composting is not as suitable as fermentation. Fermentation tests with hotel bio-waste turned out a much higher rate of biogas compared with communal bio-waste. Until now, biogas as a possibility of regenerative energy, has not been taken into consideration for big hotels or holiday resorts. Using biogas as an additional source of energy and the fermentation products as fertilizer would be a further step to an ecologically beneficial tourism.

This study investigates the usage of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis among hotel employees in the resort city of Eilat. Data obtained from a sample of 458 respondents, drawn from three hotel chains, provides evidence of workers' substance consumption in light of their socio-demographic backgrounds and specific job characteristics. The results indicate a higher rate of substance use among study participants in comparison to the average in Israeli society. Substance use was found to be the most prevalent among young, single male employees with relatively low levels of education. In terms of job characteristics, front-of-the-house employees were more prone to binge drinking than back-of-the house employees. It is suggested that work-related programs and policies, such as sensible drinking work...

The indoor air quality and ventilation systems of 20 indoor public venues in the Perth Metropolitan area were investigated. This included 4 licensed restaurants, 2 licensed sporting clubs, 6 coffee shops (including a smoking cafe in a non-smoking shopping centre), 5 taverns, 2 night-clubs and a major hotel. Indicators of tobacco smoke and ventilation were monitored, the ventilation system was inspected and the number of people engaged in smoking and not smoking were counted. Averaged levels of nicotine varied between 1.91 and 22.4 {mu}g m{sup -3} and were highest in taverns. Significantly higher levels of nicotine were found in the public areas compared to levels behind the bar in taverns and clubs. Particulate levels and levels of carbon monoxide were elevated. With the exception of the major international hotel, all venues were found to have significant deficiencies in the running and maintenance of their air conditioning systems. (author)

The 1988 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, with collaboration from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, was the largest AGU meeting ever, with 3,857 abstracts and 5,247 attendees. The facilities at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium, Brooks Hall, Cathedral Hill Hotel, and Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel were not quite stretched to their capacity, but it appears unlikely that substantial meeting growth can take place without going to even larger percentages of poster papers, which for 1988 made up 24% of the presentations.Meeting statistics: Total sessions, 339; oral sessions, 282; poster sessions, 57Total presentations, 3857; oral presentations, 2933; poster presentations, 924Total meeting registrants, 5247Total media registrants, 65Total exhibits, 101

Waste stream characteristics must be understood to tackle waste management problems in Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), Nepal. Three-stage stratified cluster sampling was used to evaluate solid waste data collected from 336 households in KMC. This information was combined with data collected regarding waste from restaurants, hotels, schools and streets. The study found that 497.3 g capita?1 day?1 of solid waste was generated from households and 48.5, 113.3 and 26.1 kg facility?1 day?1 of waste was generated from restaurants, hotels and schools, respectively. Street litter measured 69.3 metric tons day?1. The average municipal solid waste generation rate was 523.8 metric tons day?1 or 0.66 kg capita?1 day?1 as compared to the 320 metric tons day?1 reported by the city. The coefficient of ...

Community-acquired pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in previously healthy individuals is a rare disease that is associated with high fatality. On 14 February 2010 a previously healthy 49-year-old woman presented to an emergency room with signs and symptoms of pneumonia, 2?days after returning from a spa holiday in a wellness hotel. Blood cultures and respiratory specimens grew P. aeruginosa. Despite adequate antimicrobial therapy, the patient died of septic multiorgan failure on day nine of hospitalization. On February 26, nine water samples were taken from the hotel facilities used by the patient: In the hot tub sample 37,000 colony-forming units of P. aeruginosa/100?ml were detected. Two of five individual colonies from the primary plate used for this hot tub water sample were fou...

This paper looks at capacity expansion relating to an airport and the derived tourist demand that this facilitates. The context is the airport relocation planned for the tourist destination of Eilat, Israel. The paper addresses three issues. First, using a multi-regional input output model for Israel, we estimate the magnitude of the static inter-sectoral impacts associated with airport construction and operation and their impact on the regional and national economy. Second, we focus on the lag effects in this process as increased tourism demand does not elicit an immediate response on the supply side in terms of new hotel investment. Third, on the demand side, we estimate additional tourism expenditure in non-hotel activities over the period that the market adjusts and beyond.

Purpose - To present the role of innovative training in the design and assimilation process of a new corporate identity. Design/methodology/approach - The article is based on a description of the design process of a new corporate identity and its assimilation by a hotel chain management company. Data were gathered by in-depth interviews with members of the company's management, namely its CEO, marketing manager and human resources manager and five hotel managers. In addition, written material was analyzed, including business and operational reports. Findings - The innovative training approach, which is based on continuous involvement of all organization members, is an effective mechanism for designing, building and adapting corporate identities in an era characterized by significant change...

From the early 1920s through the 1930s, an important yet forgotten avant-garde architectural phenomenon developed in the Zionist community of British Mandate Palestine. In cities and resort regions across the country, several dozen modernist hotels were built for a new type of visitor: the Zionist tourist. Often the most architecturally significant structures in their locales and designed by leading local architects educated in some of Europe's most progressive schools, these hotels were conceived along ideological lines and represented a synthesis of social requirements, cutting-edge aesthetics, and utopian national ideals. They responded to a complex mixture of sentiments, including European standards of modern comfort and the longing to remake Palestine, the historical homeland of the J...

New multivariate permutation tests are proposed that may be effectively substituted for Hotelling's T-Square test in situations commonly arising in educational research. The new tests: (1) are distribution-free; (2) provide tests of directional as well as non-directional hypotheses; (3) may be tailored for sensitivity to specific treatment effects; and (4) may be computed when the number of variables is larger than the number of subjects. Comparisons of the power of the permutation tests to that of Hotelling's test suggest substantial advantages in several situations. Results are interpreted in terms of applications to educational research in which multivariate research questions are posed but the number of units for analysis are small. A 20-item list of references and 8 graphs are included. (SLD)

Hotels are increasingly taking advantage of the Internet as a marketing tool able to provide direct contact with customers, but is the full potential of this tool being exploited? This article constructs and validates an instrument for the measurement of website characteristics and relates those characteristics to website performance, using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that small and medium size hotels in the Balearic Islands in Spain, a developed tourist destination, and in the South of Brazil, a developing destination, are using their websites as mass media tools; ignoring the potential for interactivity and one-to-one communication. It is suggested that hoteliers should adopt a more strategic approach to the Internet, preparing the ground for direct contact with cu...

The article presents the new building of the Airport Hotel Kempinski in Munich which opened in May 1994 after only 18 months of construction. The building consists of two parallel cuboid-shaped parts where the rooms and business suites are located. In the focus of the report are the building services which are described with numerous illustrations and flowsheets. (HW) [Deutsch] Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt den Neubau des Kempinski Airport Hotels in Muenchen vor, das nach nur 18 Monaten Bauzeit im Mai 1994 eroeffnet wurde. Die Anlage besteht aus zwei parallel angeordneten quaderfoermigen Gebaeudeteilen, in denen sich Zimmer und Business-Suiten befinden. Kernstueck des Beitrages sind die gebaeudetechnischen Anlagen, die anhand zahlreicher Abbildungen und Flussdiagramme vorgestellt werden. (HW)

Prior to the mid-twentieth century, bedbugs were very common in Japan, thereafter, decreasing rapidly. However, bedbugs have been resurging since about 1995. Bedbugs are increasingly becoming a problem within residences of all kinds, including homes, apartments and hotels for several years. As few people have experienced bloodsucking, most people are not aware of the existense of bedbugs and subsequently permit bedbug infestation. Bedbugs become resistant to pyrethroids that are widely used to kill them. To control bedbugs, early detection is needed, and when bedbugs are found, organophosphorous insecticides should be sprayed into cracks and crevices as soon as possible and the spraying needs to be repeated several times. In hotels, it is important to refrain from providing infested rooms and sharing contaminated vacuum cleaners and beddings until bedbugs are eradicated.   

Cognitive function and diffusion tensor imaging were assessed in a group of 12 patients with early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (disease duration auditory verbal learning test. No significant differences in classical executive tests were observed. In contrast, differences were found for specific executive tests including IOWA Gambling Task, multiple errands test hospital version (MET) and Hotel Task, as well as in Paced-Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT). Significant correlation was found between PASAT performance and FA measures (r = 0.64, P = 0.03), the apparent diffusion coefficients and the MET (r = 0.72, P = 0.01), as well as in one subtask of Hotel (r = -0.68, P = 0.02). Thus, executive deficits can best be appreciated at early stages of MS when a more specific battery of tests is used for patient evaluation. In this series, test failures observed correlated with changes in fronto-subcortical fiber tracts. PMID:18208880

Bethesda Marriott Hotel Bethesda, MD August 28-29, 2002 Post-translational modifications (PTM) are integral parts of gene regulation. PTMs of proteins, not detected through RNA analysis, may occur at different stages of tumor development indicative of early or late events of transformation. During PTM, a protein is modified due to phosphorylation, acetylation, glycosylation, ubiquitination, farensylation, methylation, sialylation, etc. Specific genes are turned on or off at the onset of initiation, development, and progression of diseases such as cancer.

The Sixth Annual Conference, Coal Production and Transportation was held April 2-3, 1980 at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA. It was sponsored by PLM, Inc. The papers involved mainly: coal's future, EPRI's projection of electrical energy, coal transport on land and on sea, coal car design and manufacturing, and a review of synthetic fuels and coal gasification. Fourteen papers have been entered individually into EDB and ERA. (LTN)

You can now consult the new CERN Housing Service website which includes information relating to the CERN hostels booking rules, special negotiated rates for hotels in the local area, rental offers from the local private sector, etc.: https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/default.aspx Please contact the CERN Housing Service team if you have any queries (reception in Building 39, 74481). GS-SEM Group Infrastructure and General Services Department

Abstract in spanish La gráfica de control T² de Hotelling se ha empleado ampliamente para identificar señales fuera de control en procesos multivariados. Sin embargo, esta gráfica no es sensible a cambios pequeños en el vector de medias del proceso. En este trabajo se propone una gráfica de control para identificar señales fuera de control. La gráfica propuesta es una combinación de la gráfica T² de Hotelling, la gráfica M propuesta por Hayter et al. (1994) y una nueva gráfica b (more) asada en Componentes Principales. La combinación de las tres gráficas permite identificar cualquier tipo y magnitud de cambio en el vector de medias del proceso. Por medio de simulación y la Longitud Promedio de Corridas (ARL), se evalúa la eficiencia de la gráfica propuesta. El ARL indica el número promedio de puntos dentro de control antes de encontrar un punto fuera. Los resultados de la simulación muestran que la gráfica propuesta es más sensible que cada una de las tres gráficas en forma individual. Abstract in english The Hotelling's T² control chart is widely used to identify out-of-control signals in multivariate processes. However, this chart is not sensitive to small shifts in the process mean vector. In this work we propose a control chart to identify out-of-control signals. The proposed chart is a combination of Hotelling's T² chart, M chart proposed by Hayter et al. (1994) and a new chart based on Principal Components. The combination of these charts identifies any type and si (more) ze of change in the process mean vector. Us ing simulation and the Average Run Length (ARL), the performance of the proposed control chart is evaluated. The ARL means the average points within control before an out-of-control point is detected. The results of the simulation show that the proposed chart is more sensitive that each one of the three charts individually.

The 1986 Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) will be held January 13-17, 1986, in New Orleans, La., at the Fairmont Hotel. Co-sponsoring societies are the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Marine Technology Society (MTS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Oceanic Engineering Society (OES).

Describes how acoustical insulation was applied on a noisy canning line and in air-handling units for a hotel ballroom. Explains that to reduce radiated noise through the return and supply air routes, silencers, also known as sound traps, were used. Defines silencers as boxes placed inside the supply and return air passages that split the air through a number of acoustic baffles, thereby reducing the noise, while allowing air to pass through.

This book examines how four very successful "evolutionary" corporations in Sweden and the United States - including IKEA and Scandic Hotels in Sweden, and Collins Pine and Interface in the U.S. - are positioning themselves for long-term competitiveness using The Natural Step as a central part of their corporate strategy. Nattrass and Altomare puncture the myth that a company must choose between profitability and care for the natural environment, and present a timely and practical application of this exciting model for global sustainability.

STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr. (left) greets baseball legend Ted Williams at a reception at the Double Tree Oceanfront Hotel following a parade down State Road A1A in nearby Cocoa Beach. Organizers of the parade included the Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, the Brevard County Tourist Development Council, and the cities of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach. The parade is reminiscent of those held after missions during the Mercury Program.

Data are tabulated for budget percentiles based on resource utilization factors for offices, elementary and secondary schools, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, gyms, community centers, hotels, motels, theaters, stores, shopping centers, storage, and apartment buildings in some specific US cities. Tabulated data are also presented on budget percentiles by some specific cities based on resource utilization (in 1000 Btu/ft/sup 2//y) for small and large offices, low-rise apartments, hospitals. (MCW)

Heategevuskontserdist "Aita alustada elu!" Kaarli kirikus 28. nov., Soome multiinstrumentalisti Sakari Kukko trio kontserdist 5. dets. Niguliste muuseum-kontserdisaalis, ameerika vokaalansambli M-Pact kontserdist 7. dets. Pärnu kontserdimajas, Raivo Tafenau-Meelis Vindi koosmusitseerimisest tšiili löökpillimängija Ricardo Padillaga 11. dets. Niguliste muuseum-kontserisaalis, Helin-Mari Arderi kontserdist "Sajab esimest lund" 15. dets. Niguliste muuseum-kontserisaalis, rootsi ansambli Bossa Electrica esinemiset 16. dets. Rock Café's, ansambli Eesti Keeled kontserdist "Vaiksel ööl" 17. dets. Tallinnas Sokos Hotell Virus

The 1982 symposium on instrumentation and control for fossil energy processes was held June 7 through 9, 1982, at Adam's Mark Hotel, Houston, Texas. It was sponsored by the US Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy; Argonne National Laboratory; and the Society for Control and Instrumentation of Energy Processes. Fifty-two papers have been entered individually into EDB and ERA; eleven papers had been entered previously from other sources. (LTN)

In the past decade the increasing traffic of digital data in the Netherlands has resulted in the Information and Communication (ICT) industry becoming one of the most energy-intensive sectors. This report presents ways of reducing energy consumption in the ICT industry. A method for assessing the energy efficiency of an ICT company (data hotel) is presented, next to an overview of the impact of various technical concepts and energy-saving measures on energy efficiency. An outline is given of the technical concepts and energy saving measures and, where possible, payback periods are indicated. Local government, in cooperation with the ICT industry, can use the findings of this report to reduce energy consumption. Many technological options are available to reduce the energy demand of the ICT industry. An important condition for improving energy efficiency is preventing cooled air from being mixed with heated air in computer rooms to allow a higher cooled air temperature, thus avoiding unnecessary running time for compression cooling. A suitable indicator that can be used to assess the energy efficiency of an ICT company (data hotel) is 'Energy Usage Effectiveness' (EUE). This is the quotient of the total annual energy consumption and the annual energy consumption of the ICT equipment (core business). Early adapters in the ICT industry have already demonstrated that an EUE of 1.1 is feasible. For existing ICT companies (data hotels) a maximum EUE of 1.4 is achievable with available technologies. New ICT companies (data hotels) can use modern technologies by means of which a maximum EUE of 1.3 is feasible.

Iseseisvuspäeval sõidab president Toomas Hendrik Ilves paraadile Narva ja vastuvõtule Jõhvi. Maalehe küsimusele vastavad Ida-Virumaa inimesed - Wienerbergeri ASi tootmis- ja tehnikadirektor Raivo Vasnu, pensionärid Helmi Mamšits ja Ivan Baglov, OÜ Sigwar juhatuse liikmed Kaido Jäger ja Margo Jäger, kauplusetöötajad Malle Pärtna ja Tuuli Saluvee, Saka Cliff Hotel & Spa direktor Terje Bürkland, Jõhvi kontserdimaja direktor Piia Tamm ja Narva Aleksandri koguduse õpetaja Villu Jürjo

This student activity book contains pencil-and-paper activities for use in a hospitality services course focusing on the food and lodging segments of the hospitality and tourism industry. The activities are organized into 29 chapters on the following topics: hospitality services industry; professional ethics; organization/management structures in the hospitality industry; safety practices and emergency procedures; applications of technology in hospitality; property maintenance/repair; purchasing equipment and supplies; security; marketing, public relations, and special promotions; legal considerations; hospitality services guests/customers; needs of guests/customers; techniques for complaint resolution and guest/customer service; front office procedures of hotel operations; departmental functions of hotel operations; equipment and supplies for housekeeping and laundry tasks; housekeeping and laundry tasks in hotel operations; time and energy management techniques for housekeeping/laundry tasks; sanitation and disinfection techniques for housekeeping/laundry tasks; entering and exiting cleaning areas; linen repair/maintenance; sources/functions of nutrients; nutrient retention; housekeeping procedures and sanitation standards; choice of food service equipment; management principles related to food production and services; quantity food production techniques; and food presentation and server techniques. Each chapter begins with a list of objectives. (MN)

Bedbugs are found in many countries around the world, and in some regions they are resistant to numerous insecticides. This study surveyed bedbugs in Thailand and determined their resistance to insecticides. The surveys were carried out in six provinces that attract large numbers of foreign tourists: Bangkok, Chonburi, Chiang Mai, Ubon Ratchathani, Phuket, and Krabi. Bedbugs were collected from hotels and colonized in the laboratory to evaluate their resistance to insecticides. Cimex hemipterus (F.) was found in some hotels in Bangkok, Chonburi, Phuket, and Krabi, whereas Cimex lectularius L. was found only in hotels in Chiang Mai. No bedbugs were found in Ubon Ratchathani. The colonized bedbugs showed resistance to groups of insecticides, including organochlorines (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane, dieldrin), carbamates (bendiocarb, propoxur), organophosphates (malathion, fenitrothion), and pyrethroids (cyfluthrin, deltamethrin, permethrin, lambda-cyhalothrin, etofenprox) in tests using World Health Organization insecticide-impregnated papers. The new insecticides imidacloprid (neonicotinoid group), chlorfenapyr (pyrrole group), and fipronil (phenylpyrazole group) were effective against the bedbugs; however, organophosphate (diazinon), carbamates (fenobucarb, propoxur), and pyrethroids (bifenthrin, cypermethrin, esfenvalerate, etofenprox) were ineffective. Aerosols containing various pyrethroid insecticides with two to four different active ingredients were effective against the bedbugs. The results obtained from this study suggested that both species of bedbugs in Thailand have developed marked resistance to various groups of insecticides, especially those in the pyrethroid group, which are the most common insecticides used for pest control. Therefore, an integrated pest management should be implemented for managing bedbugs in Thailand. PMID:21936321

Network structures, such as social networks, web graphs and networks from systems biology, play important roles in many areas of science and our everyday lives. In order to study the networks one needs to first collect reliable large scale network data. While the social and information networks have become ubiquitous, the challenge of collecting complete network data still persists. Many times the collected network data is incomplete with nodes and edges missing. Commonly, only a part of the network can be observed and we would like to infer the unobserved part of the network. We address this issue by studying the Network Completion Problem: Given a network with missing nodes and edges, can we complete the missing part? We cast the problem in the Expectation Maximization (EM) framework where we use the observed part of the network to fit a model of network structure, and then we estimate the missing part of the network using the model, re-estimate the parameters and so on. We combine the EM with the Kronecker graphs model and design a scalable Metropolized Gibbs sampling approach that allows for the estimation of the model parameters as well as the inference about missing nodes and edges of the network. Experiments on synthetic and several real-world networks show that our approach can effectively recover the network even when about half of the nodes in the network are missing. Our algorithm outperforms not only classical link-prediction approaches but also the state of the art Stochastic block modeling approach. Furthermore, our algorithm easily scales to networks with tens of thousands of nodes.

The UK is globally recognised as strong in Photonics. However its Photonics sector is fragmented and the size and sectors of interest have not previously been established. The UK government has instigated the formation of the Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network (PKTN) to bring the Photonics community together. The UK features in Defence & Security; Communications; Measurement; Medical Technology; Lighting; Solar Energy; Information Technology and Flat Panels. This expertise is scattered through out the UK in geographic areas each with a breadth of Photonic interests. The PKTN has mapped the UK capability in all Photonics sectors. This paper will present the capability of the Companies, Research Institutions and Infrastructure making up the Defence & Security Photonics scene in the UK. Large Defence companies in the UK are well known throughout the world. However, there are a large number of SMEs, which may not be as well known in the supply chain. These are being actively encouraged by the UK MoD to engage with the Defence & Security Market and shall be discussed here. The presentation will reference a number of organisations which help to fund and network the community, such as the Defence Technology Centres. In addition the Roadmap for Defence & Security in the UK, produced for the UK Photonics Strategy (July 2006) by the Scottish Optoelectronics Association will be described and the plans in taking it forward under the PKTN will be revealed.

Abstract in spanish Es indudable la fuerte relación que existe en el sector servicios entre la calidad percibida por los clientes y los niveles de satisfacción laboral y compromiso organizativo de los empleados que los prestan. Esta identificación es más intensa en el sector hotelero, donde la satisfacción del cliente está íntimamente ligada a la de los trabajadores. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de una investigación sobre el nivel de satisfacción existente en la hos (more) telería de Córdoba (España) y su relación con determinados aspectos personales de los individuos y organizativos de las empresas donde trabajan. El objetivo perseguido es que los directivos del sector hotelero conozcan los diferentes condicionantes socio-laborales y organizativos que determinan el nivel de satisfacción laboral y, con este conocimiento, poner en marcha políticas que fomenten el desarrollo del capital humano que conforma, hoy en día, el activo más importante en dicho sector. Para conseguirlo, se ha realizado un amplio trabajo de campo consistente en la recopilación de encuestas específicas y el tratamiento estadístico de los datos dimanados. Como conclusión general podemos destacar que la mayoría de los empleados están satisfechos o muy satisfechos con su trabajo, destacando positivamente la relación con los compañeros y superiores, siendo mayor la probabilidad de satisfacción laboral en los empleados que trabajan en hoteles de menor categoría, turno de mañana y de género masculino. Abstract in english There is no doubt the strong relationship that exists in the service sector between the quality perceived by customers, and levels of job satisfaction and organizational commitment for employees who provide them. This identification is more intense in the hotel sector, where customer satisfaction is closely linked to the workers. For these reasons, this research attempts to draw some conclusions on existing levels of satisfaction in the hotel business of Cordoba (Spain) a (more) nd its relationship with certain personal aspects of individuals and organizations of the companies where they work. The aim is that the hotel industry managers get some knowledge about the different social and organizational conditions at work that determine the level of job satisfaction; with this knowledge they will be able to implement policies that encourage human capital growth since this is the most important asset in that sector. To achieve this, a field work has been developed applying a specific questionnaire and statistical analysis of data. The main conclusion shows that most of employees are satisfied or very satisfied with their work, emphasizing positive relationships with colleagues and superiors. Higher job satisfaction is found in male employees who work in lower category hotels and in the morning schedule.

Under the auspices of a US-UK Memorandum of Understanding and Implementing Agreement for fossil energy R&D (http://us-uk.fossil.energy.gov/), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have recently completed a three-year collaboration on virtual plant modeling and simulation technology for advanced fossil-energy power generation systems. The R&D collaboration was aimed at taking full advantage of the synergies between NETL’s ongoing Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS) project and the UK’s three-year Virtual Plant Demonstration Model (VPDM) project. The key objective of this collaboration has been the development of compatible, open standards-based US and UK technology for process/equipment co-simulation. To achieve plug-and-play model interoperability, the collaboration leveraged the process-industry CAPE-OPEN (CO) software standard which is managed and disseminated by the CO Laboratories Network (www.colan.org).

The effects and problems of intravenous thrombolytic therapy with a bolus injection of mutant tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) were investigated in 34 patients with first acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In contrast, 114 patients were selected from 1,003 patients with AMI for treatment using intravenous infusion urokinase (UK). Angiography of these 148 patients revealed a complete occlusion of infarct-related artery with no clear contraindications to the study treatment. With the exception of thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI-3) recanalization 60 min after a bolus injection of mutant t-PA, the patients were given intracoronary UK in addition to mutant t-PA. The study comparisons were assessed using the following criteria: (1) 60-min assessment of recanalization rates, mutant t-PA vs UK; (2) time interval from initiation of thrombolysis to recanalization, mutant t-PA vs UK; (3) angiographic reocclusion rates within 1 month, mutant t-PA alone vs UK vs mutant t-PA plus UK; and (4) intracerebral hemorrhage rates, mutant t-PA alone vs UK vs mutant t-PA plus UK. There were no significant differences in the recanalization rates between mutant t-PA and UK, but there was a significant reduction in the time to recanalization with mutant t-PA (31.8±12.7 min) compared with UK (56.5±6.3 min). There was a significant difference in the reocclusion rates among the 3 treatment groups (20% mutant t-PA alone vs 4% UK vs 0% mutant t-PA plus UK). On the other hand, no significant differences in intracerebral hemorrhage rates among the 3 treatments were observed. In conclusion, thrombolytic therapy with a bolus injection of mutant t-PA achieved more rapid recanalization, but treatment with mutant t-PA led to a high rate of reocclusion. (Jpn Circ J 1998; 62: 111 - 114)   

The article attempts to assess the UK?s efforts to combat organised crime. It does this by revealing some qualitative and quantitative descriptions of organised crime provided by the authorities before describing the tools used to combat the problem and the politicians? justification of them. It then contrasts the details of the official discourse with data on the use of these policing tools by the organisation tasked to deal with organised crime in the UK ? the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

This article gives details of the UK`s first producing oil field 190km west of the Shetland Islands and its subsea drill centres. Problems, encountered with the completion of the vessel and subsea equipment, the construction of the Petrojarl Foinaven in Spain, use of a remotely controlled vehicle for all subsea work, underwater connections, and the cooling effect of subsea temperatures are discussed. (UK)

This report summarises the results of a study investigating the performance and costs of solar heating systems in Europe, and their relevance to systems in the UK. Details are given of the identification and review of the available data, the collection of information on UK and overseas systems, and the assessment and analysis of the data. Appendices give a lists of the monitored parameters, European contacts, data sources, the questionnaire for gathering information, and a printout of the data files. (uk)

Loodussõbralikust moest, ökoloogilistest materjalidest, jätkusuutlikest tootmismeetoditest moetööstuses, rõivaste taaskasutamisest. Briti ökodisainerite loomingu näitusest "Well Fashioned: Eco Fashion in the UK" Londonis

The editor of UK Coal Review calls for urgent action in the United Kingdom to start a new generation of clean coal power plants fuelled by UK-produced coal, both to ensure a long term market for UK produced coal (especially from the deep-mined sector) as well as continuity of employment at many mines and ancillary industries. Without a programme for commercializing clean coal technologies (such as IGCC, PFBC) the future outlook for the UK coal industry is very bleak. A leaflet discussing these issues has been issued by the Yorkshire Coalfield Communities Campaign and the Yorkshire Coal Task Force.

This report gives details of a project to create a web-based information system on photovoltaic (PV) systems for the British PV Association (PV-UK) for use by decision makers in government, the utilities, and the housing and construction sectors. The project, which aims to provide an easily accessible tool for UK companies, promote PV technology, increase competitiveness, and identify market opportunities, is described. The design of the web site and its implementation and the evolution are discussed, along with the maintenance of the site by PV-UK and the opportunities offered to PV-UK Members.

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Puit- ja puit-alumiiniumakende tootmisega tegelevad ettevõtted Rekman, Viking Window ning Viljandi Aken ja Uks AS orienteeruvad ekspordile. Haapsalu Uksetehas tegutseb aga peamiselt koduturul. Firmade majandustulemustest

Additional information about risk genes or risk pathways for diseases can be extracted from genome-wide association studies through analyses of groups of markers. The most commonly employed approaches involve combining individual marker data by adding the test statistics, or summing the logarithms of their P-values, and then using permutation testing to derive empirical P-values that allow for the statistical dependence of single-marker tests arising from linkage disequilibrium (LD). In the present study, we use simulated data to show that these approaches fail to reflect the structure of the sampling error, and the effect of this is to give undue weight to correlated markers. We show that the results obtained are internally inconsistent in the presence of strong LD, and are externally inconsistent with the results derived from multi-locus analysis. We also show that the results obtained from regression and multivariate Hotelling T(2) (H-T2) testing, but not those obtained from permutations, are consistent with the theoretically expected distributions, and that the H-T2 test has greater power to detect gene-wide associations in real datasets. Finally, we show that while the results from permutation testing can be made to approximate those from regression and multivariate Hotelling T(2) testing through aggressive LD pruning of markers, this comes at the cost of loss of information. We conclude that when conducting multi-locus analyses of sets of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, regression or multivariate Hotelling T(2) testing, which give equivalent results, are preferable to the other more commonly applied approaches. PMID:22317971

EBS’s estimates of relative productivity in construction are as follows: 1. The US is about 25-35% ahead of the UK and Germany in terms of average labour productivity (ALP). 2. The UK is ahead of Germany in ALP on an output per worker basis, but not on an output per hour worke...

Not Available Participating members: S. Macmillan+, S. Maus, T. Bondar, A. Chambodut, V. Golovkov, R. Holme, B. Langlais, V. Lesur, F. Lowes, H. Lühr, W. Mai, M. Mandea, N. Olsen, M. Rother, T. Sabaka, A. Thomson, I. Wardinski (+Corresponding author. British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK. Email: smac@bgs.ac.uk).

The article deals briefly with the development of an offshore natural gas pipeline on the continental shelf of Norway and UK. A major stumbling block between Uk and Norwegian relations has been removed with an agreement being reached over a revised Frigg Treaty after five years of negotiations

A UK-based company has commenced installation on its latest multi-million-pound contract for the manufacture, testing, installation and commissioning of 13 pumps to Thames Water for the refurbishment of the Intake Pumping Station at Crossness., also based in the UK. Crossness is one of Thames Water's largest sewage treatment works, treating sewage from a population of more than 2 million.

In the UK, ITM Power has been awarded a grant under the Technology Strategy Board's Smart Power Distribution and Demand competition. The 12-month project, which begins in July, will investigate the technical, financial, and operational feasibility of injecting hydrogen, generated from electrolysis fed from excess renewables, into the UK's gas networks.

Limited data exists on the prevalence of heart failure amongst minority groups in the UK. To document the community prevalence and severity of left ventricular systolic dysfunction, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation, amongst the South Asian and Black African-Caribbean groups in the UK.

Questionnaires were circulated to UK patients and health care professionals (HCPs) participating in the Taxotere as Adjuvant ChemoTherapy (TACT) trial in autumn 2004 asking if and how trial results, when available, should be conveyed to patients. A total of 1431 (37% of surviving UK TACT patients) r...

European developers have emerged top of the first Project Finance International global survey of independent power developers. The survey includes deals financed since January 1996. UK utilities PowerGen and National Power appear to be the hungriest for international assets, with both developing a global spread of projects. (UK)

In 1994, Border Biofuels planted 10 sites of Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) throughout the UK, to add to the 4 sites planted in 1993. This article highlights some of the key features which influence crop establishment. These include site planning, ground preparation, planting equipment, weed control and pest control. SRC establishment rates and costs are outlined. (UK)

Background and aims: The National UK IBD audit toot is an electronic database created to improve the quality and safety of care for IBD patients by auditing individual patient care, service resources and organisation against national standards. We used the National UK IBD audit toot to compare the o...

Aug 30, 2012 ... To assess the quantitative value of the NASA Earth observations, analysts .... Without the ash plume location information, aircraft must either risk .... The UK Civil Aviation Authority announced that all UK airports would .... to South American air traffic, and later forced a flight shutdown in Melbourne, Australia ...

In 2009, the UK government set a target of achieving 15% of overall energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, as part of the EU's goals of reducing emission levels within the EU and increasing consumption from renewable energy sources. As of 2011, the UK obtains 3.3% of overall energy consu...

We study how stock return's predictability and model uncertainty affect a rational buy-and-hold investor's decision to allocate her wealth for different lengths of investment horizons in the UK market. We consider the FTSE All-Share Index as the risky asset, and the UK Treasury bill as the risk free...

This brief article outlines the priority bird species and habitats in the UK which may be affected by short rotation coppice (SRC). Ways in which SRC plantations can give greatest benefits for biodiversity are examined before then considering the wider biodiversity implications of SRC. (UK)

This paper describes the epidemiology of fatal pandemic influenza A(H1N1) cases in the United Kingdom (UK) since April 2009 and in particular risk factors associated with death. A fatal case was defined as a UK resident who died between 27 April 2009 and 12 March 2010, in whom pandemic influenza A(H...

The development of Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) by York Sensors (UK) for Canada`s third largest hydroelectric plant is reported. DTS provides safe distributed temperature monitoring of cables, which allows BC Hydro to maximise capacity and iron out hotspots in underground power transmission and distribution lines. Details of the operation of the computerized DTS system are given. (UK)

Facial recognition systems are being trialled at the UKs Manchester airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce passenger congestion. The system can be used by adult biometric passport holders from the UK and European Economic Area. If successful these gates could be rolled-out across the country, the Home Office said.

Following the recent decision of Bayer CropScience to withdraw its herbicide-tolerant fodder maize, Chardon LL, the soonest we are likely to see commercial cultivation of any GM crop in the UK is 2008 . This mini-site examines the history of GM food in the UK. This content is appropriate for teachers or as an extension.

This article updates total factor productivity (TFP) growth in UK agriculture from 1953–2005 and shows that public and private research and returns to scale explain TFP. Cointegration and causality tests are used to investigate the validity of attempts to explain UK agricultural productivity with R&...

After outlining the basic principles governing communications and their growing importance and role in today`s society, some experiences are given on the application of these principles to decommissioning offshore platforms. The recent example of a project sponsored in the UK and Norway is used to draw particular lessons. (UK)

South Asians in the UK have high cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Therefore, this population is likely to benefit from screening programmes. To address this issue, an initiative was set up between the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, H.E.A.R.T. UK and two Hindu temples in North London to provi...

1. The dose-related effects of the selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists clonidine, UK-14,304 and B-HT 933 on the body temperature of untreated and reserpine-treated mice were investigated. 2. In untreated mice all three agonists induced a dose-related hypothermia. The highest doses of UK-14,304 a...

INTRODUCTION: This protocol covers the first part of a two-part project funded by the Health Libraries Group and the University Health and Medical Librarians Group. It details the proposed methodology for a systematic map of the literature relating to UK bibliographic databases in the fields of health and social care. The aim of this mapping exercise is to consider ways in which UK bibliographic databases are described, considered and discussed in the published and unpublished literature. In doing so, we hope to gain a clearer sense of the ways in which UK bibliographic databases are used and viewed by the research community. It also enables the identification of any gaps in the literature for further research and discussion. This topic is important because UK databases are generally underused by researchers in the UK context and some databases are at risk of closure. A lack of access to UK databases means that researchers may miss relevant UK evidence when identifying an evidence base. METHOD: Systematic Map. ANALYSIS: The authors will present a narrative description of the literature relating to UK bibliographic databases in the fields of health and social care. They will use tables to present descriptive information about the literature (eg, frequency tables) and use cross-tabulations to demonstrate intersecting themes. Separately, guidance on how to use the resources (eg, areas of unique content, updating frequencies, unique truncation symbols) will be sought from stakeholders and reported alongside the report narrative as a guide to usage. PMID:22654093

This study investigated the feasibility of off-shore wind power in the European Union. A brief overview of previous studies is given. Results covering the wind resources in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, France, Portugal and Spain, Italy and Greece are summarised, and illustrated with maps and plots. (UK)

In June 2009 a community workshop discussed what priorities in landing-site selection would drive UK involvement in Mars lander missions. The organizers and participants (below) summarize the conclusions of the workshop and their overview of current and future priorities in the UK search for signs of life on Mars.

Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period 1994-2003. Following Ackerberg et al. (2005) we adjust the algorithm in Olley and Pa...

This paper outlines the opportunities for UK-Canada collaboration/feasibility studies in areas that include novel research into waste management and decommissioning. A number of Universities in the UK have programs relevant to such collaborations in areas such as fuels; thermal hydraulics, reactor system and materials.

This article presents the highlights of the Third International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy, which was held at the Manly Pacific Hotel in Sydney, Australia from April 21-24, 2006. This symposium built on those held in Ottawa and Vancouver in 1999 and 2001 respectively and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference held in Toronto in 2003. The symposium was also informed by the outcomes of three 2004 reviews of career guidance by the OECD, the European Commission and the World Bank. (Contains 3 tables and 8 photographs.)

For population case-control association studies, the false-positive rates can be high due to inappropriate controls, which can occur if there is population admixture or stratification. Moreover, it is not always clear how to choose appropriate controls. Alternatively, the parents or normal sibs can be used as controls of affected sibs. For late-onset complex diseases, parental data are not usually available. One way to study late-onset disorders is to perform sib-pair or sibship analyses. This paper proposes sibship-based Hotelling's T2 test statistics for high-resolution linkage disequilibrium mapping of complex diseases. For a sample of sibships, suppose that each sibship consists of at least one affected sib and at least one normal sib. Assume that genotype data of multiple tightly linked markers/haplotypes are available for each individual in the sample. Paired Hotelling's T2 test statistics are proposed for high-resolution association studies using normal sibs as controls for affected sibs, based on two coding methods: 'haplotype/allele coding' and 'genotype coding'. The paired Hotelling's T2 tests take into account not only the correlation among the markers, but also take the correlation within each sib-pair. The validity of the proposed method is justified by rigorous mathematical and statistical proofs under the large sample theory. The non-centrality parameter approximations of the test statistics are calculated for power and sample size calculations. By carrying out power and simulation studies, it was found that the non-centrality parameter approximations of the test statistics were accurate. By power and type I error analysis, the test statistics based on the 'haplotype/allele coding' method were found to be advantageous in comparison to the test statistics based on the 'genotype coding' method. The test statistics based on multiple markers can have higher power than those based on a single marker. The test statistics can be applied not only for bi-allelic markers, but also for multi-allelic markers. In addition, the test statistics can be applied to analyse the genetic data of multiple markers which contain double heterozygotes--that is, unknown linkage phase data. An SAS macro, Hotel_sibs.sas, is written to implement the method for data analysis. PMID:16004725

This paper provides insights into the relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX) and employee job performance. An integrative model that includes work engagement and human resource management (HRM) consistency, defined as the extent to which various HR practices are viewed as consistent with one other, was developed to explain this relationship. Results from a hierarchical linear model based on 298 employees (survey data) and 54 supervisors in a large luxury hotel in southern China indicated that LMX was positively related to employee job performance. Moreover, as expected, work engagement mediated this relationship and HRM consistency strengthened the influence of LMX on work engagement. Important research and practical implications are discussed.

In this paper, a hotel with hybrid geothermal heat pump system (HyGSHP) in the Pensacola is selected and simulated by the transient simulation software package TRNSYS [1]. To verify the simulation results, the validations are conducted by using the monthly average entering water temperature, monthly facility consumption data, and etc. And three types of HVAC systems are compared based on the same building model and HVAC system capacity. The results are presented to show the advantages and disadvantages of HyGSHP compared with the other two systems in terms of energy consumptions, life cycle cost analysis.

Early entrants in markets with network effects usually occupy a -central location- and serve agents with -intermediate tastes,- whereas later entrants are niche players. Why would the first entrant choose to become a -general- network, given that later entrants will not have enough room for differentiation, resulting in a more intense competition for market share? In a Hotelling model with two rival networks, we show that for intermediate values of the network externality parameter the location equilibrium is indeed asymmetric: the first entrant locates at the center whereas the second entrant chooses an extreme (niche) location.

Industrial Machinery and Equipment (MIC: SIC: 3537 NAIC: 333924)NACCO Industries is a holding company with three principal businesses. Co.s NACCO Materials Handling Group designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, services and leases a line of lift trucks and replacement parts marketed worldwide under the Hyster and Yale brand names. Co.s NACCO Housewares Group consists of Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., a designer, marketer and distributor of small electric household appliances, as well as commercial products for restaurants, bars and hotels; and The Kitchen Collection, Inc., a retailer of kitchenware and gourmet foods. Co.s North American Coal Corporation subsidiary mines and markets lignite coal primarily as fuel for power generation.