OBJECTIVE Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in the United States. Chronic disease management occurs within all aspects of an individual's life, including the workplace. Though the social constructs of gender, race, class, and immigration status within the workplace have been considered, their connection to disease management among workers has been less explicitly explored. Using ...

Entity-resolution (also known as deduplication, record linkage, and reference reconciliation, among others) was one of the original motivating applications [6] for the Trio system, which has been under development at Stanford over the past several years. • Entity-resolution is the process of determining when multiple data records are likely to represent the same real-world entity, and possibly ...

OBJECTIVES A long-lasting legionellosis outbreak was reported between November 2011 and July 2012 in a hotel in Calpe (Spain) affecting 44 patients including six deaths. Intensive epidemiological and microbiological investigations were performed in order to detect the reservoirs. METHODS Clinical and environmental samples were tested for the presence and genetic characterization of Legionella...

Rijeka inscribed herself on the list of great European emigration ports like Hamburg, Bremen, Liverpool in the end of the year 1903 when a ship of the British Cunard Line established a travel line from Rijeka to New York. Up to the year 1914, 317639 passengers - emigrants travelled to America from the port of Rijeka. The large flow of people caused problems for the city, for that reason, alread...

In a context of intense competition, cooperative advertising between firms is critical. Accordingly, the objective of this article is to analyse the potential differentiated effect of advertising on two basic consumption patterns: individual products (i.e. hotel, restaurant) vs. bundle (i.e. hotel+restaurant). This research adds to the extant literature in that, for the first time, this potenti...

A number of decentralized peer-to-peer markets, now colloquially known as the sharing economy, have emerged as alternative suppliers of goods and services traditionally provided by long-established industries. A central question surrounding the sharing economy regards its long-term impact: will peer-to-peer platforms materialize as viable mainstream alternatives to traditional providers, or wil...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants and consequences of customer satisfaction in hotel industry in Iran. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling have been utilized with information provided by a survey conducted in Iran (Kish Island).Results indicate that perceived value has a significant impact on customer satisfaction in hotel industry. Moreo...

At Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Languages on the premises of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Hospitality English, a new first-year English as a Foreign Language course was introduced in April 2008. Hospitality English, a one semester, one-and-half-hour per week course was designed to develop specific English spoken language skills to help students gain employment in the hotel industry i...

Using a Simulated Hotel Reservation Data Athanasius Zakhary, Neamat El Gayar Faculty of Computers and Information Cairo University, Giza, Egypt [email protected], [email protected], Amir F. Atiya Dept Computer Engineering Cairo University, Giza, Egypt [email protected] Abstract Detailed forecasts are major inputs to modern Hotel Revenue Management Systems. Accurate forecasts are crucial ...

The uniqueness of the web lies in its interactivity. Interactivity refers to the reciprocity provided by a site during the process of using it and it has been positioned conceptually as a process, a function and a perception. Implemented appropriately may affect the success or failure of commercial websites. Perceived interactivity should be based on consumers’ actual interactions with the stim...