Tourism is an important sector in the economy contributing around 10% to worldwide GDP, projected to rise to nearly 11% by 2014 (World Tourism Council (2004). Tourism was one of the first sectors to embrace Information Technology (IT). IT is crucial to the tourism industry and its success. IT has bought with it a number of changes and challenges that affect business and tourism. IT developments...

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The ability of a variety of detergents to solubilize peripheral benzodiazepine-binding sites from rat kidney was tested. Of all the detergents tested, only digitonin was found to be suitable for solubilization. This detergent solubilized 21% of the binding activity; 47% was inactivated, and 32% remained in the pellet. Specific binding of [3H]Ro 5-4884 to membranebound and solubilized peripheral...

-Calaxius galapagensis, a new species, is described on the basis of two ovigerous females from coral rubble in shallow water at North Plaza off Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands. The species is compared with the eight previously described species of Calaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989, and characterized by a strongly tridentate rostral apex, and by rows of corneous spine-like setae on pere...

HomeCirculation: Cardiovascular Quality and OutcomesVol. 14, No. 1From Evidence to Action for Emergency Department Chest Pain Hospitalization Practices Free AccessEditorialPDF/EPUBAboutView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyRedditDiggEmail Jump toFree AccessEditorialPDF/EPUBFrom Keith E. KocherMD, MPH...

Laboratory research on preschool-aged children with autism demonstrates consistent impairments in the domains of social behavior and communication. Other research methodologies, such as retrospective home video analysis and individual case studies, show that social and communicative deficits are evident by the end of the first year of life. This information is currently being utilized to develo...

This paper presents a novel fuzzy neural network (FNN) approach to detect malignant mass lesions on mammograms. The FNN is a self-adjusting and adaptive system. It is simple in structure and easy to incorporate experts' knowledge and fuzzified factors in the detection of malignant mass lesions on mammograms. The FNN has four layers. The first layer is the input layer consisting of 4 fuzzy neuro...

Kinetic theory based particle velocity measurements in a symmetric two-story riser show that in the core the flow is laminar and that the granular temperature is approximately given by the analogue of thermal temperature rise in Poiseuille flow. However, like in the turbulent flow in a pipe, the normal kinetic stresses are anisotropic. The shear and the normal stresses are an order of magnitude...

A clinical trial using adeno-associated virus serotype 8 (AAV8)-human uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (hUGT1A1) to treat inherited severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Crigler-Najjar syndrome) is ongoing, but preclinical data suggest that long-term efficacy in children impaired due loss of transgene expression upon hepatocyte proliferation a growing liver. This study aims det...

This study longitudinally compares the characteristics of loans made or bought by different institutions to see which types of lenders lead the mortgage finance industry in making credit available for lowand moderate-income families and which are merely following behind. Hypotheses are tested via a case study analysis of conventional home mortgage lending in Indiana for 1992–96. Results show th...