A major problem resulting from interrupted tuberculosis (TB) treatment is the development of drug-resistant TB, including multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB), a more deadly and costly-to-treat form of the disease. Global health systems are not equipped to diagnose and treat the current burden of MDR TB. TB-infected foreign visitors and temporary US residents who leave the country during treatment c...

Tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the world: for many countries it represents the single largest product in their export basket. However, it is a product difficult to chart: “exporters” of tourism do not ship it abroad, but they welcome importers inside the country. Current research uses social accounting matrices and general equilibrium models, but the standard indust...

This study aims to determine the dominant factors forming image in context of tourism destinations. The quantitative method with survey format chosen this study, where data obtained through convenience sampling were analyzed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). results showed that Borobudur as a destination was formed by 4 factors, namely: Core Attractions, Supporting Services, and Experie...

All cases of cholera imported to Europe and North America between 1975 and 1981 were reviewed to assess the danger of cholera for visitors to endemic areas. Data were obtained from the health authorities of the respective countries. From a total of 129 cases notified to the World Health Organisation detailed reports were obtained on 117 patients. Of these, 66 (56%) were immigrants, refugees, fr...

This paper gives an overview of the English and Japanese CALL systems which have been developed at Kyoto University. Both systems incorporate automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies to detect pronunciation errors. In order to cope with non-native speech, error prediction mechanisms are prepared based on linguistic knowledge and corpus-based decision tree learning. Several choices of aco...

DRLÍK MARTIN, PILKOVÁ ANNA, MUNK MICHAL, ŠVEC PETER: Modelling of domestic and foreign visitors’ behaviour at commercial bank website during the recent fi nancial crisis. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 7, pp. 2065–2070 The paper focuses on modelling of commercial bank website visitors’ behaviour. The authors analyse domestic and foreign ma...