This paper performs an assessment of tourists' perception towards semces associated with lodging (hotel factors), dining (restaurant factors), and transportation (transportation factors). The results of the empirical analysis suggested that these are the underlying dimentions held by the tourists: (1) Hotel factors Staff service quality, room quality, business serVices,. security, value and foo...

like other economic markets, housing market is comprised of supply and demand dimensions and equality of supply and demand makes the housing market balanced. the aim of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of housing market of tehran city and some deficiencies of this market with fundamental – applied methodology. the variable studied here is the saleable residential unit with minim...

After a 16-year hiatus, Russia has resumed its program of biomedical research in space, with the successful 30-day flight of the Bion-M 1 biosatellite (April 19-May 19, 2013). The principal species for biomedical research in this project was the mouse. This paper presents an overview of the scientific goals, the experimental design and the mouse training/selection program. The aim of mice exper...

The Smith housing system — small houses with students from all class years — is one of the school's greatest assets and sources of pride. But from the point of view of sustainability, it’s inefficient. In this study, I examined the two types of housing available at Smith — co-operative and traditional — to determine which is potentially more sustainable, or “greener.” In the co-ops, students ar...

For the past decade, academics and practitioners have debated the existence of a housing bubble. Given the sharp declines in the housing market and the financial crisis, there is little doubt that a bubble occurred and then burst. Nevertheless, an important research question remains, what factors contributed to the creation of the bubble? This research addresses this issue by selecting well und...

Collective Self-Organised (CSO) housing projects are an emerging trend in Europe. In these projects communities engage in co-design throughout the process. Little knowledge exists that can support CSOs with the process of managing their projects by using state-of-the-art building information (BI) technologies. The authors introduce a BI supported CSO housing design process that can support CSOs...

just like any other economic field, housing market has two basic foundations which are demand and supply. its obvious that disequilibrum between these foundations, will drasticaly affect the housing affordability and can also lead to wide slump in many markets. that’s why, policy makers usually intend to stimulat the supply by means of providing low intrest loans, low priced land, etc. in this ...

The influence of parental income on the choice of young adults to leave the parents’ home is still an open question. This paper suggests a model in which either more parental income increases the independent child’s consumption and encourages leaving (standard altruism) or increases more his consumption when co-residing (proximity altruism) and induces to stay. Besides, housing is a distinct no...

The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI mapping. When housing data are zonal, the concept of a WUI neighborhood can be captured easily in a density measure, but var...