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PURPOSE To evaluate the economic consequences of the use of chemotherapy in patients with symptomatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer (HRPC) in the context of a previously published Canadian open-label, phase III, randomized trial with palliative end points. PATIENTS AND METHODS The trial randomized 161 patients to initial treatment with mitoxantrone and prednisone (M + P) or to prednisone ...

The outlook is that the bad times for the hotel industry may be coming to an end. Many experts during this economic decline have declared that the drop in aggregate demand and the Internet incursion has resulted in hotel brands ceasing to be important. Consequently, conventional wisdom viewed price discounting, as the most important factor in hotel selection by consumers. The current study anal...

Based on energy-relatedmeasurements,this articleevaluates the thermalperformance, energy-saving, indirect emissions and financial feasibilityof using heat pumps for hotel out-door swimming pools in subtropical climates. A rooftop pool of a city-centre hotel was investigated. It was found that the average coefficient of performance (COP) was around 2.0. The measured electricity consumption was 2...

Stefani Svaren Research Assistant School of Hospitality Business Management Washington State University Todd Hall 470 Pullman, WA 99164-4742 [email protected] Abstract This study analyzes the green practices of American hotels. As such, this study examines how eco-friendly, or green, hotels in the United States are in relation to no-cost or low-cost practices. Findings show that chain ho...

It is essential for hotel companies to evaluate and improve website performance in order to keep and increase their online presence and competitiveness in the marketplace. This article proposes an evaluation framework for hotel websites, which categorizes web information services into six information dimensions and also uses managers’ and users’ views. Based on the relative literature, the mode...

The tourism industry is characterized by severe shifts in demand that play havoc with forecasting future investment. Within the tourism industry, the need for large-scale initial capital investment in the hotel sector, make the latter particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the tourism market. Given an up-turn in demand, the hotel industry cannot always respond immediately and its' response ...

Internet is an important tool for information searching and purchasing of products especially in tourism. This paper investigates the impact of demographic and travel characteristics of hotel guests on online and offline reservations. It also examines the importance of hotel attributes in selecting a hotel and the differences in priorities between guests who book their accommodation online and ...

This contribution aims to provide an analysis of the current state of web accessibility in the tourism industry with the focus on the Austrian hotel sector. The results of the conducted study verify previous research, showing that tourism organizations considerably lack awareness of web accessibility. A three dimensional hotel categorization model on accessibility is introduced to encompass the...

The long term evaluation of the Sacarino robot is presented in this paper. This study aimed to improve the robot‘s capabilities as a bellboy in a hotel; walking alongside the guests, providing information about the city and the hotel and providing hotel-related services. The paper establishes a three-stage assessment methodology based on the continuous measurement of a set of metrics regarding ...