Dingoes (Canis dingo) are known for hunting and killing animals to meet their energetic requirements, but like almost all predators they also scavenge animal remains. To improve our understanding of dingo scavenging ecology, we investigated the role abiotic biotic factors in shaping carcass utilisation by dingoes further determined whether influenced persistence landscape. do so, monitored visi...

This thesis sets out to investigate the extent and nature of labour turnover in hotels. The general thrust of the work is to build up on existing knowledge. This knowledge, as appraised in a review of the past literature, is based primarily on measures and manifestations of labour turnover which are external to aD organisation. Thus, while the work starts from a broad base illustrating the over...

The overall objective of this paper is to identify coastal zone management problems within Mombasa Diani area. Other objectives included evaluating the effectiveness of the existing control measures and identifying response strategies for the affected areas. The results showed that coastal dunes and beach ridges, cliffed coasts and backshore areas could be developed but with proper set back lin...

This study investigates a growing issue for hotels and consumers: pricing across distribution channels. Research suggests that hotels should drive consumers towards direct channels with lower operating costs and away from intermediaries, yet few studies have investigated pricing practices across the direct communication channels that hotels control. The results of two surveys of over 100 Swiss ...

This article examines the effect on price of different characteristics of holiday hotels in the sun-andbeach segment, under the hedonic function perspective. Monthly prices of the majority of hotels in the five major tourist regions in the Spanish continental Mediterranean coast were gathered from May to October 1999, from the tour operator catalogues. Hedonic functions are specified as random-...

BACKGROUND The only treatment for coeliac disease is lifelong adherence to a rigorous gluten-free diet. The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of coeliac disease on the social aspects of daily life of individuals in the U.S.A. METHODS The present study used a self-administered survey including the standard Quality of Life questionnaire (12-item short-form) with validated disease-sp...

A lot has been said about wireless networking in recent years especially on the wireless LAN. More importantly, it has changed the way people think about wireless networks. Used to be seen as expensive technology for individuals, wireless LAN can now be seen not only in enterprise networks but also at public areas like the airport, hotels, coffee shops and also in shopping malls. This increasin...