Having adequate personal space is an important aspect of users’ comfort with their environment. In a restaurant, for instance, spatial intrusion by others can lead to avoidance responses such as early departure or a disinclination to spend. A web-based survey of more than 1,000 Americans elicited behavioral intentions and emotional responses to a projected restaurant experience when parallel di...

House dust mites have been shown to be strongly associated with allergic respiratory diseases such as, bronchial asthma, rhinitis and atopic dermatitis in the world. The climatic conditions of Bandar-Abbas, which is located in a coastal area and has a humid subtropical climate, provide a suitable place to proliferate mites. The aim of this study was to determine the contamination rate and analy...

Web services have the potential to provide much more seamless, dynamic and open distributed applications than earlier technologies. We describe our experiences developing an integrated, collaborative travel planning application using .NET, C# and web services. This application provides a unified portal for customers and travel agents to plan, revise and book travel itineraries, with interaction...

Purpose In view of the intense competition between businesses in sharing economy and conventional hospitality industry, this study aims to compare consumers’ private social dining restaurant experiences. Design/methodology/approach In-depth interviews with 29 diners were conducted yield 10 experiential domains, which then validated using online survey data from 840 across four sample groups – l...

introduction: hotels are very important pillar of the tourism industry that provides extensive service to the tourists. hotel industry can play an important role for growing and developing tourism industry in every country. theoretical bases: the purpose of this study is calculating the efficiency and prioritizing two, three and five stars hotels in yazd province, using dea and gray analysis me...

INTRODUCTION Norovirus gastrointestinal disease (GID) outbreaks occur frequently in closed settings, with high attack rates. On October 16, 2008, a norovirus GID outbreak occurred at a Singapore military camp. This study describes the epidemiological investigations conducted to determine the cause of outbreak and the efficacy of the public health measures implemented. METHODS Epidemiologic in...

In view of the serious environmental problems we are currently facing, taking action to protect our planet is becoming more persuasive and important. Along with various environmental initiatives, the concept of green marketing emerged in the late 1980s. Some hotels have taken various initiatives to position themselves as green hotels, including the use of eco-labels as a marketing ploy to attra...

BACKGROUND Previous research from the fields of computer science and engineering highlight the importance of an iterative design process (IDP) to create more creative and effective solutions. OBJECTIVE This study describes IDP as a new method for developing health behavior interventions and evaluates the effectiveness of a dining hall-based intervention developed using IDP on college students...

Dining philosophers is a scheduling paradigm that determines when processes in a distributed system should execute certain sections of their code so that processes do not execute ‘conflicting’ code sections concurrently, for some application-dependent notion of a ‘conflict’. Designing a stabilizing dining algorithm for shared-memory systems subject to process crashes presents an interesting cha...