In the Internet age, e-commerce provides customers global reach to a wide variety of products and plays a dominant role in business activity and competition. Competition is especially aggressive in the online travel domain where wholesalers, e.g. brokerage companies, contract through their contract managers with thousands of hotel brands and trade hotel products (usually hotel nights) for trave...

background considerable development of mri technology in diagnostic imaging, high cost of mri technology and controversial issues concerning official charges (tariffs) have been the main motivations to define and implement this study. objectives the present study aimed to calculate the unit-cost of mri services using activity-based costing (abc) as a modern cost accounting system and to fairly ...

5 s I drove up to the entrance of a newly constructed hospital in Oregon recently, what struck me first was not so much the fact hat it looks like a luxurious five-star hotel it was designed in collaboration with a ospitality architect), but more so that it oes not evoke the feelings of anxiety and ear that you normally feel when you aproach a hospital. Let’s face it, for most of s, going to th...

Research is ongoing on eighteen cases of Legionellosis, including four deaths, identified among tourists and employees in a hotel in Calp, Spain. Cases occurred during a period of two months, indicating the possibility of a point-source transmission at the hotel. An environmental investigation identified several positive samples in the hotel, which as a precautionary measure, was closed until r...

This article is going to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Hotel Industry on a global basis and to study the viability of a hotel project, taking into account the five competitive forces of Michael Porter’s Model. The main competitive forces and factors within those forces will determine the feasibility and potential profitability in a hotel project. The two crucial factors that enabl...

conclusions chronic hepatitis c-related liver diseases impose a substantial economic burden on patients, families and the society. the current study provides useful information on cost of treatment and work loss for different disease states, which can be further used in cost-effectiveness evaluations. results the total annual cost per patient for chronic hepatitis c, cirrhosis and hepatocellula...

In this paper, we propose a skyline-based recommendation and ranking function. We suppose that some recommender systems, such as hotel recommender systems, are based not only on user preferences but also cost performance. For these kinds of applications, We first extract items with good cost performance and then identify items that users prefer, which reduce the computational cost of the online...