The arrivals forecast is one of the key inputs for a successful hotel revenue management system, but no research on the best forecasting method has been conducted. In this research, we used data from Choice Hotels and Marriott Hotels to test a variety of forecasting methods and to determine the most accurate method. Preliminary results using the Choice Hotel data show that pickup methods and re...

In June 2010, the European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA) of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) signed the Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology at the Euroanaesthesia meeting in Helsinki. The document had been jointly prepared by these two principal anaesthesiology organisations in Europe who pledged to improv...

BACKGROUND Scientific congresses have become the most expedient method to communicate novel findings on any research topic. However, an important question is whether this information will be published in peer-reviewed journals. Our aim was to determine the publication rate of the abstracts presented at the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow Congress and analyze factors that ...

The ESRC " One Europe or Several? " Programme publishes Working Papers to make research results, accounts of work in progress and background information available to those concerned with contemporary European issues. The Programme also publishes Policy Papers (ISSN 1468-4152) listed at the end of this publication. The Programme does not express opinions of its own; the views expressed in this p...

The European circular economy targets and waste policies have gradually focused on bio-waste, which is considered one of several key streams urgently needed to develop strategies for their selective collection. In non-intensive urban regions, a collection challenge due the dispersion bio-waste producers. This work intended characterize producers, in Planalto Beirão region (Portugal) define mana...