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...

We analyze whether firms prefer collocating with incumbent firms when choosing among markets to enter, highlighting the role of resource-seeking as a motivation for collocation. We propose that entrants will locate near others possessing resources that can spill over, but will avoid locations where existing firms will exploit spillovers without contributing. To test these propositions, we analy...

The dining experience is an opportunity for residents to experience the independence they once knew and still desire. Through appropriate meal consistencies an optimal dining room setting, and coordination of the total healthcare team, these desires can be reached. The resident benefits from this emphasis on the dining experience, while the interdisciplinary team members gain more insight into ...

The Weakest Failure Detector for Solving Wait-Free, Eventually Bounded-Fair Dining Philosophers. (December 2008) Yantao Song, B.S., Beijing Institute of Technology; M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Scott M. Pike This dissertation explores the necessary and sufficient conditions to solve a variant of the dining philosophers problem. This dining variant is define...

The paper aims to analyze the differences in employees’ work stress and job satisfaction across the casino hotels and the non-casino hotels in Macau. Through questionnaires, the paper investigates total 400 employees from both casino hotels and non-casino hotels. Work stress and job satisfaction of employees in casino hotels and non-casino hotels are compared. Statistic techniques such as descr...

A qualitative study was conducted to investigate perceptions of environmental practices at hotels among tourists. A quota sample of fifteen mainland Chinese and fifteen English-speaking overseas tourists visiting Hong Kong were recruited for an interview. The results showed that saving energy, use of environmentally friendly materials, and not using single-use consumables were most frequently p...

3 Review of Place/Transition Nets 8 3.1 “Dining Philosophers” as PT Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 Place/Transition Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3 Marking Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4 A “Dining Philosophers” Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5 Occurence Nets and Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

BACKGROUND Tourism is an important earner of foreign exchange in Jamaica; hence, the protection of the visitors' health is very important. A study of travelers to Jamaica in 1996 to 1997 found that travelers' diarrhea (TD) affected almost 25% of visitors. The Ministry of Health (Jamaica) initiated a program for the prevention and control of TD aimed at reducing attack rates from 25.0% to 12.0% ...

The present bulletin examines police-recorded assault incidents on licensed premises in the inner-urban areas of Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong. Findings from this analysis suggest that a small number of problematic licensed premises are associated with a disproportionate amount of violence. In inner Sydney 12 per cent of hotels accounted for almost 60 per cent of all assaults on hotel premis...