With so many economy/budget lodging brands and rooms added to the market, it is difficult for consumers to identify differences in the services offered. In addition, industry practitioners need to understand what is expected of them by the consumers they serve. The authors review the economy budget lodging in general and empirically examine this issue. This article is available in Hospitality R...

Genetic improvement of native crops is a new and promising strategy to combat hunger in the developing world. Tef is the major staple food crop for approximately 50 million people in Ethiopia. As an indigenous cereal, it is well adapted to diverse climatic and soil conditions; however, its productivity is extremely low mainly due to susceptibility to lodging. Tef has a tall and weak stem, liabl...

Rice lodging identification relies on manual in situ assessment and often leads to a compensation dispute in agricultural disaster assessment. Therefore, this study proposes a comprehensive and efficient classification technique for agricultural lands that entails using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. In addition to spectral information, digital surface model (DSM) and texture informatio...

Lamm, Wayne J. E., Susan L. Bernard, Wiltz W. Wagner, Jr., and Robb W. Glenny. Intravital microscopic observations of 15m microspheres lodging in the pulmonary microcirculation. J Appl Physiol 98: 2242–2248, 2005. First published February 10, 2005; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01199.2004.—Vascular infusions of 15m-diameter microspheres are used to study pulmonary blood flow distribution. The sites ...

Tef (Eragrostis tef) is a major cereal crop in Ethiopia. Lodging is the primary constraint to increasing productivity in this allotetraploid species, accounting for losses of ∼15-45% in yield each year. As a first step toward identifying semi-dwarf varieties that might have improved lodging resistance, an ∼6× fosmid library was constructed and used to identify both homeologues of the dw3 semi-d...

Due to the negative environmental impact, corporate social responsibility is an important concept in today’s competitive lodging industry. Hotels attribute 75 % of the overall lodging industries consumption of energy, water and non-durable goods. To remain competitive, organizations implement green lodging programs to demonstrate social responsibility. However, the understanding and implementat...

In most European countries tuberculosis mortality has been decreasing during the last few decades, but this decrease has not been uniformly experienced by all age and sex groups (Clarke, 1952; Cheeseman, 1952). Generally, old men as a group have benefited least and this contention is supported in some countries by the trends of notification rates (Cheeseman, 1956; Lowe, 1954; Stocks, 1950; Mini...

Societal Impact Statement Crop diversification is considered key to ensuring agricultural sustainability and food security. Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) a cereal crop grown mainly in Ethiopia, where it thrives wide range of environments, including stress-prone habitats. It promising new gaining popularity cultivation research worldwide. Lodging, the greatest factor limiting productivity...

T his feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Depa...