a Medical and Social Affairs, The National Family Safety Program, Saudi Arabia b Child Protection Research Center, American Humane Association, USA c PICU and Pediatric Emergencies, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon d Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University, Ulm, Germany e Department of Children, Schools and Families, England, United Kingdom f Child and Youth ...

A key factor in the success of the Web today is its simplicity and ease of use. This simplicity allows just about anyone to write and publish an HTML page and immediately see the results of their efforts. The next obvious step in the evolution of the web is to bring in semantics to describe the contents. This would allow not just sharing of information, but also support improved searching, extr...

With the expansion of mobile Internet, location-based services have become a hot spot in Internet industry. To improve the accuracy and efficiency of the location-based services discovery, researchers in web services recommendation area are still busy looking for method. In this paper, it proposes a LCAMSP model (Location Context Awareness Mobile Service Prediction, LCAMSP) under mobile Interne...

Lesser Antillean Bullfinches Loxigilla noctis were observed opening packets of sugar on the grounds of a hotel on the west coast of Barbados. We presented closed sugar packets at 40 sites in 10 areas on the west coast, near the site where opening was originally observed, to determine whether the foraging behavior was localespecific. Bullfinches only touched, opened, and fed from sugar packets a...

This paper studies the optimal pricing strategy of a hotel that establishes an online distribution channel through cooperation with an online travel agency (OTA). The OTA promotes the hotel and sells hotel rooms through its website and receives commission from the hotel for rooms sold. Through a sequence game model, this paper derives the optimal decision on the unit commission of the hotel and...

Stéphanie Falcao, Crina Solomon, Caroline Monat, Julie Bérubé, Jolanta Gutkowska, and Julie L. Lavoie Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal-Technopôle Angus, Montréal, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Research Centre, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal-Hôtel-Dieu, Montréal, and Department of Medicine, Université de Montré...

With the recent surge in the use of the location-based service (LBS), the importance of spatial database queries has increased. The reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) search is one of the most popular spatial database queries. In most previous studies, the spatial distance is used for measuring the distance between objects. However, as the demands of users of the LBSs are becoming more complex, con...

Online product reviews are becoming increasingly available, and are being used more and more frequently by consumers in order to choose among competing products. Tools that rank competing products in terms of the satisfaction of consumers that have purchased the product before, are thus also becoming popular. We tackle the problem of rating (i.e., attributing a numerical score of satisfaction t...

Hoteliers clearly believe that location is important for a hotel, and have market research evidence to support this. However, almost nothing has been done enable this issue be incorporated into revenue generation. There gap in the literature relating analysis from location-side approach increase revenue. This study therefore untaken compare generation of hotels with different locations Ilorin, ...

Hotels cooperate with third-party websites to enhance their competitive position and attain sustainable development in the era of e-commerce. Furthermore, hotel managers overbook to hedge against last-minute cancellations and customer no-shows. This paper discusses pricing and overbooking strategies of a hotel in the context of cooperation with multiple third-party websites and analyzes how the...