• Data come from a survey of residents Jacksonville, FL after Hurricane Matthew. MNL models identify factors associated with accommodations and destinations. Greater hurricane graphics understanding decreased the probability staying in area. certainty impact location going southeast. time increased home. This paper investigates how perceived influenced households’ selection destination accommod...

BACKGROUND The need for better healthcare has grown significantly in recent years. In addition, the rising healthcare costs in the U.S. and in many European countries have forced many patients to seek medical treatment abroad, which has created the demand for medical tourism. With little yet known as to the perception of a medical tourist's destination selection, this study aims to explore medi...

We analyze the effect of feedback delay and channel estimation errors in a decode-and-forward (DF) relay selection scenario. Amongst all the relays that decode the source information correctly, only one relay with the best relay-to-destination (R → D) channel quality is selected. More specifically, the destination terminal first estimates the relay-destination channel state information (CSI) an...

In this paper, an Alamouti-coded decode-and-forward protocol with optimum relay selection for three-user one destination cooperative communications is investigated. Particularly, we design the new protocol that allows the source node retransmitting the signal to the destination node at the same time as the relay node forwarding the received signal to the destination node with an Alamouti coding...

In this paper, we investigate the network throughput achieved by both spatial diversity and spatial frequency reuse in a wireless ad hoc network with randomly positioned single-hop source-destination pairs and relays. Compared to conventional direct transmissions, cooperative communication can enhance single-link transmission reliability, but reduce network-wide spatial frequency reuse due to r...

We consider a system in which two users communicate with a destination with the help of a halfduplex relay. Based on the compute-and-forward scheme, we develop and evaluate the performance of coding strategies that are of network coding spirit. In this framework, instead of decoding the users’ information messages, the destination decodes two integer-valued linear combinations that relate the t...

We study a cooperative network with a buffer-aided multi-antenna source, multiple half-duplex (HD) buffer-aided relays and a single destination. Such a setup could represent a cellular downlink scenario, in which the source can be a more powerful wireless device with a buffer and multiple antennas, while a set of intermediate less powerful devices are used as relays to reach the destination. Th...

the purpose of this study is to develop a brand equity model for isfahan as a tourism destination. the statistical population of this study consists of the inbound tourists who have traveled to isfahan in november 2013. a sample of 200 tourists has been selected from this population. a self-administrated questionnaire has been used for collecting the research data. in order to analyze the resea...

Cooperative communication describes strategies to transfer the data from a source to a destination by employing relay nodes between them. It is considered as one of the most efficient techniques to overcome fading in wireless networks since it can achieve spatial diversity. Employing all the relays in the network to transfer the data, consumes high power and cost. Selection of one or more relay...

Destination descriptions are route descriptions focusing on the ‘where’ of the destination instead of the ‘how’ to reach it. They provide first a coarse reference to the destination, and then increasingly more detailed ones as the description proceeds. We introduce a definition of destination descriptions, along with an analysis of the construction and interpretation of destination descriptions...