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Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation
This mixed-method case study analyzes the effectiveness of an educational module combining different methodologies within the transformative learning approach to foster students’ agency. It is articulated around an ...
Determining service quality management in small rural hotels in Catalonia using a qualitative optimization process
Today no one disputes that the service quality has become a market requirement in the hotel sector. Under this line, there has been some research, mainly focused on customer feedback with little management evaluation. ...
TravelCLICK: going international
The paper is a first approach to the evolution of an american company founded in 1988 as The Graycon Group, into the actual TravelCLICK, a worldwide tourism technology company. Entering the international arena in 1996 ...
Long term outcomes of biomaterial-mediated repair of focal cartilage defects in a large animal model
The repair of focal cartilage defects remains one of the foremost issues in the field of orthopaedics. Chondral defects may arise from a variety of joint pathologies and left untreated, will likely progress to osteoarthritis. ...
Structure-activity relationships of serotonergic 5-MeO-DMT derivatives: insights into psychoactive and thermoregulatory properties
Recent studies have sparked renewed interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for treating depression and other mental health conditions. Simultaneously, the novel psychoactive substances (NPS) phenomenon, with ...
Prospects on coupling UV/H2O2 with activated sludge or a fungal treatment for the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds in real hospital wastewater
Conventional active sludge (AS) process at municipal centralized wastewater treatment facilities may exhibit little pharmaceuticals (PhACs) removal efficiencies when treating hospital wastewater (HWW). Therefore, a dedicated ...
Relationship between marital status and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Brazilian rural population: the Baependi heart study
Many factors influence the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Here, we investigated the associations between socio-demographic characteristics and familial history with the 5-year incidence of T2DM in a family-based ...
Smart dual-functionalized gold nanoclusters for spatio-temporally controlled delivery of combined chemo- and photodynamic therapy
We report the preparation of gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) as a delivery vehicle for the clinically approved photodynamic and chemotherapeutic agents Protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) and doxorubicin (DOX), respectively, and their ...
Integrative structure determination reveals functional global flexibility for an ultra-multimodular arabinanase
AbnA is an extracellular GH43 α-L-arabinanase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus, a key bacterial enzyme in the degradation and utilization of arabinan. We present herein its full-length crystal structure, revealing the ...
A comparative study of difficulties in accounting preparation and judgement in agriculture using fair value and historical cost for biological assets valuation
This paper presents empirical research comparing the accounting difficulties that arise from the use of two valuation methods for biological assets, fair value (FV) and historical cost (HC) accounting, in the agricultural ...
Seeking the "Ultimate hotel experience"
Hotels today advance how people live in cities, travel around the world, conduct business, commune with nature and even construct their fantasy lives. The modern hotel not only offers a place to sleep, but also provides ...
A Tunable Soft Silicone Bioadhesive for Secure Anchoring of Diverse Medical Devices to Wet Biological Tissue
Silicone is utilized widely in medical devices for its compatibility with tissues and bodily fluids, making it a versatile material for implants and wearables. To effectively bond silicone devices to biological tissues, a ...
Evaluación mediante HPLC-MS de la capacidad de producción de aflatoxinas y ocratoxina A por parte de 20 cepas de Aspergillus y Penicillium aisladas de compost
Este artículo aporta los resultados obtenidos tras realizar el aislamiento e identificación de los mohos presentes en muestras obtenidas en los distintos estadios de la producción de compost en dos plantas de compostaje ...
Switchable Electrostatically Templated Polymerization
We report a switchable, templated polymerization system where the strength of the templating effect can be modulated by solution pH and/or ionic strength. The responsiveness to these cues is incorporated through a dendritic ...
A methodology for damping measurement of engineering materials: application to a structure under bending and torsion loading
A new method to calculate damping properties of rigid materials to be used in Finite Elements calculations is presented. Its relevance relies in its simplicity regarding the amount of materials data, mathematical treatment ...
Analysis of an event study using the Fama–French five-factor model: teaching approaches including spreadsheets and the R programming language
The current financial education framework has an increasing need to introduce tools that facilitate the application of theoretical models to real-world data and contexts. However, only a limited number of free tools are ...
Integral Tourism Destination Planning in the Cusco Valley
Given the importance of sustainability planning and development issues in the tourism and hospitality industry, this paper applies the POTI (Integral Tourism Destination Planning) methodology, developed by GercInartur ...
Activity of the novel BCR kinase inhibitor IQS019 in preclinical models of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Background Pharmacological inhibition of B cell receptor (BCR) signaling has recently emerged as an effective approach in a wide range of B lymphoid neoplasms. However, despite promising clinical activity of the first ...
