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Destination Attractiveness Drivers among Urban Hostel Tourists: An Analysis of Frustrators and Delighters

2015

This study is based on data from 679 tourists staying at hostel accommodation facilities in Zagreb, a propulsive city-break destination in Central Europe. Besides providing insight into the socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics of hostel tourists, this study uncovers determinant destination attributes influencing their perceptions of destination attractiveness. In particular, impact asymmetry analysis identified potential sources of delight and frustration among hostel tourists. Since the hostel tourist segment, as such, is almost completely unconsidered in contemporary tourism research, partly covered only by a few studies on youth travellers and backpackers, the results of thi…

Patrimonio culturale e tecnologia: un incontro ancora da valorizzare

2020

Today, many factors are driving cultural institutions to adopt digitization strategies. For some of them, as organizations in charge of monument care, historical or archaeological museums and heritage parks, this might be critical. Indeed, making available off-site experiences of heritage places, for instance by augmented reality and/or video games, fuels polyvalent and potentially contradictory dynamics. They lay at the intersection of three main dimensions: understanding how cultural heritage and technology interact; which attitudes people in charge of cultural heritage bear, and how tourist destinations are built and promoted. The paper combines information about the evolution of the lit…

BOOK REVIEWS: Bernard E. Harcourt , The Illusion of Free Markets; Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

2015

The review presents the book The Illusion of Free Markets; Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order describing the contents and showing its historiographical view on the link between the market and legal order.

Construction of Disjoint Virtual Backbones for Wireless Sensor Networks

2020

A wireless sensor network is a wireless network of sensors aimed at monitoring physical events. It has ingratiated itself into almost all areas of human endeavors. Data dissemination in these networks is quite challenging and is generally accomplished by flooding. But flooding introduces broadcast storm problem due from implosion and overlap. To overcome this, topology management can prescribe a virtual backbone network to which routing is confined. In this paper we propose an algorithm that constructs multiple disjoint virtual backbone networks, using only nodes' locations. The disjointedness makes routing more robust and the network exploitation energy efficient. Simulations show our algo…

Comparaison Balanced Scorecard - Navigator

2008

Cet article a pour objectif de décrire et de comparer deux modèles de tableaux de bord stratégique : le modèle Anglo-Saxon, connu sous le nom de Balanced Scorecard et le modèle Scandinave, dont l'application la plus connue a été développé au sein de l'entreprise Skandia sous le nom de Navigator.

LES TABLEAUX DE BORD DU CAPITAL INTELLECTUEL

2009

Cet article a pour objectif de présenter et d'analyser les tableaux de bord du capital intellectuel qui constituent un modèle alternatif au Balanced Scorecard. Dans une première partie, nous retraçons les origines et les fondements des tableaux de bord du capital intellectuel. Puis dans une seconde partie, nous décrivons les différentes façons d'appréhender le capital intellectuel pour dans une troisième partie analyser des exemples de tableaux de bord du capital intellectuel.

Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia. Vol. 25, N. 1 (Spring-Summer 2017)

2017

Finances and credit: problems, conceptions, management

2001

Economic situation in the Baltic States is investigated, in particular the development of economics in transition is analysed in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. There are studied the following details: Monetary and exchange rate policy; Crediting and bank management; Development of securities market; Management of taxes and finance; Development of accounting policy; Pension reform perspective etc.

Autonomous Operation of Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems—Optimal Storage Design and Economic Potential

2021

Global warming requires a changeover from fossil fuel based to renewable energy sources on the electrical supply side and electrification of the demand side. Due to the transient nature of renewables and fluctuating demand, buffer capacities are necessary to compensate for supply/demand imbalances. Battery energy storage systems are promising. However, the initial costs are high. Repurposing electric vehicle batteries can reduce initial costs. Further, storage design optimization could significantly improve costs. Therefore, a battery control algorithm was developed, and a simulation study was performed to identify the optimal storage design and its economic potential. The algorithm used is…

Economic impact of medium-scale battery storage systems in presence of flexible electricity tariffs for end-user applications

2012

This article addresses the question if it is cost-effective to use medium-scale battery storage systems for time-of-use (TMO) energy cost applications at a consumer level, assuming flexible electricity tariffs in the Italian electricity market. TMO application allows customers to reduce their electricity bill charging the storage when off-peak time periods are applied and discharge it during on-peak periods, when electricity energy prices are high. The analysis is carried out taking into account three different electrochemical storage technologies. The economical comparison shows that, at the current costs of storage technologies and at the electricity tariffs currently offered in Italy, th…