Assessing primary healthcare services quality in Spain: managers vs. patients perceptions

This paper measures the perceptions of the service quality by both the users and the health centre managers in Spain. With this information, it was possible to calculate the size of Gap-6, proposed by Lewis of discrepancy among the customers' perceptions and the perceptions of health centre managers. Using factor analysis and multiple regressions, significant associations were found between the service quality dimensions and patient satisfaction. Implications and future research issues are discussed.     

Improving competitiveness through city marketing in Spanish hotels

The degree to which hotels can be competitive depends upon some very important factors, such as city promotion initiatives and city knowledge networks. The purpose of this study is to analyse and present how a city marketing procedure could become an effective tool for knowledge development and the competitiveness of Spanish hospitality hotels. Our findings support the view that in order to implement a marketing city programme oriented towards hotels, municipal managers need to provide and support knowledge creation networks. Furthermore, a hotel's size is significantly associated with levels of city promotion initiatives. Therefore, to consolidate marketing city results among small hotels, municipal managers need to reinforce the environment in which hotel managers operate and provide them with the means to survive in the context of a competitive knowledge-based economy.     

基于分位数回归的经济增长与城乡差距的关系研究

以人均地区生产总值的对数增长幅度来衡量经济增长,以城镇居民消费水平与农村居民消费水平的比例作为城乡收入差距衡量指标,通过建立不同分位数下的分位数回归模型,揭示在经济增长的不同水平下,经济增长对城乡差距影响的变化。结果表明：当经济的水平比较快速时,经济增长的幅度变大,从而导致贫富差距加大,财富集中到城市中,城乡差距的扩大。政府必须防止经济增长由偏快转为过热,对通货膨胀进行严格的控制,使城乡收入差距的缩小与经济增长和谐一致发展。     

基于XML的企业信息系统协同化研究

针对企业信息化建设中数据重复和信息孤岛等问题,研究了XML环境下结合SOAP、WSDL等Web Ser-vices技术实现企业异构系统/数据库间数据交换的方案。通过进行数据建模,将企业异构系统信息表述为标准的XML格式,通过SOAP封装、WSDL描述实现对信息的请求、响应和传输,解决数据格式不一致的难题,实现异构系统之间的通信,从而使不同应用的系统之间实现协同,实现企业分布式环境下的资源共享。     

A Recursive Protocol for Negotiating Contracts Under Non-monotonic Preference Structures

Negotiating contracts with multiple interdependent issues may yield non-monotonic preference spaces for the participating agents. These negotiations are specially challenging because of the complexity and dimension of the search space. Automated negotiation mechanisms designed and proven useful for monotonic utility spaces may fail in these negotiation scenarios. This paper presents a novel solution to the problem of automated multi-issue negotiations in the context of complex utility spaces. We seek to address the challenge of intractably large contract spaces and utility functions with multiple local optima in automated negotiation scenarios. A protocol for automated bilateral multi-attribute negotiation processes is proposed, in which the individual agents??preferences can be non-monotonic and discontinuous. The protocol is based on a recursive non-mediated bargaining mechanism, which involves two agents who simultaneously exchange proposals defined as regions within the negotiation space. An agreement on a region implies a new bargaining which is restricted to that region. This recursive process is governed by a set of rules which modulate the joint exploration of the negotiation space until an agreement is found or a deadline expires. The protocol is experimentally evaluated under monotonic and non-monotonic preference scenarios, confirming that the protocol is able to produce outcomes close to the Pareto frontier in acceptable negotiation time, outperforming previous approaches.     

Differences in Perceived Image of Fruit and Vegetables from a Specific Origin: The Moderating Role of Familiarity

Only a small number of works in the literature examines the role of familiarity in the perception of products from a specific origin, despite the importance of this variable in the formation of product image and its effects on consumer behavior. The current work aims to fill this gap in the literature by carrying out a cross-national analysis of consumers' image of fruit and vegetables that includes a defined origin. For this purpose, the authors examine the influence of product cues on the formation of a global image of the product, and considers the moderating role of familiarity in this relation. The results indicate that product familiarity has an effect on the relation between the product cues and the image perceived by the consumer, and that differences exist between the nationalities considered.     

某高校学生宿舍楼消防系统改造设计

学生宿舍楼消防系统的改造是当前许多高校必须解决的问题。以某高校学生宿舍楼为例,在充分考虑原有消防系统的基础上,结合相关法规、标准的要求,对原有消防系统的防火分区和防烟分区、安全疏散通道、疏散照明及灭火器配置进行了改造设计,增设了自动喷水灭火系统。通过改造,新消防系统可以有效防止火灾蔓延,减少人员疏散时间,从而保障学生宿舍楼内人员和财产安全。     

聚硅硫酸钛铁的特性及对乳化油的混凝性能研究

采用共聚法制备了新型绿色絮凝剂---聚硅硫酸钛铁（ PTFSiS ）,通过XRD 法、红外光谱法、粒度分析法和Zeta电位测定法对PTFSiS 进行了表征,并与聚硅硫酸钛（ PTS）和聚硅酸（ PS）进行了对比研究。研究结果表明：PTFSiS与PS相比具有更大的粒径和更强的电中和能力。聚硅酸与钛、铁的反应过程中形成了框架钛结构Ti-O-Si 和Fe-O-Si结构。通过XRD 图谱分析表明PTFSiS 中形成了新的物质Na3Fe（SO4）3·（H2O）3、Na2Ti（Si4O10）O 和 Na0．68Fe0．68Si0．32O2。采用烧杯实验对PTFSiS 去除模拟乳化油废水中的乳化油的混凝性能进行了研究。结果表明,最佳投加量为0．3 mmol/L（以钛离子和铁离子计）,最佳pH值为7．15时,浊度去除率和CODCr的去除率分别达到99．5％和99．9％。     

影视旅游者目的地形象感知及行为意向研究——以澳门为例

近年来,影视剧的热播引起观众蜂拥前往拍摄地旅游的情况已经由个别的、孤立的案例发展成具有一定规律和规模的现象．以澳门为研究背景,以影视旅游者目的地认知、情感形象和行为意向为研究中心并探讨他们之间的关系。同时还了解了目前与澳门相关的影视作品观看情况以及不同人口统计学特征的游客在影片观看上的分布差异。根据研究结论,提出针对影视旅游日后发展的建议,有助于认知澳门目前影视旅游发展的状况,以及目的地认知,情感形象是否与下一步的行为意向正向相关,为未来影视旅游产品和行业的发展提供更多建议和意见。