Developing energy conservation and carbon reduction indicators for the hotel industry in Taiwan

This study develops and weights energy conservation and carbon reduction (ECCR) indicators for the hotel industry in Taiwan to create an instrument to help address climate change. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior hotel managers, environmental specialists, and government officials to identify the preliminary ECCR framework. An expert panel then was invited to review the structure of ECCR criteria and the compiled criteria in a structure for item modification. An analytic network process questionnaire survey was employed to determine the relative weights of the criteria. The data analysis reveals seven categories in the ECCR framework: communication and participation, top management commitment, energy, water, waste, building, and purchasing. A total of 32 indicators were identified and prioritized in terms of their relative importance to ECCR contributions. The results of this study suggest that the success of ECCR implementation depends primarily on management support and staff engagement. Hotel operators can improve their environmental management by initiating ECCR practices based on the proposed ECCR indicators.     

Impact of financial/economic crisis on demand for hotel rooms in Hong Kong

The main objectives of this study are (1) to identify the factors that influence the demand for hotel rooms in Hong Kong and (2) to generate quarterly forecasts of that demand to assess the impact of the ongoing financial/economic crisis. The demand for four types of hotel room from the residents of nine major origin countries is considered, and forecasts are generated from the first quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2015. Econometric approaches are employed to calculate the demand elasticities and their corresponding confidence intervals, which are then used to generate interval demand predictions. The empirical results reveal that the most important factors in determining the demand for hotel rooms in Hong Kong are the economic conditions (measured by income level) in the origin markets, the price of the hotel rooms and the ‘word of mouth’ effect. Demand for High Tariff A and Medium Tariff hotel rooms is estimated to have experienced negative annual growth in 2009 due to the influence of the financial/economic crisis, whereas that for High Tariff B hotel rooms is thought to have grown in 2009 after having decreased in 2008. The demand for tourist guesthouse rooms is expected to be the least affected by the crisis. Overall demand is predicted to recover gradually from 2010 onwards.     

Assessment of the Partnership Quality between Travel Agencies and Health Care Organizations on the International Medical Tourism Market in Taiwan

The medical tourism literature lacks insight into related issues of these types of partnerships. Those that integrate multiple perspectives into one research framework are especially rare. This study evaluated and compared the influence of external environment uncertainty, trust, and resource dependence perspectives on the quality of interorganizational partnerships in the international medical tourism market and quantified these elements using external environment uncertainty assessment on the international medical tourism development. The research sample was based on a survey from 161 travel agency managers in Taiwan. This study found that external environment uncertainty has direct negative impact on trust and resource dependence has a positive influence on interorganizational partnership. Moreover, trust has a significant impact on partnership quality while resource dependence does not. Therefore, medical travel agents should extend their network of trustworthy health care organization partners in order to improve performance, decrease their self-risk, collect information, and avoid missed opportunities.     

浙江产业结构与就业结构相关性分析

从浙江省三大产业产值与就业人口的发展现状出发,定量分析产业结构与就业结构的相关性,为政府决策提供一定的依据。     

基于车辆数据的k近邻联合概率数据关联算法

在交通场景中采用一些预警措施能够有效地减少交通事故发生。例如,对车辆轨迹进行跟踪并预测车辆的驾驶行为,就是一个常用的预警方法。在对车辆进行跟踪的过程中,数据关联是很重要的部分,它可以对车辆的观测点和轨迹进行关联,从而更新车辆的轨迹,完成跟踪过程。在此背景下,提出了一种新的数据关联算法,即k近邻联合概率数据关联算法(k Nearest Neighbor-Joint Probability Data Association,kNN-JPDA)。实验结果表明,该算法能够较好地解决在交通场景下车辆数据的数据关联问题,在精度以及运行效率方面都有所提高。     

简论人才流动政策的调整

人才单向流动不利于经济社会科学发展,规范和引导政府、用人单位、中介组织和人才的行为,建立互相衔接的社会保险制度,改革档案管理制度,打破身份界限,改革住房制度,建立统一的人才市场,完善人才中介服务等,确保人才“全方位自由流动”,实现人才与组织及其工作岗位的合理配置,是推动经济社会可持续发展的根本要求。     

基于共生原理的小额信贷的社会资本效应探析

借乡村银行的样本效应,将基于共生融资机制的生态群眼光聚焦于资本的社会性观察,必须实现从信誉到合约的扩展.要通过共生单元、共生环境和共生媒介的交互作用,合力构建对称互惠共生的融资机制.     

洪河自然保护区杨桦林植物多样性及保护

杨桦林是洪河自然保护区常见的次生林,在不同的立地条件下单独形成山杨或白桦纯林,也可二者混交形成杨桦林,为过渡林相,在有种源或人工引入红松的情况下,将逐渐恢复成地带性物红松针阔混交林,现存面积673．41hm^2,占林地面积的40％,组成植物153种,隶属于51科104属。     

对外贸易对中国经济增长的影响机制研究

利用VECM模型和时间序列横截面数据模型,从资本积累和提高生产效率两个角度从发,分析了对外贸易影响中国经济增长的主要方式,一些"公认"的增长传导机制在中国的存在和发展,以及对外贸易对中国经济增长的影响机制等.     

陕西省龙草坪林业局森林碳汇价值评析

分析了森林碳汇的基础理论,阐述了森林碳汇价值的估算方法,对陕西省龙草坪林业局的森林碳汇进行了测算并展望了其意义及应用前景。研究可为评价森林生态效益、探讨森林碳汇融资提供理论依据和参考价值。