MS 085 Guide to Donald J. Fernbach, MD Papers, 1932-2000

The Donald J. Fernbach, MD papers contain materials relating to his career in pediatric oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children\u27s Hospital. A significant amount of material comes from the Southwest Cancer Chemotherapy Study Group, of which Dr. Fernbach was a founder, and its successors the Southwest Oncology Group and Pediatric Oncology Group. The groups would meet, correspond, and collaborate on grants to conduct clinical trials for research and to improve patient care. See more at Donald J. Fernbach, MD Papers

IC 042 Gude to Texas Children\u27s Hospital Historical Archives, 1953-2003

Texas Children\u27s Hospital Historical Archives contains 10 cubic feet of processed material and 79 boxes of unprocessed material. The later is labeled as the TCH Historical Archives and arrived in the HRC in 2008. See more at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/ic-042

What Matters Most to Your Guests: An Exploratory Study of Online Reviews

An examination of over 95,000 reviews and ratings for 99 independent, high-end hotels and resorts highlights the importance of the hotel industry’s core product, namely, consistently excellent service supporting a comfortable, well-appointed room. Based on reviews and ratings posted on TripAdvisor, Expedia, and Booking.com, the analysis found that properties with the most consistent service also had the highest ratings, while hotels with inconsistent scores also had relatively low ratings. Quantitative analysis revealed that service and rooms were overwhelmingly the most important aspects of these high-end properties, while facilities, location, and amenities moved the meter far less. A qualitative analysis of the words used in the reviews again highlighted the essential nature of service and rooms, both for high-rated and low-rated properties. Top-rated reviews included such words as friendly, helpful, excellent, and beautiful, while words that appeared only in the low-rated reviews included didn’t, bathroom, front, desk, and price, hinting at issues that resulted in those lower ratings. The findings can be applied by management of both high- and low-rated hotels to avoid distractions and to focus on hotels’ fundamental purpose of providing excellent service and a good night’s sleep

Comparisons of some large scientific computers

In 1975, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began studies to assess the technical and economic feasibility of developing a computer having sustained computational speed of one billion floating point operations per second and a working memory of at least 240 million words. Such a powerful computer would allow computational aerodynamics to play a major role in aeronautical design and advanced fluid dynamics research. Based on favorable results from these studies, NASA proceeded with developmental plans. The computer was named the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulator (NAS). To help insure that the estimated cost, schedule, and technical scope were realistic, a brief study was made of past large scientific computers. Large discrepancies between inception and operation in scope, cost, or schedule were studied so that they could be minimized with NASA's proposed new compter. The main computers studied were the ILLIAC IV, STAR 100, Parallel Element Processor Ensemble (PEPE), and Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) computer. Comparison data on memory and speed were also obtained on the IBM 650, 704, 7090, 360-50, 360-67, 360-91, and 370-195; the CDC 6400, 6600, 7600, CYBER 203, and CYBER 205; CRAY 1; and the Advanced Scientific Computer (ASC). A few lessons learned conclude the report