Yield management research through the analysis of scientific journals: preliminary results

The aim of this paper is to analyse articles relating to Yield Management published in a selection of journals at international level during the period 1996-2002. These will then subsequently be classified in accordance with List of Tourism Characteristic Products (drawn up by the World Tourism Organization and included in the Tourism Satellite Account), with a view to determining, on the one hand, which sectors data on Yield Management application is available for and, on the other, exploring new sectors that can be studied and researched. This paper forms part of a broader based paper which analyses publications relating to Yield Management in texts and monographs. The general goal of this line of research is to offer future researchers a methodical and exhaustive analysis of bibliography and research work done on the subject

Concerned but Confused: University students\u27 knowledge and perceptions of climate change, and how they plan to address it in their future personal and professional lives.

This article explores university students’ knowledge and concern level towards climate change, as well as potential roles they see themselves playing as teachers in a world increasingly affected by its impacts. A survey of 135 university students was conducted at SUNY Cortland, a medium-size state university in Upstate New York. Results show that these university students (among them pre-service teachers) are highly concerned about the potential impacts of climate change, especially for future generations. While they demonstrate some accurate knowledge of climate change, many hold many misconceptions about its causes and consequences. In articulating how they can or do respond to lessening their own impacts, they mostly prioritize what many researchers consider low-impact mitigative actions. Concerning education, our sample of pre-service teachers think climate change education is important and they plan to address it in their classrooms by transferring information to students about climate change. However, their gaps in knowledge raise questions about how accurately they will be transferring this information to students, as well as what crucial pieces of climate change education they will not be able to provide students given their current understanding of the issue. The article concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the current ways higher education institutions incorporate climate change and some suggestions to how they might approach teaching about climate change differently to have a longer lasting impact

Functional characterization of thioredoxin 3 (TRX-3), a Caenorhabditis elegans intestine-specific thioredoxin

Jiménez-Hidalgo, María et al.Thioredoxins are a class of evolutionarily conserved proteins that have been demonstrated to play a key role in many cellular processes involving redox reactions. We report here the genetic and biochemical characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans TRX-3, the first metazoan thioredoxin with an intestine-specific expression pattern. By using green fluorescent protein reporters we have found that TRX-3 is expressed in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus of intestinal cells, with a prominent localization at the apical membrane. Although intestinal function, reproductive capacity, longevity, and resistance of trx-3 loss-of-function mutants to many stresses are indistinguishable from those of wild-type animals, we have observed a slight reduction in size and a minor reduction in the defecation cycle timing of trx-3 mutants. Interestingly, trx-3 is induced upon infection by Photorhabdus luminescens and Candida albicans, and TRX-3 overexpression provides a modest protection against these pathogens. Together, our data indicate that TRX-3 function in the intestine is dispensable for C. elegans development but may be important to fight specific bacterial and fungal infections. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by the NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440) and the Japanese National Bioresource Project of the MEXT, Japan. We thank Howard Baylis, Keith Nehrke, Bart Braeckman, and Jim McGhee for sharing worm strains and plasmids. We are grateful to María Jesús Rodriguez-Palero and Fernando Calahorro for excellent technical assistance, to Cristina Méndez-Vidal for help with qPCR, to Helen M. Crook-McMahon for help with PRDX-2 blots, and to Britta Spanier for critical reading of the manuscript. A.M.-V. was supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Projects PI050065 and PI080557, cofinanced by the Fondo Social Europeo) and Junta de Andalucía (Projects P07-CVI-02697 and P08-CVI-03629), Spain. The work in the laboratory of P.S., a member of the NordForsk Nordic C. elegans Network, was supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council. C.L.K. was supported by the INSERM, the CNRS, and the French Ministry of Research. E.L.B. and E.A.V. were supported by the MRC. J.R.P. was supported by the Plan de Apoyo a la Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Investigación de la Universidad de Jaén (Project UJA2011/12/55). J.C. was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant BFU2010-21794) and the Rioja Salud Foundation. E.L. and A.G.S. were supported by grants from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (PI080642 and PI110120) and Ramón y Cajal Program to E.L. (Spanish government).Peer Reviewe

Marco conceptual del yield management como técnica de gestión de la capacidad y la demanda en organizaciones de servicios

Con este trabajo se pretende contribuir a la difusión del Yield Management como una técnica de demostrada rentabilidad. Se define como técnica que, aplicada por ejemplo a hoteles, permite vender la habitación correcta, al precio correcto, al cliente adecuado y en el momento oportuno. El trabajo encuadro en primer lugar al Yield Management dentro de las distintas políticas de gestión de la capacidad y la demanda, después explícita sus fundamentos teóricos y formula cuá1 es su campo de aplicación. Por último, presenta los primeros resollados de una investigación sobre la aplicación de la técnica en el sector hotelero.The aim of this paper is to contribute towards the diffusion of Yield Management as a technique that has been proved to deliver. It is defined as a technique that, when applied to hotels, for example, permits the right room to be sold at the right price, to the right customer, and at the right time. The paper begins by explaining whereYield Management fits in amongst the array of capacity and demand management policies, and then goes on to detail the theory on which it is based and to formulate its sphere of action. Finally, the first results from a study of the technique applied to the hotel industry are set out

Pobreza y desarrollo económico: una Aproximación al análisis institucional

Este artículo presenta una revisión teórica del análisis de la pobreza en el contexto deldesarrollo económico. El objetivo de este documento es explorar los elementos contextualesdel origen de la pobreza, haciendo énfasis en los elementos institucionales referidosa la economía mundial. Con la utilización de diferentes fuentes de datos estadísticos conbase en el Banco Mundial, datos nacionales de Colombia y América Latina se establecenelementos de análisis de hechos estilizados. En la parte estadística se utilizan correlacionesbásicas de las principales variables relacionadas con la pobreza. Este documento noutiliza análisis complejo, ni enfatiza la importancia de una metodología en particular, alcontrario utiliza una argumentación sustentada en hechos comunes. A partir de indicadoresestadísticos presentados de forma grafica, correlaciones pares se muestran los elementosesenciales de la naturaleza de la pobreza

Triplet Excited States as a Source of Relevant (Bio)Chemical Information

[EN] The properties of triplet excited states are markedly medium-dependent, which turns this species into valuable tools for investigating the microenvironments existing in protein binding pockets. Monitoring of the triplet excited state behavior of drugs within transport proteins (serum albumins and alpha(1)-acid glycoproteins) by laser flash photolysis constitutes a valuable source of information on the strength of interaction, conformational freedom and protection from oxygen or other external quenchers. With proteins, formation of spatially confined triplet excited states is favored over competitive processes affording ionic species. Remarkably, under aerobic atmosphere, the triplet decay of drug@protein complexes is dramatically longer than in bulk solution. This offers a convenient dynamic range for assignment of different triplet populations or for stereochemical discrimination. In this review, selected examples of the application of the laser flash photolysis technique are described, including drug distribution between the bulk solution and the protein cavities, or between two types of proteins, detection of drug-drug interactions inside proteins, and enzyme-like activity processes mediated by proteins. Finally, protein encapsulation can also modify the photoreactivity of the guest. This is illustrated by presenting an example of retarded photooxidation.Financial support by Spanish Government (CTQ2013-47872-C2-1-P) and Generalitat Valenciana (Prometeo II/2013/005) is gratefully acknowledged.Jiménez Molero, MC.; Miranda Alonso, MÁ. (2014). Triplet Excited States as a Source of Relevant (Bio)Chemical Information. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 14(23):2734-2742. https://doi.org/10.2174/1568026614666141216100907S27342742142

Suicide in Colombia: an assessment of population interest using Google Trends

Suicidio en Colombia, una evaluación de su interés poblacional con el empleo de Google TrendsSuicide in Colombia: an assessment of population interest using Google Trend

Pobreza y desarrollo económico: una aproximación al análisis institucional

Este artículo presenta una revisión teórica del análisis de la pobreza en el contexto del desarrollo económico. El objetivo de este documento es explorar los elementos contextuales del origen de la pobreza, haciendo énfasis en los elementos institucionales referidos a la economía mundial. Con la utilización de diferentes fuentes de datos estadísticos con base en el Banco Mundial, datos nacionales de Colombia y América Latina se establecen elementos de análisis de hechos estilizados. En la parte estadística se utilizan correlaciones básicas de las principales variables relacionadas con la pobreza. Este documento no utiliza análisis complejo, ni enfatiza la importancia de una metodología en particular, al contrario utiliza una argumentación sustentada en hechos comunes. A partir de indicadores estadísticos presentados de forma grafica, correlaciones pares se muestran los elementos esenciales de la naturaleza de la pobrezaPobreza; medición de la pobreza; pobreza y desarrollo económico; economía institucionaly pobreza

Tasa de diadococinesia en ninos tipicos hablantes de espanol de entre 10 anos y 13 anos 11 meses de edad: datos normativos

64 p.La tasa de diadococinesia se define como el estudio de la integridad del control motor de las funciones corporales a través de la ejecución de movimientos alternados con rapidez (Williams & Stackhouse, 2000). Una alteración de este parámetro indicará una alteración en el sistema nervioso central, particularmente en el sistema extrapiramidal y piramidal, en el ganglio basal, cerebelo y/o en la función de la motoneurona periférica, lo que puede resultar en alguna patología. El objetivo de este estudio es la realización de los datos normativos de tasa de diadococinesia en niños entre 120 y 167 meses de edad. Se estudiaron once parámetros: DDKavp, DDKavr, DDKsdp, DDKcvp, DDKjit, DDKavi, DDKsdi, DDKcvi, DDKmxa, DDKava, y DDKsla. Para esto se utilizó el Software Motor Speech Profile, modelo 5141 de Kay Elemetrics. Con respecto a los resultados, se obtiene la norma deseada, aunque los valores encontrados en ocasiones son muy homogeneos e incluso en otras muy diferentes que no permiten reconocer un patrón de comportamiento. Estas dificultades podrían mejorarse con la realización de otros estudios de características similares y con más sujetos en la muestra. Además, es importante la realización de este tipo de estudio en sujetos con patología para poder realizar comparaciones