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The role of trip purpose and hotel star rating on guests’ satisfaction and WOM
© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to understand how guests’ trip purpose and hotel star rating influence the effects of the value for money perceived at hotels and service quality on guest satisfaction and word of mouth (WOM) recommendation. Design/methodology/approach: Using TripAdvisor, 25 Singaporean hotels were randomly selected for the study, which yielded hotel reviews from 2,040 respondents. Hierarchical and logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate the relationships proposed in the study. Findings: Results indicate significant differences between leisure and business guests’ perception of value for money and service quality at hotels with various star ratings. While perceived value for money and service quality were found as significant predictors for both leisure and business guests’ satisfaction and WOM, the effects were moderated by the hotel star rating. Despite the significant effect of hotel star rating on guest satisfaction, the study found no significant relationships between hotel star rating and WOM for leisure and business guests. Practical implications: The findings suggest that managers in the hotel industry should understand the purpose of guests’ trip and offer services based on their expectations. As the star rating of a hotel creates certain expectations for both leisure and business guests, providing an appropriate level of services and assuring value for money in accordance with the hotel rating contributes to guest satisfaction and WOM recommendation. Originality/value: This study contributes to the hospitality literature by investigating how hotel star rating moderates the relationship of value for money and service quality on leisure and business guests’ satisfaction and WOM recommendation
Travel Time Shifts due to Amplitude Modulation in Time-Distance Helioseismology
Correct interpretation of acoustic travel times measured by time-distance
helioseismology is essential to get an accurate understanding of the solar
properties that are inferred from them. It has long been observed that sunspots
suppress p-mode amplitude, but its implications on travel times has not been
fully investigated so far. It has been found in test measurements using a
'masking' procedure, in which the solar Doppler signal in a localized quiet
region of the Sun is artificially suppressed by a spatial function, and using
numerical simulations that the amplitude modulations in combination with the
phase-speed filtering may cause systematic shifts of acoustic travel times. To
understand the properties of this procedure, we derive an analytical expression
for the cross-covariance of a signal that has been modulated locally by a
spatial function that has azimuthal symmetry, and then filtered by a phase
speed filter typically used in time-distance helioseismology. Comparing this
expression to the Gabor wavelet fitting formula without this effect, we find
that there is a shift in the travel times, that is introduced by the amplitude
modulation. The analytical model presented in this paper can be useful also for
interpretation of travel time measurements for non-uniform distribution of
oscillation amplitude due to observational effects.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Ap
Helioseismic Ring Analysis of CME Source Regions
We apply the ring diagram technique to source regions of halo coronal mass
ejections (CMEs) to study changes in acoustic mode parameters before, during,
and after the onset of CMEs. We find that CME regions associated with a low
value of magnetic flux have line widths smaller than the quiet regions implying
a longer life-time for the oscillation modes. We suggest that this criterion
may be used to forecast the active regions which may trigger CMEs.Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Astrophys. Astr. Also available at
http://www2.nso.edu/staff/sushant/paper.htm
Radiative transfer effects on Doppler measurements as sources of surface effects in sunspot seismology
We show that the use of Doppler shifts of Zeeman sensitive spectral lines to
observe wavesn in sunspots is subject to measurement specific phase shifts
arising from, (i) altered height range of spectral line formation and the
propagating character of p mode waves in penumbrae, and (ii) Zeeman broadening
and splitting. We also show that these phase shifts depend on wave frequencies,
strengths and line of sight inclination of magnetic field, and the polarization
state used for Doppler measurements. We discuss how these phase shifts could
contribute to local helioseismic measurements of 'surface effects' in sunspot
seismology.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journal Letter
Effect of laser surface treatment on the corrosion and fatigue performance of aa5456-h116 alloys
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Variations in -Mode Parameters with Changing Onset-Time of a Large Flare
It is expected that energetic solar flares releasing large amount of energy
at the photosphere may be able to excite the acoustic (-) modes of
oscillations. We have determined the characteristic properties of mode
parameters by applying the ring diagram technique to 3-D power spectra obtained
for solar active region NOAA 10486 during the long duration energetic X17.2/4B
flare of October 28, 2003. Strong evidence of substantial increase in mode
amplitude and systematic variations in sub-surface flows, i.e., meridional and
zonal components of velocity, kinetic helicity, vorticity, is found from
comparison of the pre- to the post-flare phases.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
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