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    Exploring the Ways of Providing High Service Quality at Low Cost in the Economy Hotel Sector

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    2020 dissertation for MSc. Industry experts uniformly agree that economy hotel sector can be competitive and profitable only if it provides high-quality service at low operating costs. Several researchers, however, believe that this is not possible because constraint models state that low cost always results in low quality and that high quality always requires high investment. A solution would benefit both customers and operators, but most of the existing studies in this field are decades old and often contradict each other. This limitation in the academic literature supports the need for new, up-to-date research. The aim of this study is to find out whether it is possible to provide high service quality at low cost in the economy hotel sector, and if so, how. The secondary data source for the quantitative analysis is Booking.com's extensive database, which contains live data of 712,322 hotels and their more than 100 million guest reviews. This study has revealed that it is possible to provide high quality at low cost while respecting the statements of the constraint models: The hotels need to provide core services at high quality to achieve high perceived quality and reduce or eliminate all non-core services to achieve low-cost operation. The study discusses in detail what the target customers consider core services. Although this analysis resulted in several obvious findings (for example, free Wi-Fi is a core service), it also provides some surprising conclusions

    Subaqueous volcaniclastic successions in the Middle Triassic of Western Hungary

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    Szent-Györgyi Albert az egyetempedagógiáról

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    Az európai egyetem klasszikus eszméje a tudományos kutatás, az oktatás és általában a gondolkodás szabadságára épül. Az egyetem professzorai ennél fogva nemcsak saját szakterületüket művelik, hanem érdeklődnek a dolgozószobájuk, laboratóriumuk falain túl zajló egyetemi élet alapvető kérdései iránt is. Foglalkoztatják őket olyan alapvető kérdések is, mint például az oktatás, képzés és a nevelés lehetősége az univerzitász falai között. Az efféle problémák egy tudós életében többnyire akkor kerülnek a tágabb publikum számára közlésre szánt témák körébe, amikor valamilyen magasabb vezetői megbízatást, például dékáni vagy rektori tisztséget töltenek be

    Idegennyelv-tudás vagy idegennyelv-sejtés?

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    Amivel az eredményesebb nyelvtudáshoz vezető utat le lehet rövidíteni, az a tudatosítás és a támaszkodás az anyanyelvre. Ez a két, időt, energiát és pénzt is megtakarító lehetőség közös tőről fakad: a tudatosítás feltételezi az anyanyelven szerzett nyelvi ismereteket, az anyanyelvbe való belelátás képességét; az anyanyelvre való támaszkodás pedig eleve tudatosságot tételez fel

    Neurotransmitters and receptors in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord

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    Modulation of the sensory input can occur within the dorsal horn of the spinal cord where the primary afferent fibers synapse with neurons that transmit to the higher centers. The transmission of the sensory information begins with activation of the peripheral receptors of primary afferent neurons whose cell bodies lie within the dorsal root ganglia and whose central terminals project to secondary neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Several neurotransmitters and a large variety of receptors have been found in the superficial laminae of the dorsal horn. The present work reviews the major classes of transmitters and receptors that have been implicated in the transmission and modulation of spinal afferent and pain processing. The role of excitatory and inhibitory amino acids, tachykinin and opioid peptides, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), nociceptin and nocistatin, biogenic amines, acetylcholine, ATP, nitric oxide as well as capsaicin and vanilloid receptors will be discussed along with the most recent developments in the field. It seems probable that transmission of the somatosensory information from the primary afferent fibers to the secondary dorsal horn neurons depends on the balance between the excitatory effects of excitatory amino acids and the inhibitory actions of several other transmitter systems
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