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Раст и развој на хотелските синџири и можни стратегии за влез на македонскиот пазар
Get PDFХотелската индустрија е една од најстарите индустрии во светот. Различниот економски развој на регионите во различни периоди доведува до разлики и во развојот на хотелската индустрија ширум светот, карактеризирајќи ја како разновидна, иновативна и значајна. Меѓу другото, хотелската индустрија секогаш е опишувана и како индустрија со релативно ниски бариери за влез на странските пазари, а со предностите на глобализацијата денес индустријата е во нејзината зрела фаза со изразена интензивна конкурентност, поради што најголемиот раст се случува на интернационално ниво. Преку стратегиите за експанзија, франшизинг, менаџерски договор, стратешки алијанси, аквизиции и заеднички вложувања, хотелските синџири се водечки лидери во хотелската индустрија на светскиот хотелски пазар. Целта на ова истражување е да се оцени настапот на хотелските синџири на македонскиот пазар, нивниот придонес за проширување на хоризонтите на хотелската индустрија во целост, како и нивното влијание врз туризмот на државата. Македонскиот хотелски пазар е уште еден од многуте на кои хотелските синџири се присутни и иако релативно млад се карактеризира со стабилен потенцијал за раст и развој и ниски бариери за настап.
Клучни зборови: хотелска индустрија, хотелски пазар, франшизинг, менаџерски договор, стратешки алијанси, аквизиции, заеднички вложувања, стратегии за експанзија
Ep. #012 - Natasha Myers
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.It’s all about plants on this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast. Our guide is anthropologist Natasha Myers, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory at York University (https://natashamyers.wordpress.com) and author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University Press, 2015). We talk about Natasha’s work in savannah ecosystems millennia in the making, how to sniff out chemical atmospheres and queer environmental monitoring practices. Natasha explains how plants conduct inquiry in their worlds, their sense and sentience, how they both catalyze and epitomize ecological relations. We discuss how plants trouble human notions of subjectivity, the possibility a plant-based phenomenology, end-of-time botanical tourism in Singapore, and whether gardening can be a redemptive practice. Natasha envisions plants as photosynthetic world-makers and tells us that if we humans want to thrive, our plants needs to thrive too. It’s time to embrace the Planthropocene
Atmospheric mineral dust emission and climatological variables for Etosha Pan, Namibia (2000-2022)
No full textCSV data files containing records of mineral dust plume events (dust point source locations lat/long, start and end time, duration, plume movement direction, and sensor used for detection), extrapolated monthly, seasonal and annual dust plume event and dust days (i.e. count of days in which a dust plume was observed) and dust optical depth (DOD) data, and associated records of meteorological and hydrological variables for dust plume events (i.e. 10 m wind speed, lake area extents, catchment precipitation totals and specific source point surface wetting frequencies by precipitation and ephemeral flooding, and El Niño Southern Oscillation [ENSO 3.4] and South Indian Ocean Dipole [SIOD] index values) for Etosha Pan, Namibia for the analysis period from July 1999 to January 2023.
All datasets are readable using CSV file viewer software.
Dust plume event data were analysed manually by the author Natasha S. Wallum. Data used for detection were sourced from Terra and Aqua satellites MODIS level 1b and Aerosol data acquired from the Atmospheric Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), located in the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland (https://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/) and SEVIRI data procured from the EUMETSAT Data Store (https://data.eumetsat.int/search?query=). Analysis of SEVIRI imagery utilised the Clear Sky Differencing (CSD) algorithm developed by Jon Murray and colleagues (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JD025221).
Lake area extent data were derived by density thresholding of near-infrared (NIR) reflectance data from the MODIS Terra satellite obtained from NASA’s LAADS DAAC data portal (https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/) and verified using Level-2 (8-day) images collected from Landsat 5 TM (1984–2012) and Landsat 8 OLI (2013 – present day) sensors were acquired through the USGS Earth Explorer data portal (www.earthexplorer.com).
The contributing catchment (Cuvelai-Etosha Basin) was derived from the HydroBASINS (Lehner and Grill, 2013) catchment database (https://hydrosheds.org/products/hydrobasins), and this area was used to derive daily precipitation inputs for 2000–2022 (July – June hydrological year) from The Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM (GPM-IMERG) and The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) gridded time-series of precipitation available from the Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/).
These data were augmented by limited monthly precipitation records (2000–2022) from 10 local weather stations (Mahenene, Ondjiva, Namacunde, Oshaambelo, Ogongo, Ondangwa, Okashana, Okapya, Okaukuejo, and Mannheim) provided by the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL; https://sasscal.org/) and continuous rain gauge measurements recorded at Windpoort located in close proximity to Etosha Pan within the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin.
Near-surface (10 m) wind speeds (m/s) and cubed wind speed anomaly data were derived from ERA5-Land reanalysis model data product available from the Copernicus Climate Change Service Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/).
Surface wetting frequencies and time since wetting for dust event source points were calculated by the author Natasha S. Wallum using ArcGIS Pro (education licence on behalf of the University of Oxford).
Global climate indices of SST anomalies data (ENSO 3.4 and SIOD) were obtained from the Climate Diagnostics Centre (CDC) online archives (http://psl.noaa.gov/data/climateindices) and the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) site maintained by the Frontier Research System for Global Change (FRSGC)/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Climate Variations Research Program (http://www.jamstec.go.jp)
Целовечерен концерт „Бисери на музичката литература“ на Наташа Трбојевиќ и Златка Митева во ДМУ „Тодор Скаловски - Тетоец“ во Тетово
Get PDFНа овој концерт се изведени композиции за соло пијано и флејта и пијано од германски и француски композитори.
Програма: Louis Ganne - Andante et skerzo, L.van Beethoven- 32 Variationen c-moll, Philippe Gaubert - Fantasie pour Fleute et Piano, R.Shumann - Papillons op.
Целовечерен концерт „Бисери на мизичката литература“ на Наташа Трбојевиќ и Златка Митева во Музичко училиште „Боро Џони“ во Струмица
Get PDFНа овој концерт се изведени композиции за соло пијано и флејта и пијано од германски и француски композитори.
Програма: Louis Ganne - Andante et skerzo, L.van Beethoven- 32 Variationen c-moll, Philippe Gaubert - Fantasie pour Fleute et Piano, R.Shumann - Papillons op.
Hotel chains entering the Macedonian market
Get PDFHotel industry is characterized as one of the oldest, diverse, innovative, and important industries around the world. Given the low entry barriers for global markets, it is also highly attractive, and its greatest growth happens on international level. Hotel chains are the leaders in hotel industry using franchise, managerial contract, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and joint venture, as an expansion strategies. The main goal of this article is to evaluate the entry and presence of international hotel chains on the Macedonian market, their contribution and effect. Even though young, the hotel market in Macedonia is with stable potential for growth and development, and with low entry barriers.
Keywords- Expansion strategies; hotel industry; entry strategies; hotel chain; hotel market; franchise; managerial contract; strategic alliance; mergers and acquisitions; joint venture; strategy for expansio
Theories of Time and Space
No full textPoet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Theories of Time and Space," April 9, 2005, around Gulfport, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006.
Trethewey's poem "Elegy for the Native Guards" is also available on Southern Spaces
Elegy for the Native Guards
No full textPoet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Elegy for the Native Guards," April 9, 2005, on Ship Island, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006.
Trethewey's poem "Theories of Time and Space" is also available on Southern Spaces
Poverty deconcentration, housing mobility, and the construction of recent US housing policy: a discourse analysis of the policy-making process
No full textThis study seeks to answer how and why poverty deconcentration and housing mobility have dominated recent housing policy discourse and produced the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program as HUD’s primary housing initiative in the 1990-2000 period. Through the examination of the policy discourse imbuing MTO I attempt to elucidate power relations and the role of elites in cultivating the housing mobility discourse. In addition, I demonstrate the hegemonic processes through which the dominant discourse proliferates. Employing a postpositivist approach to policy analysis, I examine the process of policy deliberation to expose the deliberative and discursive mechanisms through which MTO was engendered. Towards this end, the study explores the process, nature, and dynamics of policy deliberations at HUD to understand how federal policies are formed particularly with regard to embedded power dynamics and democratic processes. By illustrating the discursive practices that produced MTO, I uncover the politics, assumptions and frames through which HUD views poverty concentration, housing mobility, and voucher recipients. By depicting the evolutionary (genealogical) stages of MTO through a frame-critical discourse analysis, this study delimits the empirical findings produced through the demonstration. To that end I employ Fischer’s logic of policy evaluation and elucidate four interrelated discourses, which “extend from concrete empirical questions pertinent to a particular situation up to the abstract normative issues concerning a way of life” (1995:18). Accordingly, I produce an overall analysis of MTO, and offer suggestions on how the demonstration could have been structured or delineated differently, and what alternative assumptions or frames might have led to different analytical results.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Natasha Ona Turs
The Private Cost of Long-Term Care in Canada: Where You Live Matters
Get PDFCanadians expect the same access to health care whether they are rich or poor, and wherever they live, often without direct charge at the point of service. However, we find that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the country, and within provinces, we find substantial variation, depending on income level, marital status, and, in Quebec alone, on assets owned. A non-married person with average income would pay more than twice as much in the Atlantic provinces as in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta.long-term care, private cost
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