An evaluation of websites quality factors in agro travel and ecotourism

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Petros Lathiras ◽  
Anastasia Zopidou ◽  
John Mylonakis ◽  
Panayiotis Tahinakis ◽  
Nikolaos Protogeros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Electronic Trade ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Quality Ratings ◽  
Information Interaction ◽  
Medium Quality ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Personal Accounts

Tourism is an information intensive industry and as a service industry, information is the most significant quality factor for the industry. E-tourism is part of electronic trade that includes the fastest developing technologies that assist to the hospitality and tourism strategic planning and management. The aim of this paper is to analyze and compare the quality of 3 Internet sites and detecting their strong and weak points by analyzing quality into its constituent dimensions. Research was carried out by personal interviews and via electronic mails to a sample of 413 persons and internet users, out of which 157 responded. Statistical analysis included simple and multiple comparisons ANOVA and t-tests. Research detected some medium quality ratings, as well as, some more positive evaluations of certain individual factors. The Internet sites that collected the highest ratings are Agrotravel (5.32), Guest inn (5.08) and Ecotourism (4.26). Elements considered important in all three web portals are the lack of interaction facilities and conversation sections and personalized options with user personal accounts. Emphasis must be paid on the design, information, interaction and overall quality of a web site.

scholarly journals Yield and Quality of Spinach Cultivars for Greenhouse Production in Oklahoma

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Brandenberger ◽  
Todd Cavins ◽  
Mark Payton ◽  
Lynda Wells ◽  
Tina Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Spinacia Oleracea ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Leaf Color ◽  
Greenhouse Production ◽  
Yield And Quality ◽  
Quality Ratings ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Production Cycles ◽  
Time Required

Greenhouse spinach production is an alternative to fruiting vegetables produced in the greenhouse because it allows for multiple short-duration production cycles and a much faster economic return. Ten spinach (Spinacia oleracea) cultivars were evaluated for yield and quality using greenhouse float bed production techniques in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006. Time required for production was 52 days in Fall 2005 and 37 days in Spring 2006. Highest yields in Fall 2005 were 2093, 1996, 1956, 1920, and 1884 g·m−2 for ‘Olympia’, ‘Samish’, ‘Padre’, ‘Bolero’, and ‘F91-415’, respectively. ‘F91-415’ and ‘Bolero’ were the highest yielding cultivars in Spring 2006 with yields of 1649 and 1560 g·m−2, respectively. Bolting ratings were recorded in both tests and only ‘Samish’ had any bolting in Spring 2006 and none in Fall 2005. Quality ratings for leaf color and foliage mass were recorded in Spring 2006 with ‘Samish’, ‘Padre’, and ‘Cypress’ having the highest quality ratings. Color factors, including lightness, hue, and vividness, varied in Fall 2005 but not in Spring 2006. Based on yield and quality factors, the authors recommend further commercial trials of ‘Olympia’, ‘Samish’, ‘Padre’, and ‘F91-415’ for fall greenhouse production and ‘F91-415’ and ‘Padre’ for spring production.

scholarly journals Measurement Methods Used to Assess the School Food Environment: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan O’Halloran ◽  
Gabriel Eksteen ◽  
Mekdes Gebremariam ◽  
Laura Alston
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
School Food ◽  
Quality Ratings ◽  
Group Methods ◽  
Medium Quality ◽  
School Food Environment ◽  
Primary Focus

Children consume approximately half of their total daily amount of energy at school. Foods consumed are often energy-dense, nutrient-poor. The school food environment represents an effective setting to influence children’s food choices when dietary habits are established and continue to track into adulthood. The aim of this review was to: (1) group methods used for assessing the school food environment according to four food environment dimensions: Physical, economic, socio-cultural and policy and (2) assess the quality of the methods according to four criteria: Comprehensiveness, relevance, generalizability and feasibility. Three databases were searched, and studies were used to assess food and beverages provided at school canteens, tuck shops or cafeterias were included. The review identified 38 global studies (including 49 methods of measuring the food environment). The physical environment was the primary focus for 47% of articles, aspects of policy environment was assessed by 37% articles and a small number of studies assessed the economic (8%) and socio cultural (8%) environment. Three methods were rated ‘high’ quality and seven methods received ‘medium’ quality ratings. The review revealed there are no standardized methods used to measure the school food environment. Robust methods to monitor the school food environment across a range of diverse country contexts is required to provide an understanding of obesogenic school environments.

scholarly journals Influence of Information Product Quality on Informing Users: A Web Portal Context

10.28945/3570 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 381-409
Author(s):  
Junghyun Nam
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Information Product ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Information Products

Web portals have been used as information products to deliver personalized, feature-rich, and flexible information needs to Internet users. However, all portals are not equal. Most of them have relatively a small number of visitors, while a few capture the majority of surfers. This study seeks to uncover the factors that contribute the perceived quality of a general portal. Based on 21 factors derived from an extensive literature review on Information Product Quality (IPQ), web usage, and media use, an experimental study was conducted to identify the factors that are perceived by web portal users as most relevant. The literature categorizes quality factors of an information product in three dimensions: information, physical, and service. This experiment suggests a different clustering of factors: Content relevancy, Communication interactiveness, Information currency, and Instant gratification. The findings in this study will help developers find a more customer-oriented approach to developing high-traffic portals.

Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan Terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan di Kantor Perusahaan Umum Badan Urusan Logistik Kota Sampit Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Masrukin Masrukin ◽  
Hermanto Hermanto
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Public Company

Customer satisfaction is influenced by service quality factors, this study aims to find out and analyze how much influence the quality of service on customer satisfaction is felt by customers who use the service of Poor Rice (Raskin) at the Office of Public Companies Logistics Agency (Perum BULOG) in Sampit City Regency East Kotawaringin. The research method used in this study is the method of observation, questionnaire/questionnaire and documentation using a Likert scale and the method of determining the sample used is the error rate of 5% as many as 213 samples. Testing the hypothesis used is a statistical test with the formula "Product moment person". The results showed that there was a very strong correlation between Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction of the Office of Public Company of the Logistics Affairs Agency (Perum BULOG) in the District of East Kotawaringin. As much as 0.9968514278 based on the calculation of Pearson Product Moment value.

Accuracy analysis in borders description for municipal entities in the Republic Bashkortostan

2017 ◽  
Vol 924 (6) ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
V.N. Puchkov ◽  
R.S. Musalimov ◽  
D.S. Zavarnov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Accuracy Analysis ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
The Republic

In this work the analysis on description of rural settlements boundaries of the Republic of Bashkortostan, based on the experience of other sub-federal units of Russian Federation was made. A range of weak points in collected input data was defined. In total, of 54 municipal districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan (818 rural settlements), 44 districts showed nonconformity of feed data details to regulatory requirements. And the main reason for this is a low quality of input materials such as base maps at scale 1

A New Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on Game Theory for Recommendation Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Benkessirat ◽  
Narhimene Boustia ◽  
Rezoug Nachida
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Cooperative Game ◽  
Shapley Value ◽  
Cooperative Game Theory ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
User Communities ◽  
The One

Recommendation systems can help internet users to find interesting things that match more with their profile. With the development of the digital age, recommendation systems have become indispensable in our lives. On the one hand, most of recommendation systems of the actual generation are based on Collaborative Filtering (CF) and their effectiveness is proved in several real applications. The main objective of this paper is to improve the recommendations provided by collaborative filtering using clustering. Nevertheless, taking into account the intrinsic relationship between users can enhance the recommendations performances. On the other hand, cooperative game theory techniques such as Shapley Value, take into consideration the intrinsic relationship among users when creating communities. With that in mind, we have used SV for the creation of user communities. Indeed, our proposed algorithm preforms into two steps, the first one consists to generate communities user based on Shapley Value, all taking into account the intrinsic properties between users. It applies in the second step a classical collaborative filtering process on each community to provide the Top-N recommendation. Experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly enhances the recommendation compared to the classical collaborative filtering and k-means based collaborative filtering. The cooperative game theory contributes to the improvement of the clustering based CF process because the quality of the users communities obtained is better.

Effect of creep feed intake on weaning weight of piglets

1996 ◽  
Vol 1996 ◽  
pp. 138-138
Author(s):  
S. Kavanagh ◽  
P.B. Lynch ◽  
P.J. Caffrey ◽  
W.D. Henry
Keyword(s):  
Feed Intake ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Creep Feeding ◽  
Creep Feed ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
Medium Quality ◽  
Feeding Trials ◽  
Supplementary Feed

The benefits of creep feeding in a 3 - 4 week weaning system is uncertain. Sow milk yield peaks at 3 - 4 weeks postpartum and the need for supplementary feed to maintain growth rates of suckling pigs is minimal. The objective of this study was to quantify creep feed intake by suckling pigs and to assess the effect of creep feeding on piglet growth and weight at weaning when weaned at 26.0 (s.e. 0.6) days of age.The results reported here were obtained by combining data from 296 litters of suckling pigs on 5 creep feeding trials. The five trials involved comparison of diets and management systems as follows: (A) effect of quality of creep feed (high quality starter diet vs medium quality starter diet vs a pelleted cooked cereal); (B) comparison of meal and pelleted diets; (C) the effect of form (reconstituted calf milk replacer - 20 % dry matter vs solid pellet vs peat primer offered with a solid pellet); (D) effect of feed freshness (fresh creep vs 30 day old creep vs 60 day old creep feed); (E) effect of creep feeding piglets on pre-weaning performance.

Kajian Kualitas Permukiman Kawasan Pesisir Kecamatan Marobo Kabupaten Muna

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Halija Halija ◽  
Jufri Karim ◽  
Sawaludin Sawaludin
Keyword(s):  
Physical Condition ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Earth Satellite ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Wall Material ◽  
Floor Area ◽  
Medium Quality

Abstrak: Penataan ruang kawasan pesisir harus dipandang sebagai upaya dalam peningkatan kualitas kawasan fisik dan kesejahteraan masyarakat.Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu tidak berfungsinya drainase secara optimal belum terdapatnya sarana mandi, cuci, kakus (MCK) dan kondisi faktor fisik rumah yang masih berstruktur kayu dan semi permanan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini, yaitu: (1) menganalisis kondisi fisik permukiman kawasan pesisir; (2) menganalisis kualitas permukiman kawasan pesisir dan merumuskan strategi pemecahan masalah permukiman kawasan pesisir Kecamatan Marobo Kabupaten Muna. Metode penelitian ini, yaitu: (1) kondisi fisik permukiman diketahui dengan melakukan interpertasi citra satelit Google Earth:(2)kualitas permukimandiketahui denganpendekatan keruangan dengan menggunakan Sistem Informasi Geografi pada aplikasi ArcGIS dengan melakukan teknik analisis scoring. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: (1)nilai kelayakan bangunan rumah hunian Desa Marobo, yaitu 70% dengan luas lantai >7,2, skor  5 bisa di kategorikan cukup luas, kemudian kelurahan Paroha 50 %, dengan luas lantai >7,2 skor  3,  Kelurahan Wadolau nilai kelayakan bangunan rumah hunian, yaitu 30% dengan luas lantai >7,2 skor  2  dan terakhir Kelurahan Tapi-Tapi nilai kelayakan bangunan rumah hunian, yaitu <10% dengan luas lantai>7,2 skor  1, sehingga bisa di kategorikan cukup kecil/sempit; (2) permukiman penduduk di Pesisir Desa Tapi-Tapi, Desa Wadolau, dan Desa Marobo didominasi oleh rumah nelayan, dengan luas pekarangan dan luas rumah tinggal cukup kecil/sempit.  Kondisi fisik rumah tinggal penduduk di Kecamatan Marobo termasuk kategori semipermanen yang tercermin dari jenis bahan dinding rumah yang mayoritas terbuat dari  papan kayu berkualitas sedang.Kata kunci: kondisi fisik, kualitas permukiman, kawasan pesisirAbstract: Coastal spatial planning must be seen as an effort to improve the quality of physical areas and the welfare of the community. The problem in this study are the drainage does not function optimally, among others there are no facilities for bathing, washing, latrines and the physical condition of the house which is still structured in wood and semi-permanent. The purpose of this study are: (1) to analyze the physical condition of the coastal area settlement in Marobo District Muna Regency; (2) to analyze the quality of coastal area settlements and formulate strategies for solving the problem of coastal area settlements in Marobo District Muna Regency. The research methods are: (1) the physical condition of the settlement is known by interpreting Google Earth satellite imagery; (2) settlement quality is known by spatial approach using Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS by conducting a scoring analysis technique. The results of this study are: (1)the feasibility value of Marobo Village residential building is 70% with a floor area >7,2 score 5 can be categorized quite broadly, Paroha Village 50%, with a floor area >7,2 score 3 Wadolau Village the feasibility value of residential building is 30% with a floor area >7,2, score 2 and lastly the Tapi-Tapi Village feasibility value of residential buildings is <10% with a floor area >7,2 score 1 so that it can be categorized quite small/narrow; (2) the residential settlements in the Tapi-Tapi Village, Wadolau Village and Marobo Village are dominated by fishermen's houses, with a large yard area and a small/narrow residential area. The physical condition of resident houses in Marobo District belongs to the semi-permanent category, which is reflected in the type of wall material of the house which is mostly made of medium quality wood plasterKeywords: physical condition, quality of settlements, coastal area

Improved beef production from supplementation of Hereford, Brahman and crossbred cattle grazing low and medium quality pastures in the subtropics of Australia

1998 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
D. W. Hennessy ◽  
P. J. Williamson ◽  
D. J. McLennan ◽  
R. J. Farquharson ◽  
S. G. Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bos Taurus ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
Oilseed Meal ◽  
Mating Period ◽  
Grazed Pasture ◽  
Medium Quality ◽  
Calving Rate ◽  
Native Pastures ◽  
Kg Medium

AbstractSubtropical grasslands are low in organic matter digestibility (OMD) (0·60) and nitrogen (N) (15 g/kg) for much of the year and this limits cattle production which is characterized by low calving rates and low weaning weights. Production has been based on Bos taurus British breeds of cattle but this is changing and now many breeding herds comprise B. indicus cows and their crosses. This change has increased some aspects of production, but low calving rates persist.A 4-year study was undertaken with a view to improve calving rates and weaner output by supplementing cows grazing either native or improved pastures with a high protein oilseed meal (cottonseed meal; CSM) on four sites. These sites were subdivided into a total of 36 paddocks to allow for two replications in a 3 breeds × 3 supplementation rates × 2 pastures factorial design. Selected cows (no. = 216) from Hereford (H), Brahman (B) and Brahman × Hereford (BH) breed types were set to graze either native pastures (0·45 to 0·62 OMD, 8 to 15 gN per kg; low quality) or improved pastures (0·47 to 0·67 OMD, 10 to 22 g N per kg; medium quality). Cows were given either 0, 750 or 1500 glday of CSM for 130 days from calving until 4 weeks into a 12- to 13-week mating period. The CSM was given as two meals per week.Live weight at mating of cows on the low quality pasture was increased (P < 0·01) over those not supplemented by feeding either 750 g CSM per day (H and B cows) or 1500 g CSM per day (all cows). There was no significant effect of supplementation on the mating weights ofB cows grazing the medium quality sites. Calving rate ofB cows was not increased by their supplementation on either low (4-year mean 58·3 %) or medium quality pastures (66·8%) but did tend to be higher in H cows when supplemented at 1500 g CSM per day on the low (66·7 v. 78·0 (s.e. 6·09) %; P < 0·1) and medium quality pastures (70·5 v. 93·5 (s.e. 4·72) %). An increased calving rate (65·8 (s.e. 6·6) % to 83·2 (s.e. 5·82) % in supplemented BH cows grazing low quality pastures approached significance (P < 0·1) when given CSM at 1500 glday but there was no increased trend in calving rate when this breed type was supplemented on medium quality pastures.Weaning weights of calves from and B and BH cows were increased (P < 0·05) by supplementation of their dams at 750 glday and for calves weaned from H cows supplemented at 1500 glday of CSM. Supplementation at 1500 glday on low quality pastures increased weaner output per cow mated by 120% for H, by 65% for BH cows and by 50% for B cows. Weaner output was increased by 34 and 40%, respectively, for B and H cows when supplemented at 750 glday and grazing medium quality pastures but there was no significant effect of supplementation on output from BH cows. Responses in many parameters differed between years. These results were interpreted as a response to the protein in the oilseed meal supplement by B. taurus and B. taurus × B. indicus cross cows grazing on the subtropical pastures. The study also highlighted that responses to the meal differed between breed types, between the quality of the grazed pasture and between the years of supplementation.

EFFECTS OF CASTRATION, SIRE AND HORMONE TREATMENTS ON THE QUALITY OF RIB ROASTS FROM HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN MALES

1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. FORREST
Keyword(s):  
Hormone Treatment ◽  
Fat Deposition ◽  
Taste Panel ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Holstein Friesian ◽  
Panel Evaluation

A total of 72 Holstein-Friesian males from 11 sire groups were reared from birth on a concentrate ration. At 136 kg, one-half of the calves were castrated (Burdizzo) and at 340 kg, one-half of the bulls and steers were implanted with hormones (200 mg progesterone plus 20 mg estradiol-17-β-benzoate). Following slaughter at 475 kg, the 9th–11th rib sections were removed from the left sides of the carcass and frozen. Later, the four treatment and 11 sire groups were compared by taste panel evaluation of these rib roasts. No significant differences in quality factors (tenderness, juiciness, and flavor) due to pre-slaughter hormone treatment were evident in rib roasts from either bulls or steers. Hormone treatment significantly decreased (P < 0.05) fat deposition in steers and tended to increase fat levels in bulls. Rib roasts from bulls were significantly less desirable than roasts from steers in both treatment groups, for all quality factors. Significant sire effects for all taste panel evaluations were also noted.

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