Clustering and hotel room prices in Dubai

In this article, we study the influence of the room properties, hotel amenities, hotel location, and, more importantly, the characteristics of hotels in the surrounding area on the prices of hotel rooms. The effects of different determinants are estimated using the hedonic price model for a cross-section of 250 hotels in Dubai. In addition to the typical characteristics of hotels and hotel rooms such as hotel amenities, star rating, and room size, we include location-specific characteristics such as accessibility to public transportation, airport, and, more importantly, clustering variables to capture the effects of local competition and spillovers from surrounding hotels. Our results indicate significant and strong effects of accessibility to attractions, transportation, hotel’s star rating, and room size, as expected. Our estimations also indicate that local competition reduces the room price, and local quality spillover increases the room price, and both effects are predominantly limited to the hotel’s immediate surroundings. Our estimations indicate that having one more hotel in the immediate surroundings decreases the room price by about one percent, and an increase in the average quality of the hotels in the immediate surroundings by one star rating increases the room price by more than 20%.

GAMBARAN ORGANISASI RUANG PADA RUMAH LAKSMANA MAEDA DI MENTENG, JAKARTA, BERDASARKAN HOUSEHOLD ARCHAEOLOGY

Maeda’s house is one of colonial houses with layout and furnitures that are still remained and maintained today. Through Maeda’s house, we could still study its inhabitants social values that are reflected from their remains. This study seeks to reconstruct the social values that existed at that time, through the spatial arrangement of Maeda’s house using household archaeology. The method used in analysing this problem consists of data collection, analysis and interpretation. Based on the studies that have been carried out, it can be seen that the spatial arrangement in Maeda’s house is related to the social class of its residents. Spatial planning in this case also includes accessibility, room size and facilities. This study also provides an overview of the hierarchical figure of Maeda in managing his house, as well as showing examples of the arrangement of luxury houses in Menteng during his time. Rumah Laksamana Maeda merupakan rumah yang kaya akan sejarah dalam perjalanan Indonesia menjadi negara. Salah satu kelebihan yang dimiliki oleh Rumah Laksamana Maeda adalah tata ruang dan perabotannya yang masih terjaga hingga sekarang. Rumah Laksamana Maeda dapat dikatakan masih mencerminkan nilai sosial yang ada pada masa itu. Kajian ini berusaha untuk merekonstruksi nilai sosial yang ada pada masa itu, melalui penataan ruang rumah Maeda dengan menggunakan paradigma arkeologi rumah. Metode yang digunakan dalam menjawab masalah ini terdiri dari pengumpulan data, analisis dan interpretasi. Berdasarkan kajian yang telah dilakukan, dapat diketahui bahwa penataan ruang di rumah Maeda berkaitan dengan kelas sosial para penghuninya. Penataan ruang dalam hal ini adalah juga termasuk aksesibiltas, ukuran ruang dan fasilitas. Kajian ini juga memberikan gambaran mengenai sosok Maeda yang bersifat hirarkis dalam menata rumahnya, sekaligus juga menunjukkan contoh pola penataan rumah mewah di Menteng pada masanya.

Standar Arsitektur Pasar Tradisional Pasca Pandemi

<p class="Abstract"><em><span lang="EN-GB">There have been architectural standards for many types of buildings such as the ones for hospitals, hotels, and shopping malls. Those standards were developed with an assumption that we live free from contagious diseases like Covid-19. The world situation in the last decade has shown that new contagious diseases are on the rise, bringing people’s lives at risk. It is then very urgent to review the existing architectural standards to fit our new needs. This paper then focuses on a review on architectural standard, which in this case is traditional market to propose a new standard. To do that we review the existing standard and the existing literature on Covid-19, before developing a proposal for a new standard for traditional market in Indonesia. The proposal shows a revision in the layout, room size, internal and external circulation, the use of materials, lighting, and ventilation.</span></em></p>

VALUATION OF MARKET RENTAL VALUE OF A PLANNED DORMITORY USING HEDONIC PRICING METHOD: A CASE STUDY OF POLYTECHNIQUE OF STATE FINANCE STAN, INDONESIA

This study determines the attributes that affect the market rental value of dormitories using the Hedonic Pricing Model. The proportional stratified random sampling technique was used to obtain data from 1,292 PKN STAN students in levels 1 to 3, which was analyzed using the SPSS statistical application. Based on the calculation, the dormitory value varies between IDR11,719,521 (RM3,424.82) to IDR15,482,242 (RM4524,41). The determinants that have a significant positive effect on dormitory value are bathroom location, average remittances per month, earnings per month, room size, gender, and origin, while the type of residence attribute has a negative correlation effect. The results of this study will be beneficial inputs for the PKN STAN in determining the market rental value, the quality of buildings and facilities are in accordance with the market preference.

Partial visual loss disrupts the relationship between judged room size and sound source distance

Visual spatial information plays an important role in calibrating auditory space. Blindness results in deficits in a number of auditory abilities, which have been explained in terms of the hypothesis that visual information is needed to calibrate audition. When judging the size of a novel room when only auditory cues are available, normally sighted participants may use the location of the farthest sound source to infer the nearest possible distance of the far wall. However, for people with partial visual loss (distinct from blindness in that some vision is present), such a strategy may not be reliable if vision is needed to calibrate auditory cues for distance. In the current study, participants were presented with sounds at different distances (ranging from 1.2 to 13.8 m) in a simulated reverberant (T60 = 700 ms) or anechoic room. Farthest distance judgments and room size judgments (volume and area) were obtained from blindfolded participants (18 normally sighted, 38 partially sighted) for speech, music, and noise stimuli. With sighted participants, the judged room volume and farthest sound source distance estimates were positively correlated (p < 0.05) for all conditions. Participants with visual losses showed no significant correlations for any of the conditions tested. A similar pattern of results was observed for the correlations between farthest distance and room floor area estimates. Results demonstrate that partial visual loss disrupts the relationship between judged room size and sound source distance that is shown by sighted participants.

Nurse's Experience Program In Implementing Intravenal Chemotherapy Treatment In Cancer Patients: A Phenomenology Study

Background: Cancer or malignant tumor is uncontrolled growth of cells or tissue and spreads from abnormal cells, if the spread is uncontrolled it can cause death. Experience is a very dynamic, complex and subjective phenomenon. One of the treatments for cancer patients is chemotherapy.Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of nurses in implementing intravenous chemotherapy treatment programs in cancer patients.Methods: This study uses a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach model to understand one's life experience and existing perceptions. The sampling technique used snow ball sampling. In this study, researchers will perform a snow ball sampling technique of participants who are at the Dr. Soedarso General Hospital. A total of ten nurses who work in the chemotherapy room participated.Result: The perception of nurses in providing intravenous chemotherapy services as a form of carrying out their assigned duties and responsibilities apart from curiosity to carry out chemotherapy and their empathy for patients. Support from nurses in providing intravenous chemotherapy services is obtained from the family even though they are reminded to always be careful (protected), from the hospital, especially the improvement of infrastructure and related policies as well as support from colleagues and doctors. Obstacles for nurses in providing intravenous chemotherapy services arise from the capacity of nurses and specialists who are less trained, the inadequate reporting system between nurses during service changes including infrastructure such as PPE, room size and medicine.Conclusion: Recommendations This study is expected to be used as a reference for future researchers related to the topic of nurse experiences that are still related to chemotherapy clients in cancer

The Physical Hospital Environment and Its Effects on Palliative Patients and Their Families: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis

Aim: To review the latest qualitative literature on how the physical hospital environment affects palliative patients and their families. Background: People with a life-limiting illness may receive palliative care to improve their quality of life in hospital and may have multiple admissions as their illness progresses. Yet, despite a preference for a death at home, more than half of the dying population will receive end-of-life care in hospital. The physical hospital environment consists of ambiance, aesthetics, and architectural factors, and it is well known that the hospital’s acute wards are not a homely environment. Demand is increasing for the physical environment to be improved to better meet the needs and demands of palliative and end-of-life patients and their families. Method: Combining thematic analysis and meta-ethnography methodologies, 12 international qualitative papers were analyzed and synthesized by the three authors. Results: Findings resulted in the development of the SSAFeR Place approach that incorporates the concepts that are important to palliative and end-of-life patients and their families by describing an environment within the acute or palliative care units that feels safe, is private, customizable, and accommodates family; is a space to share with others, is homelike in ambiance and aesthetics, and is conducive for reflection. The concepts of identity, belonging, and safety are connected to the notions of home. Conclusions: To provide person-centered care and to move the focus toward the palliative approach of comfort and quality of life, attention to room size, layout, aesthetics, and ambiance is needed.

Design and simulation of acoustics for the home theatre

As a typical acoustics room, the sound quality of home theatre is an important standard to evaluate its design. Qualified acoustics design is the guarantee of good sound quality. The volume of home theatre is generally small, so the room size is similar to the low-frequency wavelength. Then the resonance will occur when the excitation of the sound source frequency acts on the natural resonance frequency of the room. At the same time, the secondary reflection of the room also interferes the direct sound emitted by the speaker, thus destroying the sound image. In order to solve the above problems, this paper took a home theatre as an example, analyzed the normal modes of the room by the theory of wave acoustics, and then made an acoustics design and simulation. The simulation results showed that the reverberation time was up to the relevant standards and the room acoustic quality environment was improved obviously after the acoustic design.

Room Size Influences Flow in Robotic-Assisted Surgery

The introduction of surgical technology into existing operating rooms (ORs) can place novel demands on staff and infrastructure. Despite the substantial physical size of the devices in robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), the workspace implications are rarely considered. This study aimed to explore the impact of OR size on the environmental causes of surgical flow disruptions (FDs) occurring during RAS. Fifty-six RAS procedures were observed at two academic hospitals between July 2019 and January 2021 across general, urologic, and gynecologic surgical specialties. A multiple regression analysis demonstrated significant effects of room size in the pre-docking phase (t = 2.170, df = 54, β = 0.017, p = 0.035) where the rate of FDs increased as room size increased, and docking phase (t = −2.488, df = 54, β = −0.017, p = 0.016) where the rate of FDs increased as room size decreased. Significant effects of site (pre-docking phase: p = 0.000 and docking phase: p = 0.000) were also demonstrated. Findings from this study demonstrate hitherto unrecognized spatial challenges involved with introducing surgical robots into the operating domain. While new technology may provide benefits towards patient safety, it is important to consider the needs of the technology prior to integration.