[PDF] Top 20 The determinants of length of stay in the Azores : a count model approach

... impact of tourists in a given economy hinges on length of ...stay. Length of stay is an important determinant, for instance, of tourists’ overall expenditure ... See full document

... Moreover, the few studies available in the literature on the length of stay are mainly descriptive (Oppermannn 1995, 1997; Seaton & Palmer, 1997; Sung et ...how ... See full document

... richer approach. In particular, this article employs models not only of the Proportional Hazards form, as in Gokovali et ...also of the Accelerated Failure-Time form, with ... See full document

... significant in the Weibull model and not statistically significant in the log-logistic ...constitute the largest group in the sample, exhibit shorter stays, under ... See full document

... Traditionally, length of stay has been relatively short, explained mostly by the fact that the predominant tourists were from mainland Portugal, who routinely took regular flights, ... See full document

... a model for the variation of length of the day with ...on the idea of an effective Newton’s constant as an effective coupling representing all gravitational effects ... See full document

... paradox of a group of patients with better respiratory function but worse outcome is probably explained by a ‘‘reverse causation’’ mechanism [12], which means that under- weight cardiac surgery patients ... See full document

... staff. In algal dominated com- munities, like those on the shores of the Azores, biotope characterization studies focused on the more conspicuous algae categories, thus reducing ... See full document

... prevalent in hospitalized patients worldwide. In developed countries this condition is estimated to range from 28% to 50%, depending on the methods used for its identification or the ... See full document

... see ACTITIS, TRINGA. see ANTHUS herthelottli, COLUMBA pruumhUB, FRINGILLA lebs, PETRONIA petronia, REGULUS igoicaplllus. coe- see DENDROCOPUS, DRYOBATES, PICUS, PUFFINUS.[r] ... See full document

... on the personal experience or opinion of researchers, whose perception of the ecosystem can vary ...index of biotic integrity (IBI) usually incorporates a number of taxonomical ... See full document

... analyze the length of stay of adults and elderly individuals in the “Vida Ativa Melhorando a Saúde” (VAMOS - Active Life Improving Health) program implemented in ... See full document

... located in southeastern Brazil between the cities of Sa˜o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (23 6 119 South and 45 6 539 West) and has a population of approximately 700,000 ...inhabitants. The ... See full document

... is the major acid in mature grapes and wine contributing in various quality aspects of wine such as taste, mouthfeel, and aging ...amounts of L-tartaric acid (TA). Accumulation ... See full document

... records of the hospital pharmacy ...including length of stay, cost, diagnosis on admission (according to ICD-10 classification) and demographic information (age, sex) were retrieved ... See full document

... Similarly, in Portugal family firms are re- sponsible an important share of the gross do- mestic product generated ...to the Portuguese Association of Family Busi- ness (2014) ... See full document

...  Tibshirani, R., Hastie, B., Narismhan, B. and Chu, G. (2003). Class prediction by nearest shrunken centroids with applications to DNA microarrays. Statistical Science, 18, 104-117.  Guo, Y., Hastie, T. and Tibshirani, ... See full document

... Clearly, there is an increase through time in the number of children abandoned in the Roda at Horta, but in the absence of data about the number of births of children w[r] ... See full document

... “inverting” the sequence by which samples are laid on the field and then fractured, this design wished to produce all bone fractures on the same day, virtually eliminating the possibility ... See full document

... Conference of IASC-ERS, COMPSTAT’2010, is held in Paris, France, from August 22nd to August 27th 2010, locally organised by the Conservatoire National des Arts et M´ etiers (CNAM) and the ... See full document