A glance at New York: embracing the city government, theatres, hotels, churches, mobs, monopolies, learned professions, newspapers, rogues, dandies, fires and firemen, water and other liquids, & c., & c. ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The capitals of the globe : the political, commercial, artistic and sacred capitals of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and the West Indies with graphic and accurate descriptions of all their wonders, shrines, traditions, sensations and treasures ; their political and commercial importance ; their religious, artistic and climatic attractions ; their geographical positions, physical features, history, population, industries, trade, traffic, currency, communications and hotels : the manners and customs of the inhabitants-types and costumes together with every information how to reach them, how to travel, and what it costs : superbly and profusely illustrated with engravings and color maps /

pt. 1. The capitals of Europe -- pt. 2. The capitals of Asia -- pt. 3. The capitals of Africa -- pt. 4. The capitals of North America -- pt. 5. The capitals of Central America, South America and the West Indes.

Fellows' menu maker : suggestions for selecting and arranging menus for hotels and restaurants, with object of changing from day to day to give a variety of foods in season /

With this is bound: Fellows' menu maker. Appendix ... menus and bills of fare.

Black's picturesque tourist and road and railway guide book through England and Wales. With a general travelling map; charts of roads, railroads, and interesting localities, engraved views of picturesque scenery; and a comprehensive index, embracing a list of hotels and inns.

Mode of access: Internet.

Wages and hours in hotels and other establishments offering lodging for hire, New York State, 1947.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Industrial Commissioner to the Hotel Minimum Wage Board, relating to wages and other conditions of employment of women and minors in hotels and other lodging establishments.

Mode of access: Internet.

Cash wages and value of tips of tipped employees in eating and drinking places and hotels and motels; data pertinent to an evaluation of the tip allowance available under the Fair labor standards act.

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New England vacation resorts, [season 1907] : illustrated, descriptive : a list of hotels and boarding houses located on the Boston and Maine Railroad.

Includes index.

New England vacation resorts, [season 1908] : illustrated, descriptive : a list of hotels and boarding houses reached via the Boston & Maine R.R., including steamer connections.

Includes index.

Fifteenth census of the United States. Census of hotels, 1930.

Mode of access: Internet.

Van der Waals-corrected density functional theory: benchmarking for hydrogen-nanotube and nanotube-nanotube interactions

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful approach to electronic structure calculations in extended systems, but suffers currently from inadequate incorporation of long-range dispersion, or Van der Waals (VdW) interactions. VdW-corrected DFT is tested for interactions involving molecular hydrogen, graphite, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), and SWCNT bundles. The energy correction, based on an empirical London dispersion term with a damping function at short range, allows a reasonable physisorption energy and equilibrium distance to be obtained for H-2 on a model graphite surface. The VdW-corrected DFT calculation for an (8, 8) nanotube bundle reproduces accurately the experimental lattice constant. For H-2 inside or outside an (8, 8) SWCNT, we find the binding energies are respectively higher and lower than that on a graphite surface, correctly predicting the well known curvature effect. We conclude that the VdW correction is a very effective method for implementing DFT calculations, allowing a reliable description of both short-range chemical bonding and long-range dispersive interactions. The method will find powerful applications in areas of SWCNT research where empirical potential functions either have not been developed, or do not capture the necessary range of both dispersion and bonding interactions.

Modelling knowledge production performance of research centres with a focus on triple bottom line benchmarking

We demonstrate a portable process for developing a triple bottom line model to measure the knowledge production performance of individual research centres. For the first time, this study also empirically illustrates how a fully units-invariant model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be used to measure the relative efficiency of research centres by capturing the interaction amongst a common set of multiple inputs and outputs. This study is particularly timely given the increasing transparency required by governments and industries that fund research activities. The process highlights the links between organisational objectives, desired outcomes and outputs while the emerging performance model represents an executive managerial view. This study brings consistency to current measures that often rely on ratios and univariate analyses that are not otherwise conducive to relative performance analysis.

Using DEA [data envelopment analysis] in benchmarking

Australian banks are currently generating huge profits but are they sustainable? NECMI AVKIRAN suggests that banks will need to scrutinise the performance of their networks to ensure future profits.

Diabetes as a tracer condition in international benchmarking of health systems

OBJECTIVE - To assess the performance of health systems using diabetes as a tracer condition. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - We generated a measure of case-fatality among young people with diabetes Using the mortalily-to-incidence ratio (M/I ratio) for 29 industrialized countries using published data on diabetes incidence and mortality. Standardized incidence rates for ages 0-14 years were extracted from the World Health Organization DiaMond Study for the period 1990-1994; data on death from diabetes for ages 0-39 years were obtained from the World Health Organization Mortality database and converted into age-standardized death rates for the period 1994-1998, using the European standard population. RESULTS - The MA ratio varied > 10-fold. These relative differences appear similar to those observed in cohort studies of mortality among young people with type I diabetes in five countries. A sensitivity analysis showed that using plausible assumptions about potential overestimation of diabetes as a cause of death and underestimation of incidence rates in the U.S. yields an M/I ratio that would still be twice as high as in the U.K. or Canada. CONCLUSIONS - The M/I ratio for diabetes provides a means of differentiating countries on quality of care for people with diabetes. It is solely an indicator of potential problems, a basis for Stimulating more detailed assessments of whether such problems exist, and what can be done to address them.