Diploma thesis deals with regional disparity in distribution of collective tourist accommodation establishment as a part of the basic tourism infrastructure in the Czech Republic for 2010. The aim of the diploma thesis is assessment of the importance and distribution of collective tourist accommodation establishment in each region of the Czech Republic. Theoretical part of thesis dedicates to general definition of tourism and tourism infrastructure focusing on accommodation services. The practical part deals with analysis of statistical indicators of accommodation services and regional disparities in the area of the accommodation equipments. Attention is paid indicators as number of the collective accommodation establishments and their quality, number of rooms, beds and guests in each region. During analysis of statistical indicators were used datas from Public Database of Czech Statistical Office.

The thesis is focused on opportunities for improvement of the hotel's quality management. The main goal is to evaluate and improve current quality management in the chosen hotel with emphasis on the National quality system. The system should come into effect latest in 2015 and it is based on requirement of quality management systems such as the EFQM Excellence model and ISO 9001:2009.

Student Number : 0311004X - MA dissertation - School of Geography, Archeology and Environmental Studies - Faculty of Humanities / This research focuses on the accommodation development in the Kruger National Park of South Africa. It makes a comparison of the accommodation that was there from 1980 to 1994 and the period after. The main objective is to analyze changes in accommodation and other activities in the context of the changing tourism policies and tourist tastes, a question which tourism literature to date has not paid much attention to. This was done using the concept of a tourism product with accommodation being the product that changes on the basis of supply and demand. Major sources that were used are policy documents, parks annual reports and archival resources and tourism and travel magazines and brochures.

Discutir a problemática histórica das transgressões nos oferece a possibilidade de investigar mais detidamente uma característica marcante das formações sociais brasileiras coloniais e imperiais. Nas formações sociais da história brasileira transgredia-se muito e continuadamente. Ao mesmo tempo - traço fundamental dos modos de viver dessas sociedades - exercia-se cotidianamente uma visível tolerância social para com as transgressões. O estudo das práticas transgressoras oferece, portanto, a possibilidade de compreender um pouco mais sobre a complexidade desse processo social na história brasileira, moldado sobre parece ser mesmo esta a palavra mais adequada em um equilíbrio tenso, sem dúvida, mas estável, entre o que o era interdito, proibido e o que efetivamente, se permitia na vivência social cotidiana. Este trabalho pretende estudar a problemática das transgressões em um momento fundamental da história brasileira, a segunda metade do século XIX, quando, em meio a conflitos e tensões, iniciou-se o processo através do qual as configurações coloniais que definiram a vida social, política e econômica e cultural durante mais de três séculos foram gradualmente cedendo lugar à novos arranjos políticos e sócio-econômicos que fundamentariam a construção do Brasil contemporâneo. As décadas de 1850-1900 constituem assim um período crucial, marcado por difíceis e traumáticas transições. Na cidade de Taubaté, situada no médio Vale do Paraíba Paulista, região de importante significação econômica para a província de São Paulo e para o império em boa parte desse período, as transformações marcaram inapelavelmente a vivência cotidiana. A Taubaté da segunda metade do século dezenove coloca-se como cenário privilegiado para um estudo sobre a dinâmica da transgressão-transigência. Essa dinâmica, inequivocamente uma das efetivas permanências de caráter colonial na sociedade brasileira do século dezenove, não desapareceu no decorrer das transformações que marcaram as décadas finais do século. O complexo jogo de tensões entre o transgredir e transigir persistiu. Mas as vivências transgressoras nele pautadas tornaram-se progressivamente mais dificultosas, enfrentando resistências, hostilidade e impasses crescentes. / Discussing the historical problem of transgressions offers us the possibility to investigate more carefully a remarkable characteristic of the Brazilian social formations during colonial and imperial times. In social formation of Brazilian history transgressions were frequent and continuous. At the same time fundamental trait of the way of living of such societies people daily performed a visible social toleration for transgressions. Therefore, the study of the transgressions performances offers the possibility to understand a bit more about the complexity of this social process in the Brazilian society in a tense but stable balance, no doubt, between what was forbidden and what was in fact permitted in the everyday social behavior. This work intends to study the problematical of the transgressions on a very fundamental moment of the Brazilian history, the second half of the XIX century, when in between conflicts and tensions, it was started the process through which the colonial configurations that defined the social, political, economical and cultural life during more than three centuries had to gradually give in to new political and social-economical arrangements that would support the construction of the contemporary Brazil. For this reason the years 1850-1900 are a crucial time, marked by difficult and traumatic transition. At Taubaté, a town located in the middle Vale do Paraíba Paulista, region of economical importance for the province of São Paulo and for the empire, the changes marked strongly the everyday living. Taubaté of the second half of the nineteenth century places itself as a privileged scenery for a study over the dynamic of transgression-permission. This dynamic, no mistake one of the effective remains of the colonial nature in the Brazilian society of the nineteenth did not disappear during the changes that marked the final decades of the century. The complex game of tensions between transgress and permit persisted. But the transgressions there lined became progressively more difficult, facing resistance, hostility and impasses.

Matteo Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) has been studied extensively by scholars of the Jesuit China Mission, especially in terms of accommodation through means of Scholastic and Humanist arguments and translation choices. Few of these studies, however, discuss the genre of this work (disputation), nor consider this genre in relation to Renaissance rhetorical teachings and how this relationship informs Ricci's accommodative strategies. The purpose of this paper is to remedy this gap in early modern Jesuit scholarship. Through a review of the history of accommodations in disputations in the Aristotelian-Scholastic and Ciceronian-Humanist traditions, this paper claims that True Meaning is a Humanist disputation, not only because Ricci translated Christian terms into Chinese and draws references from classical sources, but also because this text follows strategies taught in the Humanist, but not the Scholastic curriculum. If True Meaning is a Humanist disputation, then Ricci's teachings should be reconsidered from the perspective of Renaissance rhetoric, which sheds further light on how Ricci's work fits into Renaissance culture and the transformation of the early modern disputation genre, as well as provides further explanation of the Western accommodation paradigm Ricci brought to China, which is prior to understanding how Ricci was transformed by China.

<p>In this thesis four empirical studies dealt with children with profound multiple disabilities and their parents with regard to: (a) how parents perceived interaction with their children (b) how observed child/parent interaction was linked to behavior style of the children as perceived by the parents (c) how parents of children with profound multiple disabilities perceived child/parent interaction and behavior style of their children in comparison to parents to children without disabilities matched for communicative ability and age respectively, and, (d) how social networks and family accommodations were linked to child/parent interaction and child behavior style over time for these families according to parental appraisals. The results in study I showed that child/parent interaction occurred through out the day and constituted of mutual experience and joy. There were two processes in interaction: monitoring interaction and successful interaction. Study II found hypo- and hyper dominated behaviour style of the children to influence interaction differently. The parents were found to be experts on their children in monitoring interaction to achieve more frequent periods of successful interaction. Study III found few differences in wishes about ideal interaction between parents of children with profound multiple disabilities and parents of typically developing children. Study IV showed that the children were communicative dependent on their parents; there were few complete overlaps between the children’s and the family’s social networks; and although family accommodations were child-driven, sustainability of family life evolved around other factors. There was a “contradiction” in results for the whole thesis: child/parent interaction occurred through out ordinary everyday life and constituted of mutual experience and joy versus the children’s communicative dependency and the distance found between social networks of families and children and child/parent interaction.</p>

<p>Cambodia differs from many other developing countries because of one specific asset which is tourism. The number of tourists in Cambodia is currently growing with a rapid pace due to the Angkor site near the city of Siem Reap.</p><p>The growing number of tourists has definitely created challenges for the accommodation industry in the Siem Reap region. This has created the need for achieving a delicate balance between the exploration of the region and how much the region can cater for regarding the environment, social and long-term economical benefits. This growth has however brought along many downsides such as economical, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological. There are no previous studies done about sustainable practice in the accommodation industry in developing countries. This study examines the barriers for the implementation of sustainable practice among accommodation providers in Siem Reap.</p><p>The first step is this process was to determine the state of the environment. The second step was to determine the cause of the state followed by determining the process of change for sustainable development which can be regarded as the barriers. Previous studies have concluded that barriers of financial difficulties, the cost of change, lack of resources, the lack of information and support regarding sustainable tourism are common barriers for the implementation of sustainable practice. The barriers can be categorized into industry barriers related to industry specific characteristics and organizational barriers that refer to barriers due to characteristics within the firm.</p><p>This report is based on a case study in which hermeneutic and qualitative method was used. The data was based on a content analysis of reports published by the International Development Centre of Japan in cooperation with the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism and 14 interviews with accommodation providers in Siem Reap.</p><p>In many areas there was a lack of sustainable practices and many barriers could be uncovered. Barriers included among others lack of financial resources which restricted ownership, low awareness of the environmental state, lack of governmental support; an insufficient educational quality which limits management opportunities for Cambodians and insufficient quality in the environmental friendly products.</p><p>This study has expanded the knowledge of barriers for the implementation not only to include environmental sustainable practices but also to include barriers when it economical, social, cultural, political and technological dimensions. These barriers should be considered representative for barriers for the implementation of sustainable practices in the accommodation industry in developing countries, especially in contexts with a similar development pattern as Siem Reap.</p>

Presbyopia is the progressive decrease in accommodative ability with age, and it implies a major loss of visual function. Presbyopia is the only condition of the eye which affects everyone who lives beyond 50 years of age. As part of a joint effort, the Ophthalmic Biophysics Center at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the Vision Cooperative Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, developed two different ex-vivo accommodation simulators (EVAS) to examine the mechanisms of accommodation and presbyopia, and to test and validate new ophthalmic surgical procedures such as lens refilling. The purpose of this thesis is to mechanically and optically calibrate the second generation instrument (EVASII), and to compare it to the first generation design (EVASI). To validate the optical measurements of EVASII, an optical calibration has been performed, yielding a lens power measurement system with a mean accuracy of ±0.56D. To enhance the optical capabilities and tissue dissection options, the mechanics of mounting the tissue has been improved by using magnetic mounts, and the mechanical calibration of EVASII, yielded a force measurement system with a mean uncertainty of ±0.81g Also, a comparison of EVASII and EVASI has been performed, showing that the results of the two systems are significantly different; however, both systems successfully simulate accommodation. Thus, general trends concerning efficacy and optimization of surgical procedures as well as age related accommodative changes can be compared for each individual system.

The human crystalline lens is a complex, inhomogeneous and dynamic optical element which enables the eye to adjust focus in a process known as accommodation. Age related changes in the optical and mechanical properties of the lens cause a loss in accommodative ability leading to a condition known as presbyopia. Several experimental surgical techniques are under development for the correction of presbyopia. The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the relationship between the crystalline lens shape, its non-uniform refractive index gradient and its optical power and their changes with age and accommodation. In this study direct lens power and shape measurements were acquired on isolated lenses, and on lenses mounted in a lens stretching system designed to simulate accommodation. Several lens shape and power measurement techniques were developed for this study including a Scheimpflug camera system optimized for imaging the crystalline lens. Direct measurements of lens shape and power were used to develop an age-dependent optical-mechanical model of the lens during accommodation. The study shows that the normal growth of the lens is a major contributor to the progressive loss of accommodation amplitude, independent of changes in the elastic properties of the lens. These findings suggest that accommodation can be restored by refilling the lens with a material having a uniform refractive index.

Cambodia differs from many other developing countries because of one specific asset which is tourism. The number of tourists in Cambodia is currently growing with a rapid pace due to the Angkor site near the city of Siem Reap. The growing number of tourists has definitely created challenges for the accommodation industry in the Siem Reap region. This has created the need for achieving a delicate balance between the exploration of the region and how much the region can cater for regarding the environment, social and long-term economical benefits. This growth has however brought along many downsides such as economical, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological. There are no previous studies done about sustainable practice in the accommodation industry in developing countries. This study examines the barriers for the implementation of sustainable practice among accommodation providers in Siem Reap. The first step is this process was to determine the state of the environment. The second step was to determine the cause of the state followed by determining the process of change for sustainable development which can be regarded as the barriers. Previous studies have concluded that barriers of financial difficulties, the cost of change, lack of resources, the lack of information and support regarding sustainable tourism are common barriers for the implementation of sustainable practice. The barriers can be categorized into industry barriers related to industry specific characteristics and organizational barriers that refer to barriers due to characteristics within the firm. This report is based on a case study in which hermeneutic and qualitative method was used. The data was based on a content analysis of reports published by the International Development Centre of Japan in cooperation with the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism and 14 interviews with accommodation providers in Siem Reap. In many areas there was a lack of sustainable practices and many barriers could be uncovered. Barriers included among others lack of financial resources which restricted ownership, low awareness of the environmental state, lack of governmental support; an insufficient educational quality which limits management opportunities for Cambodians and insufficient quality in the environmental friendly products. This study has expanded the knowledge of barriers for the implementation not only to include environmental sustainable practices but also to include barriers when it economical, social, cultural, political and technological dimensions. These barriers should be considered representative for barriers for the implementation of sustainable practices in the accommodation industry in developing countries, especially in contexts with a similar development pattern as Siem Reap.