"This book combines practical experience with the effective pedagogical approaches being implemented in higher learning institutions and hospitality programs internationally, highlighting key issues surrounding the current and future scope of hotel management and the skills and knowledge...

Lawyers now serve as executives in 44% of corporations. Although endowed with gatekeeping responsibilities, executive lawyers face increasing pressure to use time on strategic efforts. In a lawyer fixed effects model, we quantify that lawyers are half as important as CEOs in explaining variances...

The minimum weighted dominating set (MWDS) problem is one of the classic NP-hard optimization problems in graph theory with applications in many fields such as wireless communication networks. MWDS in general graphs has been showed not to have polynomial-time constant-approximation if <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource...</equationsource></inlineequation>

In the Minimum k-Path Connected Vertex Cover Problem (MkPCVCP), we are given a connected graph G and an integer k ≥ 2, and are required to find a subset C of vertices with minimum cardinality such that each path with length k − 1 has a vertex in C, and moreover, the induced subgraph G[C]...

This paper analyzes why no foreign direct investment (FDI) has entered basic telecom services in China despite relaxed government policies after the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession in 2001. A new indicator of barriers to FDI incorporating the policy and non-policy impediments has been...

This paper stated the background under which beautiful countryside construction was proposed; reviewed the new countryside construction profile of Hefei City before beautiful countryside construction was proposed; analyzed the practices of beautiful countryside construction of Hefei City from the...

Urban earthquake disaster prevention is regarded as an integrated systematic engineering. Urban earthquake disaster prevention system is made up of all the earthquake disaster prevention activities. The concept and composition of urban earthquake disaster prevention system periphery were...