This study is an assessment of the findings of a single instrument distributed among four different groups of tourists visiting Mallorca (Spain) and Mugla (Turkey) in the summer of 1998. Its objective was to investigate ...

This study aims to identify employees' perceptions of the extent to which TQM programs are implemented into their hospital organisations; and to explore whether or not they perceive any problems with a successful implementation ...

Lake ecosystems are, in particular, vulnerable to heavy metal pollution. Rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus is one of the aquatic organisms affected by heavy metals. Therefore, heavy metals Fe, Zn, Mn, Cr, Pb and Cd were ...

Microfungi studies have long been of interest to scientists as well as the public due to the importance of microfungi in the ecosystem, and their use inter alia in pharmacology and in the food industry. Many species of ...

Maturity age, spawning time and fecundity of tench in Porsuk Dam Lake were determined. Field and laboratory studies show that males and females become sexually mature at age 3 and 4, respectively, and the spawning period ...

The ecological characteristics of truffle species that grow naturally in Denizli province were investigated in this study. Field and laboratory studies conducted periodically between 2006 and 2010 resulted in the identification ...

Knowledge about tourist motivations would enable tourism destination planners to better satisfy consumer needs. Recent studies evidence the heterogeneous nature of tourist motivations, and highlight the importance of ...

Bacterial skin microflora of eel obtained from Mugla (Turkey) province were studied. The aerobic bacteria associated with skin and slime were estimated using the dilution plate technique. The dominant bacterial species ...

In a study carried out during 2002 and 2004 in Diyarbakiir and Mardin provinces, southeast Turkey, specimens were collected twice a month from cultivated and non-cultivated plants. Sixteen leafminer (Diptera: Agromyzidae) ...

This paper presents a new methodology for evaluating the economic sustainability of countries' energy systems. The aim of the work is to improve the support tools for policy makers as the scale and complexity of the global ...