Short Vacation Research Articles

Da li za sve važi "srećna Nova godina i Božić!"? - kako smo raspoloženi tokom praznika

The festive atmosphere that abounds at the end of one year and the beginning of another is inevitably associated with happiness, joy, excitement and other positive emotions. It is a period of emotional, but also material exchanges with family members, friends, colleagues... A large number of people in the Republic of Serbia, in this time of year, go on a short vacation from work and obligations, wishing each other happy holidays. However, this is also the period when the achievements of the previous year are summed up, when people become aware of their failures, the small number of close people they can rely on and who can provide them with love and support. The main goal of this research was to examine the mood of people in Serbia during these holidays, i.e. do wishes for a good mood correspond to reality. We surveyed 450 adults aged 18-68, 65% of whom were women, using an online questionnaire. In addition to sociodemographic data, respondents also provided answers to items from the Brief Mood Introspection Scale. The results showed that positive moods are significantly more pronounced than negative ones, and that the largest number of respondents feel emotions around New Year's and Christmas: full of love, happy, satisfied and active. However, nervousness, tension, fatigue, oversaturation and other negative emotions are present in a significant number of respondents. We can conclude that one of four, or one of five persons don't feel happiness, satisfaction or other positive emotion during these holidays, but they feel some negative emotions. Those results are important because some earlier researches showed that rate of suicide (Barker, Gorman, De Leo 2014:122-126) and substance abuse (Vidal-Infer et al, 2007: 134-141) are higher in New Year and Christmas season. In present research we didn't obtained any significant differences regarded to sex or education level of the respondents. Finally, we have to assume that there are one group of people who are in risk to feel bad during holidays and to have a lower mental health. Professionals and authorities should pay additional attention on this vulnerable people and try to improve their social inclusion and support.

Seamus Heaney’in “Mid-Term Break” İsimli Şiirinde “Kırılma”

The term “mid-term break” is frequently attributed to the half term at schools—a short vacation season for students. However, as one of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s poem, it represents a new period, a characteristic transition from one situation to another. Through this autobiographical poem narrating his brother Christopher's death, Heaney presents a moment of death, which may happen to anyone, as far away from emotions as possible, with all its nakedness. Contrary to the event’s ordinariness, the grief triggered by death within the family causes unusual reactions, in other words, “breaks”, in all members. Even though all people within the impact circle of the event have been intensely influenced by culture and religion and accordingly they thaped theirc characteristics in these ways, they display unexpected behaviors as a result of these breaks. In this study, including a versatile analysis of the poem from history to religion, Heaney’s sudden stepping into the nature of an adult from adolescence, and how personalities shaped by culture take on different roles in the situation of pain and grief are examined.

TRAVEL CULTURE IN YUGOSLAVIA: AN ANALYSIS OF TOURISM PROPAGANDA

The paper is an overview on Yugoslav seaside tourism propaganda and mass tourism of the working class. The analysis is based on the archival material analyzed so far in the field of the history of tourism development and published scientific papers related to travel culture in Yugoslavia. The research aims to look at and analyze the tourist propaganda in Yugoslavia during the 20th century from a sociological aspect, when one of the main characteristics of tourism was its mass occurrence. Despite the development of the economy and the rise of tourism, the citizens of Yugoslavia had a short vacation, during which they went to the sea, spas, mountains, most often making their own travel plans, and used the services of travel agencies the least. Numerous catalogs, brochures, newspaper advertisements represent important segments of tourist propaganda and a signpost for domestic tourists to popular destinations. The difficult position of workers who struggled to preserve the idea of going on vacation was also visible through some of the slogans about summer vacations: "Those who have money bathe in the sea, and those who do not have money bathe at home in the washbowl." The standard of living of the people dictated their decisions about travel, and only in 1964 was the decision made that the annual vacation should last for six days and be paid, which gave tourism the epithet of social tourism. The results of the overview provide insight into the everyday life of the inhabitants of Yugoslavia, their possibilities for going on vacation, tourist propaganda which was very lavish in its beginnings, but also the most common destinations they travelled to.

Coping with the Impact of COVID-19 in Higher Education: Responses and Recommendations from the University of Botswana

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a serious health crisis across the world. The education sector is one of the hardest hit sectors and countries across the globe are implementing different strategies to ensure students at all different levels of study can continue with their learning. The University of Botswana (UB) announced its first lockdown due to COVID-19 in May 2020, responding to the national expectation. At that time, students were on a five-day short vacation. They had left the campus without anticipating any closure, with some traveling both nationally and internationally, whereas others were on campus accommodated in the residence halls. In the case of those who had traveled, they could not access their belongings, including study materials, on campus. This sudden change took away the students' freedom and personal control, compromising their joy and inflicting stress and anxiety on them. Their lives were hijacked and filled with tension, confusion, worry, and fear. Students started experiencing the fear of their own death and that of their significant others. They also went through the fear of not knowing what was happening and how long it would take for life to return to normal. Students were experiencing a life full of uncertainty about the future, as well as fear of exposure to a seemingly incurable strange virus that had already claimed many lives in other countries. In particular, they were uncertain as to whether they would be able to complete their degrees and graduate: [End Page 83]

Belong Anywhere? Airbnb’s Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance

700 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Nina Medvedeva Belong Anywhere? Airbnb’s Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance in February 2017, Dyne Suh, her fiancé, two friends, and their dogs were supposed to enjoy a short vacation at the Big Bear Lake ski resort in California. Thirty minutes before they pulled into their Airbnb rental, the host canceled on Suh with the message, “One word says it all: Asian. It’s why we have Trump.”1 Suh’s party was left stranded without shelter on top of a mountain in the middle of a snowstorm.2 In a viral YouTube video, Suh speaks about the racism she endured between sobs: There’s no bounds to racism—no matter what class you are, no matter what your education level, no matter if you’re an American citizen. What they see is that I’m Asian. What they see is my race and this is how we get treated . . . No matter if I follow the law, if I’m kind to people, no matter how well I treat others it doesn’t matter. If you’re Asian, you’re less than human and people can treat you like trash.3 1. Chris Sommerfeldt, “California Airbnb Host Banned for Naming President Trump as Reason to Refuse Asian-American Guest,” New York Daily News, April 8, 2017, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-citingairbnb -host-banned-refusing-asian-american-guest-article-1.3032358. 2. Amy B. Wang, “‘One Word Says It All. Asian’: Airbnb Host Reportedly Leaves Guest Stranded Because of Her Race,” Washington Post, April 7, 2017, https://wapo.st/2o6JOPi. 3. Scuba Steve, “Trump Supporter Cancels Asian Woman’s Airbnb Stay,” video, 2:43, April 5, 2017, https://youtu.be/nuZn8iVQbSc. Nina Medvedeva 701 Fortunately for Suh, her party was able to find emergency lodging and received a full refund after contacting Airbnb. Months later, Airbnb banned the host; the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing ordered the host to pay Suh $5,000 and take a course in Asian American studies. In response to these developments, Suh posted the following affirmation on Facebook: “Your pain is not insignificant and you are not alone. . . . The more [Asian Americans] speak out, the harder it becomes for people to ignore, deny, or trivialize our lived experiences of being discriminated against like this day-to-day.”4 Suh is not alone in her experience. Hundreds of users in the United States have charged Airbnb with racial and anti-LGBTQ discrimination through hashtag social media campaigns like #AirbnbWhileBlack, #AirbnbWhileAsian, and a takeover of Airbnb’s own #HostWithPride. The corporation responded to the claims in the same they did with Suh’s case—working to redress harm and restore a sense of belonging to the Airbnb community, however tenuous it may be. Taking these events as a backdrop, I theorize the work of the emotions of belonging and redress. I build on feminist theorizations of the interrelation between affect, labor, and racial capitalism to explore what role emotion—the knot of affect, social life, governance, and subjectification —plays in constituting Airbnb’s corporate community and maintaining a member’s attachment.5 Instead of assuming that a corporation ’s failures create revolutionary opportunities to imagine otherwise , I track how institutions use these very failures to strengthen their own projects and viability. I argue that while the processes of redress embrace a critique of racialized and gendered logics that render people of color and queer people disposable in the United States, such attempts to redress individual harms still leave a larger structure intact. I conceptualize how Airbnb’s corporate narratives offer a political project that promises to overcome the shortcomings of racial capitalism. I provide a case study of how corporations govern emotions that tap into what Airbnb calls “the universal human yearning to belong—the desire 4. Amy B. Wang, “Airbnb Host Who Stranded Guest Because of Race Ordered to Take Class in Asian American Studies,” Washington Post, July 14, 2017, https://wapo.st/2tQWRZH. 5. Sara Ahmed, “Affective Economies,” Social Text 79 22, no. 2 (June 2004): 118–19. 702 Nina Medvedeva to feel welcomed, respected, and appreciated for who you...

Winter vacation, indoor air pollution and respiratory health among rural college students: A case study in Gansu Province, China

Indoor air pollution (IAP) is one of the most important risk factors contributing to respiratory health. This study aims to assess the respiratory effects of IAP caused by coal stoves and Chinese kang among rural college students during the winter vacation in Gansu Province, China. Seventy rural college students took the questionnaire survey, urine collection and spirometry tests before, during and after their winter vacations. IAP levels were evaluated by IAP exposure index. Linear mixed effect model and generalized linear mixed models were used to estimate the effect of IAP exposure index presented on respiratory health. Comparing with before and after the winter vacation, we found that there were the greater incidences of respiratory symptoms (χ2 = 19.54; p < 0.05) and the higher levels of urinary 8-epi-prostaglandin F2 alpha (8-epi-PGF2α), and the FEV1/FVC ratio decreased significantly during the winter vacation(p < 0.05). Every 1 unit increase in IAP exposure index was associated with an increase of 10.11% (95%CI: 0.97%–20.08%) 8-epi-PGF2α after adjusting for other variables (p < 0.05); and the risk of respiratory symptoms increases by 42% (OR: 1.42; 95%CI: 1.09–1.84) for every 1 increase in IAP exposure index. Our results indicate that, even during a short vacation period, the IAP caused by the use of coal stoves and Chinese kang in rural areas is associated with adverse respiratory health effects among healthy young adults, highlighting the importance of mitigating pollution from Chinese kang and coal stove.

ANALISIS DAN VISUALISASI HOST LIBURAN SINGKAT MENGGUNAKAN PENDEKATAN ANALISIS GEOSPASIAL

The development of sharing economy that happened exponentially has changed the accommodation sector in the tourism and hospitality industry. The varied customer experience, facilities, and range of prices offered has made this business model an alternative to traditional accommodation services and is a favorite among tourists. The rapid development of information technology facilitates many online platforms that provide property rental services with the concept of sharing economy. This makes the tourism and hospitality industry rich in data. This study aims to analyze data on property rental advertisements focusing on short vacation services with a case study of Airbnb data in Singapore. The results of the study are expected to be used by new players or old players in the business as one of the considerations of situation analysis for making decisions. The analysis was carried out to obtain patterns and relationships from data related to prices, room types, and property distribution in the form of diagrams and maps. This study uses a visual data analysis approach using the Python programming language.

Non Markovian Queuing System with Restricted Admissibility Method

This article take a glance at a cluster area single server channel Queuing system, where the server gives two sorts of vacations viz., beginning one a short vacation and the long vacation is permitted as a second vacation. Long vacation is given in two stages. First stage is compulsory and if in case of need, the server goes for a optional second stage of long vacation. In addition, the concept of restricted admissibility of customers to the system is applied during the time of optional second stage of long vacation. For the above outlined covering issue, the beneficial variable method and probability approach are utilized to determine the Probability generating capacity of the line measure and the normal length of the line. In like way the other execution degrees of the model are settled utilizing Little's law. At last, the model is guarded by procedures for numerical redirection and the model is top notch by the graphical examination.

Analysis of a bulk queue with unreliable server, immediate feedback, N-policy, Bernoulli schedule multiple vacation and stand-by server

Abstract We have studied the behaviour of a non-Markovian bulk service queueing model with unreliable server, stand-by server, loss and feedback, N-policy and Bernoulli schedule multiple vacation. The stand-by server is employed only during the main server’s repair period. At each service completion the main server may have an option to go for a short vacation. After each short vacation completion or service completion, if the system size is less than ‘a’, the server takes a sequence of vacation until the queue size reaches at least ‘N’. The concept of loss and feedback is also incorporated in this model. The PGF of queue size and some important performance measures are derived. An extensive numerical result is illustrated.

Analysis of $M^{[X_{1}]}, M^{[X_{2}]}/G_{1},G_{2}/1$ retrial queueing system with priority services, orbital search, compulsory short vacation, optional long vacation, working breakdown and repair

Analysis of $M^{[X_{1}]}, M^{[X_{2}]}/G_{1},G_{2}/1$ retrial queueing system with priority services, orbital search, compulsory short vacation, optional long vacation, working breakdown and repair

Short Vacation Improves Stress-Level and Well-Being in German-Speaking Middle-Managers-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Stress in the work place has a detrimental effect on people’s health. Sufficient recovery is necessary to counteract severe chronic negative load reactions. Previous research has shown that vacationing for at least seven consecutive days provided an efficient recovery strategy. Yet, thus far, the effects of short vacations and the mode of vacation (whether at home or in a new environment) have rarely been studied. We investigated the immediate and long-term effects of a short vacation (four nights) on well-being and perceived stress and whether the mode of vacation impacted on these results. Data was obtained from 40 middle managers (67.5% men and 32.5% women). The intervention group (n = 20) spent a short vacation in a hotel outside their usual environment. The control group (n = 20) spent their vacation at home. Results indicated that one single short-term vacation, independent of the mode, has large, positive and immediate effects on perceived stress, recovery, strain, and well-being. Strain levels decreased to a greater extent in the intervention group compared to the control group. The effects can still be detected at 30 days (recovery) and 45 days (well-being and strain) post-vacation. Encouraging middle management employees to take short vacations seems to be an efficient health promotion strategy; environmental effects seem to play a minor role.

If We Had Known.

If We Had Known Susan Sullivan We adopted our daughter, Niki, from El Salvador when she was eleven months old. Her birthday was January 19, 1990. The only history about her birth parents that was known was that her mother was twenty eight when she gave birth to her. Niki was very healthy growing up except for some minor issues and nothing [End Page 106] that gave us concern. Also, none of her doctors ever mentioned to her that she might consider genetic testing except when she became pregnant at age twenty three. She had just graduated from the University of Hawaii with a BS in Geography and life was good. Since her husband was in the military, healthcare was affordable and easy to access. Doctors performed genetic testing since she did not have any family health history and determined that her baby was healthy. They never mentioned to her that she should have genetic testing in any other context because if they had she would have known that she was carrying the gene BRAC1 for breast cancer. Her daughter was born when she was twenty three and Niki seemed healthy after that. She had been a dancer through high school and she was eager to get back into shape. She ran, lifted weights and pushed herself to do strenuous exercises. We had gone on a short vacation together in October and she was happy. Thanksgiving 2014, she hosted dinner for twelve and made seven homemade pies. She loved taking care and doing things for family and friends. In early December of 2014 she complained that her back and shoulder was hurting and we all assumed she had been working out too hard. Also, as a new mother was regularly carrying around a toddler. She went to the doctor and he said she probably pulled a muscle and just dismissed her. This should have been a red flag since she was adopted, and additional testing could have given her precious time with us and her daughter and husband. At Christmas 2014 she developed the flu and went to the emergency room, they tested her for the flu, it came back positive, so that was treated and she was sent home. But after that she did not look well and her back was hurting more so she went to the emergency room and they said she would need a referral from her primary doctor and they did not see anything unusual. In January of 2015, she then went back to her primary doctor and had to insist that something was not right and he reluctantly agreed to let her have a mammogram even though he thought it was unnecessary. The mammogram came back abnormal and suspicious and a biopsy was scheduled. The results came back from the biopsy on January 15th. She met with the oncologist on Friday, January 16th and the oncologist ordered genetic testing and the test came back positive, she was indeed carrying the BRAC1 gene. Monday was both her 25th birthday and a holiday so she was to start treatment on Tuesday, January 20th. On Sunday, the day before her 25th birthday, she had a party and invited all her friends and family. Niki told them not to feel sorry for her because she had been blessed to have been adopted and loved by her parents and friends. She said she was going to fight this and asked me to plan a family trip to Disney World so she could take her daughter to her favorite place. That trip took place without Niki a year later and was very bittersweet with memories all around us. Her last Facebook post read: January 19 at 9:20 pm · “I can honestly say this has been the best Birthday I have ever had!! I was reunited with 50+ friends, and felt completely spoiled, cherished, and loved! Although this next year will be the hardest year of my life I am ready to conquer and overcome this battle! And I know for a fact many blessings will come from all this because I’ve already been witnessing them the past few days. Thank you again everyone.” Then later that...

Time-dependent and steady state solution of an M[x]/(G)/1 queueing system with server's long and short vacations

We study the time-dependent and the steady state behaviour of an M[x]/(G)/1 queue with server’s long and short vacations. Customers arrive at the system in a Poisson stream in batches of variable size. The service time of a customer served by the server is assumed to have a general distribution. At each service completion epoch, the server may opt to take a long vacation with probability p1 and a short vacation with probability p2 or else with probability p3 (p1+p2+p3=1) he may opt to continue to be available in the system. The long and short vacation periods of the server are assumed to have general distributions with different mean vacation times. We obtain time-dependent probability generating functions for the queue size. The corresponding steady state results including the stability condition, steady state probabilities of different states of the system, the mean queue size and mean waiting time in the queue as well as in the system have been derived in explicit and closed forms. Several particular cases of interest including some earlier known results have been derived. Many numerical examples confirming validity of the theoretical results have been peformed.

Optimal NT Policies for a Two-Phase Service M/G/1 System with Bernoulli Vacation Schedule

This paper studies Optimal NT policies for a two-phase service M/G/1 system with a Bernoulli vacation schedule. This system also covers an unreliable server with a breakdown period and a delaying period. While the server is serving, it may fail and the service channel may be shut for a short intermission. Then the server starts service when the number of the waiting customers approaches threshold value N, or when the waiting time of the leading customers reaches a predetermined time T. If the above policy is utilized, the server resumes its service after a startup time. The server serves the waiting customers in two consecutive phases. After the completion of the two phases of service, the server may take a short vacation or may remain in the system to serve the next unit, which is considered Bernoulli vacation schedule. Moreover, we assume the server fails according to a Poisson process whose repair time follows a general distribution. We obtain the optimal NT threshold to minimize the cost function of the system.

Research Note: An Analysis of Cruise Ship Impact on Local Hotel Demand — An Event Study in Charleston, South Carolina

This study examines cruise passenger demand for hotel accommodation in Charleston, South Carolina, prior to embarkation and after debarkation. The findings reveal that cruise passengers are significant drivers of room night demand around embarkation and debarkation. In addition, cruise passenger demand for room nights was not isolated to non-tourist districts of the greater metropolitan area, suggesting that a cruise from Charleston was coupled with a short vacation. This research is particularly important to destination managers, port authorities, municipalities and other stakeholders as they examine and negotiate the frequency, type and timing of passenger cruise service that provides the most positive benefit for the community.

Will Rest for the Weary Wear Everybody Out?

Will Rest for the Weary Wear Everybody Out?

Optimal Policies for a K-Phase Service System with Bernoulli Vacation Schedule

This paper studies Optimal NT policies for a k-phase service M/G/1 system with Bernoulli vacation schedule. The system contains an unreliable server with a breakdown period and delaying period. The server determines to start service by the policy: the server reactivates as soon as the number of arrivals in the queue reaches to a predetermined threshold N or T time units have elapsed since the end of the completion period. There are k phases of service in the system. After the completion of k phases service, the server may take a short vacation or may remain in the system to serve the next unit, which is defined by Bernoulli vacation schedule. Moreover, we assume the server fails according to a Poisson process whose repair time follows a general distribution. In final, we analyze the system characteristics for each scheme and obtained the optimal NT threshold to minimize the cost function.

Incest in the 1990s: Reading Anaïs Nin's ‘Father Story’

In the summer of 1933, diarist, author and critic Anaïs Nin joined her father for a short vacation in France. Nin wrote about the trip in her diary afterwards, referring to it as the ‘Father Story.’ In the story, she details how, aged 30, she embarked upon an affair with her father that would last for several months. Rather than displaying the signs of trauma that we have come to expect from the incest narrative such as dissociation, blame and recrimination, the ‘Father Story’ is more ambiguous in its tone. Part-tribute to the father, part-seduction narrative, part-confession, this is a story that resists categorisation—a resistance that has ethical, critical and formal ramifications for our reading of incest narratives. Upon its publication in the early 1990s, critics responded to the ‘Father Story’ as fantastical, excessive and vulgar. These responses form part of a wider American father story during this period; a story about memory, therapy culture, family values and the concealed rules of testimony. This article reads Anaïs Nin's narrative as a text that raises fundamental questions about why certain father (and daughter) stories are culturally acceptable, and others are not.

Knowing When to Refuel and Renew

Nurse leaders are frequently called upon to deal with challenging and distressing human resource (HR) issues. Throughout my career, some of my most critical learning opportunities have been HR-related. What I’ve learned is that it’s easy to talk the talk of “do the right thing for the patients always,” but it takes a true leader and principled individual to walk the walk each day. One HR crisis in particular literally rocked me to my personal core. Under my watch, a nursing practice issue surfaced that required swift and deliberate action, including the termination of well-intentioned leaders and nursing board sanctions for several RNs. Timing compounded the issue: A very public and important announcement about nursing practice was set to take place, and the fallout from the terminations and sanctions prompted disgruntled staff to consider a remonstrative demonstration at a ceremonial event. My leadership style and my decision-making practice were publicly called into question. Even though regulatory compliance, legal, and HR departments were in agreement with the corrective actions being taken, I was a primary target for complaints that escalated to include all of hospital administration. Drama built over a series of weeks, while the nursing ceremony loomed large. On the day of the ceremony, I was emotionally drained. I hadn’t slept well for weeks, and it was taking a physical toll. A colleague and friend recognized that I was near implosion and took me aside to say, “Stop. It’s time to take care of you. You have to get out of here and clear your head. If you don’t take care of you, you can’t continue to lead this department.” Truer words had never been spoken. But as a nurse is wont to do, I had a million reasons why I couldn’t just step away, even briefly. Thankfully, my colleague and friend prevailed, and after the ceremony (no demonstration occurred— whew!), I packed a bag and my dog and went on a short RV vacation with my husband. The woods and time away had never been more therapeutic. I needed to care for myself and renew. In retrospect, I can clearly see the steps that exacerbated my stress and anxiety. What I’ve learned over time is that failure to care for yourself makes any bad situation worse. If you’re not taking time off, getting away, and focusing on something other than work, you’re doing yourself a disservice and ultimately setting yourself up for failure. Another friend and colleague, Dan Pesut from the Indiana University School of Nursing, recently spoke to a retreat of my nursing leadership team and tackled this very issue. He suggested that it is way too easy to get caught up in day-to-day trials and tribulations that can trip up the best of us and leave us wondering, “What the heck am I doing here?” But we can all get back to purpose by asking, “What am I truly trying to accomplish? Why am I really here?” The answer for me is always the same: the patients. I am here for the patients, who make the work worthwhile. Even as an executive, I feel that I can make a difference in their lives by supporting nurses and working with them to make a meaningful difference in the care patients receive. To take the best care of patients, we have to first take care of ourselves. Only that will allow us to live a good life—living where we belong, with the people we love, doing the right work, on purpose. For me, that is nursing in a nutshell: good work, good people, right reasons. As you strive to meet goals related to patient satisfaction and patient expectations, ask yourself what matters most. And then do something for yourself to help you get there.

Israel

The paper mentions that Israel is a prime tourist destination, owing primarily to its incredibly rich historical and archaeological resources, especially those relating to biblical times, which have great resonance with millions around the world. Its beautiful Mediterranean and Gulf of Eilat beaches, desert, and mountain vistas and moderate climate do not hurt either. Because Israel is a small nation, it is easy to traverse its entire area, even during a short vacation; although likewise, you could spend weeks at one spot soaking in the history. In the past four decades or so, Israel has also become a center for high-tech research and development. This trend is the result of many historical factors, but it certainly allows the computer professionals to combine business and pleasure on their trips.