Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how event attendees experience interactive encounters in the most competitive segment of the business sector of events – conferences. Design/methodology/approach A total of 26 in-depth personal interviews was conducted with previous conference...

Purpose Drawing upon an error management perspective, this study aims to examine how in the wake of an information security breach, a hotel’s error management culture influences customer engagement behaviors and trust. The potential moderating effects of the perceived error controllability are...

Purpose Although experiential consumption has received some attention from tourism and hospitality researchers in the past decade, the profile of experiential consumers has not been discussed thus far. The purpose of this paper is thus twofold: to test the sociodemographic antecedents of...

This paper provides risky closeout amount in computing counterparty credit risk. Under this closeout, we obtain a new nonlinear PDE model describing the value of a standard interest swap with counterparty credit risk in the reduced form framework, thus get a new method to calculate counterparty...

With the rapid development of wind energy, relay protection for large-scale wind farms has been attracting some researchers, due to the absence of standards. Based on the large-scale doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farms located in Gansu Province, China, this paper studies the...

It is an important means in management of improving both the quality and quantity of cultivated land to monitor grade changes in cultivated land quality. How to deploy monitoring network system and its point reasonably and roundly are the key to the technology of monitoring grade changes in...

The Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation is an organic-rich (black) mudrock that is widely considered to be a potential shale gas reservoir in the southern Sichuan Basin (the Yangtze plate) in Southwest China. A case study is presented to characterise the shale gas reservoir using a workflow to...

Recently, the modified BFW model on random graphs [W. Chen, R.M. D’Souza, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 115701], which shows a discontinuous percolation transition with multiple giant components, has attracted much attention from physicists and statisticians. In this paper, by establishing the...