(1) Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiation awareness level of the public in Taiwan. (2) Methods: This study designed an online survey form to investigate the radiation awareness level with six topics: basic knowledge of radiation, environmental radiation, medical radiation, radiation protection, and university/corporate social responsibility. The score of respondents were converted into knowledge and responsibility indexes for the quantitative evaluation. Logistic regression was used to assess the correlation between the knowledge index and individual factors. Paired t-test was used to assess the significant difference in knowledge index between pre-training and post-training. (3) Results: The knowledge index of each job category reflected the proportion of radiation awareness of the job. The logistic regression result indicated that radiation-related people could get higher knowledge index. The paired t-test indicated that the knowledge index before and after class had significant differences in all question topics. (4) Conclusions: The public’s awareness of medical radiation was the topic that needed to be strengthened the most—the responses with high knowledge index significantly correlated with their experience in radiation education training or radiation-related jobs. It significantly increased the knowledge index of radiation if the public received radiation education training.
Most of the researches discussed the evaluation of hotel performance emphasized the operational efficiency and resources usage. The discussions about the ability to fulfill customer needs and to increase utilization of the services provided by a hotel are relatively rare. This study applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model to evaluate both efficiency and effectiveness of the international tourism hotels (ITHs) in Taiwan. The results show that there are 17 ITHs have reached efficiency and 7 ITHs have reached effectiveness during 2008. However, there are only 5 ITHs have achieved efficiency and effectiveness at the same time. The results may suggest that the ITHs care more about the utilization of resources, however, the services provided by ITHs did not been fully used by their customers. Therefore, the ITHs should pay more attentions on their customer needs and further provide services that fit customer needs.
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