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UM students’ research on hyperthermia wins best paper award at international conference
Lam Lam and Song Naihe, recent graduates in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering (EME) of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau (UM), presented their research on hyperthermia applications at the 7th International Workshop on Heat-Mass Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT 2023). The study provides a basis for the amount of heat required by microrobots to generate hyperthermia in blood vessels. It was well received by the judges and won the best paper award.
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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for August 2023
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 136 hotel establishments offered accommodation services to the public in August 2023, an increase of 16 year-on-year. Total number of available guest rooms grew by 20.0% to 45,000. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms in August hiked by 53.8 percentage points year-on-year to 88.7%; 5-star hotels had the highest occupancy rate of 90.9%, which represented a rise of 59.0 percentage points year-on-year, and the rates for 2-star (89.5%) and 4-star hotels (88.1%) surged by 42.4 percentage points and 49.3 percentage points respectively.
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Results of industrial survey 2022
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 889 establishments operating in industrial related activities in Macao (covering Manufacturing and Electricity, Gas & Water Supply) in 2022, the same as in 2021. Total number of persons engaged dropped by 204 to 10,579. Receipts and Expenditure of these establishments amounted to MOP10.53 billion and MOP7.74 billion respectively in 2022, up by 1.3% and 2.5% year-on-year. As expenditure showed a higher increase than receipts, Gross Surplus decreased by 1.8% year-on-year to MOP2.80 billion. Gross Value Added that measures the sectoral contribution to the economy went down by 1.6% to MOP4.85 billion, and Gross Fixed Capital Formation declined by 74.5% to MOP310 million.
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