The customers ’preference is derived from reflection on a product or special commercial brand, and factors such as positive appraisal of a brand performance and holding advantages and being unique, establishes the preference. This study aimed to develop a model of female customers' preferences in selecting banks and to train senior managers and banking staff. It had an applied objective, adopte...

The notion of age-friendliness is gaining increasing attention from policy makers and researchers. In this study, we examine the congruence between two types of age-friendly surveys: subjective assessments by community residents versus objective assessments by municipal officials. The study was based on data from 39 mostly rural communities in Manitoba, Canada, in which a municipal official and...

Compared to battery electric vehicles (BEVs), fuel cell (FCVs) have been developing since the early 2000s due their efficiency and environmental advantages. However, unlike industry which has already achieved economies of scale, scale manufacturing is still in its stage China. In this exploratory study, using case BYD, we identify analyze key economic factors that might facilitate propel adopti...

BACKGROUND Swedish youth clinics constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people. However, studies evaluating their 'youth-friendliness' and the combination of factors that makes them more or less 'youth-friendly' have not been conducted. This protocol will scrutinise the current youth-friendliness of youth clin...

(From http://agefriendlyworld.org/en/age-friendly-in-practice/, accessed March 16, 2015.) Cancer care, like any healthcare, is delivered in agencies and institutions that are in fact communities with their own cultures and lifeways. Presently, cancer care resides in organizations that are poorly suited to the needs of older people. Contemporary policy directives note a significant lack of prepa...

As our computers embed more cores, efficient reasoners are designed with parallelization but also CPU and memory friendliness in mind. These latter contribute to make reasoner tractable in practice despite the computational complexity of logical fragments. However, creating benchmarks to monitor this CPU-friendliness for many reasoners, datasets and logical fragments is a tedious task. In this ...