BACKGROUND Bicycle injuries are of concern in Canada. Since helmet use was mandated in 1996 in the province of British Columbia, Canada, use has increased and head injuries have decreased. Despite the law, many cyclists do not wear a helmet. Health action process approach (HAPA) model explains intention and behaviour with self-efficacy, risk perception, outcome expectancies and planning constru...

Organizations in industry field and high-velocity business environments are facing rapid and discontinuous change in demand, competitions, technology, and/or regulations. Decision makers operating in such contexts must make high-quality decisions rapidly. In the other side also developments in information and communication technologies make it increasingly possible to support decision makers in...

abstract producing of flowers and ornamental plants in iran has some challenges and failure in the market structure and marketing of these products. in this study, we evaluated the different marketing channels of flowers and ornamental plants in the existing market structure according to economic criteria and the characteristics of market structure. cut-rose and esfahan province were selected a...

The Tourism Company is a UK-based tourism consultancy working in the field of tourism research, planning, development and marketing, with a specialism in rural tourism, ecotourism and protected areas.

Despite the traction that contemporary out-of-home advertising has gained in the global media landscape, there are still some ambiguities regarding the contribution of this medium in the context of integrated marketing communication. Previous studies have examined consumers’ responses to different out-of-home advertising media types; however, little attention has been paid to how they could con...

This paper presents an agent-based mediator-centric architecture for holonic manufacturing systems, which integrates an enterprise's activities such as design, planning, scheduling, simulation, execution and marketing services with its partners' activities into a distributed intelligent open environment.