AIM The purpose of this article is to describe three strategies to build a thriving, patient-centered practice and promote oral health throughout a patient's lifetime. BACKGROUND Compared to previous decades, more dental patients are "shopping around" for dental care and changing dental practices. This trend is due to factors such as acceptance of dental insurance, more comprehensive service ...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the association of Japanese schoolchildren's involvement in at-home meal preparation with food intake and cooking skill. SUBJECTS/METHODS We included 1,207 fifth-grade children aged 10-11 years and one parent of each child. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data on involvement in at-home meal preparation. Correspondence analysis was...

Applications to support online comparison shopping are expected to become increasingly available to consumers. However, not all consumers equally engage in online comparison shopping and, thus, would not necessarily benefit from such tools. The study proposes that the perceived usefulness of comparison shopping tools depends on consumers‟ comparison shopping proneness, which in turn is influenc...

Shopping is a social activity that people enjoy doing with friends and close ones. In this paper we name such joint shopping activity performed by two or more people together as “collaborative shopping”, and investigate the possible means of carrying it out online. We start with identifying the objectives of collaborative shopping (i.e., socializing and purchasing) and propose website features ...

T paper analyzes the competitive role of retail shopping experience in markets with consumer search costs. We examine how a retailer’s advantage in providing consumer shopping experience affects its equilibrium pricing and price advertising strategies. We find that if the consumer valuation of a shopping experience is sufficiently low, its effect on retailer strategy is similar to that of quali...

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on several of the nation’s industries, aviation being no stranger given financial difficulties, flight cancellations, and health mandates sector consequently faced. Despite concerns that a wave bankruptcy filings would submerge U.S. courts, domestic need for restructuring did not arise as predicted, main reason federal assistance provided to enterprises i...

The main purpose of this study is to assess the impact pandemic on online shopping in case Kosovo. Cunningham (2019) states that an e-commerce activity involves buying items a seller’s website through credit or debit card and delivering item your home with shopping, customers buy from anywhere world digital platform. data used are primary, collected questionnaire it was distributed using social...

The purpose of this study is to investigate hedonic online shopping motivations. A qualitative analysis was conducted to explore the factors influencing online hedonic shopping motivations. The results of the study indicate that traditional hedonic values, consisting of social, role, self-gratification, learning trends, pleasure of bargaining, stimulation, diversion, status, and adventure, and ...