Do leaks of hydraulic fluids and jet engine lubricating oils cause potentially toxic fumes to be released into the cabins of commercial airliners? If so, do those fumes cause acute and chronic health problems such as headache, nausea, fatigue, memory loss, and neuromuscular damage in airline crew members and passengers? Those simple questions are at the heart of a brewing controversy. Advocacy ...

Shopping orientations are useful in the study of patronage behaviour including store loyalty, brand loyalty, in-home shopping, and out-shopping. This paper describes an empirical study that examined the relationship between shopping orientations, product types, and consumer intentions to use the Internet for shopping. Analyses of data collected from over 750 survey respondents reveal that home,...

Introduction: During trips the imposed costs are aggravated due to time and financial limits, not being familiar with treatment centers that are covered by the insurances and charges for accommodation. Insurance, especially supplementary treatment services insurance can be an appropriate solution to decrease these costs. These kinds of insurances cover a range of services inclu...

Multimedia, social media content, and interaction are common means to attract customers in shopping. However these features are not always fully available for customers when they go shopping in physical shopping centers. The authors propose Smart Shopping Assistant, a multimedia and social media augmented system on mobile devices to enhance users’ experience and interaction in shopping. Smart S...

This study examines contemporary shopping centres from a critical standpoint as spatial devices of the current global socio-economic system in which public realm is reduced to an active shopping realm. Thus, shopping centres that are spatial instruments of modern consumption culture are being transformed into means of social disintegration by breaking individual from community. Therefore, the a...

However, longer life, combined with vastly different personal expectations and social structures, presents far more issues than we have confronted in previous generations. Individuals, policy makers, and business must think beyond health and retirement to include all those services and supports that are the infrastructure of daily living. Examples include communications, housing, centers of lea...

previous electronic commerce (ec) studies have found thatconsumer characteristics are important when considering issues related tothe acceptance of online shopping. however, most studies have focusedon a single product or similar products. the effects of different producttypes have been relatively neglected. to overcome this limitation, thepurpose of this study was to explore the effects of dif...

SPILKOVÁ, J. (2012): The Birth of the Czech Mall Enthusiast: The Transition of Shopping Habits From Utilitarian to Leisure Shopping. Geografie, 117, No. 1, pp. 21–32. – During the 1990s, shopping habits and consumer behavior underwent many important changes in Czechia. Consumers started to prefer large retail outlets and shopping malls, and began to shop less frequently. Shopping has become not...

In this paper, we propose a scheme to push personalized recommendation and advertisement services for the shopping people based on behavior patterns, inferring by significant shopping stores in the shopping mall from mobile phone data. The store-level localization in the shopping mall is obtained by sparse calibration orientated semi-supervised machine learning method, called Semi-supervised Ex...