Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role played by digital channel integration in town-centre shopping experience. It also explores how customers perceive town-centres journeys, improves experiences and encourages positive future patronage behaviour. Ultimately, aim identify likely implications a connected experience on intentions. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative resea...

Rapid urbanization in China has triggered the conversion of land from rural to urban use, particularly the conversion of rural settlements to town land. This conversion is the result of the joint effects of the geographic environment and agents involving the government, investors, and farmers. To understand the dynamic interaction dominated by agents and to predict the future landscape of town ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the leading causes of mortality and premature mortality in Cape Town, South Africa, and its subdistricts, and to compare levels of mortality between subdistricts. METHODS Cape Town mortality data for the period 2001-2006 were analysed by age, cause of death and sex. Cause-of-death codes were aggregated into three main cause groups: (i) pre-transitional causes (e.g. commu...

The genetic profiles oj the domestic cat populations oj Cape Town and Pretoria have been determined. That jor the Cape Town population satisfies two testsjor panmixia, whereas the Pretoria population meets one oj two such criteria. The relative ajfinities ojeach locality with variolls populations in England, the Netherlands and the New World are discussed with rejerence to the historical im­ mi...

C.T. Bolliger*, A. Brunelli and A. Charloux *Internal Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa, Dept of Thoracic Surgery, Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy, and Physiologie et Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Correspondence: C.T. Bolliger, Internal Medicine, University of Stellenbosc...