The purpose of this paper investigates the effect of perceived value on customer loyalty through brand image and customer satisfaction in a lowpriced cosmetic brand, as well as to examine the moderating role of gender. The results showed that perceived value positively affects brand image and customer satisfaction. Brand image positively influences customer loyalty but does not influence custom...

One of the problems that organizations are facing is employee desertion. The desertion of poor staff can lead to increase organizational productivity and it’s benefit for organization, while the desertion of effective staff has bad consequences for the organization. These staff imposes significant direct and indirect costs to the organization when leave it. These costs include finding, training...

JPEG compression of the left and right components of a stereo image pair is a way to save valuable bandwidth when transmitting stereoscopic images. This paper presents results on the effects of camera-base distance and JPEG-coding on overall image quality, perceived depth, perceived sharpness and perceived eye-strain. In the experiment, two stereoscopic still scenes were used, varying in depth ...

OBJECTIVES The study has aimed to identify the relations between the supplementary person-organization fit (P-O fit) and the perceived stress among managerial staff, with special regard to the mediating role of the effort-reward balance. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 715 middle-level managers, aged 25-64 years old, employed in large companies. To measure the selected vari...

We show how perceived contrast of natural images, as a function of spatial frequency, is measurable using a novel form of the psychophysical ‘classification image’ paradigm. Contrast spatial frequency weighting functions peak at mid-high frequencies, and are more stable than predicted by common definitions of image contrast or contrast sensitivity. 1. Objective and background Perceived contrast...

The increasing numbers of older people and higher expectations of a "good life" within societies, has lead to international interest in the enhancement of quality of life (QoL) among older adults. Understanding whether the same aspects of life are equally important to the life quality of subgroups of older people is important in helping health professionals plan social and health care policy an...

The aim of this study is to develop a conceptual model for purchase intention of foreign food products in the Iranian context. Based on an in-depth review of past literature, the sub-factors related to customer’s purchase intention were extracted. Then, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were applied to identify and confirm the factors affecting purchase intention of f...

Body image (BI) can be described as the assessment of both positive and negative emotion for one's own body parts and their characteristics by himself or herself. Current research has concentrated mostly on the status of negative BI as a risk factor for mental health problems rather than as a public health problem, thereby little is known about the effects of BI on quality of life. Thus, the pu...