OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence and correlates of internet cigarette purchasing among adult smokers. DESIGN Analysis of internet purchasing in data from a population based telephone survey of New Jersey households. Logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with internet cigarette purchasing, adjusting for year, demographic, and smoking behaviour variables. PARTICIPANT...

The emergence of the purchasing function from a position of "corporate obscurity" to a role that is active and integrated is evident in highly developed economies. In the African countries, the tendency is for top management to be hesitant to acknowledge that in a cost competitive environment it would be prudent to develop purchasing’s profit generating potential. Central to the notion of devel...

Owing to the rapid development of the Internet and information technology in China, the growth of consumers’ purchasing activities in Internet shopping malls has been truly phenomenal in recent years. Taobao.com, Ebay.com.cn, and Paipai.com have 67,360,000 customer to customer (C2C) users and 99% of the market share in China’s C2C market (www.163.com). Dangdang.com and Joyo.com have occupied 87...

In the past thirty years, we have moved from the traditional exchange models of “explaining” and “managing” to the phenomena of the electronic revolution in buyerseller networks, the development of network formations, and the impact of electronic communications such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and the internet on electronic commerce. These network approach models emphasize “understandi...

Suppose there is a collection x1, x2, . . . , xN of independent uniform [0, 1] random variables, and a hypergraph F of target structures on the vertex set {1, . . . , N}. We would like to purchase a target structure at small cost, but we do not know all the costs xi ahead of time. Instead, we inspect the random variables xi one at a time, and after each inspection, choose to either keep the ver...

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S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...

This study targets social login registrants on an EC site and aims to clarify the difference between the purchasing tendency of social login registrants and general members by analyzing product purchasing history. The authors focused on the golf portal site that is the subject of this research. The authors analyzed the purchasing data comparing social login registrants with general members. It ...

Much debate about universal coverage has focused on expanding population coverage: who is covered by which scheme, how to cover those outside the formal sector, and whether the financing of universal coverage should be contributory or not. But population coverage is only one of the three dimensions of the universal coverage “cube”. Achieving the promise of universal coverage – that everyone sho...