This study examines whether the quality of online buying experience represents a competitive advantage for Internet firms focused on business to consumer ecommerce (“e-commerce” firms). Forrester Research, a consulting firm, estimates that revenues in the business to consumer segment will grow from $20 billion in 1999 to $184 billion by 2004. Such explosive growth is due, in part, to the superi...

Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Department of Basic Sciences and Nutrition, Health Sciences Research Center, School of Public Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Science...

Steganography is the science of hiding a message signal in a host signal, without any perceptual distortion of the host signal. Using steganography, information can be hidden in the carrier items such as images, videos, sounds files, text files, while performing data transmission. In image steganography field, it is a major concern of the researchers how to improve the capacity of hidden data i...

Choi DJ. Prevalence and prognostic implication of non-calcified plaque in asymptomatic population with coronary artery calcium score of zero. Korean Circ J 2013; 43:154–160. 26. Blaha MJ, Budoff MJ, DeFilippis AP, Blankstein R, Rivera JJ, Agatston A, O’Leary DH, Lima J, Blumenthal RS, Nasir K. Associations between C-reactive protein, coronary artery calcium, and cardiovascular events: implicati...

Hamid Jazayeriy Masrah Azmi-Murad Nasir Sulaiman Nur Izura Udizir The Learning of an Opponent's Approximate Preferences in Bilateral Automated Negotiation Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ISSN 0718–1876 Electronic Version VOL 6 / ISSUE 3 / DECEMBER 2011 / 65-84 © 2011 Universidad de Talca Chile This paper is available online at www.jtaer.com DOI: 10.4067/S0718-187...

The study aimed to assess the trend in acceptance and characteristics of acceptors of female sterilization between January 1999 and December 2006 at the University of Nigeria Teaching IHospital, linugu, South-Eastern Nigeria. There were a total of 20,485 new clients, with 212 (1.0%) accepting sterilization between January 1999 and December 2006. There was an initial rise in acceptance from 0.4%...

Objective: To examine smoking habits before and during pregnancy, as well as factors associated with smoking cessation, in three European settings. Methods: Women seeking antenatal care in Ashford (UK), Minorca and Barcelona (Spain) were recruited to the Asthma Multicenter Infant Cohort Study (AMICS). Questionnaires inquiring into the smoking habits of each woman and her partner, demographic da...