Qualitative research methods were used to examine the role of racial, cultural, and socio-economic group (i.e., communal) identities on perceptions of barriers and control related to traditional and internet resources for seeking health information. Eighteen lower income, African American women participated in training workshops on using the internet for health, followed by two focus groups. Tr...

Nearly 400 Canadian adolescents were surveyed about their information seeking for career decision making. A written questionnaire gathered data on degree of helpfulness of various information sources and the ways in which these sources have helped and asked about some of the barriers to information seeking faced by adolescents. Thirty semistructured interviews with participants drawn from the s...

An understanding of corporate customer acceptance of Internet banking can assist banks to assess the real business value of Internet banking implementation. The four benefit factors are information quality, information accessibility, information sharing, and transaction benefit. The three major barriers are related to trust, legal support, and organization barriers. Information quality and tran...

this study aimed to identify barriers of hydrothermal fish business in golestan province. study was a descriptive survey. t he statistical population of the study consisted of all 147 aquaculture hydrothermal fish growers and all of them were selected using census method. information was gathered through a questionnaire which its face validity was confirmed by experts of agricultural extension ...

Individuals are often faced with various types of barriers and failures when they look for information. They sometimes fail to locate their desired information after trying or even exhausting all of their known sources. Research has mostly focused on the barriers people face on the Web, but experiences with information seeking failures—particularly those that involve offline channels in real li...

Unprecedented desktop access to scholarly information has been made possible by the introduction of digital libraries. The powerful combination of digital publications, specialist and generalist databases, sophisticated search systems and portals enables scholars and students to rapidly examine a great variety of the literature in their own disciplines and those new to them. Access is available...

This work shows that the existence of asymmetry of information on demand is sufficient for us to observe a product cycle in international markets, under certain conditions. In particular, we derive the conditions under which an informed firm can skew the playing field to its advantage and defer entry to future periods in a multi-period game, where two firms – an incumbent and an entrant – compe...

Data analysis, in research settings as well as in other settings, is often conducted at a personal scale where a single analyst is responsible for cleaning, transforming, and generally preparing one or more datasets. These datasets are then analyzed, perhaps using a statistical software package or other tool. Although there are many benefits that can accrue from sharing and reusing the intermed...

Background A number of developing countries have contracted out public health facilities to the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in order to improve service utilization. However, there is a paucity of in-depth qualitative information on barriers to access services as a result of contracting from service users’ perspective. The objective of this study was to explore perceived barriers to util...