With the advances in information and communications technology, mobile context-aware applications have become powerful marketing tools. In Apple online store, there are numerous mobile applications (APPs) developed for destination tour. This study investigated the determinants of adoption of context-aware APPs for destination tour services. A model is proposed based on Technology Acceptance Mod...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to: (i) examine associations between food store patronage and diet and weight-related outcomes; and (ii) explore consumer motivations for visiting different types of food store. DESIGN A stratified probability sample of residents completed household and individual-level surveys in 2009/2010 on food purchasing patterns and motivations, dietary intake, waist ci...

The aim of the paper is to study consumers' acceptability for a lamb meat from a local autochthonous breed. An intention to purchase model was developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and estimated using data from a survey conducted in Spain. Results indicated that consumers were willing to buy this lamb meat because 86% of respondents said that they probably/definitely would buy...

The current trend favoring real-time services delivery anywhere at anytime has difficulties to cope with the dynamics of mobile networks. Furthermore, the present Internet network architecture is defeated by environments where links are error prone, intermittent, with high delay and when nodes may disappear unexpectedly. Transport services based on store and forward (such as the Delay/Disruptio...

Due to the huge amount of integrated devices and sensors in everyday objects ubiquitous systems are in vicinity and will be deployed in large scales in the near future. We expect these system to be unreliable as nodes may crash or vanish from time to time. Therefore a reliable data store is needed to offer application developers a secure place to store the data of the services. The data store i...

As moving to big data world where data is increasing in unstructured way with high velocity, there is a need of data-store to store this bundle amount of data. Traditionally, relational databases are used which are now not compatible to handle this large amount of data, so it is needed to move on to non-relational data-stores. In the current study, we have proposed an extension of the Mongo...