This study examines contemporary shopping centres from a critical standpoint as spatial devices of the current global socio-economic system in which public realm is reduced to an active shopping realm. Thus, shopping centres that are spatial instruments of modern consumption culture are being transformed into means of social disintegration by breaking individual from community. Therefore, the a...

previous electronic commerce (ec) studies have found thatconsumer characteristics are important when considering issues related tothe acceptance of online shopping. however, most studies have focusedon a single product or similar products. the effects of different producttypes have been relatively neglected. to overcome this limitation, thepurpose of this study was to explore the effects of dif...

In recent years, the popularity of e-commerce has witnessed a significant uptick. Physical apparel stores need to implement measures that focus on behavioral experience shopping at physical stores, trait lacks. The purpose this paper is clarify relationship between customer values and product search behavior proposed placement service methods based their values. We used questionnaire data purch...

SPILKOVÁ, J. (2012): The Birth of the Czech Mall Enthusiast: The Transition of Shopping Habits From Utilitarian to Leisure Shopping. Geografie, 117, No. 1, pp. 21–32. – During the 1990s, shopping habits and consumer behavior underwent many important changes in Czechia. Consumers started to prefer large retail outlets and shopping malls, and began to shop less frequently. Shopping has become not...

In this paper, we propose a scheme to push personalized recommendation and advertisement services for the shopping people based on behavior patterns, inferring by significant shopping stores in the shopping mall from mobile phone data. The store-level localization in the shopping mall is obtained by sparse calibration orientated semi-supervised machine learning method, called Semi-supervised Ex...

While mobile shopping (m-shopping) is convenient in the age of mobile commerce, many people still discontinue their shopping using mobile devices even though they have the experience. Therefore, it is important for the m-shopping providers to understand the determinants of m-shopping continuance. This study extended Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM) to examine the determinants of m-shopping ...

OBJECTIVES to describe stability and change in levels of customary physical activity assessed in recall-based questionnaire surveys of older people conducted in 1985, 1989 and 1993. DESIGN longitudinal study. SUBJECTS 1042 people originally aged 65 and over randomly sampled from general practitioner lists in Nottingham, UK. METHODS logistic and multiple regression analyses, intraclass cor...

an f2 japanese quail population was developed by crossing two strains (wild and white) to map quantitative trait loci (qtl) for performance and carcass traits. a total of 472 f2 birds were reared and slaughtered at 42 days of age. performance and carcass traits were measured on all of the f2 individuals. parental (p0), f1 and f2 individuals were genotyped with 3 microsatellites from quail chrom...

Domulti-level selection explanations of the evolutionof social traits deepen the understanding provided by single-level explanations? Central tomultilevel explanations is a mathematical theorem, the multi-level Price decomposition. I build a framework through which to understand the explanatory role of such non-empirical decompositions in scienti c practice. Applying this general framework to t...