Human lives consist of activities such as working, raising families, socializing, shopping and recreation. These activities require time and space, and are often only available at particular locations for limited durations. People differ with respect to the location and timing of key activities in their lives (e.g., home, work) as well as available time and transportation and communication reso...

The Internet/World Wide Web (Web) is an important way for the sharing of business information between retail firms and their customers. Although electronic commerce (e-commerce) has received considerable research attention, the literature reveals that the relationship between customer satisfaction and e-commerce has not yet been sufficiently studied. This research contributes to a better unders...

Electronic Commerce has rapidly grown with the expansion of the Interact. E-commerce has also become a promising field for applying agent and Artificial Intelligence technologies. Software agents help to automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. In this paper, we describe a multimodal intelligent Shopping Assistant developed in the EM...

OBJECTIVES To estimate prevalence and assess factors associated with doctor shopping among caregivers of children acutely admitted to a hospital in Hong Kong, and examine the reasons for such behaviour and caregivers' awareness of its possible dangers. DESIGN Cross-sectional study with face-to-face surveys. SETTING A paediatric unit in a teaching hospital in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Caregi...

Differences in tax rates create incentives for consumers to cross the border to shop in a low tax environment. This paper uses a unique panel data set of consumer financial transactions to study if consumers living closer to the border are less likely to buy in the home country in comparison to consumers living further away from the border. We exploit the tradeoff between distance, price and qu...

BACKGROUND to our knowledge no research has investigated the effect of home visiting nurse (HVN) interventions on individual instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). OBJECTIVE to investigate the effects of an HVN intervention on the difficulty or dependence in six individual IADLs. DESIGN a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled study comparing an HVN intervention (n = 237) wi...

This paper explores the effects of trip purpose on price elasticity of bus mode. Data for the research was collected through passenger field survey in Isfahan, Iran. Due to the nature of the data, nonlinear regression and nonparametric statistics tools were used for analysis. It was found that the logarithmic function best explains the relationship between percentage of change in demand and per...