the purpose of the present study is to investigate effective factors in making people willing to repurchase sports match tickets online with the approach of extending technology acceptance model. this research is considered applied regarding its purpose, descriptive- survey regarding its method, and is based on structural equation model (sem). the participants are iran's national volleybal...

Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as its basis, this study looks at the impact of intrinsic motivation (perceived enjoyment) and extrinsic motivation (perceived usefulness) on Internet usage in Malaysia, where the penetration of this technology is relatively low compared to the more developed nation. Data collected from respondents were factor analysed and the constructs showed good c...

nowadays, internet technology provides an opportunity for banks and financial institutions to take advantages in dynamic and competitive turbulent environment in their favor. in addition, considering the importance and status of internet banking and growing trend of it in the country in recent years, now banks and financial institutions have found that maintaining status and effective developme...

We report on an empirical verification of the degree to which citation numbers represent scientific impact as it is actually perceived by experts in their respective field. We run a survey of about 2000 corresponding authors who performed a pairwise impact assessment task across more than 20,000 scientific articles. Results of the survey show that citation data and perceived impact do not align...

Agricultural runoff into surface water is a problem in Australia, as it is in arguably all agriculturally active countries. While farm practices and resource management measures are employed to reduce downstream effects, they are often either technically insufficient or practically unsustainable. Therefore, consumers may still be exposed to agrichemicals whenever they turn on the tap. For rural...

In order to disentangle acoustical and non-acoustical factors in sound-quality evaluation, a signal-processing scheme [H. Fastl (2001). Proceedings 17th ICA, Rome] that renders most sounds unrecognizable while preserving their temporal loudness envelopes was employed. Two independent groups of subjects (N=20 each) evaluated a set of 40 environmental and product sounds, either in their original,...