Online shopping caters the needs of millions of users on a daily basis. To build an accurate system that can retrieve relevant products for a query like “MB252 with travel bags” one requires product and query categorization mechanisms, which classify the text as Home&Garden>Kitchen&Dining>Kitchen Appliances>Blenders. One of the biggest challenges in e-Commerce is that providers like Amazon, e-B...

Yoshio Miyamori Yoshihiro Ashi Eisuke Sato Mitsuhiro Takano ABSTRACT: Deployment of optical fibers in the access network is expected to have a large impact on the realization of multimedia services such as video on demand and home shopping. The passive optical network (PON) method allows for implementation of the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service at low cost, due to sharing of the optical transm...

This study investigates the relationship between impulse buying and product shortages in context of television home shopping. Home shopping networks adopt promotional tactics to pitch sales even encourage consumers' buying. Marketing management often assume that shoppers' will increase profits, not considering possibility a significant number purchases could be canceled or returned. In general,...

1 Discovering what works in home care begins with asking the right questions. Two principles from the evaluation research field are useful in understanding what results should be expected of home care: First, examination of program activities may be the key to discovering program objectives (Deutscher, 1977); second, evidence of immediate effects of programs is much more likely to be found than...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the associations between food environment at the individual level, socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity rates in two cities: Seattle and Paris. METHODS: Analyses of the SOS (Seattle Obesity Study) were based on a representative sample of 1340 adults in metropolitan Seattle and King County. The RECORD (Residential Environment and Coronary Heart Disease) cohort analyses we...

Assessments of access to healthful food frequently use GIS to measure the distance and concentration of food outlets relative to where residents live. These descriptive approaches do not account for food shopping behavior, which may vary based on the attributes of food shoppers and their activity space—places where they live, work, access resources, and socialize. Building on transportation res...