introduction there is an agreement that eating disorder is related to psychological characteristics and on the other hand, level of ghrelin hormone, intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (icam-1) and e-selection also change during eating disorders. we aimed to study the relationship between eating disorders and rest levels, icam-1, e-selection, and ghrelin hormone in obese people. materials and met...

Introduction There is an agreement that eating disorder is related to psychological characteristics and on the other hand, level of ghrelin hormone, Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and E-selection also change during eating disorders. We aimed to study the relationship between eating disorders and rest levels, ICAM-1, E-selection, and ghrelin hormone in obese people. Materials and Met...

Despite the increasing popularity of e-books and the growing maturity of e-book markets, there have been few studies on the e-book channel and its influence on the existing paper book channel. In order to fill this gap in the literature, we investigate the extent to which e-book release boosts or cannibalizes demand for the paper book. Using unique data on the actual sales of paper books and e-...

[email protected] ABSTRACT This paper addresses an important research area in digital government development: intelligent design of digital government Web portals, a primary means of realizing the core function of digital government – online government service delivery. In particular, we propose and study the eservice selection problem and introduce a web-mining based approach to e...

A number of e-Processes (i.e. software processes for developing e-Commerce information systems) exist in industry. We presuppose that for a subclass of these their targeted quality is considered as a driving force of system development. The complexity of selecting a well-suited eProcess for a case at hand is thus increased as e-Process knowledge needs to be blended with system quality knowledge...

In today’s competitive business world, it is extremely important for decision makers to have access to decision support tools in order to make quick, right and accurate decisions. One of these decision making areas is supplier selection in e-procurement. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem that deals with the optimization of conflicting objectives such as quality, cos...

This study explores the effect of E-government application, the Automated Information Systems (AIS), of child support enforcement on child support collection outcomes. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 2000 to 2005, I employ Heckman’s two step method to deal with selection bias. The result in the first step shows a positive association between AIS and the probability of single mot...