Customers of place: exploring interregional migrant collectivities

Exploring Cigarette Use among Male Migrant Workers in Nigeria

Background There is limited knowledge about the use of cigarettes by blacks outside the United States (U.S). Nigeria creates an opportunity to explore smoking behaviours, smoking cessation (nicotine dependence) and use of cigarettes in a country that has a large black population outside the U.S.   Methods We conducted three Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) involving twenty-four male migrant worke...

Exploring Migrant Health in Australia

Exploring Web Customers' Trust Formation in Infomediaries

Infomediaries are information intermediaries in the Internet that play an important part in reducing online customers’ search costs for finding the most suitable vendors and products. This research explores the process of Web customers’ trust building using infomediaries. Specifically, we identify four sets of trust-related beliefs that impact web customers’ trust attitude and intended behavior...

rethinking agricultural production collectivities

A Generic Model of Collectivities

A class of social phenomena, exhibiting fluid boundaries and constant change, called ‘collectivities’, is modelled using an agent-based simulation, demonstrating how such models can show that a set of plausible micro-behaviours can yield the observed macrophenomenon. Some features of the model are explored and its application to a wide range of social phenomena described. Running head: A generi...