What Makes Consumers Adopt a Wearable Fitness Device?

What Makes Consumers Trust B2C?

The problem of trust came with the development of B2C E-Business and has become a bottleneck. This paper studied crucial influential factors for E-trust on B2C E-Business through a survey and analyzed the difference between E-trust influential factors for different levels of consumers in China. The result and conclusion are expected to provide suggestions to B2C websites, to help improve consum...

What Makes a Good Molecular-Scale Computer Device?

The lithographically-produced CMOS transistor has been the key technology that has enabled the information revolution. However, in the near future the limitations, both technical and economic, introduced by lithographic fabrication may inhibit further decreases in feature size. Chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology (CAEN) is a promising alternative to CMOS for constructing circuits wit...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...

What makes consumers buy from Internet? A longitudinal study of online shopping

The objective of this study is to investigate the factors affecting online shopping. A model explaining the impact of different factors on online shopping intentions and behavior is developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The model is then tested empirically in a longitudinal study with two surveys. Data collected from 705 consumers indicate that subjective norms, attitude, and belie...