-The author aims at studying the influence of consumer-generated comments of the shopping sites on consumer trust. The research divides consumer-generated comments into four types: service comments, product and price comments, self-display comments and after-action comments. With the survey result of 166 college students, the author finds that online shoppers’ trust are influenced by consumer-g...

This paper did a survey on 162 college students, with an aim to find out the role of consumers’ personality in their trust in the website as far as the online word-of-mouth is concerned. All the data collected are analyzed by SPSS 15.0 and LISREL. It shows that there is a significant difference between the introverted consumers and the extroverted consumers viewing their attitude towards online...

This is an empirical study of the peripheral vowels of four languages, Hindi, Punjabi, Thai and Korean in terms of two parameters, namely F0 variation, and acoustic space calculated by using two lower formants, F1 and F2. We examine all peripheral vowels (with level tone in case of Thai and Punjabi) to find out the correlation between the pitch of voice, a laryngeal phenomenon and the resonance...

OBJECTIVE To compare costs of diagnosis and annual treatment of osteoporosis and hip fracture between the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación (INR) and the protocol used by the Seguro Popular de Salud (SPSS). METHODS Direct costs gathered in a prospective study with real cases at the INR are presented, and then this data is re-analyzed with the methodology and protocol for the SPSS to estima...