This paper takes its cue from Massimo Raveri’s studies and interests, especially concerning Japanese shamanic practitioners the relationship between media religion. By further broadening his analysis with more recent data, this suggests how a study of contemporary shamanism could be undertaken, within theoretical framework offered by critical discourse analysis. Through suggested examination mu...

Purpose The rapid adoption of the ecosystem concept in innovation contexts has led to a proliferation differing uses. Scholars need be crystal clear which they are using facilitate communication between scholars and allow for cumulativeness creativity. This paper aims introduce some clarity into conceptual mist that surrounds notion “ecosystems” contexts. Design/methodology/approach A review ex...

This paper examines online product search and purchase behaviors of Generation Y. A survey of 116 undergraduate college students with questions regarding the types of products researched and purchased over the Internet, the type of information they looked for when researching the products, reasons for not purchasing products online, and reasons for returning products purchased over the Internet...

The necessary of buiding the searching system being able to support users expressing their searching by natural language queries is very important and opens the researching direction with many potential. It combines the traditional methods of information retrieval and the researching of Question Answering (QA). In this paper, we introduce a searching system built by us for searching courses on ...

Investigators are researching whether consumption of plastic debris by marine organisms translates into toxic exposures for people who eat seafood.