Friendship plays a critical role in social commerce in contemporary societies. This study aims to theorize and examine how friendship quality impacts purchase intention. Product-related risk is introduced to gain insight into its moderating effects on intention to purchase from three different seller groups. Through empirical evidence, we confirm that friendship quality has positively effect on...

A discrete method of accuracy O(hm) is constructed and justi ed for a class of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with kernels that may have weak diagonal and boundary singularities. The method is based on improving the boundary behaviour of the kernel with the help of a change of variables, and on the product integration using quasi-interpolation by smooth splines of order m.

Non-local boundary conditions have been considered in theoretical highenergy physics with emphasis on one-loop quantum cosmology, one-loop conformal anomalies, Bose–Einstein condensation models and spectral branes. In the present paper, for the first time in the literature, the Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field square and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated f...

Difficulties in friendships have been reported both in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and in individuals with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). This small-scale qualitative study aimed to evaluate the friendship experiences of seven patients with AN who presented with possible ASD traits; to determine whether their experiences were reflective of those found in people with ASD, and whether any ...

The authors examined associations of perceived similarity, actual similarity, and peer-rated similarity in personality with friendship intensity during the acquaintanceship process in a naturalistic setting. Self- and peer-rated personality data were gathered from undergraduates (mean age = 18.9) at 5 time points during the first year of university using a round-robin design. Whereas perceived ...

Public geological achievement platform is a part of science and technology infrastructure and related to sustainable development of the economy and society. By literature research, expert's discussion and case study, the paper proposes that centralized sharing with local sharing mechanism and multi-layers network have to be set up to achieve public geological achievements sharing. The operating...