Background Advances in wireless technology increase the number of mobile device users and give pace to the rapid development of e-commerce conducted with these devices. The new type of e-commerce transactions, conducted through mobile devices using wireless telecommunications networks and other wired e-commerce technologies, is called mobile commerce (increasingly known as mobile e-commerce or ...

This study aims to provide an overview of e-commerce adoption by SMEs in developing countries and, in particular, the extent of the adoption of e-commerce by Indonesian SMEs. It identifies the e-commerce benefits realized by these SMEs and investigates the relationship between the levels of e-commerce adoption and the benefits thus realized. The study was motivated by the limited studies relate...

Background: Due to the increasing expansion of the electronic world in all aspects, e-commerce has found its place alongside traditional transactions and in turn are of particular importance and have left a significant share in commercial contracts. This has led to significant ethical challenges. E-commerce, due to the lack of necessary legal and legal grounds, lack of proper mechanism to prote...

Informed consent is increasingly heralded as an ethical panacea, a tool to counter autocratic and paternalistic medical practices. Debate about the implementation of informed consent is constricted and polarised, centring on the right of individuals to be fully informed and to freely choose versus an autocratic, paternalistic practice that negates individual choice. A bioethical framework, base...

This article develops a method to estimate the impact of change in a particular social setting, the residential neighborhood, that is designed to address nonrandom selection into a neighborhood and nonrandom selection out of a neighborhood. Utilizing matching to confront selection into neighborhood environments and instrumental variables to confront selection out of changing neighborhoods, the ...

ackground: When individual judgment conflicts with a group, the individual will often conform his judgment to that of the group. onformity might arise at an executive level of decision making, or it might arise because the social setting alters the individual’s erception of the world. ethods: We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and a task of mental rotation in the context of peer pres...

OBJECTIVES To study sensor monitoring (use of a sensor network placed in the home environment to observe individuals' daily functioning (activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living)) as a method to measure and support daily functioning for older people living independently at home. DESIGN Systematic review. SETTING Participants' homes. PARTICIPANTS Community-dwe...

It is apparent that m-commerce and e-commerce have various similarities from operational and services perspectives. However, at the same time, m-commerce has its own a unique technology driven business opportunities with its own unique characteristics, functions, opportunities and challenges. One successful application in e-commerce is personalized recommendations services as results of recomme...

With the popularity and growth of social media, social commerce has been quickly emerged as a new phenomenon. It represents a shift in consumers’ thinking from individual decisions to collaborative decision. However it has not yet been fully understood, especially about the business model of different types of social commerce. This paper offers a literature review on the definition and characte...

In this paper, we describe an effective framework for adapting electronic commerce or e-commerce services in developing countries like Bangladesh. The internet has opened up a new horizon for commerce, namely electronic commerce (e-commerce). It entails the use of the internet in the marketing, identification, payment and delivery of goods and services. At present internet facilities are availa...