This study extends the existing satisfaction–trust–loyalty paradigm to investigate how customers’ affectionate ties with firms (customer–firm affection)—in particular, the components of intimacy and passion—affect customer loyalty in services. In a bilevel model, the authors consider customer–staff and customer–firm interactions in parallel. Through a netnography study and survey research in tw...

The association between attachment representations and adolescents' coping with 3 developmental tasks of emerging adulthood-leaving home, advancing in the capacity for mature intimacy, and developing individuation-was examined. Israeli male adolescents (N = 88) were administered the Adult Attachment Interview during their high-school senior year. A year later, they and their friends reported on...

Neste trabalho, reportamos a síntese, caracterização e atividade de catecolase do complexo binuclear de cobre [Cu2(H2bbppnol)(μ-OAc)(μ-ClO4)] ClO4·H2O·EtOAc contendo o ligante N,N’-2-hidroxibenzil-N,N’-2-piridilmetil-2-hidroxipropano-1,3-diamina (H3bbppnol). O complexo foi caracterizado através de espectroscopias no infravermelho e eletrônica, ressonância paramagnética eletrônica, medidas de su...

Neste artigo, foi desenvolvido um novo método fluorométrico, simples, sensível e seletivo, para a medição de tripsina em amostras biológicas. O método foi baseado na medição da supressão da intensidade da fluorescência de agregados de nanopartículas de ouro estabilizados com albumina sérica bovina (BSA), pela proteólise enzimática. A curva de calibração para tripsina foi atingida no intervalo d...

Four cases are summarized in which the general practitioner is involved in the terminal care of one partner of a stable marital relationship. The need to conceptualize the expectations of the patient, the family and the doctor in terminal care is stressed. An attempt is made to illustrate how the quality of the pre-existing sexual relationship, the dying person's own sexuality, and ultimately t...

This article explores the experience of loneliness in intimacy, with a special focus on infidelity. First, the notion of intimacy and love are examined and related to the concept of loneliness. To be in love is often thought to exclude being lonely but research shows otherwise.’ Loneliness is exacerbated when intimacy is shattered by interpersonal events like infidelity. A review of recent lite...

In present paper, I will argue that Japanese dating simulation video games can be considered as serious games. Prior to advancing my main argument, I will introduce the popular dating sim LovePlus and relate it to the historization of the concept of „techno-intimacy‟ within the Japanese society. For further contextualization of the field, I will theorize the audience at which dating sims are ai...