Abstract Streaming services now provide the dominant way in which music is distributed and consumed online. Digital rights management (DRM) lies at heart of this trend has evolved alongside a movement from copy-based to streaming-based consumption. This shift poses number new unique issues. Music streaming have changed nature product offered, with musical content becoming de-bundled reduced ser...

BACKGROUND There is increasing recognition of the Internet's potential role in providing information and support for people living with long-term conditions. However, how young people and parents use online forms of self-care support in the context of living with childhood chronic illness has been under-researched. OBJECTIVE To explore how online peer support is used by young people and paren...

We present an algorithm for automatically disambiguating noun-noun compounds by deducing the correct semantic relation between their constituent words. This algorithm uses a corpus of 2,500 compounds annotated with WordNet senses and covering 139 different semantic relations (we make this corpus available online for researchers interested in the semantics of noun-noun compounds). The algorithm ...

Article history: Received 12 February 2011 Available online 15 March 2011 Utilizing a meta-analytical approach for testing moderating effects, the current study investigated organizational tenure as a moderator in the relation between affective organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We observed that, across 40 studies (N=11,416 respondents), the effect size for...

the open access (oa) to scholarly articles published in journals, magazines and other literature sources is extremely useful to pharmacy students, teachers, research scholars, scientists and pharmacists to update their knowledge with recent changes in their fields of specialization. open access (oa) to scholarly articles is provided either directly from journal homepages by the publishers or fr...

In this study, firstly, based on related researches about consumer online purchasing behavior before, we proposed that there were some perceived factors that influence perceived value which has a direct impact on consumer’s online purchasing decision-making. Secondly, on the analysis for the antecedent of consumer perceived factors with online shopping, we proposed the definition of online shop...

Current study aims at investigating the comparison of online performance appraisal system in relation with Traditional paper and pencil based performance appraisal system on employees’ work outcome and behavior. In this way, the contemporary study will focus on major areas of online performance appraisal system and paper and pencil based performance appraisal system. The universe selected for t...

Given the enormous growth and significant impacts of group buying on Internet business marketplaces, this study aims to understand consumer decision making process in an online group buying context from a Means-end Chain (MEC) theory perspective. The laddering interview technique was used to interview 58 online group buying users and to capture their reasons behind the online shopping behaviour...