The aim of the study of the Assessment and evaluation of citizen's views on the impact of commercial television advertising on consumer behavior (Case Study: Ardebil city). This research will be done by a descriptive- Scrolling method and In terms of purpose, it is an applied type. The instrument for collecting data was A researcher-made questionnaire that includes elements of cultural factors,...

Online presence is essential for tourism organisations, and the quality of websites can influence customers. In the case of hotels, there are many studies to evaluate website performance based on functionality, usability and other factors, much less on the amount of different information available to the consumer. In the near future by using Big Data it is expected that hotel websites will be d...

Website localization is important for companies to do business in the international market. This paper-in-progress explores website localization strategies and their effects. Drawing from social identity paradigm, we develop two website localization strategies: Similarity strategy (leveraging similarities with local people to positively influence consumer attitude towards foreign companies’ web...

Competition for consumers to visit company websites has intensified in recent years. An important indicator of website popularity (and consequent survival) is the extent to which the website can draw consumer visits vis-à-vis other websites. A majority of the current understanding on consumer visits is limited to a single website, and leaves little knowledge on the performance of one website co...

Despite the immature state of stem cell medicine, patients are seeking and accessing putative stem cell therapies in an "early market" in which direct-to-consumer advertising via the internet likely plays an important role. We analyzed stem cell clinic websites and appraised the relevant published clinical evidence of stem cell therapies to address three questions about the direct-to-consumer p...

Today’s public discourse on the digitization of healthcare has moved beyond the potential transformational effects of artifacts such as electronic health records to a vision of the future where IT enables the practice and delivery of medicine to be increasingly personalized, in much the same way as products and services are customized to the needs and preferences of consumers in commercial doma...

This paper presents a speci cation of a randomized shared queue that can lose some elements or return them out of order, and shows that the speci cation can be implemented with the probabilistic quorum algorithm of [5, 6]. Distributed algorithms that incorporate the producer-consumer style of interprocess communication are candidate applications for using random shared queues in lieu of the mes...