This research examines the effects of using 3D virtual shopping malls and shows the user interaction and experience in this type of virtual environments. Technology developments and the use of the Internet made users to expect more services, which help to improve the user's life. Using a 3D virtual environment and adding a shopping idea to it is considered as very interesting, especially if it ...

Retailers strive to differentiate themselves from competitors to avoid commoditization and consequent price competition, using tools such as store location, store layout, and product assortment. However, such tools become ineffective on the Internet, where competitors are a few clicks away, where web page design can be easily imitated, and where online shoppers can browse a variety of product c...

Mall sebagai sebuah bangunan komersial turut menyumbangkan perannya dalam peradaban kota, dengan menerapkan konsep dan daya tariknya tersendiri, mall mampu memikat masyarakat untuk menjadikannya tempat rekreasi tak hanya pusat perbelanjaan. Cihampelas Walk berupa semi-outdoor komposisi massa yang dinamis membuat ini menarik dikaji. Terindikasi melahirkan ruang-ruang negatif akibat adanya bentuk...

More than 300 million people use the gamified mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) application (app) Duolingo. The challenging tasks, reward incentives, systematic levels, and ranking of users according to their achievements are just some elements that demonstrate strong gamification within this popular application. This application’s pervasive reach, flexible functionality, freemium busine...

A cornerstone of the theory of proof nets for unit-free multiplicative linear logic (MLL) is the abstract representation of cut-free proofs modulo inessential commutations of rules. The only known extension to additives, based on monomial weights, fails to preserve this key feature: a host of cut-free monomial proof nets can correspond to the same cut-free proof. Thus the problem of finding a s...

D. RYAN NORRIS* 1 , PETER ARCESE† 1 , DAVID PREIKSHOT‡, DOUGLAS F. BERTRAM§ and T. KURT KYSER¶ * Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1; † Centre for Applied Conservation Research, Department of Forest Sciences, 2424 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4; ‡ Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, Fisheries Center, 2...

Karen Houge and her daughter were shopping at Edgewater Mall in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 2, 1992. The parking lot of the mall, owned by American National Insurance Company, was crowded with holiday shoppers. At around noon that day, Houge went alone to her van to drop off some packages. While she was putting items in her car, Houge was assaulted by a man who began choking her. He then t...