Purpose: Smartphones facilitate the potential adoption of new mobile applications. The purpose of this research is to study users and non-users of three selected mobile applications, and find out what really drives the intention to use these applications across users and non-users. Design/methodology/approach: The authors measured actual usage of mobile applications in a panel study of 579 Finn...

The goal of this study was to determine whether or not older adults who utilized community nutrition services were more or less able to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL), Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), or Physical Activities (PA) than non-users. In surveying older adults aged 60 103 (n = 1065), it was determined that service users were older, frailer, living alone, and ...

Ever since its inception, the Internet has seen unprecedented growth. Consequently, researchers have been actively looking for means and ways to influence the behavior of its selfish users. Pricing was soon realized as the regulatory tool to provide proper incentives so that users’ self-interest will lead them to modify their usage according to their needs. This leads to better overall network ...

The study investigated the socioeconomic impacts of irrigated agriculture and factors affecting decision agro-pastoralists to participate in irrigation during 2017-2018. result depends on cross-sectional data collected from a sample 120 households which 90 users 30 non-users using combination purposive random sampling. were analyzed descriptive statistics logistic regression assess that affect ...

this study has investigated the effects of ict to increase efficiency and empowerment of rural women using data envelopment analysis (dea) to investigate the mechanism of effectiveness of information technology (ict) on the efficiency and empowerment of rural women in the village of gharn abad, golestan province. in this study, using survey methods, 38 users and 25 non-users of technology (cont...

Brief introduced the concepts of credit and credit risk in e-commerce, analyzed the impact of credit risks in e-commerce. Gave out the basic contents of personal credit information and business credit information in e-commerce, and analyzed and pointed out the main factors that caused the security risks of e-commerce credit information. At last, proposed some technical and non-technical measure...

In this paper, a new method for assigning credit to search operators is presented. Starting with the principle of optimizing search bias, search operators are selected based on an ability to create solutions that are historically linked to future generations. Using a novel framework for defining performance measurements, distributing credit for performance, and the statistical interpretation of...