Powerful microcontrollers are used as parts of most home and office appliances of today. Integrating web servers to these intelligent devices will aid in controlling them over the Internet and also in creating effective user interfaces in the form of web pages. Assigning multiple functionalities to a single button on an appliance help manufacturers economize user interfaces, but, this can easil...

This study presents a model in which store affect and store trust mediate the effects of store characteristics on store outcomes. It is proposed that the impacts of store atmosphere and merchandise value on two types of loyalty intentions are mediated by store affect and store trust simultaneously in a dual process model. Customer share of wallet is hypothesized to moderate the effects of these...

Understanding the customers’ needs is becoming more and more important in retail as it may provide valuable information that can be used to improve customer’s shopping experience and product sales. Knowing about customers’ behaviour within the store can provide information for improving customer relationship management and including real-time capabilities. This paper presents an experimental sy...

Demand response technology is a key technology for distributing electricity tasks in response to electricity prices in a smart grid system. In the current demand response research, there has been much demand for an automated energy scheduling scheme that uses smart devices for residential customers in the smart grid. In this paper, two automated energy scheduling schemes are proposed for reside...

Young people make up the majority of online shoppers in Indonesia. The objectives this study are to characterize consumer decision-making styles young internet users and create a profile their shopping styles. A quantitative research approach was used accomplish objectives. primary data for were gathered by sending questionnaires via social media consumers from Generation Z millennials who buy ...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to investigate the male and female students' learning styles of classroom participation and these styles' differences between Humanities and Science majors. METHOD 1039 individuals were selected through the proportional stratified random sampling method among undergraduate and graduate students in Humanities (n=421) and Science (n=618) faculties of Tehran Univers...

In this paper, for efficient energy consumption through the residential demand response in the smart grid, an optimization algorithm, which can provide a schedule plan for the home appliance usages, is proposed. In order to minimize the average electricity price based on the time-varying electricity price in conjunction with the peak hourly load, which decides the capacity of the electric suppl...

To address the need for more information concerning hospital decision making, we conducted in-depth interviews among African Americans with heart failure and their family caregivers (n = 11 dyads). Using a case scenario, we asked participants about their anticipated hospitalization decisions. Most patients indicated that they would seek care to avoid further deterioration or death from their wo...