With the surge in online purchases, customers' requirement for last-mile delivery also increases. This study focuses on express service, primary channel delivery, to discover factors influence use. Based extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology, a conceptual model is proposed structure hypothetical effects between constructs performance expectancy speed reliability, effort expec...

Although anxiety has both dispositional and situational determinants, little is known about how individuals’ anxiety-related sensitivities and their expectations about stressful events combine to determine anxiety. This research used Information Integration Theory and Functional Measurement to assess how participants’ anxiety sensitivity and event expectancy are cognitively integrated to determ...

This paper examines the social gradient theory of health and life expectancy presented by Evans and his colleagues [Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L. and Marmor, T.R. (Eds.), 1994. Why are some People Healthy and others not? The Determinants of Health of Populations. Aldine de Gruyter, New York]. They maintain that social hierarchy is the determining factor in the health of large populations largely bec...

During experiments employing Perruchet's (1985) paradigm there are runs of reinforced (CS-US) trials and non-reinforced (CS-noUS) trials. Conditioned responding (CR) is measured, for example, using eyeblink responses (Perruchet, 1985), reaction times (Perruchet, Cleeremans, & Destrebeceqz, 2006), or changes in skin conductance (SCR; McAndrew, Jones, McLaren, & McLaren, 2012), as well as an onli...

In theory, the likelihood by age is derived from the rates of incidence start and finish for each state, in the same way that in calculating life expectancy, the likelihood is obtained from the number of deaths registered. Therefore, the likelihood is calculated taking the flow observed in a specific period and provides information regarding the number of transitions within and outside each state.

Abdel Omran’s 1971 theory of epidemiological transition is an attempt to account for the extraordinary advances in health care made in industrialized countries since the 18 century. According to Omran, all societies experience three "ages" in the process of modernization: the "age of pestilence and famine", during which mortality is high and fluctuating, with an average life expectancy under 30...

Over the past decade, groupware technologies, such as email, electronic bulletin boards, and group support systems, have become an important part of the businesscomputing infrastructure in many organizations. This evolving software category has captured the attention and imagination of information technology professionals, line of business managers and end users, not to mention software supplie...