As the next generation of business model, ubiquitous commerce (u-commerce) triggered a lot of attention among the academic circle, enterprises and governmental agencies. We review the literature on u-commerce, and suggest directions for research in this still emerging field. The 171 papers about u-commerce (2000–2009) are classified and the results are presented based on a scheme that consists ...

Recently, several drugs for non-cardiovascular diseases have ceased marketing because of cardiovascular risk, highlighting the importance of evaluating the cardiovascular safety of new drugs even if not intended for cardiovascular diseases. Assessing and ensuring acceptable cardiovascular safety of non-cardiovascular drugs is difficult; nonetheless, governmental regulatory agencies are likely t...

We explored the relative importance of beef attributes, such as country-of-origin, traceability, and BSE test status, to Japanese consumers and examined the influence of consumer attitudes toward food safety on their valuations of these attributes. A random parameter logit model was used to analyze the choice experiment data, which were collected using a Web-based survey of the Tokyo metropolit...

This paper summarizes an empirical investigation that explored biased project reporting by Information Systems (IS) professionals. The study is based on a survey of 91 professionals who were involved with system implementations in various governmental agencies. Our investigation assessed the impact of project importance, control, structure, and size on biasing behaviors. To formulate the resear...

Face shields are personal protective equipment devices that are used by many workers (e.g., medical, dental, veterinary) for protection of the facial area and associated mucous membranes (eyes, nose, mouth) from splashes, sprays, and spatter of body fluids. Face shields are generally not used alone, but in conjunction with other protective equipment and are therefore classified as adjunctive pe...

To cope with changes in industrial concentration, consumer preferences, more stringent meat safety measures by the governmental agencies, and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the North America Free Trade Agreement, companies in the U.S. meat industry need to attain as high levels of technical efficiency as possible. The purpose of the study is three-fold: (1) measure the level of pure t...

A number of non-governmental organisations, aid agencies, international organisations and research centres have consequently developed a community of practice and a conception of resilience, which will be known here as development resilience. This school of thought differs from the earlier one of social and ecological system resilience, which the Resilience Alliance scientific network defines a...

dna barcoding is a new term introduced in to scientific literatures by hebert and coworkers almost a decade ago. the concept of barcoding alone is well-known to the public: a series of black bars printed on many commercial products (universal product code), which are used to distinguish different products. advances made in molecular biology and molecular techniques late 20th century e.g. sequen...

Corruption is a constant dilemma that challenges societies and manifests itself differently in every state civilization. This phenomenon has disastrous consequences on the economy society. After clarifying different approaches to corruption, this paper sheds light types of corruption its causes. Sources can lie weakness rule law, judiciary, internal control system, low wages (Sumpf, Araji, &amp...