In this paper we report on a study into the antecedents of online purchase intention for B2C websites. In particular, this research juxtaposes two competing models that explain online purchase intention. A replication was carried out of the trust-oriented study by Jarvenpaa, Tractinsky, and Vitale (2000), and the websiteoriented model from Chau, Au, and Tam (2000), first developed by Davis (198...

AIM This study investigates the effectiveness of a recovery-oriented training program on knowledge and attitudes of mental health care professionals towards recovery of people with serious mental illness. METHODS Using data from a longitudinal study of recovery, changes in knowledge and attitudes of 210 mental health care professionals towards recovery were explored using the Recovery Attitud...

Abstract In Christian faith, dreams – at least some have been seen as messages from God; very powerful examples can be found in the Bible. However, empirical research regarding of God is relatively scarce. Four hundred and fifty-two persons participated present survey, including a group theology-related professions (theology students, priests, etc.). The findings indicate that belief related to...

PURPOSE This correlational study was performed to identify the impacts of maternal child rearing attitudes on the menstrual attitudes and the determinants of positive menstrual attitudes in female middle school students. METHODS With convenience sampling, 198 middle school female students were recruited living in one major city and its surrounding areas in Korea. Data was collected using a se...

BACKGROUND Religion-rooted beliefs and values are often cited as barriers to organ donation among Muslims. Yet how Islamic religiosity relates to organ donation attitude among Muslims is less studied. METHODS Using a community based participatory research approach, we recruited adults from mosque communities to self-administer a questionnaire assessing levels of Islamic religiosity, attitude ...

Migration from a procedural architecture to an objectoriented architecture is possible through an appropriate sequence of design transformations. This paper initially provides a conceptual foundation for migration from a procedural to an object-oriented software architecture for legacy software, which relies upon a view of the software life cycle, in which all software development is considered...

Philosophers of religion have traditionally focused their attention on belief in God and assessed such terms it having some epistemic status like “rationality” or “probability”, indeed by determining whether not constitutes knowledge. In this paper, I focus my the non-doxastic attitude hope formulate reasons for we should God. light these reasons, hopeism as a research programme according to wh...

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...