The main research objective for the VIHO project (Efficient Computer Support in Care for the Elderly) was to investigate how a home care and help service organization can be developed in order to be better prepared for future challenges, and how new technical systems could support the development process. We have studied the home help personnel’s need for support and investigated how the new or...

The lack of consumer acceptance for remanufactured products is preventing the transition towards sustainable consumption. When knowledge about remanufacturing among consumers limited, more insight required into consumer’s expectations. purpose this paper to examine expectations and willingness engage in purchasing behaviour when considering buying robotic lawn mowers. theory planned variables f...

This paper deals with the relatedness of digital transformation, customer relationships and servitization in context contract manufacturing Hungary. From an interactive point view, this discusses transformation inter-organizational as evolutionary process between manufacturers their customers. A qualitative, case-study method was used for a single case. Components reflected seller’s ability to ...

Drinking, smoking, and drug use are symbolic behaviors for young people, often involving a claim for adult status, and set against a "social clock" of expectations about appropriate behavior for a given age. Use is set in a social world of youth sociability, which young people strive to control themselves. Hence, it is difficult to prevent or delay use through adult-run institutions such as sch...

the kind of contracts of government and public organisations that relates public affaires, that named public or administrative contracts , are very important to fulfil legal duties of government, and public contracts are new forms of providing public welfare, and management of public services, that are based on consenting instead of being authoritarian, but had been studied less in iran law bec...

In the next generation of computing environment e-health care services depend on cloud services. The Cloud provides a real-time for applications. But these generate huge number computational tasks, and comes with deadline, so conventional optimization models cannot fulfil task in least time within deadline. To overcome this issue many resource meta-heuristic are been proposed but find global be...

Cash-like payments in electronic commerce and at the traditional point of sale are expected to be beneficial, e.g., because of privacy protection, low transaction costs, and irrevocability. Therefore, we discuss how to design electronic cash in a way that it both mirrors the most important characteristics of traditional cash, but also fulfils the expectations which arise towards electronic mean...

The population of ageing is growing significantly over the world, and there is an emerging demand for better healthcare services and more care centres. Innovations of Information and Communication Technology has resulted in development of various types of assistive robots to fulfil elderly's needs and independency, whilst carrying out daily routine tasks. This makes it vital to have a clear und...